Nomad's Endurance

Shatter skills give vigor. Strike and condition damage dealt is increased when you have vigor. — In-game description

Nomad's Endurance

Specialization

Mirage (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Nomad's Endurance

Shatter skills give vigor. Strike and condition damage dealt is increased when you have vigor.

 Strike Damage Increase: 10%

 Strike Damage Increase: 5%

 Condition Damage Increase: 5%

 Condition Damage Increase: 10%

 Vigor (3s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Vigor (10.5½s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

— In-game description

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Mirage

• Nomad's Endurance — Shatter skills give vigor. Strike and condition damage dealt is increased when you have vigor.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Dueling

• Critical Infusion — Gain vigor when delivering a critical hit.
• Mental Gymnastics — When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.

Chaos

• Auspicious Anguish — Convert damaging conditions to boons whenever you gain Distortion or become disabled. This trait can only trigger when disabled once per interval. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Bountiful Disillusionment — Gain stability when you use a Shatter skill. Grant an additional boon to nearby allies based on which Shatter is used.

Mirage

• Nomad's Endurance — Shatter skills give vigor. Strike and condition damage dealt is increased when you have vigor.
• Mirage Mantle — Ambush skills you use grant boons to nearby allies.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Siren's Call — Trident
•   Effervescence — Rifle

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   False Oasis — Deception

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Signet of Inspiration — Signet

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Mind Wrack — Shatter
•   Cry of Frustration — Shatter
•   Diversion — Shatter
•   Distortion — Shatter

Notes

•  Vigor — Tooltip is updated to include the damage increase modifiers to this boon.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the condition damage increase from 10% to 5% in PvE only.
August 19, 2025	Reduced the strike-damage bonus from 10% to 5% in PvP only.
February 11, 2025	This trait no longer grants additional condition damage. It now increases outgoing strike and condition damage when you have vigor.
August 28, 2018	The vigor duration of this trait has been reduced from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP and WvW.
July 10, 2018	Fixed a bug that could cause the bonus condition damage from this trait to be applied to characters other than the mesmer.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Nomad's Endurance has been added to the game.