Heavy Light

Gain stability when disabling an enemy. Deal increased strike damage to disabled, exposed, or defiant foes. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. — In-game description

Heavy Light

Specialization

Dragonhunter (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

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Heavy Light

Gain stability when disabling an enemy. Deal increased strike damage to disabled, exposed, or defiant foes.
Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

 Damage Increase to Disabled or Exposed Foes: 20%

 Damage Increase to Disabled Foes: 15%

 Damage Increase to Defiant Foes: 15%

 Damage Increase to Defiant Foes: 10%

 Stability (6s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

— In-game description

Mechanics

• The 1 second recharge only affects the stability portion of this trait.
• Stability can be also gained from disabling effects of equipment like some relics.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Jurisdiction — Pistol
•   Shield of Absorption — Shield
•   Pull — Greatsword
•   Banish — Hammer
•   Ring of Warding — Hammer
•   Line of Warding — Staff
•   Wrathful Grasp — Spear
•   Symbol of Luminance — Spear
•   Weight of Justice — Trident
•   Deflecting Shot — Longbow

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sanctuary — Consecration
•   Bane Signet — Signet
•   Hammer of Wisdom — Spirit Weapon
•   Light's Judgment — Trap

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dragon's Maw — Trap

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Hunter's Verdict

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Shield of Absorption — Protective Reviver

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This trait now also applies its bonus damage against enemies that are exposed.
February 11, 2025	Increased the damage modifier against disabled enemies from 15% to 20% and the damage modifier against defiant enemies from 10% to 15% in PvE only.
February 14, 2023	Reduced internal cooldown from 10 seconds to 1 second.
November 29, 2022	This trait now gives a 10% damage increase when striking defiant foes, in addition to its previous effect. These bonuses do not stack.
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: This trait no longer causes Deflecting Shot to knock foes back. This trait now grants stability whenever players disable an enemy, not just when they knock foes back. Additionally, this trait deals increased damage to disabled foes. (Competitive split) Reduced stability duration from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.
July 26, 2016	Deflecting Shot now knocks enemies back a distance of 300 on each hit, with no internal cooldown. Gain stability for 6 seconds when knocking back, launching, or pulling an enemy. The stability aspect has a 10-second internal cooldown.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Heavy Light has been added to the game.