Dark Defiance

If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch. — In-game description

Dark Defiance

Specialization

Death Magic (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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20

35

Dark Defiance

If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection.
Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.

 Condition Damage Reduction: 20%

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

— In-game description

Related skills

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Spectral Armor — Spectral
•   Spectral Ring — Spectral
•   Elixir of Ignorance — Elixir

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sandstorm Shroud — Herald of Sorrow

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Reaper

• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Soul Reaping

• Eternal Life — Gain life force every interval up to the threshold when not in shroud. Gain protection when you enter shroud.

Harbinger

• Bolstering Brew — Elixir skills grant protection.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 35 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This trait has been renamed Dark Defiance. It now causes necromancers to gain protection for 3 seconds when affected by control effects and causes protection that is applied to the necromancer to reduce their incoming condition damage by 20%. This trait has a cooldown of 20 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 60 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
May 20, 2014	Updated the description of this trait to indicate "pull" in the list of triggers.
December 10, 2013	Decreased the cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
September 25, 2012	This trait has been updated to properly work with a variety of crowd-control effects.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Reaper's Protection has been added to the game.