Spectacular Sphere

Your jade sphere is larger and grants quickness and an additional boon based on your current attunement to nearby allies when activated. — In-game description

Spectacular Sphere

Specialization

Catalyst (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

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Spectacular Sphere

Your jade sphere is larger and grants quickness and an additional boon based on your current attunement to nearby allies when activated.

₈ Might (10s): 240 Condition Damage, 240 Power

 Might (6s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Vigor (5s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Vigor (3s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Fury (5s): +20% Critical Chance

 Fury (3s): +20% Critical Chance

 Aegis (3s): Block the next incoming attack.

 Resistance (2s): Nondamaging conditions currently on you are ineffective.

 Quickness (20.5½s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Swiftness (2s): +33% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

— In-game description

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deploy Jade Sphere — Jade Sphere, when attuned to fire
•   Deploy Jade Sphere — Jade Sphere, when attuned to water
•   Deploy Jade Sphere — Jade Sphere, when attuned to air
•   Deploy Jade Sphere — Jade Sphere, when attuned to earth

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Fire

• Power Overwhelming — While at or above the might threshold, gain increased power. Power bonuses are doubled while attuned to fire.

Air

• Raging Storm — Critically striking a foe grants fury. Gain ferocity while under the effects of fury.

Water

• Flow like Water — Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Catalyst

• Sphere Specialist — Boons applied by your Jade Sphere have increased duration. You can now gain energy while jade spheres are active.

Notes

Bugs:

•   Deploy Jade Sphere — Grants  Quickness for 5 seconds while underwater.
•   Deploy Jade Sphere — Grants  Resistance for 4 seconds while underwater.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Increased the quickness duration from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvE only. Increased the might stacks from 5 to 8 in PvE only.
July 18, 2023	Reduced might stacks from 5 to 1 in PvP and WvW. Reduced vigor duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced fury duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced resistance duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2023	This trait now grants quickness when deploying your jade sphere in any attunement, in addition to the boons currently granted. Quickness duration reduced from 5 seconds to 2 seconds.
November 29, 2022	This trait no longer reduces outgoing damage and causes Earth Sphere to grant aegis instead of resistance in PvE only.
June 28, 2022	This trait now also increases the radius of Deploy Jade Sphere from 240 to 360 in all game modes. In PvE only, it causes Deploy Jade Sphere in air attunement to additionally provide quickness and reduces all outgoing damage dealt by 10%.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Spectacular Sphere has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Spectacular Sphere was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4.
September 21, 2021	Spectacular Sphere was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 2.