Elemental Contingency

Gain a boon when you are struck, based on your current attunement. — In-game description

Elemental Contingency

Specialization

Arcane (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

“

10

Elemental Contingency

Gain a boon when you are struck, based on your current attunement.

 Retaliation (30.5½s): Reflect incoming damage back to its source.

 Vigor (3s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Fury (5s): +20% Critical Chance

 Protection (20.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

— In-game description

Notes

• This trait has a separate cooldown for the effect granted in each elemental attunement rather than a single cooldown for all attunements.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This trait has been retired and replaced with Elemental Lockdown. Elemental Lockdown: This new skill grants players a boon based upon their attunement when they disable a foe. Fire: Grants 5 stacks of might for 5 seconds. Air: Grants 5 seconds of fury. Earth: Grants 4 seconds of protection. Water: Grants 10 seconds of regeneration.
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.
September 09, 2014	This trait now has a separate cooldown for the effect granted in each elemental attunement rather than a single cooldown for all attunements.
April 15, 2014	Elemental Contingency has been added to the game.