Fear of Death

Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force. — In-game description

Fear of Death

Specialization

Soul Reaping (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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5

Fear of Death

Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.

 Duration Increase: 100%

 Duration Increase: 50%

 Life Force: 15%

 Life Force: 7%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Devouring Visage — Sword
•   Wail of Doom — Warhorn
•   Reaper's Mark — Staff

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Doom — Death Shroud
•   Wave of Fear — Death Shroud
•   Ripple of Horror — Lich Form
•   Terrify — Reaper's Shroud

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Spectral Ring — Spectral

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Garish Pillar — Shade

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fear

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Death Curse

Related traits

•  Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
•  Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.
•  Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.

Notes

• The cooldown applies to the life force gain.
• Condition duration has a 100% cap. Therefore runes and expertise will not increase fear duration past 100%.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 28, 2020	Reduced life force gained from 15% to 7% in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus fear duration from 100% to 50%.
December 11, 2018	The fear-duration bonus of this trait has been increased to 100%. It no longer causes fear when the necromancer is in a downed state. Instead, it now grants 15% life force upon inflicting a foe with fear. This effect has a 5-second internal cooldown.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Master tier. Added: Fear duration is 50% longer.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fear of Death has been added to the game.