Radiant Justice

Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks. Activate: Gain quickness. The next time you use Dazzling Hammer, it creates a delayed secondary impact. — In-game description

Radiant Justice

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Luminary

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Virtue

Game link

API

78837

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20

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25

 

Radiant Justice

Virtue: Burn foes every few attacks.
Activate: Gain quickness. The next time you use Dazzling Hammer, it creates a delayed secondary impact.

 Quickness (3s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (2s): Skills and actions are faster.

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

 Burning (Passive Effect) (4s): 524 Damage

 Number of Attacks to Trigger: 5

Empowered Hammer

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 424 (1.05)^?

₈ Vulnerability (8s): +8% Incoming Damage, +8% Incoming Condition Damage

₄ Vulnerability (8s): +4% Incoming Damage, +4% Incoming Condition Damage

— In-game description

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.
• Symbolic Exposure — Symbols inflict vulnerability on foes. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes.

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.

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.
• 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.

Luminary

• Illuminating Inspiration — Reduce the recharge of your virtue skills when you equip a radiant weapon.
• Master-at-Arms — Using a virtue skill recharges radiant weapon skills. Justice recharges hammer, Resolve recharges staff, and Courage recharges sword and shield.

Notes

Anomaly:

In PvP, the passive  Burning effect's skill fact is capitalized differently.

• The passive applies the  Radiant Justice effect on the player character.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 02, 2026	The secondary explosion of Dazzling Hammer now triggers Wrath of Justice.
April 14, 2026	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
December 09, 2025	A warning area is now displayed to enemies only. Increased the explosion power coefficient from 0.91 to 1.05 in PvP and WvW.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Radiant Justice has been added to the game.

See also

•   Virtue of Justice
•   Spear of Justice
•   Tome of Justice
•   Rushing Justice