Blood as Sand

Reduce all incoming damage taken when you have a shade active. — In-game description

Blood as Sand

Specialization

Scourge (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Blood as Sand

Reduce all incoming damage taken when you have a shade active.

 Damage Reduced: 15%

 Damage Reduced: 7%

— In-game description

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 18, 2023	This trait has been reworked. Reduce all incoming damage while you have an active sand shade (15% in PvE, 7% in PvP/WvW)
May 11, 2021	Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
July 10, 2018	This trait has been split and has had its damage reduction reduced from 5% per shade to 3% per shade in PvP and WvW.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Blood as Sand has been added to the game.