Condition

Conditions are negative effects that provide damage and control, playing a major role in combat. For players, conditions are primarily inflicted through use of skills and traits. NPC foes often inflict conditions on some of their attacks and they may also be applied through environmental effects or other mechanics. All conditions have effect stacking, with all control conditions stacking in duration while all damaging conditions like bleeding, confusion, torment, and vulnerability stack in intensity. Conditions are balanced in respect to their effectiveness: bleeding and weakness are relatively common and provide weak effects while immobilize and fear are rare and provide strong effects. Some conditions may be more common to some professions than others, characterizing the role for the profession.

In addition to conditions, all professions have access to condition removal skills. All professions have a healing skill that provides condition removal apart from the mesmer, who requires Mender's Purity or the Chronomancer elite specialization to use Well of Eternity. For generic condition removal, the most recently applied condition or conditions will be removed first. The condition is removed independent of the intensity, so 3 stacks and 250 stacks of bleeding are equivalent when considering condition removal.

Conditions dealt by converting boons will always have a fixed duration and depend on the boon converted, regardless of the duration and intensity of the original boon. The same behavior is applied to boons obtained by converting conditions.

The duration of conditions is rounded to the nearest quarter of a second in skill tooltips, but the actual duration is not rounded. The duration of conditions on enemies can be increased through the Condition Duration attribute. Some items having negative Condition Duration bonuses will reduce the duration of conditions inflicted by enemies. Condition duration bonuses obtained from runes are not shown on skill tooltips, but do increase the durations.

Condition damage is separate from direct damage. Damage caused by conditions ignore armor and other effects that reduce damage, such as protection. Outgoing damage from conditions can be increased by the Condition Damage secondary attribute. It is important to note that conditions only inflict damage over time in one second intervals and any remaining fractional seconds are inflicted either at the beginning or end of their duration.

List of conditions

Icon	Name	Description	Converted into
Damage Conditions
	Bleeding	Deals damage every second; stacks intensity.	Vigor (10s)
	Burning	Deals damage every second; stacks intensity.	Aegis (5s)
	Confusion	Damage received on skill activation; stacks intensity.	Retaliation (5s)
	Poisoned	Deals damage every second; decreases healing effectiveness by 33%; damage stacks intensity.	Regeneration (5s)
	Torment	Deals damage every second. Deals additional damage to moving foes. Stacks intensity.	Might (10s)
Crowd Control Conditions
	Blinded	Next outgoing attack misses; stacks duration.	Fury (5s)
	Chilled	Movement speed decreased by 66%; skill cooldown increased by 66%; stacks duration.	Alacrity (2s)
	Crippled	Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration.	Swiftness (10s)
	Fear	Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.	Stability (1 stack, 3s)
	Immobilized	Unable to move; stacks duration.	Resistance (2s)
	Slow	Skills and actions are slower.	Quickness (3s)
	Taunt	Involuntarily attack foes.	Resistance (2s)
	Weakness	Endurance regeneration decreased by 50%. 50% of hits are Glancing Blows (50% damage). Stacks duration.	Might (10s)
Other Conditions
	Vulnerability	Damage and condition damage taken are increased; stacks intensity.	Protection (3s)

Some effects are considered conditions for some game mechanics so they can be removed with condition removal effects, but are not available in any profession or race skill sets, and cannot be converted into boons. Here are some examples of such conditions:

•  Dwayna's Lament
•  Burning Pitch
•  Mysterious Plague
•  Poisoned
•  Rend
•  Wounded

Condition conversion

Conditions can be converted into boons by certain skills. The conversion is as follows:

Condition	Boon
Bleeding	Vigor (10 s)
Blinded	Fury (5 s)
Burning	Aegis (5 s)
Chilled	Alacrity (2 s)
Confusion	Retaliation (5 s)
Crippled	Swiftness (10 s)
Fear	Stability (3 s)
Immobile	Resistance (2 s)
Poisoned	Regeneration (5 s)
Slow	Quickness (3 s)
Taunt	Resistance (2 s)
Torment	Might (3 stacks, 10 s)
Vulnerability	Protection (3 s)
Weakness	Might (3 stacks, 10 s)

Related skills

Many skills apply or remove specific conditions. To find skills related to a specific condition, refer to the page on that condition. The following are skills related to non-specific conditions.

Skills that remove conditions

From self

Weapon skills

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   Infiltrator's Return (after Infiltrator's Strike) — Return to your original location. Cure one condition.
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   Death's Retreat — Shadowstep away from your target and lose conditions. Poisons foes at your starting location.
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   Free Action — Cancel kneeling and move freely.
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   Magnetic Wave — Damage foes, cure three of your conditions, and reflect projectiles with a magnetic surge.
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   Phoenix — Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor.
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   Renewing Wave — Send out a wave of mist energy that heals and removes conditions from allies.
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   Flames of War — Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again.

Healing skills

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   Signet of Resolve — Passive: Cures a condition from yourself every few seconds.
  Active: Heal yourself.
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   Mending — Physical. Remove conditions and heal yourself.
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   Natural Healing — Lose boons and conditions, then heal yourself
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   Soothing Stone — Remove conditions and heal yourself. Gain retaliation.
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   Ether Renewal — Heal yourself and cure a condition with every pulse.
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   Consume Conditions — Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. You become vulnerable.
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   Hide in Shadows — Vanish in stealth and cure conditions. Then gain regeneration and heal yourself.
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   Withdraw — Cure conditions, then roll backward while healing and evading attacks.
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   Malicious Restoration — Transfer your conditions to your marked target and then heal yourself.

Utility skills

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   Elixir C — Drink Elixir C, converting all conditions into random boons.
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   Smite Condition — Cure conditions and damage nearby foes. Deal more damage if a condition is cured.
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   Contemplation of Purity — Convert the conditions you are suffering from into boons.
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   Signet of Stamina — Passive: Grants faster endurance regeneration. Active: Cure all conditions and gain endurance.
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   Signet of Renewal — Signet Passive: You and your pet recover health. Signet Active: Grant resistance to your pet; it pulls conditions from nearby allies to itself.
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   Signet of Agility — Passive: Grants increased precision. Active: Refill endurance and cleanse conditions from nearby allies.
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   Shadow Return — Return to your starting location and cure three conditions.
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   Mantra of Resolve — Meditate, charging a spell that will cure conditions for you and nearby allies. Remove all conditions when this skill is fully charged.
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   Cleansing Fire — Cure five conditions and burn foes.
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   Signet of Water — Signet Passive: Reduces incoming condition duration. Signet Active: Damage and chill foes while healing and reviving allies in an area.
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   Prayer to Kormir — Beseech Kormir to remove 3 conditions from you.

Elite Skills

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   Jaunt — Shadowstep to a target location and confuse nearby foes.

Profession mechanics

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   Purge Conditions (Juvenile Brown Bear) — Purge all conditions from yourself.
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   Cauterize (Coolant Blast toolbelt skill) — Use a laser to burn off conditions and set yourself on fire for each condition removed. Removes additional conditions if above the heat threshold.

From allies

Weapon skills

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   Cleansing Flame — Breathe magical flames that damage foes and cure conditions on allies.
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   Cleansing Wave — Heal yourself and nearby allies, curing a condition.
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   Healing Rain — Call down a healing rain on the target area, granting regeneration to allies and curing conditions once every three seconds.
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   Vine Surge — Send forth vines that immobilize enemies and cleanse conditions from allies.

Underwater weapon skills

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   Purify — Release an orb of cleansing light that cures conditions on allies it passes through and detonates on enemies struck. Burns foes and cures conditions on allies within the blast radius.
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   Purifying Blast — Detonate the orb to burn foes and cure conditions on allies in the blast radius.

Healing skills

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   Cleansing Burst (Healing Turret) — Overcharge your healing turret to cure conditions and grant a burst of healing.
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   Cleansing Field (Med Kit) — Release purifying vapors to cleanse condition from allies near you at each interval.
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   Healing Spring — Create a spring that heals you, your pet, and your allies. It also cures conditions on allies.
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   Well of Eternity — Creates a well that rewinds time, removing conditions from allies. When it expires, the well heals all allies in the area.

Utility skills

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   Purging Flames — Create a ring of fire that burns foes and cures conditions on allies.
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   Opening Passage — Recite a cleansing word, purifying allies of conditions and helping them recover.
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   "Shake It Off!" — Cure conditions on yourself and nearby allies. Also breaks stuns.
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   Purifying Essence - Remove conditions from allies near the tablet, and heal them for a small amount per condition removed.
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   Signet of Agility — Passive: Grants increased precision. Active: Refill endurance and cleanse conditions from nearby allies.
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   Null Field — Create a field of energy that rips boons from foes and cures conditions on allies.
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   Power Cleanse (Mantra of Resolve) — Remove conditions from you and nearby allies.
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   Purge Gyro — Deploy a purge gyro to remove conditions from you and your nearby allies.
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   Glyph of Alignment — Heal and remove conditions from nearby allies.

Elite skills

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   Nature's Renewal (Spirit of Nature) — Your spirit of nature sacrifices itself to revive and cure the conditions of nearby downed allies.
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   Overcharge Supply Crate (Supply Crate) — Overcharge supply crate's turrets.
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   Grim Specter (Lich Form) — Siphon health from nearby enemies over time, gaining vitality each time you hit an enemy. Players struck by this ability lose equivalent vitality.
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   Crashing Waves (with Glyph of Elementals (water))
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   Cleansing Leaves (Avatar of Melandru) — Shake, removing conditions from nearby allies.

Profession mechanics

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   Chapter 2: Radiant Recovery (Tome of Resolve) — up to 3 conditions removed
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   Fumigate (from Elixir Gun) — Spray a cone of elixir fumes, inflicting poison and vulnerability to foes and curing conditions on allies with every strike.
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   Super Elixir (Elixir Gun) — One condition from allies in area
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   Toss Elixir R (Elixir R) — Toss Elixir R, curing conditions and reviving allies.
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   Blessing of Kormir (Prayer to Kormir) — Beseech Kormir to remove one condition from your allies at the target location.
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   Shake It Off (Juvenile Brown Bear) — Cure a condition on yourself and all nearby allies.
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   Seed of Life — Summon a seed that heals and cleanses nearby allies of conditions when it blossoms.

Combos

•  Combo Field: Light ×  Combo Finisher: Blast
•  Combo Field: Light ×  Combo Finisher: Whirl
•  Combo Field: Light ×  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Skills that transfer conditions

Weapon skills

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   Deathly Swarm — Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack.
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   Putrid Mark — Inscribe a mark that transfers conditions from yourself to foes when they trigger it.

Utility skills

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   "Save Yourselves!" — Draw conditions from nearby allies to yourself. Gain multiple boons for a short duration.
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   Pain Absorption — Grant resistance to yourself and nearby allies. Absorb conditions from those allies, gaining additional resistance per condition.
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   Signet of Renewal — Signet Passive: You and your pet recover health. Signet Active: Grant resistance to your pet; it pulls conditions from nearby allies to itself.
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   Arcane Thievery — Send three conditions you have to your foe and give them slow, and steal three of their boons while granting yourself quickness.
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   Epidemic — Apply vulnerability on yourself. Spread conditions on a target foe to all nearby foes at a reduced duration. WvW Only: Does not affect structures or targets with resistance.
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   Plague Signet — Passive: Transfers conditions from nearby allies to yourself. Active: Send your conditions to a foe.
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   Facet of Nature—Demon - Transfer a condition from nearby allies to yourself every few seconds.
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   "Suffer!" — Damage foes around you and chill them. Transfer a condition to each foe you strike.

Profession mechanics

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   Plague Blast (from underwater Death Shroud) — Blast a foe with a plague that transfers one condition to them.
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   Gathering Plague (from underwater Death Shroud) — Draw conditions from nearby allies to yourself, and inflict weakness on yourself.
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   True Nature - Transfer conditions to nearby enemies. Gain might for each condition transferred.

Skills that transform boons into conditions

Weapon skills

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   Dark Pact — Immobilize your foe. Bleed yourself. Converts two boons into conditions.
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   Unholy Feast — Cripple nearby foes and convert their boons into conditions. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold.
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   Putrid Curse — Poison and bleed your foe. Additionally converts 1 boon into a condition.
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   Enfeebling Blood — Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area. Additionally converts 1 boon into a condition.
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   Nightfall -Call down a growing column of shadows that damages and applies conditions on foes per pulse. Converts 1 boon into a condition per pulse.

Utility skills

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   Corrupt Boon — Poison yourself. Transform boons on your foe into negative conditions.
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   Well of Corruption — Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions

Skills that transform conditions into boons

Utility skills

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   Contemplation of Purity — Convert the conditions you are suffering from into boons.
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   Elixir C — Drink Elixir C, converting all conditions into random boons.
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   Well of Power — Target area pulses, converting conditions on allies into boons and granting might.

on allies

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   Clarified Conclusion — Recite the concluding passage, converting corruption into enhancements for your allies and aiding them in recovery.
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   Epilogue: Eternal Oasis — Purify your allies with the waters of Amnoon and increase the healing they receive.

Profession mechanics

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   Toss Elixir C (tool belt skill for Elixir C) — Toss Elixir C, converting conditions into boons for allies.
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   Nefarious Favor — You and your shade convert conditions from nearby allies into boons. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Skills that benefit from conditions on foes

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   Feast of Corruption — Strike your target, gain life force, and corrupt boons on your foe. For each condition on your target up to the condition threshold, gain additional life force and inflict torment.
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   Oppressive Collapse - Corrupt the ground under your target; if they remain within the area, they will be knocked down. Grant might to allies near your target based on how many conditions they have.

Related traits

To see the traits which relate to a specific condition, refer to the page on that condition. The following is a list of traits related to non-specific conditions

Traits that remove conditions

•  Smiter's Boon — Cast Lesser Smite Condition when you use a healing skill.
•  Strength of the Fallen — Lose conditions at a set time interval. Health degenerates more slowly while downed.
•  Hunter's Fortification — Remove conditions when blocking attacks. Receive less damage when you have no conditions on you.
•  Brawler's Recovery — Remove conditions when you swap weapons.
•  Cleansing Ire — Gain adrenaline when hit. Remove a condition for every bar of adrenaline spent when you hit with a burst skill.
•  Savage Instinct — Activating berserk mode breaks stuns and removes conditions.
•  Cleansing Channel - Invoking a legend removes a condition.
•  Hardening Persistence - Gain damage reduction for each point of upkeep currently in use. Shield skills remove conditions.
•  Evasive Purity — Dodging removes a damaging condition and a non-damaging condition from you.
•  Wilderness Knowledge — Survival skills have reduced recharge, grant fury, and remove conditions.
•  Empathic Bond — Condition durations are split between you and your pet. Conditions are not split while your pet is downed.
•  Druidic Clarity — Becoming celestial avatar removes conditions from you.
•  Shadow's Embrace — Remove conditions periodically while in stealth.
•  Trickster — Reduces recharge on tricks. Tricks remove conditions.
•  Escapist's Absolution — Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.
•  Burning Fire — Cast Lesser Cleansing Fire when you have a number of conditions on you.
•  Diamond Skin — Remove conditions when struck while your health is above the threshold.
•  Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.
•  Restorative Illusions — Heal yourself and lose conditions when you use a shatter skill.
•  Elusive Mind — Dodging breaks stun and removes conditions. If you break a stun in this manner, you will be left exhausted.
•  Shrouded Removal — Lose a condition when you enter shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud.
•  Spiteful Renewal — Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.

Traits also removing conditions from allies

•  Absolute Resolution — Activating Virtue of Resolve removes conditions from nearby allies. Virtue of Resolve's passive effect is stronger.
•  Shrug It Off — Use "Shake It Off!" automatically when you have a number of conditions on you.
•  Eluding Nullification - Dodge rolling removes a condition from nearby allies.
•  Anticorrosion Plating — When you grant protection to an ally, cleanse conditions from them.
•  Cleansing Synergy — Using a heal skill triggers a cleansing pulse around you.
•  Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.
•  Cleansing Water — Remove a condition when granting regeneration to yourself or an ally.
•  Cleansing Wave — Remove a condition from you and your allies when attuning to water.
•  Evasive Arcana — Create an attunement-based spell after dodging.
•  Unholy Martyr — Entering shroud transfers conditions from allies to you. Exiting shroud consumes conditions currently on you and converts them to life force.
•  Abrasive Grit — Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions afflicting them and grants might. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.

Traits that benefit from conditions on foes

•  Modified Ammunition — Increase damage for each condition on a foe.
•  Exposed Weakness — Deal more damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
•  Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on your foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
•  Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants stacking toughness and reduced incoming condition damage.
•  Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. (Healing will not occur while lifeforce replaces health.)
•  Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

Traits that benefit from conditions on you

•  Replenishing Despair - Incoming conditions provide you a small amount of healing.
•  Plague Sending - Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.

Traits that transfer conditions

•  Necromantic Corruption — Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. Whenever a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target. (10 second cooldown per minion.)
•  Plague Sending — Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
•  Unholy Martyr — Entering shroud transfers conditions from allies to you. Exiting shroud consumes conditions currently on you and converts them to life force.
•  Pulsating Pestilence — Invoking a legend transfers conditions from you onto foes.

Traits that copy conditions onto foes

•  Revenge Counter — Full Counter deals additional damage and grants resistance. Copy conditions on yourself to targets you hit with Full Counter.

Traits that transform boons into conditions

•  Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
•  Spiteful Spirit — Strike around you when entering shroud.
•  Weakening Shroud — Cast Lesser Enfeeble when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.
•  Unending Corruption — Manifest Sand Shade corrupts boons on foes near it.

Traits that transform conditions into boons

•  Pure of Voice — Allies affected by shouts have conditions converted to boons. Shout abilities have their recharge reduced.
•  Purity of Purpose — When you would cleanse a condition from an ally, convert it to a boon instead.
•  Transmute - Drink a Lesser Elixir C when you reach a threshold of conditions affecting you.
•  Prismatic Converter — Deactivate Photon Forge converts conditions into boons based on your heat level.

Related equipment

To find equipment related to a specific condition, refer to the page on that condition. Following is a list of equipment that affects non-specific conditions.

Upgrade components that remove conditions

Runes

•   Superior Rune of Antitoxin (rank 6); remove an additional condition when removing a condition.
•   Superior Rune of Nature's Bounty (rank 6); Removes 1 condition on allies when using a heal skill.
•   Superior Rune of the Trooper (rank 6); Removes 1 condition on allies affected by a shout.
•   Superior Rune of the Water (rank 6); remove a condition from you and nearby allies after using a heal skill.

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Purity; Chance to remove 1 condition on on hit.
•   Superior Sigil of Cleansing; Remove 3 conditions when you swap to this weapon while in combat.

Upgrade components that convert conditions

•   Superior Rune of Lyssa (rank 6); 3 conditions converted into boons on elite skill.
•   Superior Rune of Leadership (rank 6); 3 conditions from nearby allies converted into boons on elite skill.

Upgrade components that transfer conditions to enemies

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Generosity; Transfer a condition upon successfully critically hitting.

Upgrade components that affect conditions on enemies

Runes

See also: Condition Duration#Runes that increase condition duration

Upgrade components that affect conditions on self

Runes

See also: Condition Duration#Runes that decrease Condition Duration (on you)

Related consumables

To find consumables related to a specific condition, refer to the page on that condition. Following is a list of consumables that affect non-specific conditions

Consumables that remove conditions

•   Bowl of Poultry Stock: 20% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Poultry Noodle Soup: 20% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Savory Spinach and Poultry Soup: 30% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Herbed Poultry Stock: 50% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Kale and Poultry Soup: 50% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Hearty Poultry Soup: 60% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Poultry and Winter Vegetable Soup: 80% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Saffron-scented Poultry Soup: 100% chance to remove a condition when using heal skill
•   Bowl of Spiced Red Lentil Stew: Lose a Condition on Successful Evade (Cooldown: 10 Seconds)

See also

• Condition Damage
• Condition Duration