Inspiring Distortion

Grant aegis to other nearby allies whenever you give yourself distortion or use Shatter skill 4. — In-game description

Inspiring Distortion

Specialization

Inspiration (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Inspiring Distortion

Grant aegis to other nearby allies whenever you give yourself distortion or use Shatter skill 4.

 Aegis (2s): Block the next incoming attack.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

— In-game description

Related skills

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blade Renewal — Psionic

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Tale of the August Queen — Tale

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Distortion — Shatter
•   Bladesong Distortion — Bladesong
•   Harmonious Harp — Instrument

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Virtuoso

• Duelist's Reversal — Blocking or dodging an attack grants boons.
• Psychic Riposte — Blocking or evading an attack stocks blades. Dodging stocks a blade and causes your next Bladesong to be unblockable.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Inspiration

• Blurred Inscriptions — Signets have improved active effects, and activating one grants you distortion.

Illusions

• Escape Artist — When a phantasm is created, grant it distortion.

Notes

• The  Aegis is not applied to yourself.
  • However, if timed with a Phantasm nearby and having  Persistence of Memory, you can gain aegis that way.

Bug:

Both   Continuum Split and   Bladeturn Requiem grant allies aegis.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 30, 2021	Fixed a bug in which this trait did not activate when a Virtuoso uses Bladeturn Requiem.
July 07, 2020	This trait will now also trigger when activating Shatter skill 4.
July 10, 2018	Reduced the duration of aegis shared by this trait from 5 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Updated this trait to now grant Aegis to allies instead of distortion
September 29, 2015	Updated this trait to prevent the distortion granted from being applied to objects.
August 11, 2015	Fixed a bug that allowed this trait to apply distortion to WvW structures.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Inspiring Distortion has been added to the game.