Illuminating Inspiration

Reduce the recharge of your virtue skills when you equip a radiant weapon. — In-game description

Illuminating Inspiration

Specialization

Luminary (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Illuminating Inspiration

Reduce the recharge of your virtue skills when you equip a radiant weapon.

 Recharge Time Reduced: 4 seconds

 Recharge Time Reduced: 3 seconds

 Recharge Time Reduced: 2 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dazzling Hammer — Enter Radiant Forge
•   Luminous Staff — Enter Radiant Forge
•   Gleaming Blade — Enter Radiant Forge
•   Radiant Bulwark — Enter Radiant Forge

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Radiant Justice — Virtue
•   Radiant Resolve — Virtue
•   Radiant Courage — Virtue

Trivia

• In the initial showcase of the luminary elite specialization, Illuminating Inspiration also granted alacrity to nearby allies when a virtue skill was used. This was changed at some point between then and the August 15 livestream. Its former description was:

Grant boons to nearby allies when you use a virtue skill. Reduce the recharge of your virtue skills when you equip a radiant weapon.

 Alacrity (50.25¼s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate

 Recharge Time Reduced: 4 seconds

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Reduced the recharge amount from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in WvW only.
December 09, 2025	Reduced the recharge reduction from 4 seconds to 3 seconds in WvW and PvP.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Illuminating Inspiration has been added to the game.
August 19, 2025	Illuminating Inspiration was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.