Defy Pain (warrior trait)

This article is about the warrior trait. For other uses, see Defy Pain (disambiguation).

Cast Lesser Endure Pain when you use an elite skill. — In-game description

Defy Pain

Specialization

Defense (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Defy Pain

Cast Lesser Endure Pain when you use an elite skill.

— In-game description

Related skills

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Battle Standard — Banner
•   Battle Standard — Banner
•   Rampage — Physical
•   Signet of Rage — Signet
•   Head Butt — Rage
•   Winds of Disenchantment — Meditation
•   Tactical Reload — Armament
•   "We Will Never Yield!" — Command

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Lesser Endure Pain (PvE, WvW)			Stance. Take no damage from attacks. You are still susceptible to conditions and control effects.
Lesser Endure Pain (PvP)			Stance. Take no damage from attacks. You are still susceptible to conditions and control effects.

Notes

• The Endure Pain effect from this trait stacks duration with the utility Endure Pain.
• This trait can be used even when Endure Pain is not equipped as a utility skill.
• In Structured PvP, the Lesser Endure Pain effect lasts for 2 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	This trait no longer grants Lesser Endure Pain when dropping below 50% health. Instead, it grants Lesser Endure Pain after using an elite skill.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 90 seconds to 300 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 60 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP only.
May 16, 2017	Active up-time has been decreased from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	The Endure Pain effect from this trait will now stack with the utility Endure Pain.
April 19, 2016	The threshold for activating Endure Pain has been increased from 25% health to 50% health.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Master tier.
October 18, 2013	Fixed a bug in Defy Pain that prevented this trait from properly functioning when the Sure Footed trait is also equipped.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the cooldown of this trait from 90 seconds to 60 seconds. This trait will now have a 4-second duration, 5 seconds when traited with Sure-Footed.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Defy Pain has been added to the game.