Tyrant's Momentum

Lethal Tempo grants increased damage, but has reduced duration. Justice's duration is modified. — In-game description

Tyrant's Momentum

Specialization

Willbender (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

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Tyrant's Momentum

Lethal Tempo grants increased damage, but has reduced duration. Justice's duration is modified.

 Damage Increase: 3%

 Lethal Tempo: +5% Damage, +4% Condition Damage

 Lethal Tempo: +6% Damage, +6% Condition Damage

 Justice Duration Increase: 2 seconds

 Lethal Tempo Duration Reduction: 2 seconds

— In-game description

Mechanics

•  Lethal Tempo — Duration is decreased from 6s to 4s.

Maximum increase:

₅ Lethal Tempo: +25% Damage, +20% Condition Damage

₅ Lethal Tempo: +30% Damage, +30% Condition Damage

•  Justice — Duration is increased from 6s to 8s.

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Willbender

• Lethal Tempo — Each time you activate a virtue or your virtue's passives are triggered, gain a damage bonus. Gaining stacks of this boon refreshes other stacks.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 15, 2025	Reduced the condition damage bonus from 5% to 4% in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Increased damage increase per stack from 2% to 3% in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Tyrant's Momentum has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Tyrant's Momentum was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. This trait now increases Lethal Tempo's damage bonus from 1% to 3% (2% to 4% in PvP/WvW) per stack. Other effects of this trait are unchanged.
August 17, 2021	Tyrant's Momentum was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 1.