Impact Savant

A percentage of the strike damage you deal is converted into barrier. Your vitality is reduced. — In-game description

Impact Savant

Specialization

Scrapper (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

External links

API

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A percentage of the strike damage you deal is converted into barrier. Your vitality is reduced.

  Conversion Percent: 5%

  Conversion Percent: 15%

  Conversion Percent: 10%

  Vitality: −180

— In-game description

Notes

Bug:

This trait erroneously modifies the tooltips of skills that inflict stun and daze, implying that it has the previous effect of +25% stun and daze durations. This is a purely visual bug, and the actual durations are unaffected.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: The percentage of strike damage dealt that converts to barrier on yourself has been reduced to 5% in PvE only.
February 23, 2021	Reduced damage to barrier conversion from 15% to 10% in PvP only.
October 15, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented vitality from being affected by this trait in PvP and WvW. It will now correctly decrease vitality by 180 in all game modes.
October 01, 2019	Reduced the vitality loss from this trait from 300 to 180.
July 16, 2019	This trait no longer increases damage while you have barrier. Instead it converts 15% of all outgoing strike damage into barrier and reduces vitality by 300.
December 11, 2018	This trait now grants 5% bonus damage when the engineer is under the effects of barrier, in addition to strengthening barrier.
February 06, 2018	This trait has been reworked to increase the effectiveness of barriers you receive by 15%.
November 17, 2015	This trait should now be reflected in the skill facts of appropriate skills.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Impact Savant has been added to the game.