Desert Empowerment/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 trait that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this trait, see Desert Empowerment. |
March 19, 2024
- This trait now grants vigor instead of alacrity in PvP and WvW.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target.
This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
Vigor (2s): +50% Endurance Regeneration
Number of Allied Targets: 5
Radius: 180
— In-game description
November 28, 2023
- Desert Empowerment: Reduced the healing power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.65 in WvW only.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target.
This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
— In-game description
July 19, 2023
- Desert Empowerment: Fixed an issue that caused this trait to grant more barrier than intended in PvP and WvW.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target.
This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
— In-game description
July 18, 2023
- Desert Empowerment: Increased alacrity duration from 1 second to 1.5 seconds in PvE only. Increased base barrier from 385 to 572 in PvE only. Increased barrier attribute scaling from 0.75 to 1.0 in PvE only.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target.
This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
— In-game description
June 27, 2023
- Desert Empowerment: This trait has been moved to the grandmaster tier, replacing Feed from Corruption. The barrier from this trait will now only apply around the shade and will affect 5 targets. This trait now also grants alacrity to allies when you grant them barrier.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target.
This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
Alacrity (1s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate
— In-game description
February 28, 2022
- The base barrier granted by the skills Sand Cascade, Sand Flare, Desert Empowerment, Desert Shroud, and Sandstorm Shroud has been reduced. The contribution of healing power on these skills has been increased.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
— In-game description
August 17, 2021
- Desert Empowerment: Reduced base barrier from 966 to 773 in PvP only.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
— In-game description
April 06, 2021
- Desert Empowerment: Reduced barrier attribute scaling from 0.77 to 0.62 in PvP only.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
— In-game description
July 28, 2020
- Desert Empowerment: Reduced base barrier from 1,207 to 966 in PvP only.
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
— In-game description
December 12, 2017
- All skills that grant barrier now give 15% more barrier.
Original version
“Desert EmpowermentManifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
Barrier: 1,050 (0.666)?
— In-game description
