Defiance
Active skill · Assassin
What it does
NontargetCooldown 1m
Removes Stun, Knockdown, Airborne, Grab, Frost, and Fear from the caster and grants Tenacity for 5s.
Tenacity: Grants Status Effect Immunity
Unaffected by cooldown reduction effects.
Skill points
| Skill level | Skill points | Character level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learned automatically | 16 |
| 2 | 1 | 16 |
| 3 | 1 | 19 |
| 4 | 1 | 22 |
| 5 | 2 | 25 |
| 6 | 2 | 28 |
| 7 | 2 | 31 |
| 8 | 4 | 34 |
| 9 | 4 | 37 |
| 10 | 4 | 40 |
| Levels 2 to 10 | 21 |
Defiance is one of the Assassin's twenty-two Daevanion skills — the twelve actives and ten passives the boards can raise. The boards add +4 levels to it in all, one per node.
On the Daevanion boards
| Board | Nodes | Points to reach |
|---|---|---|
| Nezekan | 1 | 10 |
| Zikel | 1 | 9 |
| Vaizel | 1 | 10 |
| Triniel | 1 | 13 |
As an active skill it has one node on each of the four skill boards. Taking all of them costs 42 points if you path to them directly; points shared with other skills on the way cost less. See Defiance on the Daevanion planner.
Also on other classes
7 other classes have a skill named Defiance: Chanter, Cleric, Spiritmaster, Gladiator, Ranger, Sorcerer, Templar.
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