Skill prefixes and suffixes: Misc

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Aggression

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon, Warrior.
Meaning: See fury

Anthem

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit to all allies within earshot on next attack skill.

Skills:
- Anthem of Envy
- Anthem of Flame
- Anthem of Fury
- Anthem of Guidance
- Crippling Anthem
- Defensive Anthem (Ends on next attack rather than benefiting it)
- Zealous Anthem
- Anthem of Weariness

Apostasy

Campaigns used in: Factions
Professions used for: Assassin, Necromancer.
Meaning: Removal of Enchantments on hit.

Skills:
- Dark Apostasy
- Order of Apostasy

Aria

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit to all allies in earshot on next spell.

Skills:

As One

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Ranger.
Meaning: Benefit to you and your pet.

Skills:

Attunement

Campaigns used in: Core.
Professions used for: Elementalist.
Meaning: Energy gain when using an elemental spell.

Skills:

Aura

Campaign used in: Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin, Dervish, Elementalist, Monk, Mesmer, Necromancer.
Meaning: An Enchantment.

Skills:

Auspicious

Campaigns used in: Factions.
Professions used for: Mesmer, Warrior.
Meaning: Gain energy or adrenaline see zealous.

Skills:

Ballad

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit to all allies in earshot on next damage.

Skills:
- Ballad of Restoration

Black

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Benefit if target is Hexed.

Skills:

Boon

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Monk, Ritualist, Elementalist, Dervish.
Meaning: To increase or give health/energy gain.

Skills:

Bond

Campaign used in: Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Monk, Necromancer, Paragon, Ranger, Ritualist.
Meaning: Links two characters together and/or increases or mitigates damage.

Skills:

Bull, Ox

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions.
Professions used for: Assassin, Warrior.
Meaning: Causes knockdown.

Skills:

Note: The skill Entangling Asp causes knockdown, however was omitted due to not sharing the same naming system.

Burden

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin, Mesmer.
Meaning: Slowing of the target.

Skills:

Chorus

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit to all allies in earshot on next shout or chant.

Skills:
- Chorus of Restoration
- Energizing Chorus

Concentration

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Elementalist, Mesmer, Paragon.
Meaning: Cannot be interrupted.

Skills:

Note: Mantra of Resolve and Tranquil Was Tanasen work very similarly, but do not contain "concentration" in them and have other effects.

Conjure

Campaigns used in: Core, Factions.
Professions used for: Elementalist, Mesmer.
Meaning: Extra damage over time or health degeneration.

Skills:

Death's

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Shadow step. Benefit if target has more health than you.

Skills:
- Death's Charge
- Death's Retreat

Divine

Campaigns used in: Prophecies
Professions used for: Monk.
Meaning: Mass healing.
Skills:
- Divine Boon
- Divine Healing
- Divine Intervention
- Divine Spirit Although it doesn't provide mass healing, it allows mass healing by making monk spells cost less.

Energizing

Campaigns used in: Core, Nightfall
Professions used for: Paragon, Ranger
Meaning: Related to energy.

Skills:

Eremite

Campaigns used in: Nightfall
Professions used for: Dervish
Meaning: Increased benefit per adjacent foe.

Skills:
- Eremite's Attack
- Eremite's Zeal

Essence

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions.
Professions used for: Elementalist, Monk, Ritualist.
Meaning: Gain or lose energy.

Skills:

Ether

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall
Professions used for: Mesmer, Elementalist.
Meaning: Related to energy.

Skills:

Fang

Campaigns used in: Factions, Eye of the North.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Causes Deep Wound.

Skills:

Note: The skill Fox Fangs also has fangs in its name but does not cause Deep Wound.

Finale

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Effect when shout or chant ends on target.

Skills:

Fox

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Cannot be blocked.

Skills:

Frenzied

Campaigns used in: Core, Nightfall
Professions used for: Warrior
Meaning: Inherent benefit, but you take double damage.

Skills:
- Frenzy
- Frenzied Defense

Fury

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall
Professions used for: Warrior, Ranger, Necromancer.
Meaning: either gain adrenaline or IAS (allowing for greater adrenaline gain)

Skills:

Note: The skill Unseen Fury, despite having fury in its name acts differently.

Glow

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Elementalist, Paragon.
Meaning: Gain energy if target is suffering from a certain condition.

Skills:

Golden

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall, Eye of the North.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Benefit if you are enchanted.

Skills:

Harrier

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit if target is moving.

Skills:

Note: Leaping Mantis Sting works in a very similar fashion, but has the prefix leaping.

Intervention

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Nightfall.
Profession used for: Dervish, Monk, Necromancer.
Meaning: Effect when target receives fatal or near-fatal damage.

Skills:

Irresistible

Campaigns used in: Core, Nightfall
Profession used for: Warrior, Dervish
Meaning: Related to blocking.

Skills:
- Irresistible Blow
- Irresistible Sweep

Judge

Campaigns used in: Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall
Professions used for: Monk
Meaning: A line of certain Smiting Prayers. No real binding function.

Skills:

Lotus

Campaigns used in: Factions.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Gain energy if parameters are met.

Skills:

Mantis

Campaigns used in: Factions.
Professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Causes cripple.

Skills:

Mark

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used by: Assassin, Elementalist, Necromancer.
Meaning: Hex spell. Generally has a criteria to activate.

Skills:

Melandru

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions.
Professions used for: Ranger.
Meaning: Benefit if target is enchanted (not you).

Skills:
- Melandru's Arrows
- Melandru's Assault

Note:The skills Melandru's Resilience and Avatar of Melandru have the word Melandru in the name, but do not operate on the same parameters of these skills.

Mind

Campaigns used in: Core, Prophecies, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Elementalist.
Meaning: Benefit if caster has more energy than the target.

Skills:

Note: The skill Mind Wrack has the word mind in its name, but does not operate on the same parameters of these skills. However it still triggers when the target's energy reaches zero, so it is still true that it hits when the target have less (or as much) energy than the caster.

Mystic

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Monk.
Meaning: Small benefit increased with the amount of enchantments on you.

Skills:
- Mystic Corruption
- Mystic Healing
- Mystic Regeneration
- Mystic Sandstorm
- Mystic Sweep
- Mystic Twister
- Mystic Vigor
- Signet of Mystic Wrath
- Mysticism, the primary attribute of Dervishes.

Natural

Campaigns used in: Core, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Paragon, Ranger.
Meaning: Benefit if not enchanted.

Skills:

Order

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Necromancer.
Meaning: 5 second enchantments that benefit entire party, but require a health sacrifice.

Skills:
- Order of Apostasy
- Order of Pain
- Order of the Vampire
- Order of Undeath (not an enchantment; benefits minions instead of party)

Despite not having the prefix "order of", Dark Fury functions like one

Palm

Campains used in: Factions.
professions used for: Assassin.
Meaning: Touch skill to start a combo.

Skills:
- Iron Palm
- Palm Strike

Predator

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions.
Professions used for: Ranger
Meaning: Gain health after attacking.

Skills:

Pious

Campaigns used in: Nightfall
Professions used for: Dervish
Meaning: Operates with or at the end of an enchantment.

Skill:

Prison

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Elementalist, Assassin.
Meaning: Slowing of the target or foe.

Skills:

Purge, Pure

Campaigns used in: Core, Prophecies, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Monk, Paragon.
Meaning: Mass expulsion of conditions.

Skills:

Note: The skill Pure Strike has the word pure in its name, but does not operate on the same parameters of these skills.

Rage

Campaigns used in: Core, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Warrior, Monk.
Meaning: Gain of adrenaline or benefit with adrenaline.

Skills:

Refrain

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Echoes which are renewed upon the termination of a chant or shout.

Skills:

Restoration, Restore

Campaigns used in: Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Elementalist, Monk, Paragon.
Meaning: Gain health.

Skills:

Scavenger

Campaigns used in: Core, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Ranger.
Meaning: Benefit if target suffers from a condition.

Skills:
- Scavenger's Focus
- Scavenger Strike

Shatter

Campaigns used in: Nightfall, Factions, Prophecies, Core.
Professions used for: Assassin, Mesmer.
Meaning: Remove hex or enchantment.

Skills:

Skull

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin, Warrior.
Meaning: Causes dazed.

Skills:
- Golden Skull Strike
- Skull Crack

Soldier

Campaigns used in: Nightfall, Eye of the North.
Professions used for: Warrior, Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit if affected by a chant or shout.

Skills:

Song

Campaigns used in: Nightfall.
Professions used for: Paragon.
Meaning: Benefit to all allies in earshot on next skill.

Skills:

Soothing

Campaigns used in: Core, Factions.
Professions used for: Mesmer, Ritualist.
Meaning: Decreases/negates adrenaline gain.
Skills:
- Soothing
- Soothing Images

Spider, Viper

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Assassin, Ranger.
Meaning: Causes poison.

Skills:

Note: The skill Entangling Asp causes poison, however was omitted due to not sharing the same naming system.

Tiger

Campaigns used in: Prophecies, Factions
Professions used for: Ranger, Warrior
Meaning: Increased attack speed.

Skills:
- Tiger's Fury
- Tiger Stance

Toxic

Campaigns used in: Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Ranger, Necromancer, Assassin.
Meaning: Related to poison.

Skills:

Victory

Campaigns used in: Core, Factions, Nightfall.
Professions used for: Dervish, Necromancer, Warrior.
Meaning: Benefit if you have more health than target.

Skills:
- Chilling Victory
- Spoil Victor (operates in reverse; i.e., target foe needs to have more health for the effect to occur)
- Thrill of Victory
- Victorious Sweep