Affinities

Status	Affinity	How it works	Numbers	Payoff	What it does
Burn	Fire	Stacks up	5 stacks 80 ticks, ticking every 10	—	Fire status holding up to 5 independently sourced stacks. Each stack deals 9% of the applying hit every 10 ticks for 80 ticks. Behaves normally on bosses.
Chill	Frost	Fills a bar	threshold 22 decays 0.1 per tick	Freeze	Frost status filling a meter that decays until its payoff fires. The meter needs status-carrying hits worth 22% of the target's maximum health, decaying 0.1 per tick. Slows by up to 40% at a full meter. Payoff: freeze for 44 ticks (22 on elites). On bosses the threshold becomes Stagger plus a 50-tick window.
Shock	Storm	Stacks up	3 stacks 120 ticks, ticking every 20	—	Storm status holding up to 3 independently sourced stacks. Each stack deals 3% of the applying hit every 20 ticks for 120 ticks. Direct hits land 4% harder per stack. Overload chains 4 times within 7 units at 55% damage per jump. Behaves normally on bosses.
Venom	Poison	Stacks up	10 stacks 200 ticks, ticking every 12	—	Poison status holding up to 10 independently sourced stacks. Each stack deals 5% of the applying hit every 12 ticks for 200 ticks. Behaves normally on bosses.
Bleed	Blood	Stacks up	3 stacks 60 ticks, ticking every 8	—	Blood status holding up to 3 independently sourced stacks. Each stack deals 12% of the applying hit every 8 ticks for 60 ticks. Deals 1.5x damage against a moving target. Behaves normally on bosses.
Crumble	Stone	Fills a bar	threshold 26 decays 0.08 per tick	Sunder	Stone status filling a meter that decays until its payoff fires. The meter needs status-carrying hits worth 26% of the target's maximum health, decaying 0.08 per tick. Payoff: sunder for 90 ticks. Sundered targets lose 50% of their armor and take 40 Stagger. Seismic upgrades the payoff into a 3.5-unit shockwave for 160% of the hit. On bosses the threshold becomes Stagger plus a 90-tick window.
Brand	Holy	Stacks up	1 stack 240 ticks, ticking every 240	—	Holy status holding up to 1 independently sourced stack. Lasts 240 ticks. Stores 20% of every hit, released in radius 5. Behaves normally on bosses.
Distortion	Void	Fills a bar	threshold 30 decays 0.1 per tick	Implosion	Void status filling a meter that decays until its payoff fires. The meter needs status-carrying hits worth 30% of the target's maximum health, decaying 0.1 per tick. Payoff: implosion. Implosion pulls 2.4 units inside radius 4 for 120% of the hit, +50% on low health. On bosses the threshold becomes Stagger plus a 40-tick window.

Ways the draft can bend an ability

7 of them

Change	What it does	Works on
Echo	The ability repeats after a short delay at reduced effect.	projectile, burst, nova, melee, beam, support, guard, delayed_impact, summon
Reach	The ability reaches farther.	projectile, burst, melee, beam, support, guard, delayed_impact, summon, movement
Multiplicity	More projectiles, targets or summons at reduced individual effect.	projectile, melee, beam, support, guard, summon, delayed_impact
Area	Wider bursts, arcs and impact zones.	projectile, burst, nova, melee, beam, support, guard, delayed_impact, summon
Force	Harder hits: knockback, shove and stagger pressure.	projectile, burst, nova, melee, beam, support, delayed_impact, summon, movement
Duration	Statuses, buffs, summons and channels last longer.	projectile, burst, nova, melee, beam, support, guard, delayed_impact, summon, movement
Critical	The ability crits more often.	projectile, burst, nova, melee, beam, delayed_impact, summon