Possessive Hoarder

Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well. — In-game description

Possessive Hoarder

Specialization

Antiquary (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Possessive Hoarder

Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well.

₁₀ Offensive Artifact Boons (12s): 300 Condition Damage, 300 Power

 Offensive Artifact Boons (6s): +20% Critical Chance

₄ Offensive Artifact Boons (6s): 120 Condition Damage, 120 Power

 Offensive Artifact Boons (5s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate

 Defensive Artifact Boons (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Offensive Artifact Boons (6s): +20% Critical Chance

 Defensive Artifact Boons (5s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate

₈ Offensive Artifact Boons (6s): 240 Condition Damage, 240 Power

 Defensive Artifact Boons (6s): 780 Heal

 Defensive Artifact Boons (5s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Defensive Artifact Boons (8s): 1,040 Heal

 Defensive Artifact Boons (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 360

— In-game description

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Chak Shield — Defensive Artifact
•   Exalted Hammer — Defensive Artifact
•   Holo-Dancer Decoy — Defensive Artifact
•   Zephyrite Sun Crystal — Defensive Artifact
•   Forged Surfer Dash — Offensive Artifact
•   Forged Surfer Dash — Offensive Artifact
•   Metal Legion Guitar — Offensive Artifact
•   Mistburn Mortar — Offensive Artifact
•   Mistburn Mortar — Offensive Artifact
•   Summon Kryptis Turret — Offensive Artifact
•   Summon Kryptis Turret — Offensive Artifact

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Critical Strikes

• Assassin's Fury — Gain might when you gain fury.
• No Quarter — Landing a critical hit while under the effects of fury increases the duration of fury. Gain increased ferocity while under the effects of fury.
• Invigorating Precision — You are healed for a percentage of outgoing critical-hit damage. This healing is increased while you are under the effects of fury.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Antiquary

• Magpie's Defense — Grant yourself barrier when you use a healing or elite skill. The cooldowns for this trait are separate for healing and elite skills.
• Enterprising Aristocrat — Gain initiative and barrier whenever you use an artifact skill. You take reduced strike and condition damage whenever you have barrier.

Notes

Anomaly:

skill facts in tooltip are inconsistent in WvW

• Despite the above mentioned faulty range indication and skillext the Barrier of Enterprising Aristocrat and Magpie's Defense is applied at a 360 range.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 02, 2026	Fixed an issue that caused this trait to visualize a smaller radius than intended.
February 03, 2026	Fixed an issue that caused this trait to use incorrect barrier values in PvP. Lowered the might stacks from 8 to 4 and reduced the regeneration duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only.
January 13, 2026	Barrier granted by this trait has been changed to grant the barrier from Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat to nearby allies instead. Increased the radius from 240 to 360. (Undocumented) This trait now works outside of combat.
December 09, 2025	Defensive artifacts now grant alacrity instead of regeneration in PvE only.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Possessive Hoarder has been added to the game. This trait has been changed to grant barrier and boons to allies around you when used. Using an offensive artifact now grants alacrity and might to allies in PvE and fury and might in PvP and WvW. Using a defensive artifact now grants regeneration and protection to allies in all modes.
August 19, 2025	Possessive Hoarder was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.