User:Erasculio/List of necromancer skills

This is a list of core Necromancer skills. For additional skills available to Necromancer's elite specializations, see:

• List of reaper skills
• List of scourge skills

Profession Mechanic

Death Shroud is the Necromancer's profession mechanic, occupying the F1 slot above the skill bar. Activating Death Shroud will transform you into a phantasmal state with special skills, where your accumulated life force takes the place of health but slowly depletes over time.

	Skill	Type			Description
	Death Shroud	Shroud		10	Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
	Death Shroud, End Death Shroud  End Death Shroud				Leave Death Shroud and return to your normal form.
Death Shroud Skills
1	Life Blast	Shroud	1		Shroud. Blast your foe with life force.
2	Dark Path	Shroud	0.75¾	8	Shroud. Send out a claw. If it hits a foe, it inflicts bleeding and chill on nearby foes and you may cast Dark Pursuit to shadowstep to the initial target.
3	Doom	Shroud	0.75¾	20	Shroud. Inflict fear on your foe.
4	Life Transfer	Shroud	2	20	Shroud. Damage nearby foes and steal their life force.
5	Tainted Shackles	Shroud	0.25¼	25	Shroud. Begin binding nearby enemies with your life force, pulsing out conditions; they can break this binding if they get far enough away from you. Bound foes are immobilized if the binding finishes.

Weapon Skills

Two-Handed

	Skill	Type			Description
Staff
1	Necrotic Grasp		0.75¾		Send out a grasping hand that damages foes in a line and grants you life force.
2	Mark of Blood	Mark	0.75¾	40.75¾	Mark. Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies.
3	Chillblains	Mark	0.75¾	12	Mark. Inscribe a mark that inflicts chill and poison on foes when triggered.
4	Putrid Mark	Mark	0.75¾	15	Mark. Inscribe a mark that damages enemies and transfers your conditions to them when triggered.
5	Reaper's Mark	Mark	0.75¾	18	Mark. Inscribe a mark that inflicts fear on foes when triggered.

Main-Hand

	Skill	Type			Description
Axe
1	Rending Claws		1		Slash your foe twice with ghostly claws to make them vulnerable. Vulnerability applied increases against foes below the health threshold.
2	Ghastly Claws		10.75¾	8	Summon spectral claws to slash your foe in a quick flurry of strikes, gaining life force per strike. This attack deals increased damage per stack of vulnerability on your target.
3	Unholy Feast		1	12	Cripple nearby foes and remove their boons. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold.
Dagger
1	Necrotic Slash				Chain. Slash your foe twice.
1	Necrotic Slash, Necrotic Stab, Necrotic Bite  Necrotic Stab				Chain. Strike your foe again.
1	Necrotic Slash, Necrotic Stab, Necrotic Bite  Necrotic Bite		0.25¼		Strike your foe and gain life force.
2	Life Siphon		0.75¾	8	Siphon health from your foe. Healing effectiveness increases if you are bleeding. Damage increases if your foe is bleeding.
3	Dark Pact		1	12	Bleed yourself. Immobilize your foe and remove their boons. Gain life force for each boon removed.
Scepter
1	Blood Curse		0.5½		Chain. Bleed your foe.
1	Blood Curse, Rending Curse, Putrid Curse  Rending Curse		0.5½		Chain. Bleed your foe.
1	Blood Curse, Rending Curse, Putrid Curse  Putrid Curse		0.5½		Chain. Poison and bleed your foe.
2	Grasping Dead		0.75¾	10	Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.
3	Feast of Corruption		0.75¾	10	Strike your target, gain life force, and corrupt boons on your foe. For each condition on your target up to the condition threshold, gain additional life force and inflict torment.

Off-Hand

	Skill	Type			Description
Dagger
4	Deathly Swarm		0.5½	16	Unleash an insect swarm to blind and transfer conditions to your enemies.
5	Enfeebling Blood		0.75¾	20	Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area.
Focus
4	Soul Grasp		0.5½	3	Release a disembodied hand to draw life force from your foe.
5	Spinal Shivers		1	16	Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.
Warhorn
4	Wail of Doom		0.75¾	24	Screech a wail of doom in a cone pattern, inflicting fear on foes. (Does bonus defiance-bar damage to defiant foes.)
5	Locust Swarm		0.5½	24	Grant swiftness to allies and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.

Slot Skills

Healing

	Skill	Type			Description
	Consume Conditions	Corruption	1	25	Corruption. Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. You become vulnerable.
	Signet of Vampirism	Signet	0.75¾	24	Signet Passive: Steal health from nearby foes while in combat. Signet Active: Heal yourself and mark a foe. Allied players will siphon life from the marked enemy.
	Summon Blood Fiend	Minion	10.5½	16	Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.
	Summon Blood Fiend, Taste of Death  Taste of Death		0.75¾		Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself.
	Well of Blood	Well	1	25	Well. Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.

Utility

	Skill	Type			Description
	Blood Is Power	Corruption	0.75¾	0.5½	Corruption. Bleed yourself to grant might to allies around you and bleed your target.
	Corrosive Poison Cloud	Corruption	0.5½	30	Corruption. Weaken yourself and envelope[sic] the target area in a noxious cloud that blocks enemy missiles and poisons foes and leaves them weakened.
	Corrupt Boon	Corruption	0.5½	0.5½	Corruption. Poison yourself. Transform boons on your foe into negative conditions.
	Epidemic	Corruption	1	20	Corruption. Apply vulnerability to yourself. Spread conditions on a target foe to all nearby foes at a reduced duration. WvW only: does not affect structures or targets with resistance.
	Summon Bone Fiend	Minion	10.5½	24	Minion. Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds.
	Summon Bone Fiend, Rigor Mortis  Rigor Mortis			50	Immobilize your bone fiend, and it will immobilize foes.
	Summon Bone Minions	Minion	10.5½	16	Minion. Summon two bone minions.
	Summon Bone Minions, Putrid Explosion  Putrid Explosion			1	Explode a bone minion.
	Summon Flesh Wurm	Minion	10.5½	25	Minion. Summon an immobile flesh wurm to attack foes.
	Summon Flesh Wurm, Necrotic Traversal  Necrotic Traversal				Sacrifice your flesh wurm, teleport to it, and poison foes.
	Summon Shadow Fiend	Minion	10.5½	24	Minion. Summon a shadow fiend to attack foes.
	Summon Shadow Fiend, Haunt  Haunt			20	Command your shadow fiend to teleport to a foe and attack all nearby foes, inflicting conditions.
	Plague Signet	Signet		20	Signet Passive: Reduce incoming condition damage. Signet Active: Send your conditions to a foe.
	Signet of Spite	Signet	0.75¾	40	Signet Passive: Improves power. Signet Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness on your foe.
	Signet of the Locust	Signet	0.75¾	20	Signet Passive: Your movement speed is increased. Signet Active: [sic]Strike and remove boons from nearby foes. Heal for each foe you strike and for each boon removed.
	Signet of Undeath	Signet	10.5½	75	Signet Passive: Generates life force while in combat. Signet Active: Sacrifice health to revive one downed ally in a target area.
	Spectral Armor	Spectral		20	Spectral. Gain life force as you take damage.
	Spectral Grasp	Spectral	0.5½	35	Spectral. Pull target foe and all nearby foes to you, chill them, and gain life force.
	Spectral Walk	Spectral		20	Spectral. Create a shadowy tether and become spectral, consuming conditions for life force. You may return to your initial position by using Spectral Recall.
	Spectral Walk, Spectral Recall  Spectral Recall				Return to the point where Spectral Walk began.
	Spectral Ring	Spectral	0.25¼	30	Spectral. Create a spectral ring that protects allies and inflicts fear on foes. Gain life force when a foe is inflicted by fear from this skill. This skill can only inflict fear on the same foe once per interval.
	Well of Corruption	Well	0.25¼	32	Well. Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions.
	Well of Darkness	Well	0.25¼	25	Well. Target area pulses, blinding foes with each pulse.
	Well of Power	Well	0.25¼	20	Well. Target area pulses, converting conditions on allies into boons and granting might.
	Well of Suffering	Well	0.25¼	25	Well. Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.

Elite

	Skill	Type			Description
	Lich Form	Spectral	1	120	Spectral. Assume the form of a lich for a brief time, improving your precision and vitality. Gain life force when this skill ends. Entering this form removes other spectral effects.
	Plaguelands	Corruption	1	90	Corruption. Create a virulent cloud that inflicts conditions on foes in its area. This plague inflicts additional conditions every second it persists. Inflict bleeding on yourself.
	Summon Flesh Golem	Minion	10.5½	48	Minion. Summon a flesh golem to attack foes with crippling claws.
	Summon Flesh Golem, Charge (necromancer skill)  Charge		0.75¾	40	Command your flesh golem to gain stability and charge a foe, knocking down or launching enemies in its path.

Downed Skills

	Skill	Type			Description
1	Life Leech		60.25¼		Leech health from a foe to heal yourself.
2	Fear		10.25¼	10	Make your foe flee in fear.
3	Fetid Ground		0.25¼	20	Create fetid ground that damages and poisons foes.
4	Bandage		490.25¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.

Auxiliary Skillbars

These skills replace the main skillbar after activating the specified primary skills.

Lich Form

	Skill	Type			Description
1	Deathly Claws		0.75¾		Send out grasping claws to damage your foes.
2	Lich's Gaze			0.75¾	Fire a debilitating projectile at your target to corrupt their boons.
3	Ripple of Horror		0.5½	15	Launch a wave that terrorizes foes it hits. You may activate March of Undeath to shadowstep to the wave.
3	Ripple of Horror, March of Undeath  March of Undeath			12	Shadowstep to your Ripple of Horror, destroying it.
4	Summon Madness	Minion	10.5½	30	Minion. Repeatedly summon minions that explode after a period of time if they are not killed.
5	Grim Specter		0.75¾	30	Siphon health from nearby enemies over time, gaining vitality each time you hit an enemy. Players struck by this ability lose equivalent vitality.