Blood Is Power

Corruption. Bleed yourself to grant might to allies around you and bleed your target. — In-game description

Blood Is Power

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Corruption

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10544

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Blood Is Power

Corruption. Bleed yourself to grant might to allies around you and bleed your target.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

₅ Might (20s): 150 Condition Damage, 150 Power

₁₅ Might (6s): 450 Condition Damage, 450 Power

₄ Bleeding (15s): 1,320 Damage

₂ Self Bleeding (10s): 440 Damage

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 30 seconds

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power. Gain might when entering shroud.

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Master of Corruption — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Reaper

• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Notes

• Does not require a target to be cast.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	This skill now has 2 charges with a 1-second cooldown between uses. Reduced the stacks of might granted from 10 to 5, and increased the duration of might from 10 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE. This skill's might remains unchanged in PvP and WvW.
March 27, 2018	Adjusted the might granted from 10 stacks for 10 seconds to 15 stacks for 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
November 07, 2017	(World vs. World): This skill's PvP split has been extended to WvW and will now use the lower 20-second cooldown.
October 18, 2016	The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	Bleeding stacks have been increased from 2 to 4. Bleeding duration has been reduced from 30 to 15. Might stacks have been increased from 8 to 10, with the duration increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 8 stacks of might for 8 seconds to nearby allies.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill's self-bleed from activating if the necromancer had no target.
October 01, 2012	This skill now grants 10 stacks of might but does not grant additional life force.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Blood Is Power has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.