Symbol of Punishment/history
May 10, 2022
- Symbol of Punishment: Reduced power coefficient per hit from 0.33 to 0.28 in WvW only.
“Symbol. Create a symbol on the ground that strikes foes and grants might to nearby allies.
Damage: 73 (0.2)? Damage: 103 (0.28)? Damage: 121 (0.33)? Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)? Symbol Damage: 103 (0.28)? Symbol Damage: 165 (0.45)?- Might (5s): 120 Condition Damage, 120 Power
4- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
May 11, 2021
- Symbol of Punishment: Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 10 seconds in PvE and from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in WvW.
“Symbol. Create a symbol on the ground that strikes foes and grants might to nearby allies.
Damage: 73 (0.2)? Damage: 121 (0.33)? Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)? Symbol Damage: 121 (0.33)? Symbol Damage: 165 (0.45)?- Might (5s): 120 Condition Damage, 120 Power
4- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
December 01, 2020
- Symbol of Punishment: Reduced symbol power coefficient per strike from 0.45 to 0.33 in WvW only.
“Symbol. Create a symbol on the ground that strikes foes and grants might to nearby allies.
Damage: 73 (0.2)? Damage: 121 (0.33)? Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)? Symbol Damage: 121 (0.33)? Symbol Damage: 165 (0.45)?- Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power
- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Symbol of Punishment: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.5 to 0.45. Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
“Symbol. Create a symbol on the ground that strikes foes and grants might to nearby allies.
Damage: 73 (0.2)? Damage: 121 (0.33)? Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)? Symbol Damage: 165 (0.45)?- Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power
- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
July 16, 2019
- Symbol of Punishment: Lowered the damage of extra strikes by 25% in PvE.
“Symbol. Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.
Damage: 73 (0.2)? Damage: 121 (0.33)?- Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)?
- Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power
- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
October 02, 2018
- Symbol of Punishment: The random damage of this skill has been reduced by 25% in PvE only. Steady pulsing damage remains the same.
“Symbol. Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.
Damage: 97 (0.264)? Damage: 121 (0.33)?- Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)?
- Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power
- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
October 18, 2016
- Symbol of Punishment: Skill facts have been updated to display the light combo's field effect.
“Symbol. Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.
- Damage: 121 (0.33)?
- Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)?
- Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power
- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Combo Field: Light
- Range: 900
— In-game description
July 26, 2016
- Smite: This skill has been renamed Symbol of Punishment and now drops a symbol at the target location that deals damage to the area every 1 second, additionally delivering smaller Smite attacks.
- The Smite damage interval has been increased from 0.25 seconds to 0.5 seconds and will persist as long as the symbol is active (meaning more strikes when the Writ of Persistence trait is active).
- The range of this skill has been reduced from 1200 to 900.
“Symbol. Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.
- Damage: 121 (0.33)?
- Symbol Damage: 183 (0.5)?
- Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power
- : 8
Number of Impacts- Number of Targets: 5
- Symbol Duration: 4 seconds
- Symbol Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
October 23, 2015
- Smite: Fixed a bug that caused all impacts to fall within a smaller than intended radius when casting this skill.
October 29, 2013
- Smite: Added a skill fact for the number of impacts, and removed the number of attacks from the damage skill fact.
“Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.
— In-game description
February 26, 2013
- Smite: Now displays a radius skill fact.
“Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.
— In-game description
Original version
Smite
“— In-game description