Agony

This article is about Agony as a game mechanic. For information on how to mitigate Agony, see Agony Resistance. For effects that share the same name, see Agony (disambiguation).

Deals damage every second; stacks intensity; reduces incoming healing and barrier application by 70% per stack; damage is reduced by agony resistance. — In-game description

Agony

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Deals damage every second; stacks intensity; reduces incoming healing and barrier application by 70% per stack; damage is reduced by agony resistance.

— In-game description

Agony is an effect unique to the Fractals of the Mists that removes a percentage of the player's health every second and reduces healing received by 70% (regardless of stacks). It is not affected by condition removal, but the damage received can be mitigated using infusions that grant Agony Resistance.

Mechanics

Players encounter agony beginning at difficulty scale 20. Agony inflicts a percentage of your max health every second. The percent of damage increases as the difficulty scale goes up. Unlike conditions, agony is not removed upon going downed, so it will continue to deal damage. Because your downed health is triple your base health, agony will also do three times more damage causing you to be defeated quicker.

Enemy attacks that apply agony can be avoided by dodging, evading, blocking, going invulnerable, and/or other actions that prevent the attacks from hitting.

In certain fractals, upon reaching the final area where the boss is, all players will be afflicted with agony (also called an agony check).

Agony Resistance

Primary article: Agony Resistance

The damage from agony can be mitigated with the Agony Resistance (AR). Every level of difficulty scale increases the health loss by approximately 2.1 percentage points. Each point of AR reduces the health loss by 1.2 percentage points, to a minimum of 1% health lost per second. The table shows every 10th scale, and increments of 5 AR (6 percentage points reduction) for brevity.

Agony resistance	Health lost per tick at difficulty scale
	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
0	10%	31%	53%	74%	95%	117%	138%	159%	180%
5	4%	25%	47%	68%	89%	111%	132%	153%	174%
10	1%	19%	41%	62%	83%	105%	126%	147%	168%
15	1%	13%	35%	56%	77%	99%	120%	141%	162%
20	1%	7%	29%	50%	71%	93%	114%	135%	156%
25	1%	2%	23%	44%	65%	87%	108%	129%	150%
30	1%	1%	17%	38%	59%	81%	102%	123%	144%
35	1%	1%	11%	32%	53%	75%	96%	117%	138%
40	1%	1%	5%	26%	47%	69%	90%	111%	132%
45	1%	1%	1%	20%	41%	63%	84%	105%	126%
50	1%	1%	1%	14%	35%	57%	78%	99%	120%
55	1%	1%	1%	8%	29%	51%	72%	93%	114%
60	1%	1%	1%	2%	23%	45%	66%	87%	108%
65	1%	1%	1%	1%	17%	39%	60%	81%	102%
70	1%	1%	1%	1%	11%	33%	54%	75%	96%
75	1%	1%	1%	1%	5%	27%	48%	69%	90%
80	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	21%	42%	63%	84%
85	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	15%	36%	57%	78%
90	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	9%	30%	51%	72%
95	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	3%	24%	45%	66%
100	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	18%	39%	60%
105	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	12%	33%	54%
110	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	6%	27%	48%
115	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	21%	42%
120	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	15%	36%
125	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	9%	30%
130	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	3%	24%
135	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	18%
140	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	12%
145	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	6%
150	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%

Suggested agony resistance

This table shows a suggested amount of Agony Resistance at each Fractal Scale. Specifically, this table shows the lowest AR value at each scale that will guarantee 1% agony damage per tick, per stack of agony. The values listed here are close mirrors for the official "Suggested Agony Resistance" values displayed in the Mistlock Observatory, but they are sometimes not an exact match.

Important Note: At some fractal scales, the official suggested agony resistance displayed in the Mistlock Observatory will vary by one or two points from player to player. If your displayed value is slightly different from what is shown here, please do not "correct" these table values.

Tier 1 scales	Suggested AR
< 20	none
20	8
21	10
22	11
23	13
24	15
25	17

Tier 2 scales	Suggested AR
26	18
27	20
28	22
29	24
30	26
31	27
32	29
33	31
34	33
35	34
36	36
37	38
38	40
39	42
40	43
41	45
42	47
43	49
44	50
45	52
46	54
47	56
48	58
49	59
50	61

Tier 3 scales	Suggested AR
51	63
52	65
53	67
54	68
55	70
56	72
57	74
58	75
59	77
60	79
61	81
62	83
63	84
64	86
65	88
66	90
67	91
68	93
69	95
70	97
71	99
72	100
73	102
74	104
75	106

Tier 4 scales	Suggested AR
76	107
77	109
78	111
79	113
80	115
81	116
82	118
83	120
84	122
85	123
86	125
87	127
88	129
89	131
90	132
91	134
92	136
93	138
94	139
95	141
96	143
97	145
98	147
99	148
100	150

Related skills

Monster skills that apply agony

•   Agonizing Rune — Death Rune
•   Call Meteor — Fury of the Mountain, Sorrowful Spellcaster
•   Crimson Dawn — Skorvald the Shattered
•   Disintegration Blast — The Voice
•   Electric Aura — Electrified Cage
•   Elemental Manipulation — Sorrowful Spellcaster
•   Elemental Whirl — Sorrowful Spellcaster, Ai, Keeper of the Peak
•   Elemental Whirl — Sorrowful Spellcaster, Ai, Keeper of the Peak
•   Grim Lagoon — Captain Crowe, First Mate Calix
•   Horizon Strike — Skorvald the Shattered
•   Life Reap — The Voice
•   Shadow Blast — The Voice
•   Solar Bolt — Skorvald the Shattered
•   Storm Blast — Deepstone Sentinel
•   Wall of Earth — Elite Sunspear Sandbinder

Notes

• Non-player characters (including pets) are not subject to agony.
• At difficulty scale 20 or higher, the final area or platform may inflict Agony prior to the start of the fractal bosses. Certain attacks from bosses will also start applying Agony.
• The data in the Mechanics and Suggested Agony Resistance tables are based on the following formula. This formula was extrapolated from observational data on agony damage in the game, not from any official source.
  • (((Scale * 2.136) - 33) - (AR * 1.2)) = Percent_Damage
• Unlike other conditions, agony is not removed on becoming downed. It is possible for a player to become defeated while still invulnerable from recently becoming downed.
• The effects of agony can be tested in the Mistlock Observatory training area by talking to the Fractal Instability Trainer.

Bug:

Despite the description being updated, there is no reduction to barrier application.

Trivia

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Spectral Agony.

• The effect is similar to Spectral Agony inflicted by the Mursaat in the original Guild Wars. This was an irremovable effect that dealt heavy damage against players whose armor wasn't infused, which has a similar mechanic as infusion.
• In the media, ArenaNet has referred to agony as a condition. While it's similar to other conditions that inflict damage over time, it is not affected by effects or skills that remove or reduce the duration of conditions.
• Prior to the 26 March 2013 update, pets did not have any agony resistance.
• In the pre-Fractured fractals, bosses were the only source of the effect and inflict agony with their attacks.

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Fractals of the Mists

Hub	Mistlock Observatory
Fractals	Aetherblade Aquatic Ruins Captain Mai Trin Boss Cliffside Chaos Deepstone Lonely Tower Molten Boss Molten Furnace Nightmare Shattered Observatory Silent Surf Siren's Reef Snowblind Solid Ocean Sunqua Peak Swampland Thaumanova Reactor Twilight Oasis Uncategorized Underground Facility Urban Battleground Volcanic
Achievements	Daily Weekly General Lonely Tower Nightmare Shattered Observatory Sunqua Peak Silent Surf Jumping Puzzle: Mistlock Mountaineer
Mechanics	Agony (Resistance) Mistlock Instability Fractal Potion Account Augmentation

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