Buff

A buff is a temporary status effect that provides a beneficial boost to a player's Guardian. A debuff has the opposite effect.
==List of Buffs==
Buff 	Source 	Effect 	Duration 	
Armor of Light 	Enter a Defender Titan's Ward of Dawn that has the Armor of Light upgrade. 	Increases damage resistance while inside Ward of Dawn. 	Duration of stay within Ward of Dawn 	
Blessing of Light 	Pass through a Defender Titan's Ward of Dawn that has the Blessing of Light upgrade. 	Gain an additional shield. 	10 seconds (15 if Titan is wearing The Glasshouse) 	
Boundless Light 	Only available during subclass quest 	Super ability charges nearly instantly after use 	Length of mission 	
Weapons of Light 	Pass through a Defender Titan's Ward of Dawn that has the Weapons of Light upgrade. 	Increases weapon damage by 25%. 	10 seconds (15 if Titan is wearing The Glasshouse) 	
Radiant Light 	Complete the Weekly Nightfall Strike. 	Increases all XP and most Reputation gains by 25%. 	Remaining time until Weekly Reset 	
Tempering 	Purchase from Lord Saladin for one Mote of Light. 	Increases Iron Banner reputation gains. 	12 hours 	
Time's Vengeance 	In Vault of Glass, destroy all Oracles after Atheon, Time's Conflux opens the timestream. 	Significantly increases damage dealt to Atheon. 	30 seconds 	
Angel of Light 	Aim your weapon in the air with the Sunsinger perk Angel of Light activated. 	Hover in the air while aiming. 	Until touchdown 	
Chalice of Light 	Obtain the Chalice from the centre of the pit or from another Guardian. 	Enables health regeneration during Crota encounter in Crota's End. 	Until raid is completed 	
Immune 	Have the Devouring Essence debuff taken from you while fighting Skolas in Skolas's Revenge.	Unable to take the Devouring Essence from another Guardian. 	40 seconds 	
Jailbreaker 	Killed the Eye of Qodron during the last round of The Forever Eater. 	Greatly increased damage to detention bubbles. 	30 seconds 	
Ether Key 	Defeated the boss of a Prowling Wolves event. 	Provides one opportunity to open a nearby Ether Chest. 	1 minute 30 seconds 	
Brand of Immortality	Steal the Brand from the Vessel of Oryx or the Sisters in King's Fall raid. 	Makes anyone inside its aura invincible. 	Until the Hymn of Weaving or Dirge of Unravelling is complete or the Light Bombs are detonated. 	
Empowered 	Selected three at random during the second Aksis encounter in Wrath of the Machine. 	Allows one to stun Aksis or supercharge Guardians from Servitor plates.	Until the empowerment is discharged on Aksis' back or on a plate, when empowerment shifts to another Guardian, or when a Guardian fails to stun Aksis.	
==List of Debuffs==
Debuff 	Source 	Effect 	Duration 	
A Dark Burden 	Encounter Sardon, Fist of Crota in Fist of Crota. 	Disables double-jump abilities and damages the affected Guardian if they are at a significantly higher elevation than Sardon.	Until Sardon is killed 	
Bane of the Swordless 	At the Bridge encounter in Crota's End, attempt to cross the bridge without a sword. 	Immediately kills the Guardian. 	Instantaneous 	
Crota's Presence 	In Crota's End, summon Crota. 	Disables automatic health regeneration for everyone in the fireteam. 	Until raid is completed. 	
Curse of the Aegis 	In Vault of Glass, a fireteam member dropped the Aegis. 	Kills everyone in the fireteam if the Aegis is not picked up. 	5 seconds 	
Detain 	Selected at random by The Templar or Atheon. 	Held stationary within an energy field. 	Until bubble is destroyed 	
Gorgon's Gaze 	In Vault of Glass, be detected by a Gorgon. 	Kills everyone in the fireteam if the Gorgon is not killed first. 	6 seconds 	
Marked for Negation 	In the Templar encounters in Vault of Glass, step into a Fanatic's death pool or fail to kill an Oracle in time. 	Kills the Guardian when The Templar casts Ritual of Negation. 	Until cleansed with the Aegis or pool of light in Templar's Well	
Marked by the Void 	In Vault of Glass, enter a timestream portal while an Aegis is available. 	Vision becomes gradually obscured. 	Until cleansed with the Aegis 	
Weight of Darkness 	In the Abyss encounter in Crota's End, move away from a source of light. 	Disables double-jump abilities and slows movement speed. Stacks up to ten times. 	Until cleansed with pillar of light or abyss encounter completed	
Supression
Field 	Exited a detainment bubble in the Vault of Glass without destroying it. 	Kills the Guardian. 	Under 5 seconds 	
Expunged 	In the Templar and Atheon encounters in Vault of Glass, four Vex sacrifice themselves to the confluxes. 	Kills the entire fireteam. 	3 seconds 	
Lost In Time 	In the Atheon and Gatekeeper encounters, fail to keep a Vex Timegate portal open. 	Kills all Guardians inside the portal. 	5 seconds 	
Prophecy Of Doom 	In the Atheon encounter, fail to kill an Oracle within a Timegate. 	Kills the entire fireteam. 	5 seconds 	
Oracle's Cry 	In the story mission "Wolves' Gambit," fail to kill an Oracle within 10 seconds of it appearing. 	Immediately kills all Guardians. 	Instantaneous 	
Devouring Essence 	Selected at random by Skolas in the Prison of Elders. 	Kills target if not taken away by another Guardian. 	30 seconds 	
The Floor is Lava! 	
Investigate the scrap pile on the observation catwalk above the landing strip in the Tower Plaza (marked "Don't Pick Me Up").	
In 5 seconds, damages the Guardian if they are in contact with the floor. Fences and objects do not count.
If the Guardian spends too long without moving (approximately 55 seconds), they are damaged very quickly.	
Until Guardian dies. 	
Bane of the Catacombs 	In the story mission "In the deep" while escaping from the tomb with the Hive Cryptoglyph. 	Grenade and Super are disabled. 	Until mission is completed. 	
Warden's Punishment 	Inflicted by Variks in the Prison of Elders, when the mines explode, or the critical target passes all checkpoints.	Kills all the Guardians. 	5 seconds 	
Shadow Touched 	Inflicted by Taken Blights, when someone enters inside its field. 	Reduces speed, disables sprint, double jump and health recovery. 	Until the Blight is destroyed. 	
Annihilator Totem 	In Crota's End and King's Fall, when the totems start charging up. 	Kills all the Guardians if they are not in close proximity of the totems to discharge them. 	5 seconds 	
Grasp of the King 	Inflicted by Echo of Oryx. 	Depletes the Guardian's Super and kills them if not interrupted. 	30 seconds 	
Summoner's Exhaustion 	In the Court of Oryx event, a Guardian offers a summoning rune to one of the Six Altars and completes the event. 	Prevents the Guardian from using a summoning rune. 	45 seconds 	
Transfiguration 	When a Guardian guards/drains with a Transmutation Sphere past 1 ammo. 	Reduces the Guardian's health and can be fatal if the sphere is not dropped. 	Until the Transmutation Sphere is dropped. 	
Taken Essence Antumbra	Pick up the Taken Essence in Last Wish and Astral Alignment. 	The effect stacks up to 10 times and kills the Guardian if they don't drop/use the essence immediately. 	20 seconds, only if the essence is dropped. 	
Mental Collapse 	Inflicted by Psionic Projections in the Leviathan Raid while they are still intact. 	Kills all the Guardians within their range of collapse. 	About 5 seconds 	
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