Plague Signet

This article is about the skill. For the ring, see Plague Signet (ring).

Signet Passive: Reduce incoming condition damage. Signet Active: Send your conditions to a foe. — In-game description

Plague Signet

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10562

Gallery
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Plague Signet

Signet Passive: Reduce incoming condition damage.
Signet Active: Send your conditions to a foe.

 Signet Passive: -10% Incoming Condition Damage

 Conditions Sent: 5

 Conditions Sent: 3

 Breaks Stun

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Signets of Suffering — Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.

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.

Notes

• This skill is not affected by  Blinded.
• The stun break happens before the condition transfer, resulting in  Fear and  Taunt being removed without a transfer.
• You need to face the target in order to transfer conditions.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
March 19, 2024	This skill no longer passively transfers conditions from nearby allies to the user and instead grants reduced incoming condition damage to the user.
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced the number of conditions transferred from 4 to 3 in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 45 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced the number of conditions transferred from 5 to 4 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced the cooldown of this skill from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only. (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 40 seconds to 45 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 30 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Updated skill facts to clarify that this skill's passive effect transfers 1 condition every 3 seconds from allies to yourself.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Reduced recharge to 30 seconds. Reduced number of conditions transferred by the active component to 5 (previously all).
April 15, 2014	The activation of this signet will now transfer blind, instead of causing the skill to miss.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Plague Signet has been added to the game.

Trivia

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