Roiling Light

Physical. Break stun and dodge backward, blinding foes and gaining resistance. Then, gain access to Quick Retribution. — In-game description

Roiling Light

 

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Willbender

Slot

Utility

Type

Physical

Movement

Retreat

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

62521

“

0.75¾  

15

25

 

Roiling Light

Physical. Break stun and dodge backward, blinding foes and gaining resistance. Then, gain access to Quick Retribution.

 Damage: 88 (0.33)^?

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Resistance (3s): Nondamaging conditions currently on you are ineffective.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Breaks Stun

 Range: 300

— In-game description

Related traits

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Trivia

• The character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines upon using this skill:
  • Break away!

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	(Partially implemented) Increased roll distance from 300 to 450. Reduced roll duration from 0.75 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
November 28, 2023	This skill now grants resistance instead of swiftness.
May 02, 2023	Fixed an issue that prevented the swiftness granted by this skill from being displayed in the tooltip.
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Roiling Light has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Roiling Light was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4.
August 17, 2021	Roiling Light was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 1.