Spiteful Spirit (trait skill)

This article is about the Spiteful Spirit trait skill. For the trait, see Spiteful Spirit.

Cripple nearby foes and convert their boons into conditions. Gain resolution for each foe you strike. Remove additional boons on foes below the health threshold. — In-game description

Spiteful Spirit

Profession

Necromancer (trait skill list)

Trait

 Spiteful Spirit

Game link

API

29560

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Spiteful Spirit

Cripple nearby foes and convert their boons into conditions. Gain resolution for each foe you strike. Remove additional boons on foes below the health threshold.

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Resolution (3s): Incoming condition damage decreased by 33%.

 Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

 Boons Removed: 2

 Boons Removed: 1

 Bonus Boons Removed: 2

 Bonus Boons Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 600

 Cannot Critical Hit

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Spiteful Spirit — Strike around you when entering shroud.

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

• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Scourge

• 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the number of boons removed from 2 to 1 in WvW only. Guild Wars 2 Wiki note: Incorrect description also corrected.
February 11, 2025	Spiteful Spirit: Increased the number of boons removed from 1 to 2 in WvW and PvP.
June 27, 2023	Spiteful Spirit: This trait now removes boons instead of converting them into conditions.
May 11, 2021	The Retaliation boon has been renamed Resolution.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.4 to 0.1. Reduced number of boons corrupted from 2 to 1. Reduced additional boons corrupted against foes under 50% health from 2 to 1.
December 11, 2018	The damage of this trait has been increased by 25% in PvE, and it will no longer be able to critically hit foes in all game modes.
October 16, 2018	The area-of-effect damage inflicted by this trait has been split and will now use a 50% reduced value in PvP and WvW.
November 07, 2017	The attack caused by this trait now converts 2 additional boons on targets below 50% health.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to be nonfunctional while underwater. Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from granting retaliation. Fixed a bug that caused this trait to fail to display the number of boons converted. Increased the number of boons converted from 1 to 2.
July 26, 2016	The version of Unholy Feast that this trait executes will now include the player's weapon damage.
January 26, 2016	Unholy Feast (trait skill) has been added to the game. This trait's recharge has been removed. The attack from this trait is now referred to as "Spiteful Spirit" in the combat log instead of "Unholy Feast," and its particle effects have been updated.

See also

•   Unholy Feast