Sand Savant

Summon only one shade at a time. This greater shade has a modified recharge. Influence a larger area with shade skills. A greater shade counts as three shades for related traits. — In-game description

Sand Savant

Specialization

Scourge (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Sand Savant

Summon only one shade at a time. This greater shade has a modified recharge. Influence a larger area with shade skills.
A greater shade counts as three shades for related traits.

 Increased Targets: 5

 Recharge Increase: 25%

 Recharge Increase: 100%

 Radius Increase: 120

— In-game description

Notes

• Sand Savant increases the number of targets that each sand shade and the scourge can affect with Shade skills, and increases the radius of these skills. However, the scourge can only summon one sand shade, named greater shade, which has a longer charge recharge.
  • In WvW, the radius is still increased. However, the maximum number of targets per greater shade and scourge is not increased and the charge recharge is even longer.
• Greater shades last as long as default sand shades: 8 seconds in PvE, and 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
• Greater shades disappear if the scourge moves at least 2,000 units away from them.

Game mode	Trait	Maximum number of sand shades	Targets per shade and scourge	Total maximum number of targets	Radius	Charge recharge
PvE	Default	3 sand shades	3	12	180	8 seconds
	With Sand Savant	1 greater shade	5	10	300	10 seconds
PvP	Default	3 sand shades	3	12	180	15 seconds
	With Sand Savant	1 greater shade	5	10	300	30 seconds
WvW	Default	3 Sand Shades	2	8	180	15 seconds
	With Sand Savant	1 Greater Shade	2	4	300	30 seconds

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 08, 2020	Reduced the target cap of shades from 3 to 2 in WvW only. Reduced the target cap of greater shades from 5 to 2 in WvW only.
December 03, 2019	This trait no longer increases the target cap of shade skills in WvW only. (Undocumented) Modified PvE recharge from -33% to +25% in PvE only.
October 01, 2019	Increased the number of targets affected by the larger shade from 2 to 5 so that it now affects up to 10 targets.
June 05, 2018	This trait has been split between game modes. In PvE it will continue to reduce cooldown by 33%. In PvP and WvW modes it will increase sand shade recharge by 100%.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Sand Savant has been added to the game.