Veteran's Awareness

Veteran's Awareness

Keystone

+10% to all Elemental Resistances and maximum Elemental Resistances while affected by a Non-Vaal Guard Skill
20% additional Physical Damage Reduction while affected by a Non-Vaal Guard Skill
20% more Damage taken if a Non-Vaal Guard Buff was lost Recently [1]

Know when you'll be hit, and you'll barely feel it.

Veteran's Awareness is a keystone passive skill. It is only granted from placing the unique cluster jewel The Front LineThe Front Line
Small Cluster JewelAdds Veteran's AwarenessIt was a great honour to fight at the front. The few that survived the initial charge were guaranteed fame and fortune.Place into an allocated Small, Medium or Large Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Added passives do not interact with jewel radiuses. Right click to remove from the Socket. into the jewel socket (either the outmost socket on the tree or the socket on Medium/Large Cluster Jewels), and then spent passive skill points to allocate the keystone.

Strategies

Veteran's Awareness provides significant improvement to physical and elemental defences while a guard skill is up, but provides a significant debuff after a guard skill is lost either by reaching its duration or exhausting its absorption. Proper usage of this keystone requires maximizing the duration and minimizing the downtime/cooldown of guard skills. Vaal Molten ShellVaal Molten ShellSpell, AoE, Duration, Fire, Physical, Vaal, Guard
Level: (1-20)
Cooldown Time: 0.50 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Souls Per Use: 50
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Soul Gain Prevention: 14 sec
Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 4Applies a buff that raises your armour, and takes some of the damage from hits for you before being depleted. Each second, the skill deals reflected damage to surrounding enemies based on the damage taken by the buff in that second. When the buff is removed, the skill deals reflected damage to enemies around you based on the total damage that was taken by the buff. You cannot have the buff at the same time as any other Guard skill.Base duration is 9.00 seconds
Modifiers to Skill Effect Duration also apply to this Skill's Soul Gain Prevention
Buff grants +(50-858) to Armour
(35-39)% of Damage from Hits is taken from the Buff before your Life or Energy Shield
Buff can take Damage equal to 20% of your Armour, up to a maximum of 10000
Reflects (300-9000)% of Damage taken from Buff as Fire Damage each second,
or when Buff expires or is depleted

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(1-20)% increased Skill Effect DurationCorruptedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. provides the highest duration of any guard skill, as well as additional duration from quality.

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Veteran's Awareness:

Item	Base Item		Stats
The Front LineThe Front Line Small Cluster JewelAdds Veteran's AwarenessIt was a great honour to fight at the front. The few that survived the initial charge were guaranteed fame and fortune.Place into an allocated Small, Medium or Large Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Added passives do not interact with jewel radiuses. Right click to remove from the Socket.	Small Cluster Jewel	1	Adds Veteran's Awareness

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Version history

Version	Changes
3.10.1d	Fixed a bug where Immortal CallImmortal CallSpell, Duration, Guard Level: (1-20) Cost: (21-36) Mana Cooldown Time: 3.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 34Take less Physical and Elemental Damage for a short time. Consumes up to 5 Endurance Charges to lengthen the buff and further lessen Physical Damage taken. Shares a cooldown with other Guard skills.Base duration is 1.00 seconds 20% increased Buff Duration per Endurance Charge removed This Skill's Cooldown does not recover during its effect (25-34)% less Elemental Damage taken (25-35)% less Physical Damage taken 15% less Physical Damage taken per Endurance Charge removed Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. didn't count as a Non-Vaal Guard Skill for the sake of the Veteran's Awareness Cluster Jewel keystone passive.
3.10.0	Introduced to the game.