Virtue of Justice

Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks. Activate: You and your allies inflict burning on the next attack. — In-game description

Virtue of Justice

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Virtue

Game link

API

9115

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Virtue of Justice

Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks.
Activate: You and your allies inflict burning on the next attack.

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

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

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

₃ Burning (active effect) (4s): 1,572 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Attacks to Trigger: 5

 Radius: 600

— In-game description

Mechanics

Skill bar showing the Justice effect

• The passive applies the  Virtue of Justice effect and the active the  Justice on the player character.
• As the guardian attacks, the left half of the skill bar will show a blue flame of increasing intensity, until the effect of Justice is available and the next hit causes burning. The hit counter is conserved across combat sessions (the effect remains when combat ends).
• Allows skills that hit multiple times to trigger burning more rapidly. Area of Effect skills that hit multiple targets at once can also count as multiple hits.
• The duration of the active effect is 20 seconds (i.e. the next attack will burn if performed within the next 20 sec).
• The active effect will only trigger on 1 target even if the skill used to trigger it hits multiple targets.
  • This effect will not be removed even if blocked, evaded, or  Blinded.
• The burning damage of the active effect when applied to an ally is based on the ally's Condition Damage, not the guardian's.

Related skills

See also: Virtue#Related skills

•   Protector's Strike — Protect allies from the next incoming attack against them, and lash out when attacked, granting boons to nearby allies and fully charging the passive burning effect.

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.

Firebrand

• Purity of Word — Gain knowledge of Elonian lore, igniting a fierce drive to purge corruption and manifesting your Virtues as mystic tomes. Gain access to Mantras. Using Tome skills consumes pages. You regenerate pages every interval.

Willbender

• Restorative Virtues — Triggered virtue effects reduce the cooldown of active weapon abilities. Gain vigor when activating Flowing Resolve.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 13, 2016	Increased the burning duration of the passive effect from 2 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only. Increased the active effect's amount of burning from 1 stack to 3 stacks in PvP only.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: The recharge of this ability has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. The radius of the active portion from this ability has been reduced from 1200 to 600.
December 10, 2013	Updated the skill facts to indicate the number of attacks required to trigger this skill. Added a fact that indicates radius when Permeating Wrath is traited. Updated the skill to indicate the increased burn duration when Supreme Justice is traited.
August 06, 2013	Added a radius skill fact.
June 25, 2013	Updated the skill fact to correctly display the actual burning duration when the skill is activated.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Virtue of Justice has been added to the game.

See also

•   Spear of Justice
•   Tome of Justice
•   Rushing Justice