Guard Skill

Guards are active skills that provide short term survivability to characters. Guards are spells without cast time characteristic. As guard skills are spells they are supported by spells modifiers.

All guard skills share a cooldown - no guard skill can be cast while any others are on cooldown.

Skills

Active skill gems

There are 2 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
Immortal CallImmortal CallSpell, Duration, Guard Level: (1-20) Cost: (21-36) Mana Cooldown Time: 3.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 34Take less Physical and Elemental Damage for a short time. Consumes up to 5 Endurance Charges to lengthen the buff and further lessen Physical Damage taken. Shares a cooldown with other Guard skills.Base duration is 1.00 seconds 20% increased Buff Duration per Endurance Charge removed This Skill's Cooldown does not recover during its effect (25-34)% less Elemental Damage taken (25-35)% less Physical Damage taken 15% less Physical Damage taken per Endurance Charge removed Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	34		N/A	N/A

Other skills

• Bone Armour

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]

Version history

Version	Changes
3.7.0	Introduced to the game.