Luminary

This article is about the guardian elite specialization. For the Bjora Marches achievement, see Luminary (achievement). For the sylvari leadership role, see Firstborn#Luminaries.

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"The light binds us!"

The Iron and Flame Legions worked in collaboration to harness radiant flame magic, creating a brazier for guardians to carry into battle. This powerful torch gives the guardian who wields it access to protective magic, making luminaries symbols of hope among the charr.

— In-game description

Luminary is an elite specialization for the guardian unlocked with the Visions of Eternity expansion.

Luminaries are guardians, stalwart combatants on the battlefield capable of putting out respectable damage or supporting their allies. Their brazier provides energy for the Radiant Forge, in which they are able to wield various weapons of light and flame to adapt to the situation at hand. Luminaries also have access to stance utility skills, gaining additional tools for offense, defense, crowd control, and mobility.

List of luminary skills

See also: List of guardian skills

Profession mechanic

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The Luminary is a stalwart protector wreathed in flame. Clad in their Radiant Shroud, they can harness the power of four new weapons of light and flame that provide passive bonuses and alternate abilities based on use.

— Promo description

• Luminary's virtues empower the associated weapon(s) of the Radiant Forge. This forge is always available via F4 when not on cooldown.
• Activating Radiant Forge replaces the equipped weapon skills with four radiant weapon skills and a radiant weapon specific basic attack for up to 20 seconds.
  • Using a radiant weapon skill will perform an initial attack with the related weapon and then flip the weapon skill to a second, additional skill. Initial attacks with radiant weapons will also apply Luminary's Blessing.
  • Upon exiting Radiant Forge, the forge's cooldown will be decreased 5 seconds for every radiant weapon not used after the first one. Exiting Radiant Forge will have a minimum cooldown of 5 seconds and a maximum of 10 seconds in PvE and 15 seconds in WvW and PvP.
    • Alternatively, the cooldown is 5 seconds for using one or no radiant weapons, 10 when two are used, and any more after that results in the maximum cooldown. (10 seconds for PvE, 15 for WvW/PvP.)

#	Skill			Description
F1	Radiant Justice		20	Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks. Activate: Gain quickness. The next time you use Dazzling Hammer, it creates a delayed secondary impact.
F2	Radiant Resolve		30	Virtue: Regenerate health. Activate: Heal yourself and nearby allies while granting light aura. The next time you use Luminous Staff, it heals allies and grants them regeneration.
F3	Radiant Courage		45	Virtue: Grants aegis periodically. Activate: Grant aegis, resistance and Luminary's Blessing to yourself and nearby allies. The next time you use Gleaming Blade, it deals increased damage and immobilizes enemies. The next time you use Radiant Bulwark, it grants barrier to nearby allies.
F4	Enter Radiant Forge		10	Enter Radiant Forge. The recharge time of this skill is reduced for each unused radiant weapon in shroud.
F4	Exit Radiant Forge			Leave Radiant Forge.
Radiant Forge
1	Glaring Burst	0.5½		Create a burst of energy, the effect of which changes based on the radiant weapon you have equipped.
2	Dazzling Hammer	0.5½	7	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.
2	Shining Spin	0.5½		Strike nearby foes with your radiant hammer, dealing increased damage against foes that are disabled.
3	Luminous Staff	0.75¾	15	Slam your radiant staff into the ground, granting boons to allies and creating a symbol.
3	Restorative Glow	0.75¾		Heal and remove conditions from nearby allies, then redirect a percentage of their incoming strike damage to you. Damage redirection will end if you fall below 50% health.
4	Gleaming Blade	0.75¾	15	Leap to the target and slash, inflicting cripple and vulnerability.
4	Lucent Thrust	0.5½		Stab your foe with your radiant sword and launch a ray of light that bounces between foes.
5	Radiant Bulwark	2	30	Block attacks. Grants aegis to nearby allies on activation.
5	Brilliant Slam	0.5½		Slam your foes with your shield, dazing them. Deal bonus defiance-bar damage on defiant foes.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Resolute Stance		0.75¾	30	Stance. Enter a stance that heals when you remove conditions from yourself, then heal nearby allies and remove conditions from them.

Utility

Skill				Description
Stalwart Stance			25	Stance. Break stun for nearby allies and enter a defensive stance, taking reduced damage.
Valorous Stance			25	Stance. Enter a stance that causes you to heal allies when you grant them boons, then grant boons to nearby allies.
Effulgent Stance			20	Stance. Grant barrier and light aura to nearby allies, then enter a stance that charges up a burst of light when striking or struck by enemies. The burst of light dazes enemies if fully charged.
Piercing Stance			1	Stance. Enter a stance that causes you to deal more damage, then strike nearby enemies to daze them.

Elite

Skill				Description
Daring Advance		0.75¾	60	Stance. Leap to an area, tethering nearby enemies and empowering allies. Tethered enemies are revealed and take additional damage from your attacks and are stunned if they move beyond the range threshold.

List of luminary traits

See also: List of guardian traits

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Luminary		Harness light and flame to bolster yourself and allies or disrupt your enemies. Gain access to Radiant Forge and Stance skills.
Major Adept	Shimmering Stances		Stances grant protection to affected allies and blind affected enemies.
Major Adept	Resolute Blessing		Luminary's Blessing now also reduces incoming condition damage.
Major Adept	Persistent Blessing		Refresh the duration of your Luminary's Blessing and trigger its healing when you exit Radiant Forge.
Minor Master	Light's Gift		Gain vitality. Grant Luminary's Blessing to allies when you equip a radiant weapon.
Major Master	Resplendent Weaponry		Grant boons to nearby allies when you equip a radiant weapon.
Major Master	Purging Light		Remove conditions from nearby allies when you grant yourself light aura. Gain light aura when you use a healing skill.
Major Master	Empowered Armaments		Gain increased strike damage when you equip a radiant weapon.
Minor Grandmaster	Radiant Armaments		Gain a bonus based on your equipped radiant weapon. This bonus lingers for a period of time after exiting Radiant Forge.
Major Grandmaster	Illuminating Inspiration		Reduce the recharge of your virtue skills when you equip a radiant weapon.
Major Grandmaster	Sovereign of Light		Gain light aura when entering Radiant Forge. Luminary skills detonate light aura, damaging enemies and healing allies.
Major Grandmaster	Master-at-Arms		Using a virtue skill recharges radiant weapon skills. Justice recharges hammer, Resolve recharges staff, and Courage recharges sword and shield.

Lore

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In the years following the charr civil war and the scattering of Bangar’s Dominion, relations between the four legions have remained steady, bolstered by events after the end of the dragon cycle. With the Flame Legion formally rejoining the legions and the Iron Legion having appointed Smodur’s successor, the two legions sought to commemorate the changing times with a joint project. Thus, the luminary was born.

In a shrewd diplomatic play, the two legions have since agreed to share their combined efforts with the Tyrian Alliance and its member races in the spirit of continued collaboration in this new era.

Luminaries bear an enchanted iron brazier that sustains a powerful sacred flame. The bearer can wreathe themselves with this fire and wield a blazing arsenal of weapons against their foes while striking powerful stances mid-fray.

— Official website

Gallery

Specialization background.

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Screenshots

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  The luminary's brazier

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  The Radiant Forge visual effect

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  Radiant hammer

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  Radiant staff

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  Radiant sword and shield

Icons

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  Official icon

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  Wiki icon

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  Old official icon

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  Old official icon

Trivia

• In the concept art, the luminary wears a full set of Decade's armor.
• During the beta event, the Radiant Forge was called Radiant Shroud.
• (Undocumented) Luminary's icon was changed with Raids and Wardrobe update (February 3, 2026)

External links

• Elite Specializations Are Back: Mesmer, Ranger, and Guardian, Guildwars2.com
• Elite Specializations: Troubadour, Galeshot, Luminary, YouTube.com
• Elite Specialization Livestream: Troubadour, Galeshot, Luminary | Visions of Eternity, Twitch.com

References

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