Guild Wars 2

[Necrotic Slash] (1a)

• Attack changed from 2 strikes to 1 strike; attack speed normalized with that of [Necrotic Stab].
• DC reduced from (0.9) to (0.6).

[Necrotic Stab] (1b)

• DC reduced from (0.7) to (0.6).
• No longer grants life force.

[Necrotic Bite] (1c)

• Cast-time increased from [?] to 1 s.
• DC increased from (1.2) to (1.6).
• Life force gain increased from 6% to 8%.
• This skill now cleaves (hits up to 3 targets).

[Life Siphon] (2a – 2c)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 6 s

• Siphon health from foes in front of you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (2): every 1 s
• Damage: (0.45)
• Healing: 204 (0.4)
• Duration: 2 s
• Width: 200
• Range: 600
  • Elementalist [Lava Font] “cast-time”
  • Revenant [Searing Fissure] style attack
  • Pulses occur at the end of each second.
  • The health siphon only heals the player once per pulse regardless of the number of targets hit.
  • Instead of being a forced channel, this skill now chains up to 2 times. Every skill in the chain is identical. Upon activating the chain or using any skill within the chain, each subsequent skill in the chain will be available for use for up to 20 seconds respectively before the entire chain resets and goes into its listed cool-down. If all 3 skills are activated, this chain will also enter cool-down normally. This chain will be called a “multi-use chain” for the sake of saving space in later descriptions.

[Dark Pact] (3)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 15 s

• Consume life force and release a blast of necrotic energy that immobilizes foes on impact. If you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Initial life force cost: 6%
• Health sacrificed: 6%
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (1.0)
• Immobilize: 2½ s
• Impact radius: 180
• Range: 1200
  • Elementalist [Fireball] projectile pathing and behavior
  • Health sacrifice is doled out in a single packet based on a percent of the player’s total HP pool. This damage only triggers if the player does not have an adequate amount of life force to spend in its stead (in this case the total is 6% of the player’s total life force pool: 900 HP). At that point, the health sacrifice is imposed on the player. Regarding these types of skills, both life force and the conditional health sacrifice costs respectively are only imposed upon successful cast/fully resolved channel; interruption or cancellation of an associated skill will not impose either cost.

[Rending Claws] (1)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Fire a piercing bolt of energy at your foe.
• Damage: (0.75)
• Pierces
• Range: 900
  • Ranger [Long Range Shot] projectile behavior

[Ghastly Claws] (2a – 2b)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 6 s

• Unleash piercing spectral claws that cascade out of you, striking foes in a line and granting you life force.
• Number of strikes: 6
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage per strike: (0.4)
• Life force per strike: 1%
• Range: 600
  • Projectile hit-box, movement and strike pattern are equivalent to Warrior [Whirlwind Attack] extended to 600 range.
  • Elementalist [Dragon’s Claw] casting animation
  • The 1% life force gain is tied to every individual impact of a single [Ghastly Claws] projectile attack; each impact can only grant its 1% life force packet once regardless of how many targets it actually strikes.
  • Multi-use chain

[Unholy Feast] (3)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 10 s

• Cripple and remove boons from foes in the area; gain might for each foe struck.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.1)
• Might (1): 6 s
• Crippled: 3 s
• Boons removed: 1
• Combo finisher: Blast
• Radius: 600

[Blood Curse] (1a) – name changed to – [Vile Bolt] (1a)
Cast-time: 1s

• Cast out a bolt of necrotic energy which strikes and bleeds adjacent foes upon impact.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (0.5)
• Bleeding (2): 5 s
• Damage radius: 150
• Range: 900
  • Elementalist [Fireball] projectile pathing and behavior; green [Ether Bolt] projectile

[Grasping Dead] (2)
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 5 s

• Cast out a spectral hand which damages foes and spawns a pulsing field upon impact at the target area; this field cripples and bleeds foes with each pulse.
• Number of targets: 5
• Hand damage: (0.7)
• Hand damage radius: 180
• Field pulses (3): every 1 s
• Bleeding (2) per pulse: 5 s
• Crippled per pulse: 2 s
• Field duration: 3 s
• Field radius: 180
• Range: 900
  • Elementalist [Fireball] projectile pathing and behavior; Engineer [Throw Napalm] secondary effect.
  • The field spawned by this skill is not considered a combo field.

[Feast of Corruption] (3)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 10 s

• Damage foes in a cone in front of you; deal additional damage and gain life force for each condition on struck foes.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (1.0)
• Bonus damage per condition: 8%
• Life force per condition: 1%; max 5% per foe
• Range: 700
  • Engineer [Blunderbuss] cone

[Deathly Swarm] (4a)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 8 s

• Form. Consume life force and assume the form of a deathly swarm which roils forward at high speed. If you cannot consume life force, this skill will not activate.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Duration: 1½ s
  • Zephyrite aspect [Light Dash] (75% total duration); can still be used mid-air
  • User takes on the Giganticus Lupicus deathly swarm charge attack visual effect which he uses in his second phase.

[Swarm Strike] (4b)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Exit your form and strike adjacent foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.25)
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Radius: 150
  • Zephyrite aspect [Sun Break]
  • The player exits the form immediately before beginning this skill’s casting time and animation, so it’s more like two skills in one.

[Enfeebling Blood] (5)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Consume life force and draw bleeding from allies in the area around you, then weaken foes and cure yourself of bleeding. If you cure yourself of bleeding with a stack total above the threshold, you also daze foes and grant fury to allies. If you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Health sacrifice: 6%
• Bleeding stack threshold: 5
• Number of targets: 5
• Weakness: 5 s
• Threshold daze: 1½ s
• Number of allies: 5
• Threshold fury: 8 s
• Radius: 600
  • This skill pulses twice (once every ½ s over its channel); the first pulse draws the bleeding, and the second cures bleeding and inflicts the weakness along with its potential threshold effects.

[Reaper’s Touch] (4)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 8 s

• Spin and strike adjacent foes. If death shroud is fully recharged, this attack inflicts vulnerability and grants life force for each foe struck; if death shroud is recharging, this strike instead deals additional damage and heals both you and nearby allies for each foe struck.
• Number of foes: 5
• Damage: (1.0)
• Vulnerability (5): 10 s
• Life force per foe: 2.5%
• Bonus damage: 75%
• Number of allies: 5
• Healing per foe: 280 (0.25)
• Healing radius: 240
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Radius: 180

[Spinal Shivers] (5)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Consume life force and unleash a gust of necrotic energy that strikes foes in a line, inflicting chill and removing boons. If you do not have enough life force to consume, this skill will not activate.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Number of strikes: 8
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (0.5)
• Chilled: 1½ s
• Boons removed: 1
• Range: 900
  • Projectile hit-box, travel speed and behavior are equivalent to Elementalist [Fiery Whirl].
  • This attack will strike twice if it passes normally through a standard player hit-box; the tool tip describes the effect of a single hit.

[Wail of Doom] (4)
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Daze and inflict endurance loss on foes in a cone in front of you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Daze: 1½ s
• Endurance loss: 25
• Range: 600
• Unblockable

[Ghostly Haste] (5a)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 20 s

• Gain haste.
• Haste: 3 s

[Locust Swarm] (5b)
Cast-time: ¾ s

• Summon a swarm of locusts that cripple adjacent foes while granting you life force.
• Pulses (7): every 1 s
• Damage: (0.1)
• Crippled: 1 s
• Life Force: 1.5%
• Duration: 6 s
• Radius: 210
  • This chain skill remains active for up to 15 seconds before it automatically swaps back to [Ghostly Haste]. [Ghostly Haste] enters cool-down immediately upon activation and its cool-down is not affected by when or whether at all the player uses [Locust Swarm].

[Cruel Strike] (1a)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Stab your foe.
• Damage: (0.55)
• Range: 150

[Wicked Strike] (1b)
Cast-time: ¾ s

• Strike your foe again.
• Damage: (0.55)
• Range: 150

[Reaper’s Scythe] (1c)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Number of targets: 5
• Reap life force from nearby foes.
• Damage: (1.3)
• Life force per strike: 1.5%
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Radius: 180

[Wicked Spiral] (2)
Cast-time: 1¾ s; Recharge: 5 s

• Spin multiple times, dealing damage and gaining life force with every foe you strike.
• Number of targets: 5
• Strikes (3): every ½ s
• Damage per strike: (0.5)
• Life force per strike: 1.5%
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Radius: 180

[Foul Current] (3)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 5 s

• Dart forward leaving behind poisonous bubbles and striking foes along your path.
• Number of targets: 3
• Number of strikes: 6
• Damage per strike: (0.1)
• Field poison: 1 s
• Field duration: 3 s
• Combo Field: Poison
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Range: 600

[Deadly Catch] (4)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Whirl around, throwing spears that cripple and pull foes to you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.5)
• Crippled: 4 s
• Pull: 600
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Range: 600

[Frozen Abyss] (5)
Cast-time: 2 s; Recharge: 20 s

• Channel an expanding field around you that chills and applies vulnerability to foes; deals high damage when it ends.
• Number of targets: 5
• Field pulses (7)
• Chilled per pulse: ½ s
• Vulnerability (1) per pulse: 7 s
• Ending damage: (1.8)
• Combo Field: Blast
• Radius: 360

[Necrotic Grasp] (1)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Send out a grasping hand which bursts upon impact and strikes multiple foes; gain life force for each foe struck.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (0.75)
• Life force per target: 1.5%
• Blast radius: 150
• Range: 1200
  • Elementalist [Fireball] projectile behavior

[Mark of Blood] (2)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 4 s

• Inscribe a pulsing mark that damages and bleeds foes at the target location; heals allies with each pulse.
• Number of targets: 5
• Number of allies: 5
• Pulses (3): every 1 s
• Damage per pulse: (0.55)
• Bleeding (2) per pulse: 6 s
• Allied healing per pulse: 130 (0.12)
• Duration: 3 s
• Combo Field: Dark
• Radius: 150
• Range: 1200
  • Elementalist [Lava Font] “cast-time”
  • Mark features are now a neon-red color; emits bright, red-colored “well mist”
  • Pulses occur at the end of each second.

[Chilblains] (3)
Cast-time: ¾ s

• Consume life force and unleash a line of blasts that poison and chill foes across the target area.
• Life force cost: 10%
• Number of targets: 5
• Number of impacts: 5
• Impact damage: 286 (0.75)
• Impact chill: 1 s
• Impact poison: 2 s
• Blast radius: 120
• Blast line distance: 600
• Range: 1200
  • Koda’s Hammer [Ice Shock Wave]
  • This skill is now a ground-targeted AoE with a target reticle that matches its rectangle hit-box (600 range length; 120 range width).
  • This skill’s AoE line attack is preceeded by an icy-blue or poison-green version of the [Enfeebling Blood] animation cue complete with that skill’s brief, post-cast delay period.

[Foul Feast] (4a)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 8 s

• Cure conditions on allies at the target location; bleed and gain life force for each condition that you cure in this way.
• Number of allies: 5
• Conditions cured per ally: 1
• Self bleeding (1): 10 s
• Life force per condition: 2%
• Radius: 240
• Range: 1200
  • Condition removal priority: Burning – > Bleeding – > Confusion – > Poison – > Torment

[Putrid Mark] (4b)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 8 s

• Consume life force and inscribe a mark which explodes on delay at the target location; this explosion transfers any bleeding on you to struck foes. If you do not have enough life force to consume, you instead sacrifice health.
• Life force cost: 5%
• Health sacrifice: 5%
• Number of targets: 5
• Explosion delay: 2 s
• Damage: (1.6)
• Conditions transferred: Bleeding
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Radius: 240
• Range: 1200

[Reaper’s Mark] (5)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 25 s

• Inscribe a pulsing mark in front of you, damaging foes; gain life force for each foe struck.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (4): every 2 s
• Pulse damage: (0.9)
• Life force gained: 2%
• Duration: 6 seconds
• Combo Field: Dark
• Width: 300
• Range: 600
  • Revenant [Searing Fissure] style attack.
  • First pulse occurs immediately on successful cast and then once every 2 seconds afterward.
  • Each pulse will grant 2% life force to the Necromancer for every target struck.

[Life Blast] (1)

• This skill now has a projectile behavior equivalent to Elementalist [Fireball].
• This skill now strikes up to 3 targets and has an AoE effect on impact with a radius of 150 units.

[Dark Path] (2)
Cast-time: ½ s

• If you have enough life force, consume it and leap to target foe, striking adjacent foes.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.0)
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Radius: 180
• Range: 600
  • Guardian [Leap of Faith]; AoE damage only occurs if the player strikes a target.
  • This skill will not activate if the player does not have enough life force.

[Doom] (3)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Make foes in front of you flee in fear.
• Number of targets: 3
• Fear: ¾ s
• Range: 700
  • Engineer [Blunderbuss] hit-box

[Life Transfer] (4)

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 30 s.

[Tainted Shackles] (5)
Cast-time: ¾ s

• Expend life force to bind nearby enemies to you. If bound foes extend beyond this ability’s range before it naturally expires, the shackles break, bleeding and crippling affected foes.
• Life force consumed: 8%
• Number of targets: 5
• Duration: 3 s
• Shackle break bleed (4): 8 s
• Shackle break crippled: 2½ s
• Effect radius: 300
• Range: 240
  • The current debuff effect inflicted by this skill upon enemies will have its name changed from [Dark Binding] to [Tainted Shackles] for the sake of consistency.
  • The user can quickly move away from a bound foe in order to manually provoke the break effect.

[Plague Blast] (1)

• Cast-time increased from ½ s to 1 s.
• This skill now has an impact explosion radius of 150 units which strikes up to 3 targets.
• This skill no longer tracks targets but rather travels in a straight line.
• This skill no longer transfers conditions.

[Dark Water] (2)
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Create a dark cloud of water around you that blinds and poisons foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (5): every 1 s
• Blind: 2 s
• Poison: 4 s
• Duration: 4 s
• Combo Field: Dark
• Radius: 180
  • Field pulses immediately upon creation and then once at the end of every second thereafter.

[Wave of Fear] (3)

• Cast-time reduced from ½ s to ¼ s.
• Recharge reduced from 25 s to 20 s.
• Fear duration reduced from 2 s to ¾ s.

[Gathering Plague] (4)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 30 s

• Cure conditions on nearby allies; gain life force and suffer bleeding and poison for each condition you cure in this way.
• Number of allies: 5
• Conditions drawn per ally: 2
• Bleeding (2) per condition: 10 s
• Poison per condition: 5 s
• Life force per condition: 1.5%
• Radius: 1200
  • This skill also affects the caster, guaranteeing at least 3% life force provided that the player has at least 2 conditions on him/her when this skill is activated.

[Toxic Tide] (5)
Cast-time: 1¾ s; Recharge: 30 s

• Channel a pulsing spell. The first pulse spreads conditions on yourself to foes in the area. The second pulse cures conditions on you; gain might for each condition you cure in this way.
• Number of foes: 5
• Pulses (2): every ¾ s
• Pulse one conditions spread: 5
• Pulse two conditions cured: 5
• Might (2) per condition cured: 8 s
• Radius: 600

[Soul Salvo] (Deathly Fervor 1)
Cast-time: 2½ s; Recharge: 50 s

• Unleash a devastating barrage of life blasts. Skill resolution or interruption ends deathly fervor.
• Number of targets per blast: 3
• Number of blasts: 5
• Damage per blast: (0.45)
• Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (100% chance)
• Blast radius: 120
• Range: 1200
  • [Charrzooka] [Rocket Spray] projectile generation and behavior

[Consume Conditions]
Cast-time: 2½ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Healing corruption. Cure yourself and consume conditions with every pulse. You gain life force when you consume a condition.
• Pulses (3): every ¾ s
• Healing per pulse: 1150 (1.0)
• Conditions cured per pulse: 1
• Life force per condition consumed: 4%

[Signet of Vampirism]
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 25 s

• Healing signet. Heal yourself and apply a vampiric mark to foes in a cone in front of you. Allies that strike a foe with a vampiric mark siphon health from that foe.
• Initial self heal: 2650 (1.0)
• Number of targets: 3
• Vampiric Mark (8): 5 s
• Mark life siphon damage: 95 (0.2)
• Mark life siphon healing: 186 (0.4)
• Range: 700
  • Engineer [Blunderbuss] hit-box
  • Vampiric Mark stacks retain their a 1-second internal cool-down per respective attacker.

[Summon Blood Fiend] (Xa)

• Cast-time reduced from 1½ s to 1 s.

[Taste of Death] (Xb)
Cast-time: ¾ s

• Healing minion command. Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself and allies in the area.
• Self healing: 1945 (1.0)
• Allied healing: 1500 (1.0)
• Allied healing radius: 360
• Combo Finisher: Blast
  • The allied healing and blast finisher are PBAoE effects that occur on the user rather than at the minion’s location.
  • The user also benefits from the allied healing.

[Well of Blood]
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Healing well. Heal yourself and conjure a well of blood to heal allies.
• Initial self heal: 2280 (1.0)
• Number of allies: 10
• Pulses (4): every 1 s
• Healing per pulse: 280 (0.4)
• Duration: 3 s
• Combo Field: Water
• Radius: 210
• Range: 900
  • First healing pulse occurs immediately after cast completion.

[Spectral Grasp]
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 25 s

• Spectral. Drag nearby foes toward you with spectral force.
• Number of targets: 3
• Pull: 400
• Range: 700
• Unblockable
  • Engineer [Blunderbuss] hit-box
  • This skill prioritizes players over other NPCs.

[Spectral Wall]

• Recharge reduced from 45 to 30 s.
• Range increased from 900 to 1200.
• Duration reduced from 5 s to 3 s.
• Fear duration reduced from 1 s to ¾ s.
• No longer grants protection.
• Now also always grants 3% life force whenever a foe comes into contact with the wall.

[Spectral Walk]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 30 s

• Spectral. Cure yourself and nearby allies of immobilized, crippled and chilled; you and nearby allies gain haste. You gain life force for each ally you affected. Create a shadowy tether and become spectral. You may return to your initial position by using Spectral Recall.
• Haste: 3 s
• Number of allies: 5
• Conditions cured: Chilled; Crippled; Immobilize
• Life force per affected ally: 3%
• Radius: 300
• Spectral Tether: 8 s
• Breaks stun
  • The user is also counted in the “affected ally” tally.

[Spectral Armor]
Cast-time: 6¼ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Spectral. Grant spectral armor to allies at the target location, healing allies with each pulse; gain life force if you heal an ally.
• Number of allies: 2
• Pulses (7): every 1 s
• Allied healing per second: 280 (0.4)
• Life force: 1.5%
• Duration: 6 s
• Radius: 90
• Range: 900
• Maximum leash range: 900
• Minimum range: 100
  • Wind-up: 0; Total channel time: 6 s; After-cast: ¼ s
  • Allies at the initial target location also gain the visual “spectral” effect; spectral “trails” equivalent to the one left by [Spectral Walk] tie the affected allies back to the original user of the skill in the same manner as foes are tied to the caster of [Tainted Shackles].
  • The life force gain effect has a 1 second global cool-down per respective target.
  • First pulse occurs immediately upon activation and then at the end of every second thereafter.
  • The “leash range” works in the same manner as Guardian [Binding Blade] “leash range.”
  • Even though this skill has no actual cast-time wind-up, being a channel skill, it cannot be activated while stunned or while using another skill.
  • This skill prioritizes party members over other players and then other players over other NPCs.
  • [Spectral Armor] cannot target structures.
  • [Spectral Armor] will not trigger its effects and go into cool-down if it does not detect a valid target when used.
  • Life force generation has a 1-second global cool-down (will only trigger once per healing pulse even if healing two targets) and only triggers if this skill healed a target for any amount of health (will not trigger if this skill is actively affecting full health targets).

[Lich Form]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 10 s

• Spectral form. Lose all minions and spectral effects; assume the form of a lich. Your life force sustains lich form.
• Life force cost per interval: 2%
• Interval: 1 s
  • This skill uses life force as if the player were in death shroud (life force is now the active health pool); however, this skill is not death shroud and will therefore not trigger any death shroud related traits or threshold bonuses.
  • [Lich Form] no longer grants stability nor bonuses to vitality and precision.
  • This form still uses the player’s regular health pool; life force is drained simultaneously.
  • As is the case now, the player has no access to any skills except lich skills while this form is in effect.
  • The recharge on this skill begins counting down only after the player exits the form.
  • This skill’s activation is equivalent to [Death Shroud] (instant; can be used in mid-air).

[Deathly Claws] (1)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Send out a claw that damages adjacent foes on impact. After a delay, the claw bursts, dealing more damage; if you strike a foe with this delayed damage, you summon a jagged horror at your location.
• Number of targets: 5
• Initial damage: (0.85)
• Burst delay: 2 s
• Burst damage: (0.85)
• Damage radius: 150
• Range: 1200
  • Elementalist [Fireball] projectile behavior
  • Claw projectile has a neon-green “spectral” trail.

[Grim Specter] (2)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 3 s

• Unleash a series of impacts that damage foes in front of you. If you are above the life force threshold, these impacts spawn pulsing fields of necrotic energy which damage foes; pulses remove boons from foes who are above the boon threshold.
• Number of impacts: 3
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.45)
• Impact radius: 150
• Range: 410
• Life force threshold: 50%
• Threshold pulses (3): every 1 s
• Pulse damage: 224 (0.55)
• Field duration: 3 s
• Boon threshold: 3
• Threshold boons removed per pulse: 1
• Combo field: Dark
• Field radius: 150
  • Revenant [Echoing Eruption]
  • Field pulses occur at the end of each second.

[Mark of Horror] (3)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Apply a dark bond to any active minions that you control, and inscribe a pulsing mark of horror at the target location which inflicts vulnerability. This mark’s initial strike grants you life force for each foe struck.
• Number of targets: 5
• Initial life force per foe struck: 3%
• Dark Bond (8 s): 50% of all damage dealt to you is redirected to your minions
• Pulses (6): every 1 s
• Damage: (0.75)
• Vulnerability (4): 10 s
• Duration: 6 s
• Combo Field: Dark
• Radius: 210
• Range: 1200

[Summon Bone Minions] (Xa)

• Cast-time reduced from 1½ s to 1 s.
• Base HP increased by 40%.

[Putrid Explosion] (Xb)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 1 s

• Minion command. Command a bone minion to leap to the target area and explode.
• Damage: 1592
• Damage radius: 180
• Range: 1500
• Leap range: 800
• Combo Finisher: Blast
  • This skill now makes a Bone Minion execute an Engineer [Jump Shot]-style attack to target location before exploding (attack has a max range of 800 units). If a Bone Minion is outside of this range when assigned to explode at a target location, it will path to 800 range from the location and then perform the attack.

[Summon Bone Fiend] (Xa)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 20 s

• Summon a bone fiend that performs bleeding and crippling attacks from range.
• Damage (2x): 572
• Bleeding (1): 4 s
• Crippled: 1½ s
• Range: 1000
  • Base HP increased by 40%.

[Rigor Mortis] – name changed to – [Bone Fortress]
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Minion command. Destroy your bone fiend and bleed foes in the area around it; conjure a tall wall of bone directly in front of you which knocks back foes upon creation and intercepts projectiles while active. Gain protection and grant bone armor to your minions.
• Number of targets: 5
• Bleeding (6): 10 s
• Bleed radius: 360
• Knock-back: 400
• Knock-back strike range: 150
• Wall duration: 3 s
• Bone Armor (5 s): Take 50% less incoming damage; activated abilities deal 50% more damage.
  • Revenant [Wall of the Mists] mechanic for the wall itself; appearance is a piece of a scaled Tequatl bone wall model
  • The initial knock-back strike is a regular melee cleave attack hit-box with 150 range.

[Summon Flesh Wurm] (Xa)

• Cast-time reduced from 1½ s to 0 (instant; can be used while stunned)
• Recharge reduced from 32 s to 30 s.

[Necrotic Traversal] (Xb)
Cast-time: 0

• Gain haste. Your flesh wurm teleports to your location and explodes, knocking back foes.
• Effect radius: 240
• Knock-back: 400
• Haste: 2 s
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Breaks stun
  • The flesh wurm does not actually teleport to the player; that is flavor text. The wurm is merely destroyed by this skill, then the necromancer inflicts the knock-back as a player-centric PBAoE; this may or may not warrant some kind of “wurm coming up from the ground and exploding/dying” animation on the player.

[Summon Shadow Fiend] (Xa)

• Cast-time reduced from 1½ s to 1 s.
• Recharge reduced from 24 s to 20 s.

[Haunt] (Xb)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 12 s

• Minion command. Leap backwards; your shadow fiend teleports to your starting location and strikes adjacent foes with a pulsing, blinding attack.
• Pulse (4x): every 1 s
• Damage per pulse: 336
• Bind per pulse: 3 s
• Duration: 3 s
• Effect radius: 150
  • Engineer [Acid Bomb] leap
  • This attack pulses upon creation and then once at the end of each second of its duration.

[Flesh Golem] (Xa)

• Recharge reduced from 48 s to 40 s.
• Base HP increased by 20%.

[Charge] (Xb)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Minion command. Command your flesh golem to charge across the target location, knocking down foes in its path.
• Damage per strike: 193
• Number of strikes: 8
• Number of targets: 3
• Knockdown: ¾ s
• Charge range: 600
• Command range: 1200
• Conditions ignored: Chilled; Crippled
  • This skill now has a line reticle that designates the flesh golem’s charge direction and total path covered.
  • Upon placing the reticle, the flesh golem will teleport to the start of the line and perform its charging attack after a brief (½-second or so) wind-up.
  • Alternatively, the skill could just be a [Whirlwind Attack] style skill which teleports the golem to the Necromancer and then moves in the direction already determined by a point-blank, rotatable target reticle.
  • This skill can now be activated instantly.

[Blood is Power]
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 25 s

• Corruption. Consume life force to grant might, endurance and healing to allies in the area. If you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Health sacrifice: 6%
• Number of allies: 5
• Might (8): 15 s
• Healing: 1440 (1.0)
• Endurance: 25
• Radius: 600

[Corrosive Poison Cloud]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 30 s

• Corruption. Weaken nearby foes and envelop the area around you in a noxious cloud that inflicts poison and vulnerability; this cloud also destroys incoming projectiles.
• Number of targets: 5
• Initial weakness: 3 s
• Initial weakness raidus: 240
• Pulses (56): every 1 s
• Poison per pulse: 2 s
• Vulnerability (3) per pulse: 10 s
• Combo Field: Poison
• Cloud duration: 5 s
• Cloud radius: 300
• Unblockable
• Breaks stun
  • The first pulse occurs immediately upon creation.

[Epidemic]
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 20 s

• Spend life force and spread conditions on a target foe to all nearby foes. If you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Life force cost: 10%
• Health sacrifice: 7%
• Number of spread targets: 5
• Radius: 600
• Range: 1200
• Unblockable

[Corrupt Boon]
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 20 s

• Corruption. Spend life force and unleash a cone of necrotic energy that converts boons on enemies into weakness and poison. If you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Health sacrificed: 6%
• Number of targets: 5
• Number of boons converted: 2
• Weakness per boon: 2 s
• Poison per boon: 4 s
• Unblockable
• Range: 700
  • Engineer [Blunderbuss] hit-box

[Plague]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 10 s

• Corruption form. Lose all minions and spectral effects; become a virulent cloud which inflicts and manipulates conditions. Your life force sustains plague form.
• Life force cost per interval: 2%
• Interval: 1 s
  • This skill now displays the player as the player will have animation cues and attacks instead of just constantly being a pulsing AoE; it will need some new visual effects/a new “aura” effect in order to distinguish itself from death shroud.
  • This skill uses life force as if the player were in death shroud; however, this skill is not death shroud and will therefore not trigger any death shroud related traits or threshold bonuses.
  • [Plague] no longer grants stability nor bonuses to vitality and toughness.
  • This form still uses the player’s regular health pool; life force is drained simultaneously.
  • As is the case now, the player has no access to any skills except plague skills while this form is in effect.
  • The recharge on this skill begins counting down only after the player exits the form.
  • This skill’s activation is equivalent to [Death Shroud] (instant; can be used in mid-air).

[Wither] (1a)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cleave foes, inflicting poison and vulnerability.
• Damage: (0.55)
• Poison: 3 s
• Vulnerability (1): 6 s
• Range: 200

[Malign] (1b)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cleave foes, inflicting poison and vulnerability; inflict bleeding if your foe is at or above the poison stack threshold.
• Damage: (0.55)
• Poison: 3 s
• Vulnerability (1): 6 s
• Poison stack threshold: 3
• Threshold bleeding (3): 8 s
• Range: 200

[Rising Bile] (1c)
Cast-time: ¾ s

• Cleave foes and leave behind a bubble of necrotic energy; after a delay, this bubble bursts, damaging and weakening nearby foes.
• Strike damage: (0.9)
• Strike range: 200
• Bubble number of targets: 5
• Delay: 2 s
• Bubble damage: (1.25)
• Bubble weakness: 3 s
• Bubble radius: 120
  • Bubble model is a “Necromancer green” version of Guardian [Sanctuary]

[Plague of Darkness] (2)

• Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 3 s
• If you have enough life force, consume it; plague skill 1 inflicts blindness to struck foes.
• Life force cost: 15%
• Plague of Darkness (5): 3 s
• Blindness: 2 s
  • Thief venom skill functionality; loses 1 stack per respective foe struck
  • This skill will not activate if the player does not have enough life force.

[Plague Winds] (4)
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 3 s

• If you have enough life force, consume it and gain haste. After a delay, you release a wave of energy that cripples and weakens nearby foes.
• Life force cost: 8%
• Haste: 2 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Delay: 3 s
• Crippled: 3 s
• Weakness: 3 s
• Radius: 300
  • This skill will not activate if the player does not have enough life force.

[Toxic Landing] (4)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 30 s

• Take less falling damage; create a corrosive poison cloud when you take falling damage.
• Toxic Landing (5 s): Take 75% less falling damage; create a corrosive poison cloud when you take falling damage.
  • This skill can be used while in mid-air.
  • This skill’s effect vanishes after triggering once.

[Contagion] (5)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 50 s

• With each pulse, you draw damaging conditions from nearby allies and transfer damaging conditions from you to nearby foes; you gain life force when you draw a condition in this way.
• Number of allies: 5
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (6): every 1 s
• Pulse conditions drawn per ally: 1
• Pulse conditions transferred: 2
• Condition life force: 5%
• Duration: 5 s
• Radius: 360
  • Transfer mechanic has a 1-second internal cool-down per target.
  • Contagion’s effect will also cure damaging conditions on the Necromancer
  • The conditional life force gain only triggers once per pulse regardless of how many conditions beyond 1 were cured.
  • This skill functions akin to the original Plague abilities (passive, PBAoE pulsing field that follows the player).

[Plague Signet] (Xa)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 30 s

• Draw conditions from allies in the area to yourself.
• Number of allies: 5
• Conditions drawn per ally: 2
• Draw radius: 600
• Breaks stun
  • This skill goes into cool-down immediately after use despite chaining into another skill (Thief [Shadowstep] style chain).

[Plague Breath] (Xb)
Cast-time: 1¾ s

• Cure conditions on yourself and release a noxious cone of breath that poisons and weakens foes. The power of this breath attack increases with the number of conditions that you cured.
• Self conditions cured: 10
• Number of targets: 5
• Breath attack pulses (3): every ½ s
• Damage per pulse: (0.5)
• Poison per pulse: 2 s
• Weakness per pulse: 1 s
• Bonus damage per cured condition: 10%
• Breath attack range: 400
  • The conditions are cured instantly upon skill activation.
  • This chain skill remains active for up to 10 seconds.
  • The damage bonus per condition cured is factored in to the damage modifier.

[Signet of the Locust]
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 35 s

• Siphon health from foes in the area; also gain life force and haste for each foe struck.
• Number of targets: 5
• Life siphon damage: (0.3)
• Life siphon heal: 970 (0.5)
• Life force per foe: 4%
• Haste per foe: 1 s
• Radius: 600

[Signet of Spite]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Inflict blindness, weakness and vulnerability upon nearby foes. You and nearby allies gain protection. You gain life force for each foe you affected that was activating a skill.
• Number of foes: 5
• Blind: 2 s
• Weakness: 3 s
• Vulnerability (10): 8 s
• Life force gained per interrupted foe: 4%
• Number of allies: 5
• Protection: 3 s
• Radius: 360
• Breaks stun

[Signet of Undeath]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 10 s

• Gain life force and recharge death shroud.
• Life force: 5%

[Well of Corruption]
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 25 s

• Well. The area in front of you pulses and attempts to pull foes in the area into its center. After a delay, this well explodes, removing boons from foes caught in its blast. If you do not have enough life force to consume, you instead sacrifice health.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pull delay: 1 s
• Pull radius: 360
• Pull: 340
• Explosion delay: 3 s
• Explosion radius: 240
• Explosion damage: (1.6)
• Boons affected: 3
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Range: 200
• Unblockable
  • Upon cast, this well appears directly in front of the player (in effect the well’s placement is aimed with the player’s body/camera); both delay count-downs begin simultaneously when the skill successfully resolves.
  • When this skill resolves, its delayed pull immediately applies a black [Tainted Shackles] effect to each of its selected targets for the pull; this effect remains until the pull triggers; the current well (size and model) remains the same as a marker for the explosion radius.
  • Both the “Number of targets: 5” and the “unblockable” skill facts each apply to both the pull and the explosion respectively.

[Well of Darkness]
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 30 s

• Well. The area at your current location pulses, blinding foes with each pulse.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (5x): every 1 s
• Blind per pulse: 2 s
• Duration: 4 s
• Combo Field: Dark
• Radius: 240
• Unblockable
  • First pulse occurs immediately upon cast and then at the end of every second thereafter.

[Well of Power]
Cast-time: 4¼ s; Recharge: 25 s

• Well. Channel a well of power around you which heals and grants both fury and haste to allies in the area while also curing conditions; you gain life force when you cure a condition in this way.
• Number of allies: 5
• Pulses (5): every ¾ s
• Healing: 320 (0.4)
• Fury: 3 s
• Haste: 1½ s
• Conditions converted per ally: 1
• Life force when condition converted: 3%
• Duration: 4 s
• Combo Field: Water
• Radius: 450
  • Channeled version of the Necromancer [Locust Swarm] effect; mobile water field while channel is in effect.
  • The user is also affected by the pulses.
  • Life force gained per condition cured has a 1 second internal cool-down.

[Well of Suffering]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 8 s

• Well. Expend life force and conjure a well which damages foes at the target location; if you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Initial life force cost: 4%
• Health sacrifice: 3%
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (5): every 1 s
• Damage per pulse: (0.65)
• Duration: 5 s
• Radius: 150
• Combo Field: Dark
• Range: 1200
  • Elementalist [Lava Font] “cast-time”
  • Damage pulses occurs at the end of every second.

[Life Leech] (1)

• Strikes per full channel reduced from 20 to 8; pulses now occur once every ¾ s.
• Damage per pulse reduced by 8%.

[Fear] (2)

• Cast-time reduced from 1¼ s to 1 s.
• Fear duration reduced from 2 s to 1 s.
• This skill is now a ground-targeted directional cone AoE with a target reticle similar to Warrior [Whirlwind Attack] (range of 450 units).
• Now affects up to 3 foes.

[Fetid Ground] (3)

• Cast-time increased from ¼ s to ¾ s.
• Radius reduced from 240 to 180.
• This skill is now a ground-targeted AoE with a range of 900.

[Reaper’s Might] (I – A1)

• Recharge: 1 s
• Death Shroud skill 1 grants might.
• Might (2): 4 s

[Banshee’s Wail] (II – A2)

• Warhorn skills count as blast finishers.

[Spiteful Mark] (III – A3)

• Reduces your max life force pool. [Mark of Blood] deals more damage per pulse.
• Pulse damage increase: 30%
• Max life force: -10%
  • [Mark of Blood] now has a neon-green glow.

[Spite Shield] (IV – M1)

• Recharge: 15 s
• While in death shroud, any leftover damage from a single strike that would fully deplete your life force will not carry over into your regular health pool; when your death shroud ends due to damage, you gain aegis.
• Number of foes: 5
• Aegis: 3 s
• Radius: 240
  • The 15-second recharge only governs the aegis trigger. Death shroud will always preserve the player’s health pool from further overflow damage inflicted by a single packet of damage.
  • This trait’s damage overflow stopping mechanic triggers on fall damage as well as regular direct damage.

[Veil Sight] (V – M2)

• Entering death shroud removes blindness; you are briefly immune to blindness when you enter into death shroud.
• Conditions cured: Blind
• Veil Sight (3 s): Immune to blindness

[Dark Power] (VI – M3)

• Reduces your max life force pool. Blast finishers you execute on dark fields now also grant might.
• Might (4): 12 s
• Number of allies: 5
• Radius: 240
• Max life force: -10%

[Defile Defenses] (VII – GM1)

• Reduces your max life force pool. Entering death shroud removes aegis from foes in the area and makes your next attacks unblockable; if aegis was removed in this way, you also inflict vulnerability.
• Number of foes: 5
• Boons removed: Aegis
• Aegis removal vulnerability (3): 10 s
• Radius: 600
• Unblockable
• Unblockable (2): 5 s
• Max life force: -10%
  • The first “Unblockable” tool-tip relates to the aegis-removing effect (0-damage attack effectively) being unblockable. The second “Unblockable” tool-tip relates to the player’s next 2 attacks being unblockable.

[Soul Shackles] (VIII – GM2)

• Gain a new skill while in deathly fervor.
  [Soul Shackles] (Deathly Fervor 5)
• Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 50 s
• Immobilize and chill nearby foes; these foes take damage, lose endurance and suffer weakness when they negate incoming damage through invulnerability, evasion or blocking. Skill resolution or interruption ends deathly fervor.
• Number of foes: 5
• Immobilize: 1 s
• Chilled: 3 s
• Soul Shackles (3) (4 s): Damage negation inflicts damage and weakness.
• Soul Shackles damage: 186 (0.4)
• Soul Shackles endurance loss: 25
• Soul Shackles weakness: 2 s
• Radius: 360
• Unblockable
  • [Soul Shackles] inflicts 3 stacks of its effect (each lasting 4 seconds total). [Soul Shackle]’s trigger has a 1 second internal cool-down per respective target.
  • Mesmer “Blur” is also included in this group of “damage negation” abilities.

[Well of Malice] (IX – GM3)

• Reduces your max life force pool. [Well of Suffering] now activates instantly; pulses now also inflict vulnerability. If you use [Well of Suffering] while stunned or while activating other skills; you consume additional life force; if you do not have enough life force to consume, you instead sacrifice health.
• Vulnerability (2) per pulse: 6 s
• Life force cost for activation while stunned or using another skill: 5%
• Health sacrificed for activation while stunned or using another skill: 4%
• Max life force: -10%
  • Cast-time is now set to 0 (instant).
  • [Well of Suffering] now has a neon-red well mist; pulses still tick at the end of each second.

[Furious Demise] (I – A1)

• Recharge: 6 s
• Gain fury whenever your life force naturally decays while in death shroud.
• Fury: 4 s

[Blood of the Aggressor] (II – A2)

• Reduces your max life force pool. [Enfeebling Blood] now also removes might and fury from struck foes.
• Boons removed: Fury; Might
• Max life force: -10%

[Masochism] (III – A3)

• Whenever you sacrifice health, you gain life force. Only triggers in combat.
• Life force: 5%

[Rending Shroud] (IV – M1)

• While in death shroud, you constantly apply vulnerability to foes in the area. If you strike a foe with vulnerability at or above the stack threshold, your attacks remove protection; removing protection in this way inflicts bleeding.
• Number of targets: 5
• Vulnerability (4): 6 s
• Interval: 3 s
• Vulnerability stack threshold: 8
• Threshold boons removed: Protection
• Threshold bleeding (4): 8 s
  • The bleeding is only applied if the player removes protection.

[Charm Reaper] (V – M2)
Recharge: 1 s

• Whenever you remove a boon, you gain life force; Shroud skill 3 now removes a boon from struck foes.
• Life force when boon removed: 4%
• Shroud skill 3 boons removed: 1
  • The recharge only governs the life force gain.
  • Boon removal is inflicted before shroud skill 3’s normal effects.

[Corrupt Bulwark] (VI – M3)

• Inflicting a condition on a foe grants stacking toughness and reduced incoming condition damage.
• Corrupt Bulwark (8 s): +35 toughness; -2% incoming condition damage
• Maximum stacks: 10

[Atrophy] (VII – GM1)

• Gain a new skill while in deathly fervor.
  [Atrophy] (Deathly Fervor 3)
  Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 50 s
• Remove stability from foes in a cone in front of you; these foes temporarily cannot gain boons. This skill depletes a break bar by 50%. Skill resolution or interruption ends deathly fervor.
• Number of targets: 5
• Boons removed: Stability
• Atrophy (4 s): Cannot gain boons.

[Order of Apostasy] (VIII – GM2)

• [Corrupt Boon] is now [Order of Apostasy].
  [Order of Apostasy] (utility traited)
  Cast-time: 2¾ s; Recharge: 30 s
• Enchantment. With each pulse, consume life force and grant an order of apostasy to yourself and allies in the area. While under the effects of this enchantment, attacks remove boons. If you cannot consume life force, you instead sacrifice health.
• Life force per pulse: 4%
• Health sacrifice per pulse: 3%
• Number of allies: 5
• Pulses (5): every ½ s
• Order of Apostasy (5 s): Attacks remove 1 boon from struck foes
• Radius: 600
  • This skill prioritizes players over other NPCs.
  • [Order of Apostasy] stacks function identically as Thief venoms.

[Dhuumfire] (IX – GM3)

• Reduces your max life force pool. Shroud skill 2 now also inflicts burning; while in death shroud, you deal more damage to burning foes.
• Burning: 3 s
• Bonus damage vs burning foes while in shroud: 20%
• Max life force: -10%
  • Players using [Dark Path] now have a fiery trail behind them during the animation; particle effects ripped from Elementalist [Fiery Rush] leap animation.
  • Burning is applied after the initial strike damage is calculated.

[Shrouded Removal] (I – A1)

• Cure a condition from yourself when you enter death shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud.
• Conditions removed: 1
• Interval: 3 s
• Radius: 240

[Phantom’s Egress] (II – A2)
Recharge: 10 s

• Gain haste upon leaving death shroud.
• Haste: 2 s

[Flesh of the Master] (III – A3)

• Gain bonus toughness for each minion that you control. When you enter into death shroud, you and your minions gain protection; whenever your life force naturally decays while in death shroud, your minions gain health.
• Bonus toughness per minion: +20
• Protection: 3 s
• Minion healing: 180 (0.2)

[Necromantic Corruption] (IV – M1)

• Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. Whenever a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target (10 second cool-down per minion).
• Damage increase: 20%
• Minion attack conditions transferred: 1
• Minion attack condition transfer cool-down: 10 s
• Condition draw interval per minion: 10 s

[Aura of the Lich] (V – M2)

• Shroud skill 1 builds charges of Aura of the Lich when struck. At maximum level, whenever you sacrifice a minion by using a chain skill, you gain life force, spawn a jagged horror and that minion’s summon skill recharges instantly.
• Maximum charges: 5
• Life force: 8%
• Recharge reduction: 100%
• Jagged Horror lifetime duration: 30 s

[Dead Skin] (VI – M3)

• Gain 1 stack of Dead Skin every 5 seconds that you don’t take damage (up to 5 stacks total). Lose 1 stack of Dead Skin every time that you take direct damage. You cannot lose more than 1 stack of Dead Skin each second. When you lose a stack of Dead Skin, you gain life force.
• Dead Skin: +150 toughness
• Life force: 1.5%
  • Dead Skin does not count as an enchantment or a boon and therefore cannot be stripped.
  • A single stack of the Dead Skin buff grants +150 toughness on its own.
  • Condition ticks do not remove stacks of Dead Skin.

[Order of Pain] (VII – GM1)

• [Blood is Power] is now [Order of Pain].
  [Order of Pain] (utility traited)
  Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 35 s
• Sacrifice 20% of your total health; gain might and also an amount of life force equal to 125% of the sacrificed health total. If you are below the health threshold, you gain life force equal to 200% of the sacrificed health total.
• Health sacrifice: 20%
• Might (10): 8 s
• Health threshold: 50%
  • The life force gain is not percentage based, but rather just the direct addition of a base number.

[Death Nova] (VIII – GM2)

• Minions explode in a cloud of poison where they die. This effect also triggers when you are downed. When you kill an enemy, summon a Jagged Horror minion to fight by your side.
• Jagged Horror summon recharge: 10 s
• Jagged Horror lifetime duration: 30 s

[Unholy Sanctuary] (IX – GM3)

• Reduces death shroud’s recharge; regenerate health while in death shroud.
• Recharge reduced: 50%
• Healing: 130 (0.12)
• Interval: 1 s

[Awaken the Blood] (I – A1)

• You gain life force when you use a healing skill. Only triggers in combat.
• Life force: 10%
  • For [Consume Conditions], this trait’s effect only triggers when the final pulse successfully resolves.

[Blood Renewal] (II – A2)

• If you sacrifice health to use a skill, the recharges of that skill and death shroud are reduced respectively.
• Life force: 8%
• Death shroud recharge reduction: 5 s
• Skill recharge reduction: 33%

[Reciprocity] (III – A3)
Recharge: 1 s

• You gain health whenever you gain life force.
• Healing: 130 (0.12)

[Deathly Invigoration] (IV – M1)

• Leaving death shroud heals in an area, partially revives downed allies and counts as a blast finisher.
• Number of allies: 5
• Healing: 808 (1.0)
• Revive percent: 5%
• Radius: 360
• Combo Finisher: Blast

[Life Shroud] (V – M2)

• Whenever your life force naturally decays while in death shroud, you heal allies in the area.
• Number of allies: 5
• Healing per point of energy lost: 130 (0.12)
• Healing radius: 360
  • The user is naturally unaffected by this healing.

[Last Rites] (VI – M3)

• Allies near you do not bleed out while downed. Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies; up to five downed allies near you teleport to your location when you channel shroud skill 4.
• Number of allies: 5
• Pulses (9): every 1/3 s
• Revival per pulse: 2%
• Healing: 360
• Radius: 600
• Teleport distance: 600

[Death into Life] (VII – GM1)
Recharge: 10 s

• You gain life force when you leave death shroud. Only triggers in combat.
• Life force gained: 8%

[Oversoul] (VIII – GM2)

• Gain a new skill while in deathly fervor.
  [Oversoul] (Deathly Fervor 4)
  Cast-time: 5¼ s; Recharge: 50 s
• Gain stability and infuse target allies with your life force, healing them with each pulse. If you were above the life force threshold when you activated this skill, healing is increased. Skill resolution or interruption ends deathly fervor.
• Number of allies: 2
• Pulses (6): every 1 s
• Self stability (3): 3 s
• Allied healing per pulse: 280 (0.4)
• Life force threshold: 90%
• Threshold healing: 808 (0.5)
• Duration: 5 s
• Radius: 90
• Range: 900
• Maximum leash range: 900
• Minimum range: 100
  • Wind-up: 0; Total channel time: 5 s; After-cast: ¼ s
  • This skill pulses immediately upon cast and at the end of every second thereafter.
  • The vitality bonus stacks up to 5 times per respective target.
  • The “leash range” works in the same manner as Guardian [Binding Blade] “leash range.”
  • Even though this skill has no actual cast-time wind-up, being a channel skill, it cannot be activated while stunned or while using another skill.
  • This skill prioritizes party members over other players and then other players over other NPCs.
  • [Transfusion] cannot target structures.
  • [Transfusion] will not trigger its effects and go into cool-down if it does not detect a valid target when used.

[Transfusion] (IX – GM3)

• [Mark of Blood] is now [Transfusion].
  [Transfusion] (staff 2 traited)
  Cast-time: 5¼ s; Recharge 2 s
• Attach your energy to allies at the target location, healing them with each pulse; gain life force if you heal an ally. If a target ally is above the health threshold, this skill’s pulses instead grant a vitality bonus.
• Number of allies: 2
• Pulses (6): every 1 s
• Allied healing per pulse: 280 (0.4)
• Life force per pulse: 1.5%
• Allied health threshold: 90%
• Threshold vitality bonus (5 s): +75 Vitality
• Duration: 5 s
• Radius: 90
• Range: 900
• Maximum leash range: 900
• Minimum range: 100
  • Wind-up: 0; Total channel time: 5 s; After-cast: ¼ s
  • This skill pulses immediately upon cast and at the end of every second thereafter.
  • The vitality bonus stacks up to 5 times per respective target.
  • The “leash range” works in the same manner as Guardian [Binding Blade] “leash range.”
  • Even though this skill has no actual cast-time wind-up, being a channel skill, it cannot be activated while stunned or while using another skill.
  • This skill prioritizes party members over other players and then other players over other NPCs.
  • [Transfusion] cannot target structures.
  • [Transfusion] will not trigger its effects and go into cool-down if it does not detect a valid target when used.
  • Life force generation has a 1-second global cool-down (will only trigger once per healing pulse even if healing two targets) and only triggers if this skill healed a target for any amount of health (will not trigger if this skill is actively affecting full health targets).

[Soul Hoard] (I – A1)
Recharge: 1 s

• Whenever you gain life force, you gain an additional packet of life force. For the first 3 seconds of death shroud, you do not lose any life force.
• Bonus life force: 1.5%
• Gluttony (3s): Cannot lose life force
  • The recharge applies only to the bonus life force packet.

[Rending Blast] (II – A2)
Recharge: 1 s

• Shroud skill 1 now also inflicts vulnerability.
• Vulnerability (2): 10 s
  • The global recharge is simply there to make reaper shroud autoattacks not totally, utterly crazy with the vulnerability application.

[Mighty Shroud] (III – A3)

• Gain permanent power based on your toughness; power gain doubles while in shroud. Gain bonus toughness while in shroud.
• Shroud toughness bonus: +200
• Gain power based on a percentage of toughness: 7%
• Gain power based on a percentage of toughness (shroud): 14%

[Near to Death] (IV – M1)

• Reduces your maximum life force pool. Death shroud’s recharge timer starts the moment that you enter into it rather than when you return back to your normal form.
• Max life force: -10%

[Spectral Leap] (V – M2)
Recharge: 1 s

• Gain life force whenever you successfully evade an attack. [Spectral Walk] is now [Spectral Leap].
• Life force: 2%
  [Spectral Leap] (utility traited)
  Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 15 s
• Cure immobilize, crippled and chilled; leap to the target location, evading attacks while you leap.
• Conditions cured: Immobilize; Crippled; Chilled
• Evade: ¾ s
• Range: 500,000
  • Leap mechanic equivalent to Klagg’s jump shot rifle at his vista in Lion’s Arch.
  • Recharge governs the life force gain.

[Fleeting Shroud] (VI – M3)
Recharge: 10 s

• Gain haste upon entering death shroud. Your death shroud now has a brief maximum time limit before you are forced back to your normal form.
• Haste: 2 s
• Death shroud duration: 6 s
  • The recharge only applies to the haste proc. The duration penalty is always in effect.

[Death Perception] (VII – GM1)

• Reduces your max life force pool. Increases your critical-hit chance while in death shroud.
• Critical hit chance increase: 50%
• Max life force: -10%

[Spectral Embrace] (VIII – GM2)

• Reduces [Spectral Armor]’s recharge. Gain a break bar while channeling the skills [Life Bond], [Transfusion], [Spectral Armor] and [Well of Power].
• Recharge reduction: 40%

[Foot in the Grave] (IX – GM3)

• Recharge: 10 s
• When you enter death shroud, you break stun; you immobilize nearby foes and gain endurance when you break stun.
• Breaks stun
• Number of targets: 5
• Stun break immobilize: 1½ s
• Radius: 240
• Stun break endurance gain: 25
  • The recharge only governs the immobilize and endurance gain procs; these procs are triggered whenever the player breaks stun (not just when doing so by means of going into death shroud).

[Death Spiral] (3)

• Recharge reduced from 12 s to 10 s.
• Vulnerability reduced from 12 stacks (10 s) to 12 stacks (8 s).

[Grasping Darkness] (5)

• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 25 s.
• Damage coefficient reduced from (1.0) to (0.7).

[“Your soul is mine!”]
Cast-time: 2½ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Healing shout. Heal yourself and damage foes with every pulse; gain life force for each foe struck.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (3): every ¾ s
• Damage per pulse: (0.15)
• Healing per pulse: 1150 (1.0)
• Life force: 1.75%
• Radius: 600

[“Nothing can save you!”]

• No longer inflicts damage.
• Boons removed increased from 2 to 3.
• Vulnerability per boon removed reduced from 5 stacks (10 s) to 4 stacks (10 s).

[“Rise!”]

• No longer inflicts damage.
• The “Dark Bond” effect is now instantly applied to the summoned shambling horrors immediately upon their creation instead of only after they begin attacking; this effect remains on the horrors until they die.
• Shambling horror minion damage increased by 25%.
• This skill now also breaks stun.

[“Suffer!”]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Chill and transfer conditions to foes in the area. For each condition that you retain afterward, your next attack deals more damage.
• Number of targets: 5
• Chilled: 3 s
• Conditions transferred: 1
• Suffer: +10% outgoing damage
• Maximum stacks: 5
  • For every condition left on the player after this skill transfers conditions, that player gains 1 stack of Suffer; suffer boosts outgoing damage by 10% per stack and has the same function as thief venoms regarding its use and consumption except that all stacks are consumed upon the intial use (or miss).

[“You are all weaklings!”]

• No longer inflicts damage.
• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 25 s.
• Weakness duration reduced from 8 s to 4 s.
• Now also inflicts crippled (4 s).

[“Chilled to the bone!”]
Cast-time: 1¾ s; Recharge: 75 s

• Unleash a cone of necrotic energy which chills, then immobilizes before finally freezing foes.
• Number of foes: 5
• Pulses (3): every ½ s
• Damage per pulse: (0.4)
• Pulse one; Chilled: 7 s
• Pulse two; Immobilized: 2 s
• Pulse three; Stun: 1½ s
• Range: 700
  • Shout audio cue now triggers at the start of the cast as is in the case of Guardian [“Receive the Light!”]
  • This skill can now be used underwater.

[Augury of Death] (I – AI)

• Your shouts recharge faster for each foe that they hit.
• Recharge reduction per foe: 7%

[Relentless Whirl] (II – A2)

• Reduces [Soul Spiral]’s recharge. [Soul Spiral] now also reflects enemy projectiles but no longer grants life force for each hit; [Death Spiral] now also destroys enemy projectiles.
• Recharge reduction: 33%
• Reflect duration: 2½ s
• Projectile destruction duration: 1½ s

[Chilling Force] (III – A3)

• Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. (Cannot affect the same foe more than once within the interval.)
• Might (1): 5 s
• Life force: 1%
• Interval: 1 s

[Soul Eater] (IV – M1)

• Greatsword attacks steal health; when [Gravedigger] or [Death Spiral] hit a foe, all other greatsword skills recharge by a small amount.
• Life siphon damage: 55
• Life siphon healing: 49
• Recharge reduction: 3%

[Chilling Whirl] (V – M2)
Recharge: 1 s

• Whenever you successfully perform a whirl finisher with a combo field, you chill nearby foes. If you whirl combo with a frost field, you grant frost aura and aegis to yourself and nearby allies.
• Number of foes: 5
• Chilled: 2 s
• Number of allies: 5
• Ice field frost aura: 3 s
• Ice field aegis: 3 s
• Radius: 360

[Cold Shoulder] (VI – M3)

• Chill that you apply lasts longer. You and nearby allies deal more damage to chilled foes; chilled foes deal less damage to you and your allies.
• Chill duration increase: 20%
• Number of allies: 5
• [Chilling Aura] (9 s): Deal 5% more damage to chilled foes; take 10% less incoming damage from chilled foes.
• Radius: 600
• Combat Only
  • Same mechanic as [Vampiric Presence].

[Reaper’s Onslaught] (VII – GM1)

• Attack faster while in reaper’s shroud; killing a foe reduces recharge on shroud skills.
• Attack speed increase: 15%
• Recharge reduction: 5 s

[Whirling Charge] (VIII – GM2)
Recharge: 1 s

• Whenever you successfully perform a whirl finisher with a combo field, you cure immobilized and gain super speed. If you whirl combo with a dark field, you gain might and life force.
• Conditions cured: Immobilized
• Super speed: 2 s
• Dark field might (3): 15 s
• Dark field life force: 5%

[Blighter’s Boon] (IX – GM3)

• Gain life force when you gain a boon; if you are in reaper’s shroud, gain health instead.
• Life force: 1%
• Healing: 133

[Infusing Terror] (3a)

• Duration reduced from 8 s to 4 s.
• Stability duration per pulse reduced from 3 s to 2 s.

[Terrify] (3b)

• Cast-time reduced from ¾ s to ¼ s.
• Fear duration reduced from 1 s to ¾ s.

[Soul Spiral] (4)

• Each strike now also grants 1.5% life force per struck foe.

[Executioner’s Scythe] (5)

• This skill now cleaves (hits up to 3 targets).
• No longer inflicts stun.