Dread/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 trait 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 trait, see Dread. |
January 13, 2026
- Dread: This trait now grants a short bonus to outgoing strike damage when inflicting fear on an enemy and no longer reduces the recharge of the third death shroud skill when killing an enemy.
“1DreadInflicting fear on a foe gives you boons and increases your strike damage for a short time.
— In-game description
August 20, 2024
- Dread: Reduced the internal cooldown from 3 seconds to 1 second.
“1DreadInflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.
Quickness (5s): Skills and actions are faster.
Recharge Reduced: 50%
— In-game description
June 28, 2022
- Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
“3DreadInflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.
— In-game description
August 17, 2021
- Dread: Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to fail to properly reduce the cooldown on shroud skill 3 when killing enemies in certain content types or locations.
July 07, 2020
- Dread: This trait has been moved to the grandmaster slot previously occupied by Signets of Suffering, and it has been reworked. It now grants 5 seconds of quickness and 10 seconds of fury whenever the necromancer applies fear to an enemy, with a 3-second internal cooldown. Additionally, it reduces the recharge of Shroud skill 3 by 50% whenever an enemy is killed in PvE and PvP, and by 5% in WvW.
“3DreadInflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.
Fury (10s): +20% Critical Chance
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Dread: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus damage from 33% to 15%.
“DreadInflicting fear on a foe applies vulnerability. Deal increased damage to foes inflicted with fear.
Damage Increase: 33%
10 Vulnerability (5s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage
— In-game description
August 28, 2018
- Dread: The damage received by enemies inflicted with fear has been increased from 20% to 33%.
“DreadInflicting fear on a foe applies vulnerability. Deal increased damage to foes inflicted with fear.
— In-game description
Original version
“DreadInflicting fear on a foe applies vulnerability. Deal increased damage to foes inflicted with fear.
— In-game description
