Necromancer : Skills

Weapon skills

Greatsword Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Dusk Strike	Chain	¾		Cleave foes in front of you.
	Fading Twilight	Chain	¾		Cleave foes in front of you again.
	Chilling Scythe	Chain	1		Strike foes and chill them. A successful strike reduces the recharge on Gravedigger.
	Gravedigger		1¼	8	Perform a huge swing that deals heavy damage. Recharges faster if it hits a downed or low-health foe.
	Death Spiral		1	10	Conjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
	Nightfall		½	20	Call down a growing column of shadows that damages and conditions foes every pulse.
	Grasping Darkness		¾	20	Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.

Spear Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Dark Slash	Chain	¾		Slash your foes with your spear.
	Deadly Slice	Chain	½		Slice foes in front of you with your spear.
	Sinister Stab	Chain	¾		Stab foes and chill them. Gain a soul shard if you strike a foe.
	Perforate		1	8	Attack foes in front of you with a series of strikes, consuming any active soul shards. Deal additional damage against foes below the health threshold.
	Addle		¼	12	Daze your target and gain life force and soul shards. If your target is using a skill, the daze duration is extended and you gain additional life force and soul shards. If you have a number of soul shards above the threshold when you activate this skill, your target is also immobilized.
	Isolate		½	15	Throw a spear at your target. If it strikes a foe, it inflicts conditions and you may reactivate to teleport to that foe. This skill recharges when exiting death shroud.
	Distress				Teleport to the foe marked by Isolate, recharge Perforate, and gain soul shards. Gain additional soul shards if there are no other enemies nearby.
	Extirpate		1	20	Perform a wide swing that removes boons from foes. Gain soul shards and might for each target struck.

Staff Twohands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Necrotic Grasp		¾		Send out a grasping hand that damages foes in a line and grants you life force.
	Mark of Blood	Mark	¾	4¾	Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies.
	Chillblains	Mark	¾	16	Inscribe a mark that inflicts chill and poison on foes when triggered.
	Putrid Mark	Mark	¾	20	Inscribe a mark that damages enemies and transfers your conditions to them when triggered.
	Reaper's Mark	Mark	¾	32	Inscribe a mark that inflicts fear on foes when triggered.

Axe Main hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Rending Claws		1		Slash your foe twice with ghostly claws to make them vulnerable. Vulnerability applied increases against foes below the health threshold.
	Ghastly Claws		1¾	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.
	Unholy Feast		1	12	Cripple nearby foes and remove their boons. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold.
	Unholy Burst				Invoke an explosion of dark energy at the target foe's location, damaging nearby foes.

Dagger Both hands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Necrotic Slash	Chain			Slash your foe twice.
	Necrotic Stab	Chain			Strike your foe again.
	Necrotic Bite		¼		Strike your foe and gain life force.
	Life Siphon		1¾	8	Siphon health from your foe. Healing effectiveness increases if you are bleeding. Damage increases if your foe is bleeding.
	Dark Pact		1	15	Bleed yourself. Immobilize your foe and remove their boons. Gain life force for each boon removed.
	Deathly Swarm		½	18	Unleash an insect swarm to blind and transfer conditions to your enemies.
	Enfeebling Blood		¾	18	Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area.

Pistol Main hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Vicious Shot		½		Fire a tormenting bullet that bounces between nearby foes.
	Weeping Shots		1¼	8	Pierce your enemies with a series of corrosive bullets, inflicting torment and vulnerability. Gain life force for the first target hit by each bullet.
	Vile Blast		¾	18	Fire a dart that shatters on impact, releasing noxious liquid that stuns, weakens, and poisons foes in the area. Gain life force for each target struck.

Scepter Main hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Blood Curse	Chain	½		Bleed your foe.
	Rending Curse	Chain	½		Bleed your foe.
	Putrid Curse	Chain	½		Poison and bleed your foe.
	Grasping Dead		¾	10	Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.
	Feast of Corruption		¾	12	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.

Sword Both hands top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Enervation Blade	Chain			Fire a wide piercing projectile from your blade. Heal if a target is struck. Healing is reduced for each target beyond the first.
	Enervation Echo	Chain	½		Fire another wide piercing projectile from your blade.
	Deathly Enervation	Chain	¾		Fire an even wider piercing projectile that inflicts chill.
	Ravenous Wave		¼	8	Send a wave of necrotic energy cascading toward your target. Gain life force if you hit an enemy. Reactivate this skill to inflict additional damage on all targets hit by the wave.
	Satiate		½		Sacrifice health to inflict additional damage on all targets hit by the wave, dealing additional damage to targets below the health threshold.
	Path of Gluttony		¾	16	Dash forward, releasing dark energy on nearby targets. Damage enemies hit and heal per target hit with reduced healing beyond the first. This skill can be reactivated to dash again.
	Gorge		¾		Sacrifice health to dash again. Corrupt boons on enemies struck.
	Hungering Maelstrom		¾	20	Create a dark maelstrom that deals damage, inflicts vulnerability, and steals health. Reactivate this skill to inflict additional damage and conditions on all targets hit by the maelstrom.
	Gormandize		½		Sacrifice health to inflict additional damage and conditions on all targets hit by the maelstrom.
	Devouring Visage		¾	25	Fire an orb of death magic that explodes on impact, inflicting fear on enemies. Gain life force for each target struck. Reactivate this skill to drain the strength of all enemies struck by the explosion.
	Consume		½		Sacrifice health to drain the strength of your enemies, inflicting weakness while granting might to yourself for each target affected.

Focus Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Soul Grasp		½	3	Release a disembodied hand to draw life force from your foe.
	Spinal Shivers		1	20	Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.

Torch Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Harrowing Wave		½	20	Unleash a wave of corrupted fire, burning and tormenting enemies. Gain life force for each enemy struck.
	Oppressive Collapse		¾	25	Corrupt the ground under your target; if they remain within the area, they will be knocked down. Grant might to allies near your target based on how many conditions they have.

Warhorn Off hand top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Wail of Doom		¾	20	Screech a wail of doom in a cone pattern, inflicting fear on foes. (Does bonus defiance-bar damage to defiant foes.)
	Locust Swarm		½	24	Grant swiftness to allies and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.

Spear Aquatic top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Cruel Strike	Chain	½		Stab your foe.
	Wicked Strike	Chain	¾		Strike your foe again.
	Reaper's Scythe		¾		Reap life force from nearby foes.
	Wicked Spiral		1¾	8	Spin multiple times, dealing damage and applying vulnerability to each foe struck.
	Deadly Feast		½	15	Gain swiftness and summon a swarm of vampiric shrimp that siphon health from nearby foes.
	Deadly Catch		¾	25	Whirl around, throwing spears that cripple foes and pull them to you.
	Dark Spear		½	25	Throw your spear and shadowstep to the first target it hits, delivering a rending strike in the area around you.

Trident Aquatic top

	Skill	Type			Description
	Crimson Tide		¾		Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.
	Feast		½	10	Weaken and damage foes around you. Gain life force per foe struck. Fire a Crimson Tide at each enemy in the area.
	Crimson Tide		¾		Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.
	Foul Current		1¾	12	Dart at your foe and strike them with tremendous force, inflicting poison based on distance traveled. You constantly release Crimson Tide toward your target as you travel.
	Crimson Tide		¾		Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.
	Sinking Tomb		½	20	Entomb your foe, making them sink. Fire Crimson Tide at your target multiple times.
	Crimson Tide		¾		Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.
	Frozen Abyss		2	25	Create a continually expanding field near you that applies chill and vulnerability to enemies and deals damage when it ends. Fire Crimson Tide on each pulse at enemies within the maximum range.
	Crimson Tide		¾		Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.

Healing skills top

Skill	Type				Description
Consume Conditions	Corruption		1¼	25	Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. You become vulnerable.
Summon Blood Fiend	Minion		1½	16	Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.
Taste of Death			¾		Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself.
Signet of Vampirism	Signet		¾	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.
Well of Blood	Well		1	30	Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.
Reaper
"Your Soul Is Mine!"	Shout		¾	16	Heal yourself, gain life force, and strike foes around you, absorbing additional life force from each foe struck. Deal additional damage and gain bonus life force when striking foes in melee range.
Scourge
Sand Flare	Punishment		¾	30	Gain barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment.
Harbinger
Elixir of Promise	Elixir		½	20	Infuse an elixir with the promise of good health, healing yourself and gaining regeneration, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, poisoning foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double damage and condition duration.

Utility skills top

Skill	Type				Description
Blood Is Power	Corruption		¾	1	Bleed yourself to grant might to allies around you and bleed your target.
Corrosive Poison Cloud	Corruption		½	30	Weaken yourself and envelope the target area in a noxious cloud that blocks enemy missiles and poisons foes and leaves them weakened.
Corrupt Boon	Corruption		½	30	Poison yourself. Transform boons on your foe into negative conditions.
Epidemic	Corruption		1	20	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		1½	24	Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds.
Rigor Mortis				50	Immobilize your bone fiend, and it will immobilize foes.
Summon Bone Minions	Minion		1½	16	Summon two bone minions.
Putrid Explosion				1	Explode a bone minion.
Summon Flesh Wurm	Minion		1½	40	Summon an immobile flesh wurm to attack foes.
Necrotic Traversal					Sacrifice your flesh wurm, teleport to it, and poison foes.
Summon Shadow Fiend	Minion		1½	24	Summon a shadow fiend to attack foes.
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		¾	30	Signet Passive: Improves power. Signet Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness on your foe.
Signet of the Locust	Signet		¾	20	Signet Passive: Your movement speed is increased. Signet Active: Strike and remove boons from nearby foes. Heal for each foe you strike and for each boon removed.
Signet of Undeath	Signet		1½	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			30	Gain life force as you take damage.
Spectral Grasp	Spectral		½	35	Pull target foe and all nearby foes to you, chill them, and gain life force.
Spectral Ring	Spectral		¼	40	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.
Spectral Walk	Spectral			50	Create a shadowy tether and become spectral, consuming conditions for life force. You may return to your initial position by using Spectral Recall.
Spectral Recall					Return to the point where Spectral Walk began.
Well of Corruption	Well		¼	32	Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions.
Well of Darkness	Well		¼	35	Target area pulses, blinding foes with each pulse.
Well of Power	Well		¼	30	Target area pulses, converting conditions on allies into boons and granting might.
Well of Suffering	Well		¼	25	Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.
Reaper
"Nothing Can Save You!"	Shout		½	24	Damage foes around you, converting their boons into vulnerability. Your next few attacks become unblockable. Deal additional damage and gain additional unblockable attacks when striking foes within melee range.
"Rise!"	Shout			40	Damage foes around you. Summon a shambling horror plus additional horrors near each enemy struck. Deal additional damage and summon a second horror when striking foes within melee range. Shambling horrors absorb damage for their master as long as they are attacking.
"Suffer!"	Shout			20	Damage foes around you and chill them. Transfer conditions to each foe you strike.
"You Are All Weaklings!"	Shout			20	Damage foes around you and gain boons. Inflict conditions on struck foes, and gain boons per foe struck. Deal additional damage and gain additional boons when striking foes within melee range.
Scourge
Desiccate	Punishment		¾	16	Draw vital energy from your foes to gain life force and grant boons to nearby allies. Gain additional life force per target struck. Convert a boon on affected enemies to torment.
Sand Swell	Punishment		1	35	Plunge into the ground, creating a portal through Tyria for allied use. Grant allies using this passage a health barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment.
Serpent Siphon	Punishment		½	20	Unleash a ghostly serpent toward a targeted area. Upon arriving, the serpent will burst into sand, granting barrier and boons to nearby allies and poisoning enemies. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment.
Trail of Anguish	Punishment			40	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.
Harbinger
Elixir of Anguish	Elixir		½	25	Infuse the magical essence of anguish into an elixir, gaining swiftness and quickness, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting cripple on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.
Elixir of Bliss	Elixir		½	25	Infuse the magical essence of bliss into an elixir, gaining resolution and converting conditions on yourself into life force, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, corrupting a boon on targets into a condition. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and corrupt an additional boon on targets.
Elixir of Ignorance	Elixir		½	24	Infuse the magical essence of ignorance into an elixir, gaining resistance and protection and breaking stuns, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting blindness on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.
Elixir of Risk	Elixir		½	20	Infuse the magical essence of risk into an elixir, gaining might and fury, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting weakness on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.

Elite skills top

Skill	Type				Description
Plaguelands	Corruption		1	120	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		1½	48	Summon a flesh golem to attack foes with crippling claws.
Charge			¾	30	Command your flesh golem to gain stability and charge a foe, knocking down or launching enemies in its path.
Lich Form	Spectral		1	150	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.
Reaper
"Chilled to the Bone!"	Shout		1¼	48	Freeze all enemies around you, inflicting conditions on them. Gain boons for each foe you freeze. Deal additional damage and increased stun duration and gain additional boons when striking foes in melee range.
Scourge
Ghastly Breach	Punishment		¾	72	Breach into the realm of torment for a brief time, granting might to allies and slowing enemies. Convert a boon on enemies into torment each pulse.
Harbinger
Elixir of Ambition	Elixir		½	72	Infuse your boundless ambition into an elixir, gaining every possible boon, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting all damaging conditions on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.

Downed and drowning skills top

	Skill	Type			Description
Downed skills
	Life Leech		6¼		Leech a foe's health to heal yourself.
	Fear		1¼	10	Make your foe flee in fear.
	Fetid Ground		¼	20	Create fetid ground that damages and poisons foes.
	Bandage		49¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.
Drowning skills
	Life Leech		2		Leech health from a foe to heal yourself.
	Feeding Frenzy		½	5	Summon a school of undead fish to swarm your foe.
	Death Curse		½	20	Poison your foe and make them flee in fear.
	Bandage		49¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.

Auxiliary skillbars top

Lich Form

	Skill	Type			Description
	Deathly Claws		¾		Send out grasping claws to damage your foes.
	Lich's Gaze		¼		Fire a debilitating projectile at a random nearby target.
	Ripple of Horror		¼	15	Launch a wave that terrorizes foes it hits. You may activate March of Undeath to shadowstep to the wave.
	March of Undeath			12	Shadowstep to your Ripple of Horror, destroying it.
	Summon Madness	Minion	1½	30	Repeatedly summon minions that explode after a period of time if they are not killed.
	Grim Specter		¾	30	Siphon health from nearby enemies over time, gaining vitality each time you hit an enemy. Players struck by this ability lose equivalent vitality.