Soul Grasp

Release a disembodied hand to draw life force from your foe. — In-game description

Soul Grasp

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Focus

Game link

API

55050, 55038

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Soul Grasp

Release a disembodied hand to draw life force from your foe.

 Life Siphon Damage: 248 (0.75)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 440 (0.2)^?

 Life Siphon Damage: 660 (2.0)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 1,003 (0.2)^?

₅ Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

₈ Vulnerability (6s): +8% Incoming Damage, +8% Incoming Condition Damage

 Life Force: 11%

 Maximum Count: 3

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 12 seconds

 Count Recharge: 15 seconds

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Spiteful Talisman — Deal increased strike damage to foes with no boons. Focus and axe skills recharge faster.

Curses

• 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.

Reaper

• Decimate Defenses — Striking a foe with vulnerability increases your critical hit chance.

Notes

• For more information about Life Siphoning, refer to Life Steal.
• This skill's projectile is homing, meaning that it will track its target for a certain amount of time.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Increased power coefficient from 0.2 to 2.0 in PvE only. Increased base healing from 440 to 1,003 in PvE only.
September 13, 2022	Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect cooldown and ammo count when using the Spiteful Talisman trait.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Ammunition recharge reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds. Ammunition count increased from 2 to 3.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Soul Grasp: Increased number of vulnerability stacks from 5 to 8.
April 23, 2019	Reaper's Touch reworked and renamed to Soul Grasp. This skill has two casts. Each cast sends forth a disembodied hand to inflict vulnerability on foes, grant the necromancer life force, and steal health from a foe.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 18 seconds to 15 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Focus skill range increased to 1200.
May 20, 2014	Corrected the skill fact to indicate that this skill has 4 bounces (5 hits). Fixed a bug that caused this skill to have a larger bounce range than intended when the necromancer did not have the Spiteful Talisman trait.
April 15, 2014	This skill no longer uses a longer casting animation when traited with Spiteful Talisman. Updated the skill fact to indicate the correct regeneration duration (5 seconds).
August 06, 2013	Updated the skill fact to display the proper regeneration amount.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue so that it now applies the vulnerability before the damage. Updated the tooltip to state the correct amount of vulnerability.
June 11, 2013	Fixed a bug with this ability's damage that caused an inconsistency when not traited with Spiteful Talisman. Damage while un-traited has been increased by 50%.
November 15, 2012	This skill applies 4 stacks of vulnerability per hit instead of 3.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Reaper's Touch added to the game.