Death's Charge

Shroud. Slide forward, destroying projectiles in your path. Blind foes at your destination. This skill inherits traits from Dark Path. — In-game description

Death's Charge

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Reaper

Parent skill

  Reaper's Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

30825

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10.25¼  6  

Death's Charge

Shroud. Slide forward, destroying projectiles in your path. Blind foes at your destination. This skill inherits traits from Dark Path.

 Initial Strikes (9x): 594 (2.25)^?

 Initial Strikes (9x): 144 (0.54)^?

 Final Strike: 432 (1.625)^?

 Final Strike: 346 (1.3)^?

 Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blast Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Chilling Darkness — Blinding a target will also apply chill.
• Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
• 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.

Blood Magic

• Vampiric Presence — You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.

Notes

• Damage value is calculated based on the weapon strength of an ascended Hammer. Wiki value assumes unequipped value of 690.5

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 02, 2026	(Undocumented) Fixed an error where this skill's description incorrectly listed the number of initial strikes as 8 instead of 9.
November 29, 2022	(PvE only) Increased power coefficient of initial strikes from 0.125 to 0.25. Fixed an issue that prevented the damage of the initial strikes from being listed on this skill's tooltip.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient of initial strikes from 0.125 to 0.06. Reduced power coefficient of final strike from 1.625 to 1.3.
November 07, 2017	Increased damage by 25%.
February 22, 2017	Increased damage by 30%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Death's Charge has been added to the game.

Trivia

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