Garish Pillar

Shade. Induce fear in enemies around your sand shades. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast. — In-game description

Garish Pillar

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shade

Game link

API

44428

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Garish Pillar

Shade. Induce fear in enemies around your sand shades.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

 Life Force Cost: 3,685

 Fear (1s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

 Number of Targets: 3

 Number of Targets: 2

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons and increases your strike damage for a short time.

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.
• Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

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

• Transfusion — Marks can be triggered by allies to heal them and provide them with additional benefits. Create Lesser Chilblains at your location when you use your fourth shroud skill.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.
• Fear of Death — Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.

Scourge

• Sand Savant — Summon only one shade at a time. This greater shade has a modified recharge. Influence a larger area with shade skills. A greater shade counts as three shades for related traits.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 19, 2025	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
July 08, 2020	Reduced the target cap of shades from 3 to 2 in WvW only. Reduced the target cap of greater shades from 5 to 2 in WvW only.
July 07, 2020	Shade skills have been changed back to triggering at both the necromancer's location and their shade locations with each use. (Undocumented) Target cap reduced to 3.
October 01, 2019	Shade skills no longer affect the area around the scourge while they have a shade present in the world. Increased the number of targets affected by shade skills from 3 to 5.
March 27, 2018	Scourge (Profession): Fixed an issue that caused an obstruction error when there wasn't a line of sight to a target, but there was a line of sight to the shade. Enemies in range of the shade will now be struck if the shade is visible to the necromancer. Fixed an issue in which this skill could still hit downed enemies multiple times. Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	Added a 0.5-second warning to enemy players on each shade and on the player when activating a shade skill.
November 07, 2017	Fixed a bug that could cause this skill's targets to be lost due to proximity between shades or the casting scourge.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Garish Pillar has been added to the game.