Death's Embrace/history

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May 11, 2021

  • Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
Death's Embrace.png

Death's Embrace

Specialization
Necromancer icon small.png Spite
Tier
Master
Type
Minor
Game link
10 Recharge time
Death's Embrace

Deal increased strike damage while downed. Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold.
Cannot apply vulnerability the same target more than once per interval.

Radius.png Health Threshold: 50%
Vulnerability.png5 Vulnerability (8s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage
Vulnerability.png5 Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage
Interval.png Interval: 10 seconds

— In-game description

February 25, 2020

  • Death's Embrace: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus damage while downed from 25% to 5%. Reduced vulnerability duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
Death's Embrace.png

Death's Embrace

Specialization
Necromancer icon small.png Spite
Tier
Master
Type
Minor
Game link
10 Recharge time
Death's Embrace

Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold. Deal more damage while downed.

Radius.png Health Threshold: 50%
Vulnerability.png5 Vulnerability (8s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage
Vulnerability.png5 Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

— In-game description

December 12, 2017

  • Death's Embrace: Increased vulnerability stacks from 1 to 5 and increased duration from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
    • Increased enemy health threshold from 33% to 50%.
    • Vulnerability can now only be applied to the same foe once every 10 seconds.
Death's Embrace.png

Death's Embrace

Specialization
Necromancer icon small.png Spite
Tier
Master
Type
Minor
Game link
10 Recharge time
Death's Embrace

Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold. Deal more damage while downed.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 25%
Radius.png Health Threshold: 50%
Vulnerability.png5 Vulnerability (8s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

— In-game description

June 23, 2015

  • Death's Embrace: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
    • This trait has been moved to the Master minor tier.
    • Reduced damage increase while downed to 25%.
    • Added: Striking foes below 33% health inflicts 1 stack of vulnerability for 5 seconds.
Death's Embrace.png

Death's Embrace

Specialization
Necromancer icon small.png Spite
Tier
Master
Type
Minor
Game link
Death's Embrace

Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold. Deal more damage while downed.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 25%
Radius.png Health Threshold: 33%
Vulnerability.png Vulnerability (5s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

— In-game description

Original version

Trait I.png

Death's Embrace

Specialization
Necromancer icon small.png Spite
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Death's Embrace

Deal more damage while downed.

Damage.png Damage increase: 50%

— In-game description