Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast. — In-game description

Nefarious Favor

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shade

Game link

API

40813

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5

12

12

 

Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

 Life Force Cost: 1,935

 Conditions Converted to Boons: 1

 Conditions Converted to Boons: 2

 Number of Targets: 3

 Number of Targets: 2

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.

Death Magic

• Shrouded Removal — Lose a condition when you enter shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud. Gain carapace when removing conditions from yourself.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.

Scourge

• Sadistic Searing — Nefarious Favor now burns nearby enemy targets.
• 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.

Notes

Anomaly:

Tooltip does not list the correct cooldown when using with Path of Corruption in WvW.

• Conditions are converted as follows:

Condition	Boon
Bleeding	Vigor (10 s)
Blinded	Fury (5 s)
Burning	Aegis (5 s)
Chilled	Alacrity (2 s)
Confusion	Resolution (5 s)
Crippled	Swiftness (10 s)
Fear	Stability (3 s)
Immobile	Resistance (2 s)
Poisoned	Regeneration (5 s)
Slow	Quickness (3 s)
Taunt	Stability (3 s)
Torment	Might (3 stacks, 10 s)
Vulnerability	Protection (3 s)
Weakness	Might (3 stacks, 10 s)

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 17, 2021	Reduced the number of conditions converted to boons from 2 to 1 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.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Increased number of conditions converted to boons from 1 to 2. Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
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.
October 02, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from respecting party and squad prioritization.
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.
February 06, 2018	Added a 0.5-second warning to enemy players on each shade and on the player when activating a shade skill. Reduced the number of conditions converted to boons from 2 to 1 in all game modes. Increased the cooldown of this skill from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in WvW and PvP.
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.
October 17, 2017	(WvW and PvP only) The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Nefarious Favor has been added to the game.