Wail of Doom

Screech a wail of doom in a cone pattern, inflicting fear on foes. (Does bonus defiance-bar damage to defiant foes.) — In-game description

Wail of Doom

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Warhorn

Game link

API

10556

“

0.75¾  

24

20

 

Wail of Doom

Screech a wail of doom in a cone pattern, inflicting fear on foes. (Does bonus defiance-bar damage to defiant foes.)

 Fear (1s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Bonus Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 600

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons and increases your strike damage for a short time.

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

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

• Banshee's Wail — Warhorn skills gain increased effect duration.

Soul Reaping

• Fear of Death — Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.

Reaper

• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill. Chill lasts longer.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Reduced the aftercast of this skill.
May 02, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 24 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 14, 2023	This skill is now unblockable. Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
June 28, 2022	This skill now inflicts 1 second of fear instead of 2 seconds of daze on enemies. This skill inflicts bonus defiance-bar damage on defiant enemies. (Undocumented) The skill is no longer unblockable and the activation time has been increased from 0.5 to 0.75 seconds.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
August 06, 2013	Increased the spell effect to better represent the actual spell area.
June 25, 2013	Added an unblockable skill fact.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Wail of Doom has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.