Ashen Demeanor

Disabling a foe cripples your enemy, which leaves them vulnerable and inspires you with Kalla's Fervor. — In-game description

Ashen Demeanor

Specialization

Renegade (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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3

Ashen Demeanor

Disabling a foe cripples your enemy, which leaves them vulnerable and inspires you with Kalla's Fervor.

 Kalla's Fervor (8s): +2% Damage, +2% Condition Damage, +2% Life-Steal Damage

₅ Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Temporal Rift — Axe
•   Otherworldly Attraction — Scepter
•   Drop the Hammer — Hammer
•   Surge of the Mists — Staff
•   Rift Containment — Spear
•   Reckoning Blast — Trident
•   Scorchrazor — Short bow

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Call to Anguish — Legendary Demon Stance
•   Call to Anguish — Legendary Demon Stance
•   Forced Engagement — Legendary Dwarf Stance
•   Darkrazor's Daring — Legendary Renegade Stance

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Energy Expulsion — Legendary Centaur Stance

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Corruption

• Pact of Pain — Conditions you apply to foes last longer, but conditions applied to you also last longer.

Devastation

• Targeted Destruction — Deal increased strike damage to targets based on their vulnerability stacks.
• Dance of Death — Applying vulnerability to foes grants stacks of Battle Scars. The healing from Battle Scars is increased while you are below the health threshold.

Renegade

• Vindication — Gaining Kalla's Fervor grants you might. Citadel Bombardment pulls more missiles into Tyria for every stack of Kalla's Fervor affecting you.
• Lasting Legacy — Kalla's Fervor you inspire lasts longer and is more potent. Heroic Command grants more might per stack of Kalla's Fervor.
• Righteous Rebel — Kalla's Fervor reduces the damage you receive from conditions. Orders from Above lasts longer and affects a larger area.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Kalla's Fervor: Increased power damage bonus per stack from 1% to 2% in PvP and WvW.
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
May 11, 2021	Kalla's Fervor: This effect no longer increases ferocity. It now increases all damage dealt by 2% per stack in PvE.
March 05, 2019	Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to apply conditions to the revenant if they were knocked off their mount.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Ashen Demeanor has been added to the game.