“Gain life force as you take damage. Removed when you enter Death Shroud[sic]. Also applies protection.”
Yes: removed when you enter Death/Reaper Shroud.
The same thing is for Spectral Walk.
Them both have 1 second of internal cooldown, then don’t rely too much on it outside of common PvE.
In theory, that two skills (expecially Spectral Armor) work as a Defensive skill that protect you while outside the Shroud, granting you a lot of Life Force and then the ability to protect yourself entering your Shroud Form, acting like a “meat shield” to protect you. It’s our poor and bad version of all the other classes immunity skills, that perfectly fit our theme but also make us bad.
If it would be made to be used while in shroud, it would also be activable while in shroud, but it isn’t.
The X Shroud Form is our strength and our weakness. In it, we (theorically) obtain high damage and a second HP bar, but we totally lose all our defensive abilities (unless for few bad traits). Following that theme, the Spectral Armor and Walk don’t grant any more LF while in the Shroud because we don’t have to be able to recharge the Shroud while in it (unless for death shroud 4 and reaper shroud AA) by an external skill.
That’s bad but thematically accurate. That’s what always kitten us.
We can only continue to abuse of this helpful bug that ANet don’t want to fix for pure mercy and go always forward with this great theme that make the necromancer beautiful as weak.
