Trail of Anguish

Punishment. Leave a trail of sand as you travel. Grant boons to allies passing through it. Inflict burning on enemies and corrupt a boon into torment. — In-game description

Trail of Anguish

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Utility

Type

Punishment

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

40274

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Trail of Anguish

Punishment. Leave a trail of sand as you travel. Grant boons to allies passing through it. Inflict burning on enemies and corrupt a boon into torment.

 Damage: 146 (0.55)^?

 Swiftness (6s): +33% Movement Speed

 Stability (6s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

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

 Burning (4s): 524 Damage

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

 Number of Targets: 10

 Duration: 6 seconds

 Radius: 360

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

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.

Scourge

• Fell Beacon — Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
• 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.

Notes

• Allows for application of three burns per use.
• Has an initial application of boons (in PvE) of 5 targets and 360 radius.
• The skill places a trail of small AoEs, the target limit is on each those segments. If targets are spread out between segments this lets you hit many more targets than normal.^{[verification requested]}

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	This skill now grants its initial boons to nearby allies in PvE only. Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 50 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP and WvW.
October 04, 2022	This skill can now affect a maximum of 10 enemies. 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 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 35 seconds to 50 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP and WvW.
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	Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Trail of Anguish has been added to the game.