Life Transfer

Shroud. Damage nearby foes and steal their life force. — In-game description

Life Transfer

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Death Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Activ. type

Channeled

Damage type

Choking

Game link

API

10594

This skill has an underwater replacement: Gathering Plague

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Life Transfer

Shroud. Damage nearby foes and steal their life force.

 Damage (9x): 1,017 (3.825)^?

 Damage (9x): 720 (2.7)^?

₉ Bleeding (3s): 594 Damage

 Life Force Per Hit: 1%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 3 seconds

 Radius: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

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

• 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.
• 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.

Notes

• In damage calculation, Life Transfer uses weapon damage from the off-hand. Wiki value assumes unequipped value of 690.5
• Foes killed by Life Transfer grant progress towards the Weapon Master achievement of the off-hand.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Reduced the casting time of this skill. Increased the life force per hit from 0.5% to 1%.
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. Increased the bleeding duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
November 28, 2023	This skill now also inflicts bleeding when striking an enemy.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.425 to 0.3.
July 16, 2019	Reduced recharge from 40 seconds to 25 seconds.
October 02, 2018	Life Transfer: The damage of this skill has been increased by 70% per pulse.
July 01, 2014	Updated the skill facts to use radius instead of range.
October 01, 2012	This skill will now work properly with the Soul Reaping trait Path of Midnight.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Life Transfer has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.