Symbol of Protection/history
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April 16, 2024
- Symbol of Protection: Reduced the casting time from 0.9 seconds to 0.7 seconds.
November 28, 2023
- Reduced the symbol damage coefficient from 0.4 to 0.25 in WvW only.
Symbol of Protection
- Profession
- Guardian (skill list)
- Weapon
- Hammer
- Type
- Symbol
- Activ. type
- Chain
- Sequence
- → →
- Game link
“Symbol. Smash a mystic symbol onto the ground that gives protection to you and your allies.
Damage: 404 (1.0)? Damage: 269 (0.666)? Damage (3x): 606 (1.5)? Damage (3x): 303 (0.75)? Damage (3x): 483 (1.2)?- Protection (1s): -33% Incoming Damage
3- Number of Targets (Hammer): 3
- Number of Targets (Symbol): 5
- Symbol Duration: 2 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 180
— In-game description
February 14, 2023
- Symbol of Protection: Reduced casting time from 1.33 seconds to 0.9 seconds.
Symbol of Protection
- Profession
- Guardian (skill list)
- Weapon
- Hammer
- Type
- Symbol
- Activ. type
- Chain
- Sequence
- → →
- Game link
“Symbol. Smash a mystic symbol onto the ground that gives protection to you and your allies.
Damage: 404 (1.0)? Damage: 269 (0.666)? Damage (3x): 606 (1.5)? Damage (3x): 483 (1.2)?- Protection (1s): -33% Incoming Damage
3- Number of Targets (Hammer): 3
- Number of Targets (Symbol): 5
- Symbol Duration: 2 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 180
— In-game description
August 23, 2022
- Symbol of Protection: The aftercast animation duration before another skill can be used has been decreased by 0.65 seconds.
February 25, 2020
- Symbol of Protection: (Competitive split) Autoattack Chain: Reduced power coefficients from 0.8/0.8/1.0 to 0.533/0.533/0.666.
- (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.5 to 0.4.
Symbol of Protection
- Profession
- Guardian (skill list)
- Weapon
- Hammer
- Type
- Symbol
- Activ. type
- Chain
- Sequence
- → →
- Game link
“Symbol. Smash a mystic symbol onto the ground that gives protection to you and your allies.
Damage: 404 (1.0)? Damage: 269 (0.666)? Damage (3x): 606 (1.5)? Damage (3x): 483 (1.2)?- Protection (1s): -33% Incoming Damage
3- Number of Targets (Hammer): 3
- Number of Targets (Symbol): 5
- Symbol Duration: 2 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 180
— In-game description
April 23, 2019
- Symbol of Protection: Adjusted attack animations and damage to get a smoother attack sequence. The full attack chain is slightly faster with less damage, resulting in a small increase in overall damage per second.
September 09, 2014
- Symbol of Protection Updated the damage skill facts to display Hammer Damage and Symbol Damage separately. Added a Number of Targets: 5 skill fact.
- Symbol of Protection Updated Number of Target skill facts to correctly indicate the maximum number of targets.
Symbol of Protection
- Profession
- Guardian (skill list)
- Weapon
- Hammer
- Type
- Symbol
- Activ. type
- Chain
- Sequence
- → →
- Game link
“Symbol. Smash a mystic symbol onto the ground that gives protection to you and your allies.
- Damage: 404 (1.0)?
- Damage (3x): 606 (1.5)?
- Protection (1s): -33% Incoming Damage
3- Number of Targets (Hammer): 3
- Number of Targets (Symbol): 5
- Symbol Duration: 2 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 180
— In-game description
November 26, 2013
- Symbol of Protection: This symbol now has the appropriate duration increase when traited with Writ of Persistence.
July 23, 2013
- Symbol of Protection: Increased the spell effect and AoE rings to match the actual radius of this skill for both the base and when traited with Writ of Exaltation.
March 26, 2013
- Symbol of Protection skill: Now correctly hits five maximum targets and applies boons to five allies.
Original version
Symbol of Protection
“Symbol. Create a symbol that gives protection to you and your allies.
- Damage: 370
- Damage (4x): 740
- Protection (1s): -33% Incoming Damage
3- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 180
— In-game description