Heightened Focus/history

September 10, 2024

• Heightened Focus: Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from functioning with spear burst skills.

June 25, 2024

• This trait now also grants the user increased outgoing healing for a duration when striking an enemy with a burst skill, based on the adrenaline spent.

Heightened Focus

Specialization

Discipline

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Game link

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12

Heightened Focus

Gain quickness and recharge your Burst skills when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold. Gain increased outgoing healing when you strike with a Burst skill, based on adrenaline spent.

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Quickness (4s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (20.5½s): Skills and actions are faster.

₂ Adrenaline Stage 1 (15s): +10% Healing Increase to Others

₂ Adrenaline Stage 1 (15s): +70.5½% Healing Increase to Others

₃ Adrenaline Stage 2 (15s): +15% Healing Increase to Others

₃ Adrenaline Stage 2 (15s): +110.25¼% Healing Increase to Others

₄ Adrenaline Stage 3 (15s): +20% Healing Increase to Others

₄ Adrenaline Stage 3 (15s): +15% Healing Increase to Others

— In-game description

November 28, 2023

• Heightened Focus: This trait will now also recharge all burst skills when it activates. Reduced the cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.

Heightened Focus

Specialization

Discipline

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Game link

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12

Heightened Focus

Gain quickness and recharge your Burst skills when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold.

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Quickness (4s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (20.5½s): Skills and actions are faster.

— In-game description

February 25, 2020

• Heightened Focus: (Competitive split) Reduced quickness duration from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds.

Heightened Focus

Specialization

Discipline

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Game link

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15

Heightened Focus

Gain quickness when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold.

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Quickness (4s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (20.5½s): Skills and actions are faster.

— In-game description

June 23, 2015

• Heightened Focus: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
  • Removed bonus critical chance.
  • Added: Striking a foe below 50% health grants quickness for 4 seconds.
  • This trait has a 15-second internal cooldown.

Heightened Focus

Specialization

Discipline

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Game link

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15

Heightened Focus

Gain Quickness when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold.

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Quickness (4s): Skills and actions are faster.

— In-game description

May 20, 2014

• Heightened Focus: The bonus critical chance provided from this trait will now correctly display on the Hero panel.

July 23, 2013

• Heightened Focus: This trait now applies the appropriate crit chance per adrenaline level.

June 25, 2013

• Heightened Focus: This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.
  • This trait now grants 5%, 10%, and 15% critical chance based on adrenaline level.

Heightened Focus

Specialization

Discipline

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

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Heightened Focus

Gain a 5% critical-hit chance for 1 stage of adrenaline, 10% for 2 stages, and 15% for 3 stages.

Adrenaline stage 1: 5%

Adrenaline stage 2: 10%

Adrenaline stage 3: 15%

— In-game description

Original version

Heightened Focus

Specialization

Discipline

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

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Heightened Focus

Gain a 2% critical-hit chance for 1 stage of adrenaline, 5% for 2 stages, and 9% for 3 stages.

— In-game description