Zephyrite Sun Crystal

This article is about the antiquary skill. For the guild hall decoration, see Sun Aspect Crystal. For the homestead decoration, see Sun Aspect Crystal (Handiwork).

Defensive Artifact. Dash toward your target, damaging and inflicting conditions on enemies and removing conditions from allies around you when you reach your destination. You evade attacks as long as you are still traveling.

For a short time after using this skill, whenever you use a weapon skill that costs initiative, remove conditions from yourself. — In-game description

Zephyrite Sun Crystal

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Antiquary

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Defensive Artifact

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

76895, 76733

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Zephyrite Sun Crystal

Defensive Artifact. Dash toward your target, damaging and inflicting conditions on enemies and removing conditions from allies around you when you reach your destination. You evade attacks as long as you are still traveling.

For a short time after using this skill, whenever you use a weapon skill that costs initiative, remove conditions from yourself.

 Damage: 484 (1.2)^?

₂ Zephyrite Sun Crystal (10s): Remove conditions from yourself whenever you use a weapon skill that costs initiative.

₂ Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage

 Burning (4s): 524 Damage

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Conditions Removed: 3

 Conditions Removed: 2

 Conditions Removed on Skill Use: 2

 Conditions Removed on Skill Use: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Evade: 10.25¼ seconds

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Improvisation — Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

Shadow Arts

• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.

Acrobatics

• Feline Grace — Gain vigor upon successfully evading an attack.
• Guarded Initiation — Movement skills grant resistance.
• Swindler's Equilibrium — Gain power and additional power while wielding a sword or underwater spear. Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or underwater spear recharges Steal.
• Fluid Strikes — Gain increased strike damage for a period of time when you shadowstep or use a movement skill.
• Upper Hand — Gain initiative when you dodge, and gain initiative and regeneration when you evade an attack. Evading can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Antiquary

• Card Swap — Gain access to Reshuffle. Remove conditions from yourself whenever you reshuffle your artifacts or use an artifact skill.
• Prolific Plunderer — Gain an additional artifact slot. Whenever you pilfer, you gain an additional, random artifact. You can use one additional artifact when you pilfer with Skritt Swipe.
• Meticulous Custodian — Your artifacts have increased effectiveness. Beneficial artifact effects last longer.
• Exhilarating Ephemera — Gain increased damage for a period of time after using an artifact.
• Enterprising Aristocrat — Gain initiative and barrier whenever you use an artifact skill. You take reduced strike and condition damage whenever you have barrier.
• Possessive Hoarder — Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 03, 2026	Reduced the burning stacks from 2 to 1 in PvP only.
January 13, 2026	All artifacts now use the same weapon-type scaling when calculating damage, regardless of the weapon type equipped. Increased the radius from 180 to 240. This skill no longer breaks stun. This skill now blinds opponents that are struck and removes conditions from nearby allies. The passive ability of this skill has been changed to, "When you use a weapon skill that costs initiative, remove conditions from yourself."
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Zephyrite Sun Crystal has been added to the game. In addition to its previous effects, if this skill strikes an enemy, this skill may be used again for a short period of time. Reduced the power coefficient from 1.2 to 1.0 in PvE only. Reduced the burning duration from 5 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only.
August 19, 2025	Zephyrite Sun Crystal was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.