Sand Flare

Punishment. Gain barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment. — In-game description

Sand Flare

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Healing

Type

Punishment

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

43148

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Sand Flare

Punishment. Gain barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment.

 Self Barrier: 2,420 (2.0)^?

 Self Barrier: 2,420 (1.5)^?

 Self Barrier: 2,420 (0.9)^?

 Ally Barrier: 1,220 (2.0)^?

 Ally Barrier: 1,220 (1.5)^?

 Ally Barrier: 1,220 (0.9)^?

 Self Heal: 3,230 (1.1)^?

 Self Heal: 3,230 (0.75)^?

₃ Torment (8s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Malicious Swarm — Cast Lesser Signet of the Locust when you use a healing skill.

Curses

• 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

• Blood Renewal — Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.
• Blood Bank — Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.

Soul Reaping

• Vital Persistence — Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.

Scourge

• Abrasive Grit — Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions afflicting them and grants might. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.
• Demonic Lore — Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.
• Desert Empowerment — Manifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	This skill now grants a reduced amount of barrier to nearby allies.
October 04, 2022	Punishment skills no longer inflict crippled when removing a boon. Increased number of torment stacks applied when removing a boon from 1 to 3.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: The base barrier granted by the skills Sand Cascade, Sand Flare, Desert Empowerment, Desert Shroud, and Sandstorm Shroud has been reduced. The contribution of healing power on these skills has been increased.
August 17, 2021	Barrier granted by this skill now only affects the caster by default.
April 06, 2021	Reduced barrier attribute scaling from 0.75 to 0.45 in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced barrier coefficient from 1.5125 to 0.75. Reduced heal coefficient from 1.1 to 0.75. Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds.
July 10, 2018	This skill can now be used underwater.
February 06, 2018	Punishment Skills: The torment durations of this skill category have been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. The cripple duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	All skills that grant barrier now give 15% more barrier. Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Sand Flare has been added to the game.