Legendary Demon Stance

"Mallyx" redirects here. For the book on Mallyx, see The Margonite Mallyx.

Invoke the power of the legendary demon Mallyx the Unyielding. — In-game description

Legendary Demon Stance

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Legend

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

28376, 28494

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Legendary Demon Stance

Invoke the power of the legendary demon Mallyx the Unyielding.

— In-game description

Skills

Legendary Demon training.

Skill					Description
Healing
Empowering Misery		0.75¾	5	30	Legendary Demon. Heal yourself. Heal more for each condition currently applied to you.
Utility
Pain Absorption		0.5½	30	0	Legendary Demon. Grant resistance to yourself and nearby allies. Absorb conditions from those allies, gaining resolution and additional resistance per condition.
Banish Enchantment		0.5½	20	0	Legendary Demon. Deal damage, apply chill, and remove boons from your foe.
Call to Anguish		0.75¾	30	3	Legendary Demon. Leap toward the targeted area and pull foes toward your landing point.
Elite
Embrace the Darkness		0.5½	5 / -6	3	Legendary Demon. Summon the power of the legendary demon to transform into a powerful avatar. Pulse torment to nearby foes. Using skills that cost energy increases the torment applied on the next pulse.
Resist the Darkness					Legendary Demon. End Embrace the Darkness early.

Related traits

Activation.

Corruption

• Invoking Torment — Release a burst of torment energy when you switch legends.

Retribution

• Spiritual Reckoning — Gain resolution when you use invoke a legend.

Salvation

• Invoking Harmony — Healing done to other allies is increased for a short duration after invoking a legend.

Invocation

• Invoker's Rage — Gain fury when you invoke a legend.
• Cleansing Channel — Invoking a legend removes a condition.
• Spirit Boon — Invoking a legend grants boons to nearby allies based on the legend that was invoked.
• Song of the Mists — Invoking a legend casts a skill based on the legend you invoked.
• Charged Mists — Invoking a legend while at or below the energy threshold grants extra energy to your new legend.

Vindicator

• Balance in Discord — Gain health and boons when swapping legends or by using Alliance Tactics while attuned to the Legendary Alliance.

Dialogue

Upon activating Demon Stance:

Mallyx: At last, now I shall feast on their anguish!

Mallyx: Unleash me.

Idle conversations

Mallyx: Demons of Torment will hound you to death and beyond.

<Character name>: Enough of your threats. I'm not impressed.

Mallyx: I shall consume you from within.

<Character name>: Only if I'm already dead.

Mallyx: You can't hold me forever.

<Character name>: But I can hold you as long as I need to.

Mallyx: The veil between Tyria and the Mists thins... It feels natural and yet worrying.

Mallyx: For you. Not I.

Mallyx: Who is this you channel? The Painting Lady. Kind. Elegant. Powerful. She was the first to die.

In Inner Nayos^{[verification requested]}

Mallyx: You've come to Nayos? (chuckle) Good luck.

In Lowland Shore when near Head Archivist Stalwart Heart^{[verification requested]}

Mallyx: This one is possessed, and by a demon you would not like to meet.

In Missing in Action after Malice and Caithe's conversation

Mallyx: Titans? Is the foundry still lit?

Lore

Primary article: gww:Mallyx

Mallyx was a powerful Margonite overlord who ruled over the Domain of Anguish. Mallyx led the last bastion of demonic servants of the fallen god Abaddon against the new Goddess of Truth, Kormir.

Notes

• Applies the  Legendary Demon Stance effect.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Swapping legends can now be done in midair.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Legendary Demon Stance has been added to the game.

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