Spear of Justice

Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks. Activate: Hurl a spear of light that passes through foes. Enemies struck become tethered and receive conditions periodically. — In-game description

Spear of Justice

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Dragonhunter

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Virtue

Sequence

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Game link

API

29887

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0.75¾  20  

Spear of Justice

Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks.
Activate: Hurl a spear of light that passes through foes. Enemies struck become tethered and receive conditions periodically.

 Damage: 213 (0.8)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Justice (6s): Periodically applies burning as long as you are within range of the caster.

 Burning (passive effect) (2s): 262 Damage

 Burning (passive effect) (4s): 524 Damage

 Burning (active effect) (2s): 262 Damage

 Cripple (10.5½s): -50% Movement Speed

 Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

 Revealed (6s): You cannot stealth

 Number of Attacks to Trigger: 5

 Interval: 1 second

 Pierces

 Unblockable

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

• The passive component applies the  Virtue of Justice effect on the player character.
• The Spear's visual effect is changed when using a Legendary Weapon that modifies projectile attacks.
• The in-game tooltip only shows the passive burning duration; the active duration is 2 seconds in SPvP and WvW.
• The cripple effect occurs during the active effect.
• The damage dealt by this skill uses the weapon strength of the currently equipped weapon.

Bugs:

• Enemy leaving tether range, can sometimes still be pulled for a really small duration
• Casting pull from higher ground in WvW or SPvP, can cause enemy to fly upwards in the air and take falling damage.

Related traits

See also: Virtue#Related traits

Zeal

• Fiery Wrath — Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Zealous Scepter — Gain might when your Virtue skill 1 passive effect triggers; gain more might while wielding a scepter.

Radiance

• Justice is Blind — Gain a light aura and blind nearby foes when you activate Virtue skill 1.
• Inner Fire — Gain fury when you strike a foe that has burning stacks over the threshold.
• Renewed Justice — Virtue skill 1 is renewed when you kill a foe.
• Wrath of Justice — Striking an enemy with the damaging effect from Virtue skill 1 casts Lesser Signet of Wrath.
• Radiant Fire — Zealot's Flame is improved. Burning you inflict has increased duration, and your torch skills gain reduced recharge.
• Amplified Wrath — Burning you inflict deals increased damage. Burning duration applied by the passive effect of Virtue skill 1 is increased.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.
• Virtue of Resolution — Gain resolution when you activate a Virtue. Resolution you grant has increased duration.
• Inspiring Virtue — Strike damage dealt is increased after activating a virtue.
• Power of the Virtuous — Gain condition damage based on your vitality. Virtues gain reduced recharge.
• Permeating Wrath — The passive effect of Virtue skill 1 triggers more quickly and now burns in an area.

Dragonhunter

• Virtuous Action — The guardian's resolve has further increased, allowing Virtues to be manifested as physical aspects. Gain access to Traps.
• Defender's Dogma — Gain vitality. Blocking an attack causes justice to reach its maximum charge and reduces the cooldown of Spear of Justice.
• Zealot's Aggression — Deal increased strike damage to crippled foes. Justice's passive effect cripples enemies.
• Big Game Hunter — Striking an enemy tethered by your Spear of Justice inflicts vulnerability and increases strike damage dealt. Tether duration is increased.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 27, 2024	Fixed an issue that caused this skill's reactivation window to sometimes be longer than intended.
November 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.8 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced damage from 0.6 to 0.01. Reduced cripple duration from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
July 16, 2019	This skill has been updated so the tether aspect doesn't fail against world bosses as frequently.
May 17, 2017	Updated the skill fact to correctly indicate that this skill applies 6 seconds of Revealed.
May 16, 2017	This skill now applies 6 seconds of Revealed on the initial impact.
February 22, 2017	The casting time of this skill has been increased from 0.25 seconds to slightly under 0.75 seconds.
December 13, 2016	Increased the burning duration of the passive effect from 2 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	In addition to burning, this skill now cripples tethered enemies for 1.5 seconds.
May 17, 2016	This skill no longer hides the off-hand weapon when cast.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Spear of Justice has been added to the game.

See also

•   Virtue of Justice
•   Tome of Justice
•   Rushing Justice