Rugged Growth

You and your pet recover health while affected by protection. — In-game description

Rugged Growth

Specialization

Wilderness Survival (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Minor

Training cost

6 Hero points

Game link

API

API

“

You and your pet recover health while affected by protection.

  Healing: 259 (0.245)^?

  Healing: 196 (0.122)^?

  Interval: 1 second

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Ancestral Grace — Staff
•   Savage Shock Wave — Hammer

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   "We Heal As One!" — Command

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   "Protect Me!" — Command
•   Stone Spirit — Spirit
•   Moa Stance — Stance
•   Exploding Spores — Cantrip

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Protection

Pet skills that are improved by this trait

•   Hunker Down — Juvenile Siege Turtle
•   Protecting Screech — Juvenile Blue Moa
•   Protection — Juvenile Armor Fish, Armored Fish

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Druid

• Live Vicariously — When you heal an ally, you are also healed.
• Natural Mender — Increase healing to other allies. Gain astral force each interval while not in celestial avatar form.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Wilderness Survival

• Companion's Defense — You and your pet gain protection when you dodge roll.

Nature Magic

• Fortifying Bond — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
• Protective Ward — When you receive damage, nearby foes are weakened and you gain protection.

Druid

• Verdant Etching — Glyphs grant protection to nearby allies.

Soulbeast

• Fresh Reinforcement — Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
• Unstoppable Union — Entering beastmode grants boons and removes movement-impairing conditions.

Untamed

• Restorative Strikes — A percentage of the strike damage you deal heals you. Gain protection when you or your pet unleash.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Increased pulse heal from 155 to 196 in PvP and WvW.
March 17, 2020	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to heal for more than expected in WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced base heal from 259 to 155.
March 27, 2018	Reduced healing coefficient contribution by 50% in PvP only. Fixed a bug that caused this trait to continue healing a ranger even when protection had fallen off them when used in conjunction with a specific set of other traits.
February 06, 2018	Fixed a bug in which this trait used the healing power of the character that applied the boon rather than that of the ranger.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Fixed a bug that displayed higher healing values than the actual heal amounts.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Rugged Growth has been added to the game and replaced Bark Skin.