Child of Earth

Create muddy terrain when you use a healing skill. — In-game description

Child of Earth

Specialization

Wilderness Survival (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Child of Earth

Create muddy terrain when you use a healing skill.

— In-game description

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Lesser Muddy Terrain (PvE)		20	Survival. Use mud to cripple, slow, and immobilize foes.
Lesser Muddy Terrain (WvW, PvP)		20	Survival. Use mud to cripple, slow, and immobilize foes.

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   "We Heal As One!" — Command
•   Water Spirit — Spirit
•   Troll Unguent — Survival
•   Healing Spring — Trap
•   Glyph of Rejuvenation — Glyph
•   Glyph of Rejuvenation — Glyph
•   Glyph of Rejuvenation — Glyph
•   Bear Stance — Stance
•   Perilous Gift — Cantrip
•   Soothing Breeze — Squall

Notes

Anomaly:

Though the actual utility skill Muddy Terrain cannot be equipped underwater, the associated trait skill Lesser Muddy Terrain can indeed be triggered underwater.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 03, 2019	Fall damage functionality has been removed from this trait. This trait has been renamed Child of Earth.
December 11, 2018	Fixed a bug in which the muddy terrain that this trait creates could last much longer than the intended 10-second duration.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait now casts Lesser Muddy Terrain when you use your healing skill, in addition to when you take falling damage.
February 22, 2017	Immobilize duration applied by this trait has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
October 15, 2013	Increased the number of maximum targets from 3 to 5.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Soften the Fall has been added to the game.