Signet of Humility

Signet Passive: Reduces duration of incoming stuns, dazes, fears, and taunts. Signet Active: Transform your foe into a moa bird. (Defiant foes will have their defiant bar reduced instead.) — In-game description

Signet of Humility

Profession

Mesmer (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Signet

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

29519

Gallery
Overhead activation icon

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Signet of Humility

Signet Passive: Reduces duration of incoming stuns, dazes, fears, and taunts.
Signet Active: Transform your foe into a moa bird.
(Defiant foes will have their defiant bar reduced instead.)

 Duration Decreased: 20%

 Duration: 6 seconds

 Duration: 2 seconds

 Defiance Break: 600

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill requires a target and can not be re-targeted.
• This skill displays the overhead icon above the caster and its target's head.
• When underwater, the target is transformed into a tuna.
• This skill causes 600 Defiance bar damage and is affected by Superior Sigil of Paralyzation.
• This skill does the highest amount of damage to defiance bars in a single hit in the game.
  • Surge of the Mists is capable of higher amounts of defiance bar damage against enemies with bigger hitboxes, and Basilisk Venom is capable of up to 750 defiance damage if applied to 4 other attacking allies.
• While not on cool-down, this signet is visible on the player's bar as the  Signet of Humility effect.
• Casting while facing away from the target cancels the cast for the shortened duration of an interrupted skill but activates the elite-activated relics.
• With  Blurred Inscriptions the active gains ₁₀ Vulnerability (6s)

Skills

Moa form

While morphed, the skill bar of the affected target is replaced with the following set of skills in slots 1-5. Slots 6-0 are disabled.

#	Skill			Description
1	Claw	0.25¼		Scratch your foe.
2	Kick	1	4	Kick your foe.
3	Peck	2	4	Peck your foe.
4	Screech	10.5½	4	Let out a moa screech.
5	Flee	0.75¾	10	Flee from your enemies.

Tuna form

When morphed underwater, the skill bar is replaced with the following set of skills in slots 1-5 instead.

#	Skill			Description
1	Bite	0.25¼		Bite your foe.
2	Chomp	0.5½	4	Chomp your foe.
3	Frenzy	3	5	Attack nearby foes.
4	Spit	10.25¼	15	Spit at your foe to confuse them.
5	Flee	0.75¾	15	Flee from your enemies.

Related traits

Inspiration

• Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	This skill now requires a target. This skill can no longer be retargeted. This skill now displays an effect above its target's head. Reduced the duration from 6 seconds to 2 seconds in WvW only.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 120 seconds to 60 seconds in PvE only.
April 19, 2022	Fixed a bug in which this skill would not transform specters that were in shadow shroud.
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 180 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP and WvW.
March 05, 2019	Reduced the recharge time of this skill from 180 seconds to 120 seconds in PvE only.
December 11, 2018	The defiance-bar damage performed by this skill has been reduced from 10 seconds to 6 seconds to match the duration of the skill's transformation.
October 18, 2016	The signet's casting effect will now occur at the beginning of the ability. This ability can no longer target enemies behind the mesmer who casts it.
May 03, 2016	Reduced the moa transform duration of this skill from 10 seconds to 6 seconds. The defiance-bar damage has not been changed.
November 17, 2015	Fixed a bug with this skill that prevented it from transforming rangers who were in Celestial Avatar form.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill has been renamed to "Signet of Humility" (from Polymorph Moa) and is now classified as a signet skill. Its passive effect reduces the duration of stun, daze, fear, and taunt by 20%. Its active effect remains unchanged.
July 15, 2014	Skritt burglars are no longer affected by Polymorph Moa.
August 20, 2013	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to appear unselectable while underwater.
August 06, 2013	This skill should now animate when used with a greatsword.
April 30, 2013	Can be used while moving.
November 15, 2012	Targets transformed by this skill have 5 new and less-frustrating skills, and this skill can also be used underwater to turn enemies into tuna (Tuna Morph). This skill now removes Death Shroud from the target instead of the necromancer being stuck in Death Shroud.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Polymorph Moa has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This skill replaced Polymorph Moa in the June 23, 2015 game update.
• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.