Elixir of Ambition

Elixir. Infuse your boundless ambition into an elixir, gaining every possible boon, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting all damaging conditions on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration. — In-game description

Elixir of Ambition

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Harbinger

Slot

Elite

Type

Elixir

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

62655

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0.5½  

60

72

72

 

Elixir of Ambition

Elixir. Infuse your boundless ambition into an elixir, gaining every possible boon, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting all damaging conditions on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.

Self Effects on Cast

 Gain All Boons for Base Duration: 5 seconds

 Gain All Boons for Base Duration: 3 seconds

Effects in Impact Area

 Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 239 (0.9)^?

₃ Bleeding (5s): 330 Damage

 Bleeding (5s): 110 Damage

₃ Burning (5s): 1,965 Damage

 Burning (5s): 655 Damage

₃ Confusion (5s): 274 Damage, 49 Damage on Skill Use

 Confusion (5s): 91 Damage, 16 Damage on Skill Use

₃ Poison (5s): 503 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Poison (5s): 168 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

₃ Torment (5s): 330 Damage, 477 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Torment (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

₁₅ Blight (25s): 4,875 Heal, -15% Health

₁₅ Blight (25s): 4,875 Heal, -220.5½% Health

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Blight Threshold: 10

When above Blight Threshold

 Damage and Condition Duration Increase: 100%

 Range: 900

— 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.
• 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

• Putrid Defense — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.
• Dark Defiance — If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Harbinger

• Wicked Corruption — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of blight you have. Critical strikes deal increased damage to targets with torment.
• Bolstering Brew — Elixir skills grant protection.
• Septic Corruption — Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud 2 skill also inflicts poison.
• Alchemic Vigor — Gain increased vitality. Heal each second for each stack of blight you have.
• Twisted Medicine — Elixir skills also grant their boons to allies within the elixir impact radius. Gain concentration based on your vitality.

Notes

• This skill grants 25 stacks of might in PvE and WvW, but only 10 stacks in PvP.
• Order of boon application is might, fury, alacrity, aegis, quickness, protection, regeneration, resolution, resistance, stability, swiftness, vigor

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 72 seconds in PvP and WvW.
May 02, 2023	Increased stacks of each condition from 1 to 3 In PvE only. Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Fixed an issue that prevented harbinger elixirs from applying blight to the user and boons to allies.
July 19, 2022	Reduced boon durations from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
June 28, 2022	All elixirs now use normal projectile targeting underwater, instead of using ground targeting. Reduced might stacks from 25 to 10 in PvP only.
March 29, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 0.9 in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Elixir of Ambition has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Elixir of Ambition was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. Still grants all possible boons to yourself on cast. Is now ground-targeted; damage and apply one stack of every damaging condition (Bleed, Burn, Confusion, Poison, Torment) for 5s to enemies in the impact area. If you are in the impact area, gain 15 Blight. Blight Threshold 10: Damage and condition duration doubled. Cooldown increased from 60s to 90s. Fixed a bug in which this skill would not activate the 6-pc bonus of Superior Rune of the Zephyrite.
August 17, 2021	Elixir of Ambition was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 1.