Unwavering Avoidance

Gain vigor when successfully evading an attack. — In-game description

Unwavering Avoidance

Specialization

Retribution (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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5

Unwavering Avoidance

Gain vigor when successfully evading an attack.

 Vigor (3s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

— In-game description

Notes

• When the Vindicator specialization is equipped, the Vigor duration is 1 second in PvP and WvW.
• The vigor is applied upon any Evade regardless of the source so skills like Phase Smash can trigger it.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 18, 2022	Reduced vigor duration from 1.5 seconds to 1 second in PvP and 3 seconds to 1 second in WvW when using the vindicator elite specialization.
July 19, 2022	Reduced vigor duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP only when the Vindicator specialization is equipped.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This trait now grants vigor instead of stability when evading an attack. The cooldown of this trait has been reduced from 8 seconds to 5 seconds.
October 18, 2016	This trait now triggers when an attack is successfully evaded instead of during dodge rolls. The recharge time has been increased from 5 seconds to 8 seconds. Stability duration has been increased from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds.
January 26, 2016	This trait now has a 5-second internal cooldown.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Unwavering Avoidance has been added to the game.