Ghastly Breach

Punishment. 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. — In-game description

Ghastly Breach

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Elite

Type

Punishment

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

42355

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Ghastly Breach

Punishment. 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.

 Damage (5x): 930 (3.5)^?

₃ Torment (8s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

₂ Might per Pulse (6s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

 Slow per Pulse (2s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Slow per Pulse (1s): Skills and actions are slower.

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

 Pulses: 5

 Pulses: 4

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 300

 Combo Field: Dark

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.

Curses

• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

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

Scourge

• Fell Beacon — Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.
• 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.

Notes

• Applies  Burning every pulse.
• The Scourge may occasionally shout one of these lines when using Ghastly Breach:

Behold! The nightmare realm!

Sanity is but a mirage!

Torment beckons!

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 75 seconds to 60 seconds in PvE and from 90 seconds to 72 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced duration from 4 to 3 seconds in WvW only.
October 04, 2022	Punishment skills no longer inflict crippled when removing a boon. Increased number of torment stacks applied when removing a boon from 1 to 3.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced slow duration from 2 seconds to 1 second.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 75 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	Punishment Skills: The torment durations of this skill category have been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. The cripple duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Ghastly Breach has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The Realm of Torment is a realm in the Mists featured in Guild Wars: Nightfall.