Evolve

Evolve. — In-game description

Evolve

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Amalgam

Slot

Profession mechanic

Game link

API

76642, 76651

Gallery
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Evolve

Evolve.

 Attribute Increase: 10%

 Evolved (8s): Your attributes are increased. Gain additional effects based on the morph skills you have slotted.

 Evolved (6s): Your attributes are increased. Gain additional effects based on the morph skills you have slotted.

— In-game description

Related traits

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
• Adrenal Implant — Endurance regeneration is increased. Reduce the recharge of your tool belt skills when you dodge.

Amalgam

• Stainless Steel — Convert conditions to boons when you use a stance skill or evolve.
• Innervating Alloy — Heal every second while you have barrier. Heal when you evolve.
• Hardened Chrome — Morph skills and evolving grant protection to yourself.
• Mercurial Tendencies — Disabling an enemy reduces the cooldown of Evolve.
• Silver Lining — Evolve no longer inherits bonuses from strains. Morph skills grant their strain bonuses.
• Symbiotic Synergy — Evolve recharges morph skills. Morph skills deal increased strike damage.
• Double Helix — Evolve has two charges and grants an increased attribute bonus.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Evolve has been added to the game. Reduced the cooldown from 45 seconds to 40 seconds in PvE and increased the cooldown from 45 seconds to 55 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced the duration of Evolve and all strain effects from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in WvW and PvP.
August 19, 2025	Evolve was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.

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