Dazzling Hammer

Smash the ground with your radiant hammer, dazing nearby foes and granting boons to nearby allies. Gain light aura if this skill finishes a combo. — In-game description

Dazzling Hammer

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Luminary

Parent skill

  Enter Radiant Forge

Slot

Transform

Type

Radiant Weapon

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

77339

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0.5½  

7

15

15

 

Dazzling Hammer

Smash the ground with your radiant hammer, dazing nearby foes and granting boons to nearby allies. Gain light aura if this skill finishes a combo.

 Damage: 319 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 199 (0.75)^?

 Damage: 80 (0.3)^?

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

₃ Might (8s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

 Fury (6s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (6s): +20% Critical Chance

 Luminary's Blessing (6s): Reduced incoming strike damage. Heal when this expires.

 Luminary's Blessing (3s): Reduced incoming strike damage. Heal when this expires.

 Light Aura (4s): -10% Incoming Condition Damage

 Daze: 2 seconds

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Attack Radius: 180

 Boon Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 200

— In-game description

Related traits

Zeal

• Furious Focus — Your strike damage and movement speed are increased while you have fury. Create a Lesser Symbol of Blades when you activate Virtue skill 1.

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.
• Glacial Heart — Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Luminary

• Persistent Blessing — Refresh the duration of your Luminary's Blessing and trigger its healing when you exit Radiant Forge.
• Light's Gift — Gain vitality. Grant Luminary's Blessing to allies when you equip a radiant weapon.
• Resplendent Weaponry — Grant boons to nearby allies when you equip a radiant weapon.
• Purging Light — Remove conditions from nearby allies when you grant yourself light aura. Gain light aura when you use a healing skill.
• Empowered Armaments — Gain increased strike damage when you equip a radiant weapon.
• Radiant Armaments — Gain a bonus based on your equipped radiant weapon. This bonus lingers for a period of time after exiting Radiant Forge.
• Illuminating Inspiration — Reduce the recharge of your virtue skills when you equip a radiant weapon.
• Sovereign of Light — Gain light aura when entering Radiant Forge. Luminary skills detonate light aura, damaging enemies and healing allies.
• Master-at-Arms — Using a virtue skill recharges radiant weapon skills. Justice recharges hammer, Resolve recharges staff, and Courage recharges sword and shield.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.2 in PvE only. Increased the cooldown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
January 13, 2026	Reduced the power coefficient from 0.75 to 0.3 in PvP only.
December 09, 2025	Reduced the power coefficient from 2.5 to 1.5 in PvE only. Reduced the power coefficient from 0.91 to 0.75 in PvP and WvW.
November 05, 2025	Reduced the might stacks from 8 to 3 and reduced the daze duration from 2 seconds to 1 second in WvW and PvP.
November 04, 2025	Fixed an issue that prevented Dazzling Hammer, Luminous Staff, and Gleaming Blade from being in full cooldown when interrupted.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Dazzling Hammer has been added to the game. Reduced the casting time from 1 second to 0.6 seconds. This skill now grants light aura to the user if it finishes a combo. Increased the power coefficient from 1.5 to 2.5 in PvE only. Reduced the cooldown from 10 seconds to 7 seconds in PvE only.
August 19, 2025	Dazzling Hammer was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.