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. — In-game description

Blighter's Boon

Specialization

Reaper (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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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.

 Healing: 85 (0.03)^?

 Life Force: 1%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Unholy Feast — Axe
•   Dark Pact — Dagger
•   Devouring Darkness — Scepter
•   Feast of Corruption — Scepter
•   Gorge — Sword
•   Consume — Sword
•   Spinal Shivers — Focus
•   Locust Swarm — Warhorn
•   Mark of Blood — Staff
•   Deadly Feast — Spear
•   Nightfall — Greatsword

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Infusing Terror — Reaper's Shroud

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Well of Blood — Well

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blood Is Power — Corruption
•   Corrupt Boon — Corruption
•   Signet of the Locust — Signet
•   Spectral Armor — Spectral
•   Spectral Ring — Spectral
•   Spectral Walk — Spectral
•   Well of Corruption — Well
•   Well of Power — Well
•   "Nothing Can Save You!" — Shout
•   "You Are All Weaklings!" — Shout

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lich Form — Spectral
•   "Chilled to the Bone!" — Shout

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Mark of Blood — Mark of Evasion
•   Lesser Spinal Shivers — Chill of Death
•   Lesser Well of Blood — Ritual of Life
•   Spiteful Spirit — Spiteful Spirit

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Blood Magic

• Blood Bank — Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.

Soul Reaping

• Vital Persistence — Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Spite

• Reaper's Might — Shroud skill 1 grants might.
• Signets of Suffering — Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.
• Siphoned Power — Gain might when you strike a foe below the health threshold.
• Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.

Curses

• Furious Demise — Gain fury when entering shroud. Gain additional precision.
• Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.

Death Magic

• Dark Defiance — 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.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Soul Reaping

• Speed of Shadows — Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions.
• Eternal Life — Gain life force every interval up to the threshold when not in shroud. Gain protection when you enter shroud.

Reaper

• Chilling Victory — Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
• 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.

Notes

Anomaly:

Trait description not updated to reflect updated functionality.

•  Might and  Stability will activate this trait per stack granted.
• Applying a boon already on you will activate this trait.
• This is affected by boons granted by Relics and Sigils.
• Will only activate while in combat.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	This trait now always heals and grants life force regardless of whether the necromancer is in a shroud form. Reduced the base healing from 197 to 85.
February 14, 2023	This trait now also triggers when removing a boon from an enemy.
October 27, 2015	This trait now only procs for boons you apply to yourself. Increased healing level multiplier by 25%, increased healing attribute multiplier by 330%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Blighter's Boon has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This is likely a play on  Smiter's Boon, which gained notoriety in the original Guild Wars for being nerfed to the point of becoming unusable.