Defender's Dogma

Gain vitality. Blocking an attack causes justice to reach its maximum charge and reduces the cooldown of Spear of Justice. — In-game description

Defender's Dogma

Specialization

Dragonhunter (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

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Defender's Dogma

Gain vitality. Blocking an attack causes justice to reach its maximum charge and reduces the cooldown of Spear of Justice.

 Recharge Time Reduced: 3 seconds

 Recharge Time Reduced: 1 second

 Vitality: +180

— In-game description

Mechanics

• "Maximum charge" is a state of   Spear of Justice's "Number of Attacks to Trigger" counter. The next attack by the Dragonhunter will trigger the Justice.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Protector's Strike — Mace
•   Shield of Wrath — Focus

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Shelter

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Virtue of Justice — Virtue
•   Shield of Courage — Virtue

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	This trait now also grants 180 vitality.
May 11, 2021	This trait now uses the correct icon. Reduced internal cooldown to 1 second in PvE only. This matches the current cooldown in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced Justice recharge from 3 seconds to 1 second. Reduced internal cooldown from 3 seconds to 1 second.
August 28, 2018	Blocking attacks now reduces the cooldown of Spear of Justice by 3 seconds (to a limit of no more than once every 3 seconds) in addition to its current effect.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Defender's Dogma has been added to the game.