Hardy Conduit

Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction. — In-game description

Hardy Conduit

Specialization

Tempest (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Hardy Conduit

Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (2s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Effectiveness Increased: 20%

 Radius: 300

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sand Squall — Warhorn, when attuned to earth

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Magnetic Shield — Magnetic Shield (bundle)

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Glyph of Elemental Harmony — Glyph
•   Glyph of Elemental Harmony — Glyph, when attuned to earth

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Armor of Earth — Cantrip
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Stomp

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Overload Fire — Overload, when attuned to fire
•   Overload Water — Overload, when attuned to water
•   Overload Air — Overload, when attuned to air
•   Overload Earth — Overload, when attuned to earth

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Tempest

• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Air

• Inscription — Gain boons upon casting a glyph based on your attunement. Gain resistance when attuning to air.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.

Water

• Soothing Disruption — Cantrips grant boons.

Arcane

• Elemental Attunement — Grant a boon to nearby allies when changing attunements. Note: This effect will not trigger when attuning to the same element.
• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.
• Arcane Lightning — Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

Tempest

• Gale Song — Grant protection to nearby allies when you use a healing skill.
• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.

Notes

• Improves  Protection effectiveness from -33% to -39.6% incoming damage, shown rounded down as -390.5½ in in-game tooltips.
• Compared to normal  Protection values, the player has 10.9% more effective health versus strike damage.
• This trait activates at the start of Overloads (unlike Unstable Conduit).
• Improved effectiveness does not affect allies.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	This trait now also grants protection to nearby allies.
July 07, 2020	Reduced protection duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Hardy Conduit has been added to the game.