Ray of Judgment

Purge the target area in a ray of light. Allies are healed and cleansed of a condition, while enemies are infused with blinding light, taking damage each interval if they are initially struck. — In-game description

Ray of Judgment

 

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Weapon

Focus

Game link

API

9112

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0.75¾  20  

Ray of Judgment

Purge the target area in a ray of light. Allies are healed and cleansed of a condition, while enemies are infused with blinding light, taking damage each interval if they are initially struck.

 Damage (6x): 1,338 (4.05)^?

 Damage (6x): 414 (1.26)^?

 Healing: 975 (0.2)^?

 Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Conditions Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 3

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Duration: 30.5½ seconds

 Interval: 0.75¾ seconds

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Valor

• Focus Mastery — Focus skills grant you protection and gain reduced recharge.

Honor

• Force of Will — Gain increased vitality. Healing others is improved based on a percentage of your vitality.

Notes

• The tooltip is missing the radius of the casting area, which is 240.
• Before the July 10th, 2018 game update, this skill used the icon for Scatter Shot.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This skill now strikes in a ground-targeted area. Allies in the area are cleansed of a condition and are granted regeneration. Enemies struck have a ray of light attached to them that deals continuous damage. Reduced the number of impacts from 9 to 6. Increased the damage coefficient from 0.45 to 0.675 in PvE only.
July 18, 2023	Reduced aftercast
February 14, 2023	Increased power coefficient per strike from 0.33 to 0.45 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.33 to 0.21.
January 22, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to strike an extra time. Fixed a bug that could cause this skill to fail after the first hit if the caster was interrupted.
July 11, 2018	Fixed a bug that could cancel this skill when other skills were queued up while the players were under the effect of quickness.
July 10, 2018	This skill has been reworked and now targets a single foe, inflicting repeated damage to them over time if they are struck by the initial attack.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Focus skill recharge has been reduced by 20%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ray of Judgment has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.