Auspicious Anguish

Convert damaging conditions to boons whenever you gain Distortion or become disabled. This trait can only trigger when disabled once per interval. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. — In-game description

Auspicious Anguish

Specialization

Chaos (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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35

Auspicious Anguish

Convert damaging conditions to boons whenever you gain Distortion or become disabled.
This trait can only trigger when disabled once per interval.
Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

 Vigor (10s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Aegis (5s): Block the next incoming attack.

 Resolution (5s): Incoming condition damage decreased by 33%.

 Regen (5s): 650 Heal

₃ Might (10s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

 Conditions Converted: 2

— In-game description

Related skills

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blade Renewal — Psionic

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Distortion — Shatter
•   Bladesong Distortion — Bladesong

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Chaos

• Chaotic Persistence — Gain concentration and expertise while affected by regeneration.

Mirage

• Renewing Oasis — Gain regeneration when you gain Mirage Cloak. The duration of incoming damaging conditions is reduced while you are regenerating.
• Nomad's Endurance — Shatter skills give vigor, and vigor grants condition damage.

Virtuoso

• Psychic Riposte — Blocking or evading an attack stocks blades. Dodging stocks a blade and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Inspiration

• Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	This trait now has an internal cooldown when you become disabled. There is no internal cooldown when you gain distortion.
May 11, 2021	The Retaliation boon has been renamed Resolution.
July 16, 2019	This trait has been reworked. It now causes up to 2 damaging conditions on the mesmer to be converted into boons whenever the mesmer gains distortion or becomes disabled.
December 11, 2018	This trait has been renamed Auspicious Anguish. It now causes the skill Distortion to instantly recharge when the mesmer is affected by a control effect. It also causes the distortion effect to grant a random boon when it ends. The cooldown of this trait is 50 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Added taunt to the list of crowd-control effects that trigger this trait.
May 20, 2014	Updated the description of this trait to indicate "pull" in the list of triggers. Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from working under water.
December 10, 2013	Reduced the cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
October 22, 2012	This trait no longer functions on necromancers when they have Reaper's Protection active.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mirror of Anguish has been added to the game.