Ancient Seeds

Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, launched, or defiant foe summons roots to entangle them. — In-game description

Ancient Seeds

Specialization

Druid (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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10

20

Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, launched, or defiant foe summons roots to entangle them.

  Damage (4x): 508 (0.8)^?

 ₅ Bleeding (8s): 880 Damage

 ₅ Immobilize (1s): Unable to move.

  Duration: 5 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Call of the Wild — Warhorn
•   Hilt Bash — Greatsword
•   Concussion Shot — Short bow
•   Counterstrike — Spear

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Call Lightning — Spirit
•   Spike Trap — Trap
•   Spike Trap — Trap
•   Glyph of Equality — Glyph

Pet skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Pink Moa
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Black Moa
•   Head Toss — Juvenile Rock Gazelle
•   Lashtail Venom — Juvenile Lashtail Devourer
•   Lightning Assault — Juvenile Electric Wyvern
•   Stunning Rush — Juvenile Armor Fish
•   Brutal Charge — Canine
•   Brutal Charge — Porcine
•   Charge — Rock Gazelle
•   Slam — Turtle
•   Takedown — Juvenile Smokescale, Smokescale
•   Wing Buffet — Juvenile Phoenix

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Thunderclap

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Thunderclap

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Marksmanship

• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Skirmishing

• Hidden Barbs — Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Druid

• Primal Echoes — Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.

Notes

• Will trigger on multiple foes if they are all hit at the same time (such as with Barrage) and are already affected by one of the listed control effects.
  • The cooldown is shared between all foes. That means that this trait will only trigger once every 10 seconds for all foes struck.
• Will not trigger on multiple foes if they are all hit at the same time by an ability that causes both damage and CC (such as with Glyph of Equality).

Anomaly:

Although not stated in the trait description, it will trigger on attacks made shortly after a target has been knocked back or pulled.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	This skill will now trigger against defiant foes in addition to its previous effects.
August 16, 2017	Fixed a bug that listed damage from this trait as Jacaranda's Embrace.
May 16, 2017	The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
May 17, 2016	Fixed a bug that allowed multiple triggers of this trait on a single target.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Ancient Seeds has been added to the game.