Glancing Blow

Heavy Armor · active glyph

Glancing Blow gives the player a Damage Avoidance bonus which increases their chances for blows to glance off their armor, greatly reducing the damage. The bonus is much larger for a few seconds immediately after use. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the duration of the larger bonus.

Heavy Armor numbers are estimates

These formulas come from the community wiki and predate the game's overhaul. We check each school against the live game on a GM account; until Heavy Armor is checked, read the numbers as ballpark. A combat balance pass across 200+ skills is also still in progress, so every number is provisional. (ledger #59)

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Glancing Blow levelGrandmaster is 100; skills keep levelling to 200 (ledger #17)Heavy Armor Specialization levelGives 100% school mastery (1.25% per level) while slotted (ledger #34)Heavy Armor is in one of my two specialization slotsSpecialization only pays out while slotted · ledger #1, #3

This skill's effects don't change with level in our data.

Focus cost	6
Cooldown	30 s
Damage Avoidance	30.3for 2 seconds
Damage Avoidance	10.1for 44.7 seconds

Specialization level has no number in this skill's formula.

Last verified against: sotawiki snapshot of 2026-10-26 (article last seen in release 109). Not yet checked in the live game. Wiki article. Rules used on this page: ledger #1, #3, #17, #34, #37, #59.