Necromancer : Specializations

Spite top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Reaper's Might		Shroud skill 1 grants might.
Spiteful Talisman		Deal increased strike damage to foes with no boons. Focus and axe skills recharge faster.
Spiteful Renewal	5	Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.
Bitter Chill		Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.
Tier: Master
Death's Embrace		Deal increased strike damage while downed. Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold. Cannot apply vulnerability to the same target more than once per interval.
Chill of Death		Cast Lesser Spinal Shivers on a foe when attacking them while their health is below the threshold.
Awaken the Pain		Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.
Signets of Suffering		Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.
Tier: Grandmaster
Siphoned Power	1	Gain might when you strike a foe below the health threshold.
Dread	1	Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.
Close to Death		Deal increased strike damage to enemies below the health threshold.
Spiteful Spirit		Strike around you when entering shroud.

Curses top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Barbed Precision		Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
Insidious Disruption		Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Plague Sending		Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
Chilling Darkness	3	Blinding a target will also apply chill.
Tier: Master
Furious Demise		Gain fury when entering shroud. Gain additional precision.
Master of Corruption		Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
Path of Corruption		Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
Parasitic Contagion		A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
Tier: Grandmaster
Target the Weak		Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
Weakening Shroud	10	Cast Lesser Enfeeble when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.
Terror		Fear you inflict deals damage each second.
Lingering Curse		Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

Death Magic top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Armored Shroud		Gain carapace when entering shroud.
Flesh of the Master		Minions have increased health. Gain carapace for each minion you control. Your minions are destroyed when this trait is reassigned.
Putrid Defense		Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.
Shrouded Removal		Lose a condition when you enter shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud. Gain carapace when removing conditions from yourself.
Tier: Master
Soul Comprehension		Your passive life-force generation from nearby deaths is increased. Kills grant carapace. When you enter shroud, gain life-force per stack of carapace.
Necromantic Corruption		Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. When a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target. There is a 10 second cooldown per minion.
Dark Defiance	35	If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
Deadly Strength		Carapace stacks grant power and condition damage.
Tier: Grandmaster
Beyond the Veil		Take reduced condition damage while at or above the threshold of carapace stacks.
Death Nova		When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
Corrupter's Fervor		Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.
Unholy Sanctuary	120	Regenerate health while in shroud. If your life force is above the threshold, your shroud will activate if you would take a lethal blow.

Blood Magic top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Mark of Evasion		Leave a Mark of Blood when you dodge.
Ritual of Life	30	Cast Lesser Well of Blood when reviving an ally. Wells of Blood revive allies every pulse.
Overflowing Thirst		Gain life force when you strike a foe with a dagger.
Blood Bond	16	Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism when you inflict bleeding on a foe that already has at least three stacks of bleeding.
Tier: Master
Vampiric		Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.
Life from Death		Heal allies in an area when you exit shroud. Increase healing to other allies.
Banshee's Wail		Warhorn skills gain increased effect duration.
Vampiric Presence		You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.
Tier: Grandmaster
Last Rites		As long as you are not downed, allies near you do not bleed out if they are downed. Gain healing power based on your current health.
Blood Bank		Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.
Unholy Martyr		Entering shroud transfers conditions from allies to you. Exiting shroud consumes conditions currently on you and converts them to life force.
Transfusion		Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies.

Soul Reaping top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Gluttony		Increases the amount of life force gained from all sources.
Unyielding Blast		Shroud skill 1 inflicts vulnerability.
Soul Marks		Marks become unblockable and generate life force when triggered.
Speed of Shadows		Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions.
Tier: Master
Sinister Shroud		Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.
Soul Barbs		Entering or exiting shroud increases all damage you deal for a duration.
Vital Persistence		Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.
Fear of Death	5	Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.
Tier: Grandmaster
Soul Battery		Maximum life force is increased.
Eternal Life		Gain life force every interval up to the threshold when not in shroud. Gain protection when you enter shroud.
Death Perception		Gain increased critical-strike chance. Gain increased critical-strike damage while in shroud.
Dhuumfire		Shroud skill 1 inflicts burning on your target.

Reaper Elite Specialization top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Shroud Knight		Death Shroud is replaced with Reaper's Shroud, which has more melee-oriented skills and consumes life force at a faster rate. Gain access to shouts.
Augury of Death		Shouts now siphon health. This effect is increased on foes in melee range.
Chilling Nova	10	Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.
Relentless Pursuit		Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Additional reduction while in reaper's shroud.
Tier: Master
Shivers of Dread		Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.
Soul Eater		Striking foes within the range threshold deals increased strike damage and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
Chilling Victory	1	Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
Decimate Defenses		Striking a foe with vulnerability increases your critical hit chance.
Tier: Grandmaster
Cold Shoulder		Chill lasts longer, and chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks.
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.
Deathly Chill		Chill deals damage over time.
Reaper's Onslaught		Gain ferocity and quickness while in Reaper's Shroud. Hitting with Life Reap reduces the recharge time of shroud skills. Recharge reduction can only occur once per use of Life Reap.

Scourge Elite Specialization top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Mantle of Sand		Gain the power to craft sand shadows and command them using your life force. Gain access to Punishment and Shade skills. Shade skills inherit the effects of traits that affect shroud skills.
Abrasive Grit		Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions afflicting them and grants might. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
Fell Beacon		Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
Nourishing Ashes	3	Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
Tier: Master
Sand Sage		Gain concentration and expertise when you have an active shade.
Feed from Corruption	1	When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.
Sadistic Searing		Nefarious Favor now burns nearby enemy targets.
Herald of Sorrow		Desert Shroud becomes Sandstorm Shroud.
Tier: Grandmaster
Blood as Sand		Reduce all incoming damage taken when you have a shade active.
Sand Savant		Summon only one shade at a time. This greater shade has a modified recharge. Influence a larger area with shade skills. A greater shade counts as three shades for related traits.
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.
Desert Empowerment		Manifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.

Harbinger Elite Specialization top

Trait		Description
Tier: Adept
Dark Disciple		Death Shroud is replaced with Harbinger Shroud, granting powerful offensive skills but leaving you vulnerable to attack. As you remain in Harbinger Shroud, you accumulate stacking Blight. Blight decreases your maximum health.
Wicked Corruption		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of blight you have. Critical strikes deal increased damage to targets with torment.
Bolstering Brew		Elixir skills grant protection.
Septic Corruption		Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud skill 2 also inflicts poison.
Tier: Master
Alchemic Vigor		Gain increased vitality. Heal each second for each stack of blight you have.
Implacable Foe		Gain stability and damage reduction when entering Harbinger Shroud. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.
Twisted Medicine		Elixir skills also grant their boons to allies within the elixir impact radius. Gain concentration based on your vitality.
Dark Gunslinger		Pistol skills gain reduced recharge. Gain expertise based on your vitality.
Tier: Grandmaster
Corrupted Talent		Gain life force when you enter Harbinger Shroud.
Cascading Corruption		Your power is increased. While in Harbinger Shroud, you gain an aura that pulses each interval to damage and cripple nearby enemies.
Deathly Haste		While in Harbinger Shroud, gain an aura that pulses each interval to grant boons to yourself and nearby allies.
Doom Approaches		Your condition damage is increased. While in Harbinger Shroud, you gain an aura that pulses each interval to torment and weaken nearby enemies.