Adaptive Armor

Barriers you receive are stronger. Reduce incoming condition damage while you have barrier. — In-game description

Adaptive Armor

Specialization

Scrapper (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

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Adaptive Armor

Barriers you receive are stronger. Reduce incoming condition damage while you have barrier.

 Barrier Increase: 15%

 Condition Damage Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Essence of Animated Sand — Short bow
•   Shock Shield — Hammer

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Bulwark Gyro — Well

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Explosives

• Blast Shield — Explosive Entrance grants barrier. Gain vitality based on a percentage of your power.

Scrapper

• System Shocker — Disabling a foe grants barrier to nearby allies. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Impact Savant — A percentage of the strike damage you deal is converted into barrier.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 30, 2024	This trait has been reworked. Your function gyro has two ammunition and grants barrier to allies when cast. Function Gyro no longer has an increased recharge when creating additional gyros but has a higher base recharge. (Undocumented) This trait has been replaced with Ex Machina.
July 16, 2019	This trait no longer gives barrier when struck. Instead, it increases the barrier received by 15%, in addition to reducing condition damage by 20% while you have a barrier.
May 08, 2018	Fixed a bug in which this trait granted barrier before the inflicting strike was applied, preventing barrier from stacking. Increased the healing-power contribution to the barrier granted by this trait by 150%.
February 06, 2018	This trait has been reworked; upon being struck, it now grants barrier with a 3-second cooldown, and it reduces condition damage by 20% while you have barrier.
October 29, 2015	Reduced the toughness gained per stack of Adaptive Armor from 100 to 60.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Adaptive Armor has been added to the game.