Signets of Suffering

Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first. — In-game description

Signets of Suffering

Specialization

Spite (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Signets of Suffering

Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.

 Life Siphon Damage: 1,419 (?)^?

 Life Siphon Damage: 656 (?)^?

 First-Hit Life Siphon Healing: 1,413 (0.2)^?

 First-Hit Life Siphon Healing: 645 (?)^?

 Additional-Hit Healing: 237 (0.01)^?

 Additional-Hit Healing: 108 (?)^?

 Boons Removed: 2

 Boons Removed: 1

— In-game description

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Reaper

• 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.

Scourge

• 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.

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Signet of Vampirism — Signet

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Plague Signet — Signet
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Signet of Undeath — Signet
•   Signet of the Locust — Signet

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Signet of Vampirism — Blood Bond

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	This trait now also causes signet skills to steal life from enemies they strike.
June 27, 2023	This trait has been reworked and causes signet skills to remove boons from affected foes.
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
July 07, 2020	This trait has been moved to the master tier and replaces Dread. The enhanced signet effect now only activates when in shroud. The enhanced effect for Signet of the Locust has changed to be a 33% movement speed bonus. The enhanced effect for Signet of Vampirism has changed to increase the number of targets to 2 for the passive life siphon.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Fixed a bug in which this trait affected the cooldown of Signet of Undeath more than the 4% listed while in Death Shroud.
November 07, 2017	This trait now grants the passives for all equipped signets while in shroud, regardless of whether those signets were on recharge prior to entering shroud. Removed 20% recharge reduction. This trait now causes all signets to recharge by 4% each second that shroud is active.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait has been reworked to have the following functionality: Signets have a 20% reduced recharge and their passive abilities are improved. Signet passive effects are preserved while in a shroud. Signet of Vampirism: Healing when struck has been increased by approximately 50%. Plague Signet: The number of conditions drawn per interval has been increased from 1 to 2. Signet of Spite: Increased Power to 270 at level 80. Signet of the Locust: Grants an additional 180 Healing Power at level 80. Signet of Undeath: Life-force gain per interval has been increased from 2% to 3%.
December 15, 2015	Fixed an issue that caused this trait to convert boons at infinite range when used with Signet of Vampirism.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This trait will now only grant might when a signet is successfully cast.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signets of Suffering has been added to the game.