Armor of Earth

This article is about the elementalist utility skill. For the Earth's Embrace trait skill, see Armor of Earth (trait skill). For the NPC effect, see Earth Armor (NPC effect).

Cantrip. Protect yourself with earth armor and gain protection and stability, then gain barrier for each unique boon you have. — In-game description

Armor of Earth

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Cantrip

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

5639

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25

40

40

 

Armor of Earth

Cantrip. Protect yourself with earth armor and gain protection and stability, then gain barrier for each unique boon you have.

 Barrier: 655 (0.1)^?

 Barrier: 444 (0.1)^?

 Protection (6s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (4s): -33% Incoming Damage

₁₀ Stability (6s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

₁₀ Stability (4s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Maximum Boon Scaling: 12

 Maximum Boon Scaling: 6

 Duration: 6 seconds

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

Water

• Soothing Disruption — Cantrips grant boons.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 40 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
February 14, 2023	This skill now grants barrier for each unique boon on the user in addition to its other effects. Reduced duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only. Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 50 seconds to 60 seconds.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 75 seconds to 50 seconds.
March 16, 2015	This cantrip skill now grants 10 stacks of stability on use.
April 15, 2014	Reduced the recharge from 90 seconds to 75 seconds.
November 15, 2012	This skill's tooltip now states the correct duration of 6 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Armor of Earth has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.