Champion

Champion

Duelist

	Champion that which you love. He who fights for nothing dies for nothing.

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This page is about the Ascendancy class. For the Ascendant passive, see Champion (Ascendant passive).

The Champion is an Ascendancy class for Duelists.

Overview

The Champion is a defensive/support class that can act as a tank by taunting enemies or improving his fortify buff. He can also cast an aura that increases the damage of him and his allies. His tree grants him increased armour and evasion rating as well.

Passive skills

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

Notable skills

The class has the following notable passive skills:

For the Inspirational buff from the Ascendant, see Champion (Ascendant passive).

Inspirational

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Banner Skills have no Reservation
30% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills
When you create a Banner, it gains 40% of the Stages of your placed Banner
You and Allies affected by your placed Banners Regenerate 0.1% of
Life per second for each Stage [1]

Inspirational

Buff

Inspirational is a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Champion that grants increased aura effect. It also causes Banner skills to not reserve mana, recover 40% of its number of stages when recovering the banner, and provides life recovery to the user and nearby allies when placed, based on the number of stages.

The effects of the aura does not stack with another instance of Inspirational from another nearby party member.

Ruthless mode

Inspirational (Ruthless)

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Banner Skills have no Reservation
When you create a Banner, it gains 40% of the Stages of your placed Banner

Inspirational in Ruthless mode does not increase the effect of your aura skills or grant life regeneration from placed banners.

Version history

Skill	Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive

Version	Changes
3.22.0	No longer provides "30% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills" or "You and Allies affected by your placed Banners Regenerate 0.1% of Life per second for each Stage" in Ruthless.
3.14.2	Fixed a bug with life regeneration on the "Inspirational" Champion Ascendancy passive skill not working.
3.13.0	Now grants 30% increased effect of non-curse auras (from 15%) Removed You and nearby Allies have 12% increased Movement Speed
3.7.0	Now causes banners you create to gain 40% of the stages of your placed banner (from 20%). You and allies affected by your placed banners now regenerate 0.1% of maximum life per second for each stage (from 0.5%).
3.2.0	Inspirational now also causes your Banner skills to reserve no mana, recover 20% of planted Banner Stages when you cast a banner while you have a banner planted, and causes you and nearby allies to recover 0.5% of maximum life per Banner stage when you plant a banner. It also grants 15% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills. No longer grants 30% increased damage to allies.
3.2.0	Movement speed bonus increased from 8% to 12%.
2.3.0	Increased Movement Speed decreased from 10% to 8%.
2.2.0	Added to the game.

References

Armour and Evasion, Aura Effect

First to Strike, Last to Fall

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Your Hits permanently Intimidate Enemies that are on Full Life
Gain Adrenaline for 20 seconds when you reach Low Life
Remove all Ailments and Burning when you gain Adrenaline
Recover 25% of Life when you gain Adrenaline [1]

First to Strike, Last to Fall is an Ascendancy passive skill for the Champion that causes attacks to apply Intimidate against enemies on full life, causing them to take increased attack damage. It also grants Adrenaline whenever your life is brought to low life, which grants a large bonus to damage, speed, and physical damage reduction, while also removing ailments and burning damage and recovering life.

Adrenaline is only gained when the player goes from not being on low life to going to low life. In other words, it won't activate if you are already at low life.

Ruthless mode

First to Strike, Last to Fall (Ruthless)

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Gain Adrenaline for 10 seconds when you reach Low Life
Remove all Ailments and Burning when you gain Adrenaline
Recover 25% of Life when you gain Adrenaline

First to Strike, Last to Fall in Ruthless mode does not Intimidate enemies and has a lower duration for the Adrenaline buff.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.22.0	No longer provides "Your Hits permanently Intimidate Enemies that are on Full Life" in Ruthless. It now provides "Gain Adrenaline for 10 seconds when you reach Low Life" (20 seconds in non-Ruthless).
3.7.0	Now causes you to recover 25% of maximum life when you gain Adrenaline.
3.2.0	No longer grants 40% increased Damage and 200% increased Armour and Evasion while at Low Life. Now applies Adrenaline for 20 seconds when you reach Low Life instead. Adrenaline grants 100% increased Damage, 25% increased Attack, Cast and Movement Speed and 10% additional Physical Damage reduction. Now removes ailments and burning when you gain Adrenaline (from removing ailments at reaching Low Life).
2.3.0	Now only removes elemental status ailments when you reach Low Life. Added Your Hits permanently Intimidate Enemies that are on Full Life
2.2.0	Added to the game.

References

Armour and Evasion, Attack Speed

Unstoppable Hero

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

20% increased Attack Speed while Fortified
Cannot be Stunned while Fortified
+500 to Armour and Evasion Rating while Fortified [1]

Unstoppable Hero is an Ascendancy passive skill for the Champion that grants increased attack speed, additional armour and evasion rating, and stun immunity while you have Fortify.

Ruthless mode

Unstoppable Hero (Ruthless)

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Nearby Allies count as having Fortification equal to yours

Unstoppable Hero in Ruthless mode does not grant bonuses while Fortified. Instead, it causes allies to count as having Fortification stacks equal to yours. This ignores modifiers to maximum fortification on allies.

It also swapped positions with Fortitude, requiring Fortitude to be allocated as a pre-requisite node.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.22.0	The Unstoppable Hero and Fortitude Ascendancy Passive Skills have swapped position on the Champion Ascendancy in Ruthless. No longer provides "20% increased Attack Speed while Fortified", "+500 to Armour and Evasion Rating while Fortified" or "Cannot be Stunned while Fortified" in Ruthless. It now provides "Nearby Allies count as having Fortification equal to yours."
3.13.0	Increased attack speed while you have fortify from 10% to 20% Reduced armour and evasion rating while you have fortify from 1000 to 500 Removed 30% increased Attack Damage while you have Fortify
3.7.0	Now grants 30% increased attack damage (rather than melee damage) while you have fortify.
3.2.0	Removed 30% increased Melee Damage while you have Fortify. Added +1000 to Armour and Evasion while you have Fortify and Cannot be Stunned while you have Fortify
2.3.0	Bonuses changed: Removed: 8% increased Movement Speed while you have Fortify, 10% increased effect of Fortify on you Added: 30% increased Armour and Evasion while you have Fortify, 30% increased Melee Damage while you have Fortify
2.2.0	Added to the game.

Armour and Evasion, Fortify Effect

Fortitude

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

You have 20 Fortification
[1]

Fortitude is a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Champion that passively grants the user the Fortify effect with 20 minimum Fortification stacks.

This allows non-melee characters to utilize Fortify effectively by removing the need to use melee attacks to build Fortification.

Ruthless mode

Fortitude (Ruthless)

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

You have 15 Fortification

Fortitude in Ruthless mode grants 15 stacks of Fortification instead.

It also swapped positions with Unstoppable Hero, with Fortitude becoming a pre-requisite node.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.23.0	[Ruthless-specific This patch note only applies to Ruthless mode and does not affect the main game mode.] The Champion's Fortitude Ascendancy Passive Skill now grants 15 Fortification (previously 10).
3.22.0	[Ruthless-specific This patch note only applies to Ruthless mode and does not affect the main game mode.] Fortitude: Now provides "You have 10 Fortification" in Ruthless (20 in non-Ruthless).
3.16.0	Now grants you 20 Fortification.
2.2.0	Added to the game.

Unstoppable Hero Armour and Evasion, Fortify Effect

For the expansion, see Conquerors of the Atlas.

For the unique bosses, see Conquerors.

For the achievement, see Achievement.

Conqueror

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

100% chance to Taunt on Hit
10% reduced Damage taken if you've Taunted an Enemy Recently
Enemies Taunted by you deal 20% less Damage with Hits and
Ailments against other targets [1]

Conqueror is a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Champion that causes hits to apply Taunt. It also grants damage reduction if you've Taunted an enemy recently and improves the inherent "less damage dealt" effect against targets other than yourself from enemies Taunted by you.

Mechanics

Enemies Taunted by you deal 20% less Damage with Hits and Ailments against other targets is multiplicative with the "10% less Damage dealt" value normally granted by taunt, providing 28% less damage dealt to other targets.

Proxies - Totems and other targetable proxies inherit the 100% chance to Taunt on Hit.

• Proxies that persist for a duration will also inherit the Enemies Taunted by you deal 20% less Damage effect during the duration of the taunt, allowing the character to benefit from the lessened damage (effectively mitigation), but will not allow the character to benefit from the 10% reduced Damage taken if you've Taunted an Enemy Recently modifier unless the character also taunts directly.

Ruthless mode

Conqueror (Ruthless)

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Enemies in Close Range are Taunted
Enemies Taunted by you deal 20% less Damage with Hits and Ailments against other targets

Conqueror in Ruthless mode does not grant chance to taunt or reduced damage taken. It instead causes enemies in Close Range (2.0 metres) to be taunted.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.22.0	[Ruthless-specific This patch note only applies to Ruthless mode and does not affect the main game mode.] No longer provides "100% chance to Taunt on Hit" or "10% reduced Damage taken if you've Taunted an Enemy Recently" in Ruthless. It now provides "Enemies in Close Range are Taunted."
3.13.0	Reduced damage taken if you've taunted an enemy recently increased from 6% to 10% Enemies taunted by you deal now 20% less damage with hits and ailments against other targets (from 10%) Removed Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you've Taunted an Enemy Recently
3.2.0	Chance to Taunt increased from 25% to 100%. Life Regeneration from taunting an enemy recently increased from 1% to 2%. Added Enemies Taunted by you deal 10% less Damage with Hits and Ailments against other targets.
2.3.0	Damage reduction is now granted when you have taunted an enemy recently (from killing a taunted enemy recently). Added 1% of Life Regenerated per second if you've Taunted an Enemy Recently.
2.2.0	Added to the game.

Armour and Evasion, Taunt Duration

Worthy Foe

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Enemies Taunted by you take 20% increased Damage
Enemies Taunted by you cannot Evade Attacks [1]

Worthy Foe is an Ascendancy passive skill for the Champion that causes enemies you have taunted to take increased damage and negates their evasion bonuses.

Ruthless mode

Worthy Foe (Ruthless)

Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill

Enemies Taunted by you take 8% increased Damage
Enemies Taunted by you cannot Evade Attacks

Worthy Foe in Ruthless mode applies a weaker damage taken debuff.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.22.0	[Ruthless-specific This patch note only applies to Ruthless mode and does not affect the main game mode.] Now provides "Enemies Taunted by you take 8% increased Damage" in Ruthless (20% in non-Ruthless).
3.2.0	Removed Enemies you Taunt deal 10% less Damage against other targets. Added Enemies Taunted by you cannot Evade Attacks.
2.3.0	Removed Enemies you Taunt have a 20% increased chance to be Stunned. Added Enemies you Taunt deal 10% less Damage against other targets.
2.2.0	Added to the game.

Conqueror Armour and Evasion, Taunt Duration

Version	Changes
2.3.0	All instances of the minor node Armour and Evasion, Fortify Effect replaced with Armour and Evasion, Melee Damage with Fortify.