Soothing Ice

Gain regeneration and frost aura when using a healing skill. — In-game description

Soothing Ice

Specialization

Water (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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15

Soothing Ice

Gain regeneration and frost aura when using a healing skill.

 Regen (4s): 520 Heal

 Frost Aura (4s): -10% Incoming Damage

— In-game description

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Fire

• Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.

Air

• Zephyr's Boon — Grant boons to allies you grant auras to.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.

Water

• Cleansing Water — Cleanse conditions from allies you grant regeneration to.
• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

Arcane

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

Tempest

• Invigorating Torrents — Auras you grant also grant regeneration and vigor.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Catalyst

• Hardened Auras — Damage reduction is increased when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Empowering Auras — Gain increased outgoing damage when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Staunch Auras — Gain stability when you grant yourself an aura.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	This trait now triggers after using a healing skill instead of when critically hit. Reduced the internal cooldown to 15 seconds in all game modes.
October 26, 2021	Multiplicative damage reduction enhancements have been updated to display how much damage was reduced by rather than displaying how much the damage is multiplied by. For example, protection now displays "-33% Damage" instead of "67% damage." This is not a change to functionality; it is only a change to display the bonus in a more intuitively understandable way.
October 05, 2021	All effects that provide a percentage reduction to incoming damage have been standardized to stack multiplicatively.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Soothing Ice has been added to the game and replaced Soothing Wave.