Strength of Stone

Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval. — In-game description

Strength of Stone

Specialization

Earth (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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3

Strength of Stone

Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe.
Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.

₃ Bleeding (10s): 660 Damage

 Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage

 Gain Condition Damage Based on a Percentage of Toughness: 10%

 Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Earthen Rush — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Boulder Blast — Pistol, when attuned to earth
•   Shock Wave — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Ground Pound — Hammer, when attuned to earth

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Signet of Earth — Signet
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Stomp

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Overload Earth — Overload, when attuned to earth

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Grasping Earth

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Arcane

• Arcane Lightning — Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

Notes

• This trait only converts your base toughness (1000 at level 80) and permanent toughness from your gear and not from abilities or food.
• Great synergy with Signet of Earth

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bleeding stacks from 3 to 1.
August 13, 2019	Updated the description and skill facts to clarify that bleeding can only occur once every 3 seconds per target.
July 17, 2019	The bleeding inflicted by this trait now has a 3-second cooldown per target.
July 16, 2019	In addition to its previous effects, this trait now also causes the elementalist to inflict 3 stacks of bleeding for 10 seconds when immobilizing a foe.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
December 10, 2013	Added a 10% gain to condition damage based on toughness.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Strength of Stone has been added to the game.