Vital Persistence

Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased. — In-game description

Vital Persistence

Specialization

Soul Reaping (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Vital Persistence

Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.

 Vitality: +180

 Incoming Healing Increase: 20%

 Incoming Healing Increase: 10%

— In-game description

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Spite

• Spiteful Renewal — Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.

Curses

• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

Death Magic

• Unholy Sanctuary — Regenerate health while in shroud. If your life force is above the threshold, your shroud will activate if you would take a lethal blow.

Blood Magic

• Life from Death — Heal allies in an area when you exit shroud. Increase healing to other allies.
• Transfusion — Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies. Up to five nearby downed allies are teleported to you upon using shroud skill 4.

Reaper

• Soul Eater — Striking foes within the range threshold deals increased strike damage and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Harbinger

• Alchemic Vigor — Gain increased vitality. Heal each second for each stack of blight you have.

Notes

• This trait increases the amount of healing received from the Necromancer's self-applied healing in addition to the healing received from outside sources.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 11, 2018	This trait no longer reduces the recharge time of shroud skills. Instead, it increases all incoming healing by 20% in PvE and by 10% in PvP and WvW. Its vitality bonus is unchanged.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait no longer slows shroud decay but instead grants bonus Vitality and reduces the recharge of shroud skills by 20%. Basic drain of Death Shroud and Reaper Shroud was reduced by 25%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Master tier. Added: Shroud skills recharge faster. Traits that previously referred to Death Shroud now refer to the more ubiquitous Shroud.
December 10, 2013	Increased the reduction of life force drain from 25% to 50%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Vital Persistence has been added to the game.