List of ranger traits

This is a list of ranger traits.

Marksmanship

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Opening Strike		You and your pet inflict vulnerability with your first strike when entering combat.
Major Adept	Stoneform		Use Lesser Signet of Stone when struck while below the health threshold.
Major Adept	Hunter's Gaze	1	Gain might when you strike a foe based on their health percent.
Major Adept	Clarion Bond		Cast Lesser Call of the Wild when you swap pets. Soulbeasts can trigger this trait by entering or leaving beastmode.
Minor Master	Alpha Focus		Your opening strikes inflict cripple on your foes.
Major Master	Brutish Seals		Activating a Signet grants fury to nearby allies. Signets gain reduced recharge.
Major Master	Farsighted		Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
Major Master	Moment of Clarity		Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Minor Grandmaster	Precise Strike		Opening Strike has an increased chance to critically strike.
Major Grandmaster	Predator's Onslaught		You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.
Major Grandmaster	Remorseless		Regain opening strike whenever you gain fury. Opening strike deals more damage.
Major Grandmaster	Lead the Wind	15	Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Striking foes beyond the range threshold grants boons.

Skirmishing

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Tail Wind	9	Gain swiftness when swapping weapons in combat.
Major Adept	Sharpened Edges		You and your pet have a chance to cause bleeding on critical hits.
Major Adept	Primal Reflexes	8	When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.
Major Adept	Trapper's Expertise		Increase the duration of boons and conditions applied by traps. Traps gain reduced recharges and offensive ones cause cripple.
Minor Master	Furious Grip	9	Gain fury when swapping weapons in combat.
Major Master	Spotter		You increase the precision of nearby allies.
Major Master	Strider's Defense	5	Evading an attack grants quickness. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.
Major Master	Hidden Barbs		Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.
Minor Grandmaster	Hunter's Tactics		You deal more damage and have an increased chance to critically strike while attacking from behind or the side.
Major Grandmaster	Quick Draw	9	When swapping weapons, the next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.
Major Grandmaster	Light on your Feet		Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using Quick Shot. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking are improved.
Major Grandmaster	Vicious Quarry	2	Fury grants ferocity and additional increased critical strike chance. When struck while below the health threshold, gain fury.

Wilderness Survival

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Natural Vigor		You recover endurance more quickly.
Major Adept	Child of Earth		Create muddy terrain [sic] when you use a healing skill.
Major Adept	Oakheart Salve	10	Gain regeneration when you are inflicted with bleeding, poison, or burning. While you have regeneration, you take reduced strike damage.
Major Adept	Taste for Danger		Gain increased vitality. You and your pet gain expertise based on vitality.
Minor Master	Companion's Defense		You and your pet gain protection when you dodge roll.
Major Master	Ambidexterity		Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a torch or dagger. Torch and dagger skills recharge faster.
Major Master	Refined Toxins	5	While you are above the health threshold, your strikes inflict poison. While your pet's health is above the health threshold, its strikes inflict poison.
Major Master	Shared Anguish	60	Incoming disables are transferred to your pet instead. Disables include: stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, or launch.
Minor Grandmaster	Rugged Growth		You and your pet recover health while affected by protection.
Major Grandmaster	Empathic Bond		Condition durations are split between you and your pet. Conditions are not split while your pet is downed.
Major Grandmaster	Wilderness Knowledge		Survival skills gain reduced recharge, grant fury, and remove conditions.
Major Grandmaster	Poison Master		Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Rejuvenation	10	Gain regeneration when struck while below the health threshold.
Major Adept	Bountiful Hunter		You deal increased strike damage for each boon affecting you. Your pet deals increased strike damage for each boon affecting it.
Major Adept	Instinctive Reaction	20	Gain quickness when struck while below the threshold. You and your pet gain healing power based on power.
Major Adept	Allies' Aid		Cast "Search and Rescue!" when you begin reviving an ally.
Minor Master	Fortifying Bond		When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
Major Master	Evasive Purity	10	Dodging removes a damaging condition and a non-damaging condition from you.
Major Master	Spirited Arrival		Grant boons to nearby allies when swapping pets. Soulbeasts can trigger this trait by entering or leaving beastmode.
Major Master	Windborne Notes		Warhorn skills gain reduced recharge and grant regeneration around their target. Recover health when you gain regeneration.
Minor Grandmaster	Lingering Magic		You and your pet gain increased concentration.
Major Grandmaster	Nature's Vengeance		Reduces health loss when spirits apply boons to allies. Spirit-activated skills affect a larger area and apply boons to allies.
Major Grandmaster	Protective Ward	15	When you receive damage, nearby foes are weakened and you gain protection.
Major Grandmaster	Invigorating Bond	20	Beast abilities heal allies around the caster.

Beastmastery

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Pack Alpha		Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
Major Adept	Go for the Eyes	12	Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
Major Adept	Potent Ally	1	You and your pet each grant might to the other when critically striking a foe.
Major Adept	Resounding Timbre		Commands apply additional boons around you and gain reduced recharge.
Minor Master	Loud Whistle		While your health is above the threshold, your pet deals increased strike damage. Your pet swap gains recharge reduction.
Major Master	Wilting Strike		Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
Major Master	Two-Handed Training	10	Greatsword and spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster. Gain fury when you disable a foe.
Major Master	Natural Healing		Your pet recovers health each interval.
Minor Grandmaster	Pet's Prowess		Your pet moves faster and deals more damage on critical hits.
Major Grandmaster	Beastly Warden	20	Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.
Major Grandmaster	Zephyr's Speed	15	Cast Lesser Quickening Zephyr when you swap pets. Soulbeasts can trigger this trait by entering or leaving beastmode.
Major Grandmaster	Honed Axes		You and your pet gain ferocity. Axe skills gain reduced recharge, and you gain additional ferocity while wielding an axe.

Druid

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Staff Proficiency		You can wield a staff.
Minor Adept	Celestial Being		Gain access to Glyphs. Become a celestial avatar once you gain enough astral force. Generate astral force by healing allies and damaging foes. Your pet's attributes are weaker.
Major Adept	Druidic Clarity		Becoming a celestial avatar removes conditions from you.
Major Adept	Cultivated Synergy		Using your heal skill, heals allies around you and your pet.
Major Adept	Primal Echoes	8	Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.
Minor Master	Live Vicariously	1	When you heal an ally, you are also healed.
Major Master	Celestial Shadow		Grant superspeed and stealth to nearby allies when leaving celestial avatar form.
Major Master	Verdant Etching		Glyphs gain reduced recharge and cast Lesser Seed of Life.
Major Master	Natural Stride		Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Your movement speed is increased as long as you have none of these conditions.
Minor Grandmaster	Natural Mender		Increase outgoing healing to other allies whenever you heal an ally besides yourself.
Major Grandmaster	Grace of the Land		Grant increased damage output to allies within the radius of your Celestial Avatar abilities.
Major Grandmaster	Lingering Light		When you enter celestial avatar form, your next strike will blind your foe and heal you. While in celestial avatar form, your healing of others is significantly increased.
Major Grandmaster	Ancient Seeds	10	Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, or launched foe summons roots to entangle them.

Soulbeast

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Dagger Proficiency		You can wield a dagger in your main hand.
Minor Adept	Elevated Bond		Gain access to Stances. Survival in the desert has enhanced your connection to your pet, granting you the ability to meld with them by entering beastmode. You cannot swap pets in combat. Traits that affect your pet may affect you differently while in beastmode.
Major Adept	Fresh Reinforcement		Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
Major Adept	Live Fast		Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
Major Adept	Unstoppable Union		Entering beastmode grants boons and removes movement-impairing conditions.
Minor Master	Furious Strength		You deal increased strike damage while you have fury.
Major Master	Second Skin		Conditions inflict less damage to you while you have protection.
Major Master	Essence of Speed	5	Gaining quickness increases the duration of other boons affecting you.
Major Master	Predator's Cunning		When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
Minor Grandmaster	Twice as Vicious		Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.
Major Grandmaster	Eternal Bond	60	While in beastmode, if you would be downed you instead fall out of beastmode and recover health.
Major Grandmaster	Leader of the Pack		Stance skills gain increased duration on you and grant their effects to nearby allies for a reduced duration.
Major Grandmaster	Oppressive Superiority		Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Untamed

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Hammer Proficiency		You can wield hammers.
Minor Adept	Unleashed Power		Gain access to Cantrips and Unleash. While your pet is unleashed, its skills are replaced with larger area-of-effect skills. Once per interval, Unleashed Ambush skills become available for a short period of time after you unleash.
Major Adept	Debilitating Blows	1	Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state.
Major Adept	Nature's Shield		Cantrips grant barrier to you and your pet.
Major Adept	Blinding Outburst		Venomous Outburst deals more damage and applies blindness in addition to its other effects. Unleashed Ambush skills deal more damage.
Minor Master	Natural Fortitude		Gain vitality. Unleashed Ambush skills siphon health if they hit. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per skill.
Major Master	Enhancing Impact	1	Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state.
Major Master	Cleansing Unleash	10	Remove conditions when you or your pet unleash.
Major Master	Corrupting Vines		Rending Vines corrupts boons into conditions instead of removing them. Unleashed Ambush skills remove boons from enemies. Cannot affect enemies more than once per skill.
Minor Grandmaster	Vow of the Untamed		Your outgoing strike damage is increased while you are unleashed. You take reduced damage from strikes while your pet is unleashed.
Major Grandmaster	Fervent Force	0.25¼	Disabling a foe reduces the cooldowns of all your equipped skills. Disables include stun, daze, knock back, pull, knock down, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Grandmaster	Restorative Strikes		A percentage of the strike damage you deal heals you.
Major Grandmaster	Ferocious Symbiosis	0.5½	You and your pet grant each other increased damage and movement speed when striking enemies. When this triggers, it refreshes the duration of all stacks

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