Flow like Water

Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you. — In-game description

Flow like Water

Specialization

Water (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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4

Flow like Water

Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.

 High-Health Damage Increase: 10%

 Damage Increase: 5%

 Healing: 714 (0.3)^?

 Healing: 478 (0.3)^?

 Health Threshold: 50%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Burning Speed — Dagger, when attuned to fire
•   Updraft — Dagger, when attuned to air
•   Earthen Rush — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Aerial Agility — Pistol, when attuned to air
•   Burning Retreat — Staff, when attuned to fire
•   Ripple — Spear, when attuned to water
•   Steam Surge — Dagger, when attuned to fire and water
•   Mud Slide — Dagger, when attuned to earth and water
•   Flowing Finesse — Pistol, when attuned to air and water
•   Fiery Frost — Scepter, when attuned to fire and water
•   Riptide — Sword, when attuned to water
•   Earthen Vortex — Sword, when attuned to earth
•   Immutable Stone — Hammer, when attuned to earth

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Burning Retreat — Conjured Flame
•   Stone Sheath — Magnetic Shield (bundle)
•   Fiery Whirl — Fiery Greatsword

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Shield — Arcane
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout
•   Twist of Fate — Stance
•   Fortified Earth — Augment
•   Toad's Fortitude — Meditation

Notes

• The healing done by this trait is equal to (10 + Level^2 * 0.11 + Healing Power * 0.3).

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Increased the bonus strike damage while above the health threshold from 5% to 10% in PvP and WvW. This trait now also grants 5% bonus strike damage while under the health threshold. Reduced the health threshold from 75% to 50%. Reduced the internal cooldown from 10 seconds to 4 seconds.
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.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus damage from 10% to 5%. Reduced base heal from 714 to 478.
July 16, 2019	Flow like Water has been added to the game. This new trait takes the slot previously occupied by Aquamancer's Training and increases damage dealt by 10% while the elementalist is above 75% health. Additionally, it heals the elementalist when they block or evade an attack. The healing effect has a 10-second cooldown.