Death Spiral/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 skill that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this skill, see Death Spiral. |
January 13, 2026
- Death Spiral: This skill no longer grants life force and instead steals life from enemies that it strikes. Reduced the power coefficient from 1.8 to 1.6 in PvP and WvW. Reduced the aftercast by 0.2 seconds.
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Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
Life Siphon Damage: 3,527
Number of Targets: 3
Combo Finisher: Whirl
Range: 240
— In-game description
February 11, 2025
- Death Spiral: Increased the angle of this skill's hit box.
May 02, 2023
- Death Spiral: Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from creating Combo Finisher: Whirl the correct number of times.
November 29, 2022
- Death Spiral: Increased life force gain per hit from 2% to 3% in PvE only.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
Life Force: 3%
— In-game description
August 23, 2022
- Death Spiral: (PvE only) Damage multiplier per hit increased from 0.425 to 0.5.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
— In-game description
August 17, 2021
- Death Spiral: (Undocumented) This skill is now a whirl finisher.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Death Spiral: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.35 to 0.3. Reduced vulnerability duration from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
— In-game description
April 23, 2019
- Death Spiral: Reduced the recharge time from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Increased the range from 220 to 240 to make the range a standard multiple of 60.
- Adjusted the visual effects of this skill to be more pronounced.
- Narrowed the attack cone so that this skill's attack region more accurately matches its animation.
- Removed bonus damage to targets above 50% health.
- Increased base damage by 28% in PvE and 6% in PvP and WvW.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
12 Vulnerability (10s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage
— In-game description
July 10, 2018
- Death Spiral: This skill now deals increased damage to targets above 50% health, with the increase being 50% in PvE and 10% in PvP and WvW.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade and rend the armor of foes in front of you. Deal increased damage to foes above the health threshold.
Health Threshold: 50%
— In-game description
February 22, 2017
- Death Spiral: The damage of this skill has been increased by 20%.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
— In-game description
October 18, 2016
- Death Spiral: The damage of this ability has been increased by 66%.
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
— In-game description
Original version
“1Death SpiralConjure a drill of dark energy on your blade and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
— In-game description
