Winds of Disenchantment

Meditation. Create an area of calm in which foes have reduced incoming boon duration and lose boons every interval. Enemy missiles entering this area are blocked. — In-game description

Winds of Disenchantment

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Spellbreaker

Slot

Elite

Type

Meditation

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

45333

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10.5½  90  

Winds of Disenchantment

Meditation. Create an area of calm in which foes have reduced incoming boon duration and lose boons every interval. Enemy missiles entering this area are blocked.

 Damage: 120 (0.45)^?

 Damage: 53 (0.20)^?

 Disenchantment (1s): Incoming boon duration is reduced.

 Boons Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 10

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blocks Missiles

 Duration Decreased: 100%

 Duration Decreased: 33%

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 360

 Combo Field: Lightning

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill does not immediately remove newly applied boons, instead it makes foes immune to receiving any boons from any source in PvE and PvP.

Bug:

Channeling this skill applies  Revealed to the caster.

Related traits

Defense

• Defy Pain — Cast Lesser Endure Pain when you use an elite skill.

Spellbreaker

• Spellbreaker's Conviction — Maximum adrenaline is capped at 2 bars, and only level 1 bursts are available. Gain access to the Full Counter burst and Meditation skills.
• Loss Aversion — Removing boons from a foe deals damage and gives you adrenaline.
• Attacker's Insight — Gain Insight when disabling foes or removing boons. Full Counter refreshes all burst skills on hit. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt and fear.
• Enchantment Collapse — Removing a boon from a foe causes all nearby foes to lose additional boons.

Notes

• The November 7, 2017 game update introduced a different visualization for Winds of Disenchantment cast by an enemy in Player versus Player or World vs World to make them distinguishable. While a bubble casted by an ally is shining clearly golden, an enemy casted bubble appears in a dirty golden sheen.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Lowered the duration from 5 seconds to 4 seconds in WvW only.
March 29, 2022	Reduced incoming boon duration reduction from 100% to 33% in WvW only.
December 01, 2020	This skill is no longer channeled. Instead it drops a stationary spell area that lasts for 5 seconds with a 1-second pulse interval.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced target cap from 10 to 5.
April 23, 2019	Skills that destroy missiles will now block missiles instead.
March 26, 2019	This skill now strikes enemies within its radius on its pulse and reveals the spellbreaker for its duration.
March 05, 2019	This is now a channeled skill, and it will follow the warrior. Its pulse time has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds with the duration remaining at 5 seconds. Breaking the channel will now destroy the spell. The casting time has been reduced to 0.5 seconds.
October 16, 2018	The duration of this skill has been split, and it will now have a 5-second duration in WvW and PvP while retaining a 10-second duration in PvE.
February 06, 2018	The boon-removal pulse has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 1 second.
December 13, 2017	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from being recognized as an elite skill for the purposes of some runes.
November 07, 2017	This skill now has an alternate effect when used by enemies.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Winds of Disenchantment has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines upon activating this skill.
  • Steady your mind.
  • In readiness, stillness.
  • Silence!
• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.