Demonic Resistance

Incoming strike damage is reduced while you have resistance on you. — In-game description

Demonic Resistance

Specialization

Corruption (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Demonic Resistance

Incoming strike damage is reduced while you have resistance on you.

 Damage Reduced: 20%

 Damage Reduced: 10%

— In-game description

Related skills

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Pain Absorption — Legendary Demon Stance
•   Darkrazor's Daring — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Battle Dance — Legendary Alliance Stance, Kurzick
•   Gladiator's Defense — Legendary Entity Stance

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Drop Urn of Saint Viktor — Legendary Alliance Stance, Kurzick
•   Twin Moon Sweep — Legendary Entity Stance

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Ancient Echo
•   Release Potential: Monk

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Corruption

• Demonic Defiance — Gain resistance and remove a damaging condition when you use a Legendary Demon skill.
• Fiendish Tenacity — Invoke Torment grants resistance. Resistance heals you every interval.

Salvation

• Serene Rejuvenation — Increase healing to other allies. Legendary Centaur skills apply boons in an area.

Invocation

• Spirit Boon — Invoking a legend grants boons to nearby allies based on the legend that was invoked.

Devastation

• Aggressive Arrival — Gain resistance when you invoke a legend.

Renegade

• Bold Reversal — When you use a heal skill, gain resistance.

Conduit

• Numinous Gift — The third minor traits of other specializations you equip have improved effectiveness. Gain might and additional boons when you use Cosmic Wisdom, depending on which legends you have equipped.
• Found Purpose — Trigger the active portion of Numinous Gift when you invoke a legend while in combat. Triggering Numinous Gift grants boons to allies in an area around you, depending on which legends you have equipped.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 25, 2021	Reduced strike damage taken from 33% to 20% in PvE only.
May 11, 2021	Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
July 07, 2020	Reduced damage reduction from 20% to 10% in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This trait has moved to a new location in the same tier. This trait no longer grants vitality based on condition damage. Increased damage resistance from 20% to 33% in PvE. PvP and WvW remain at a 20% reduction.
September 18, 2018	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to display the PvP mode's tooltip in all game modes.
August 28, 2018	Demonic Resistance added to the game. Demonic Resistance reduces damage by 20% while resistance is active on the player. Gain vitality based on 10% of the revenant's condition damage in PvE and WvW. Gain vitality based on 15% of the revenant's condition damage in PvP.