Guard Skill: Difference between revisions

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Guards are active skills that provide short term survivability to characters. Guards are all instant spells.

All guard skills share a cooldown - no guard skill can be cast or triggered while any others are on cooldown. Additionally, guard skill cooldowns do not begin until the guard skill has finished.

Skills

Skill gems

There are 1 skill gems with the Guard gem tag:

Gem
Arcane CloakArcane CloakSpell, Duration, Guard, Lightning, Arcane Level: (1-20) Cooldown Time: 4.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Spends a portion of your mana to grant a buff that takes some of the damage from hits for you until depleted. The buff grants added lightning damage based on the amount of mana spent by this skill. Shares a cooldown with other Guard skills.Base duration is 3.00 seconds Spends (45-64)% of current Mana 75% of Damage from Hits is taken from Buff before your Life or Energy Shield Buff can take Damage equal to Mana Spent by this Skill's effect Buff grants Added Lightning Damage equal to (10-14)% of Mana Spent by this Skill's effect This Skill's Cooldown does not recover during its effect Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Buff EffectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	16	N/A	N/A

Other skills

Bone Armour
Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Vaal Immortal Call" (drop disabled)

Note that Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Frost Shield" is not a guard skill, but has similar mechanics.

Related passive skills

Passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Guard skills:

Name	Stats
Armour and Guard Skill Cooldown Recovery	12% increased Armour Guard Skills have 20% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate [1] [2]
Mana and Guard Skill Cooldown Recovery	10% increased maximum Mana Guard Skills have 20% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate [1]
Adamant	25% increased Armour Remove Bleeding when you use a Guard Skill Remove Corrupted Blood when you use a Guard Skill Guard Skills have 25% increased Duration [1]
Dynamo	18% increased maximum Mana Guard Skills have 40% increased Duration [1]

Keystone passive skills

The following keystone passive skills are related to Guard skills:

Name	Stats
Veteran's Awareness	+10% to all Elemental Resistances and maximum Elemental Resistances while affected by a Non-Vaal Guard Skill 20% additional Physical Damage Reduction while affected by a Non-Vaal Guard Skill 20% more Damage taken if a Non-Vaal Guard Buff was lost Recently [1]

Tattoos

Item	Effect(s)

Version history

Version	Changes
3.7.0	Introduced to the game.

ru:Умение обороны

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-'''Guards''' are [[active skill]]s that provide short term survivability to players.
+'''Guards''' are [[active skill]]s that provide short term survivability to characters. Guards are all [[instant]] [[spell]]s.
-Guards have the ''Spell'' or ''Cast'' gem tags and therefore can be supported by support gems such as {{il|Cast when Damage Taken}} or other spell-specific support gems.
+All guard skills share a [[cooldown]] - no guard skill can be cast or triggered while any others are on cooldown. Additionally, guard skill cooldowns do not begin until the guard skill has finished.
-All guard skills share a cooldown - no guard skill can be cast while any others are on cooldown.
 ==Skills==
-There are currently {{Query skill gems/count|where=skill_gems.gem_tags HOLDS "Guard"}} gems with the [[:Category:Guard_(gem tag)|Guard]] [[gem tag]]:
+===Skill gems===
-{{Query skill gems
+There are {{Drop enabled gem count||where=skill_gems.gem_tags HOLDS "Guard"}} skill gems with the [[:Category:Guard (gem tag)|Guard]] [[gem tag]]:
+{{Drop enabled gem table
 |where=skill_gems.gem_tags HOLDS "Guard"
 }}
-The following guard skill is only available from [[unique item]]s:
+===Other skills===
+* {{sl|Bone Armour}}
+* {{il|Vaal Immortal Call}} (drop disabled)
+Note that {{il|Frost Shield}} is not a guard skill, but has similar mechanics.
-==Unique items==
+==Related passive skills==
-The following unique items affect guard skills:
+===Passive skills===
-{{Query unique items
+The following [[passive skill]]s are related to Guard skills:
-|tables=item_stats
+{{Query base passive skills
-|join=items._pageID=item_stats._pageID
+|where=passive_skills.stat_text LIKE "%guard%"
-|where=
-  item_stats.id LIKE "% guard %"
-|base_item=1
-|large=1
-|stat=1
 }}
-==Related passive skills==
+===Keystone passive skills===
-There passive skills grant bonuses related to guard skills:
+The following [[keystone passive skill]]s are related to Guard skills:
+{{Query keystone passive skills
+|q_where=passive_skills.stat_text LIKE "%Guard %"
+     AND passive_skills.is_keystone = 1
+}}
-{{Query passive skills
+===Tattoos===
-|where=passive_skills.stat_text LIKE "%guard%"
+{{Drop enabled item table
+|tables = tattoos
+|join = items._pageID = tattoos._pageID
+|where = items.class_id="StackableCurrency"
+  AND tattoos.target IS NOT NULL
+  AND items.description LIKE "%guard%"
+|large=1
+|description=1
 }}
-===Related Ascendancy passive skills===
-{{Query ascendancy passive skills
+==Version history==
-|where=passive_skill_stats.id LIKE "%guard%"
+{{Version history table header}}
+{{Version history table row|3.7.0|
+* Introduced to the game.
 }}
+{{Version history table end}}
 [[Category:Keywords]]
-[[Category:Guard(gem tag)]]
+[[Category:Guard (gem tag)]]
 [[Category:Gem tag mechanics]]
-[[ru:Боевой клич]]
+[[ru:Умение обороны]]