Executioner's Scythe

Shroud. Deliver a powerful overhand strike to stun a single target, dealing increased damage the lower their health. Leaves behind an ice field. — In-game description

Executioner's Scythe

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Reaper

Parent skill

  Reaper's Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Game link

API

30557

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10.25¼  30  

Executioner's Scythe

Shroud. Deliver a powerful overhand strike to stun a single target, dealing increased damage the lower their health. Leaves behind an ice field.

 Damage at 50% or Above: 1,064 (4.0)^?

 Damage Below 50%: 1,595 (6.0)^?

 Damage Below 25%: 2,127 (8.0)^?

 Damage at 50% or Above: 242 (0.91)^?

 Damage Below 50%: 363 (1.364)^?

 Damage Below 25%: 484 (1.82)^?

 Damage at 50% or Above: 3 (0.01)^?

 Damage Below 50%: 4 (0.015)^?

 Damage Below 25%: 5 (0.02)^?

 Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Stun: 10.5½ seconds

 Stun: 20.5½ seconds

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Ice

 Defiance Break: 150

 Defiance Break: 250

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• 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.

Reaper

• Chilling Nova — Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.
• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill. Chill lasts longer.
• Chilling Victory — Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
• Cold Shoulder — Chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks and deal less strike damage to you.
• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Notes

Anomaly:

This skill is listed as applying Stun but actually applies Reaper's Frost, which functions the same as Stun.

• Damage value is calculated based on the weapon strength of an ascended Hammer. Wiki value assumes unequipped value of 690.5
• The ice field applies 1 second of  Chilled every second.
• Targetting seems to be random and won't stun your actual target sometimes.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Increased the power coefficient from 3/4/5 to 4/6/8 in PvE only.
February 11, 2025	Increased the power coefficient from 0.01/0.015/0.02 to 0.91/1.364/1.82 in WvW only.
November 29, 2022	(PvE only) Increased power coefficient against targets at or above 50% health to 3.0. Increased power coefficient against targets below 50% health to 4.0. Increased power coefficient against targets below 25% to 5.0.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Competitive Split When foes are at or above 50% health, the damage coefficient is reduced from 2.0 to 0.01. When foes are below 50% health, the damage coefficient is reduced from 2.6 to 0.015. When foes are below 25% health, the damage coefficient is reduced from 3.2 to 0.02. Increased stun duration from 1.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
November 07, 2017	Increased damage by 33% on targets above 50% health. Increased damage by 30% on targets below 50% health. Increased damage by 28% on targets below 25% health.
April 19, 2016	Reduced the freezing field duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.
December 01, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Executioner's Scythe has been added to the game.