Lingering Curse

Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness. — In-game description

Lingering Curse

Specialization

Curses (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Lingering Curse

Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

 Condition Damage: +200

 Duration Increase: 50%

— In-game description

Notes

• Only the base durations are increased, thus not counting towards the maximum condition duration.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 17, 2021	The bonus condition damage granted by this trait now applies with any weapon, not only scepter.
August 28, 2018	The condition damage gained from this trait has been increased from 150 to 200. This trait also changes Feast of Corruption into a new, area-affecting version called Devouring Darkness.
September 29, 2015	Decreased effectiveness of the condition-duration extension to 50%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Added: Gain 150 condition damage while wielding a scepter. Duration increase for scepter conditions has been increased to 100%.
October 15, 2013	This trait will no longer increase the duration of blind on the Deathly Swarm.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lingering Curse has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this trait.