Voracious Arc

Leap to your destination, evading through the air. Daze enemies near your impact point. If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and torment struck foes. — In-game description

Voracious Arc

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Harbinger

Parent skill

  Harbinger Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

62539

This skill has an underwater replacement: Voracious Dive

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0.75¾  

10

18

 

Voracious Arc

Leap to your destination, evading through the air. Daze enemies near your impact point.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and torment struck foes.

 Damage: 372 (1.4)^?

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Daze: 0.5½ seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Blight Threshold: 5

When above Blight Threshold

 Damage Increase: 100%

₅ Torment (7s): 770 Damage, 1,113 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Plague Sending — Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
• 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.

Blood Magic

• Vampiric Presence — You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.
• Transfusion — Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies. Up to five nearby downed allies are teleported to you upon using shroud skill 4.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 26, 2023	Reduced torment duration from 10 seconds to 7 seconds in PvE only.
May 02, 2023	Reduced blight threshold from 10 to 5.
November 29, 2022	Fixed an issue that allowed this skill to be used multiple times consecutively. Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from striking enemies when the target point was in shallow water.
March 29, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 1.4 to 1.0 in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Voracious Arc has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Voracious Arc was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. Range decreased from 900 to 600. Additional functionality has been added to this skill; If you are at or above the Blight Threshold (10) on use, this skill removes 10 stacks of Blight, deals double damage, and applies 5 stacks of Torment for 10s to affected targets. Underwater functionality has been split into a new aquatic skill, Voracious Dive. Voracious Dive will shadowstep to the targeted enemy and is not an evade. In other respects, it is similar to Voracious Arc.
August 18, 2021	Fixed a bug in which this skill would have no cooldown under certain conditions.
August 17, 2021	Voracious Arc was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 1.