Corrupter's Fervor

Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold. — In-game description

Corrupter's Fervor

Specialization

Death Magic (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Corrupter's Fervor

Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

 Death's Carapace (10s): 20 Toughness

 Death's Carapace (10s): 10 Toughness

 Carapace Threshold: 25

 Interval: 3 seconds

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (10.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Rending Claws — Axe
•   Unholy Feast — Axe
•   Dark Pact — Dagger
•   Deathly Swarm — Dagger
•   Enfeebling Blood — Dagger
•   Blood Curse — Scepter
•   Rending Curse — Scepter
•   Putrid Curse — Scepter
•   Grasping Dead — Scepter
•   Devouring Darkness — Scepter
•   Feast of Corruption — Scepter
•   Deathly Enervation — Sword
•   Path of Gluttony — Sword
•   Gorge — Sword
•   Hungering Maelstrom — Sword
•   Gormandize — Sword
•   Devouring Visage — Sword
•   Consume — Sword
•   Soul Grasp — Focus
•   Spinal Shivers — Focus
•   Wail of Doom — Warhorn
•   Mark of Blood — Staff
•   Chillblains — Staff
•   Reaper's Mark — Staff
•   Sinister Stab — Spear
•   Wicked Spiral — Spear
•   Addle — Spear
•   Deadly Catch — Spear
•   Isolate — Spear
•   Dark Spear — Spear
•   Crimson Tide — Trident
•   Feast — Trident
•   Foul Current — Trident
•   Frozen Abyss — Trident
•   Chilling Scythe — Greatsword
•   Death Spiral — Greatsword
•   Nightfall — Greatsword
•   Grasping Darkness — Greatsword
•   Harrowing Wave — Torch
•   Oppressive Collapse — Torch
•   Vicious Shot — Pistol
•   Weeping Shots — Pistol
•   Vile Blast — Pistol

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dark Path — Death Shroud
•   Dark Water — Death Shroud
•   Doom — Death Shroud
•   Wave of Fear — Death Shroud
•   Gathering Plague — Death Shroud
•   Life Transfer — Death Shroud
•   Tainted Shackles — Death Shroud
•   Lich's Gaze — Lich Form
•   Ripple of Horror — Lich Form
•   Death's Charge — Reaper's Shroud
•   Terrify — Reaper's Shroud
•   Soul Spiral — Reaper's Shroud
•   Executioner's Scythe — Reaper's Shroud
•   Tainted Bolts — Harbinger Shroud
•   Dark Barrage — Harbinger Shroud
•   Devouring Cut — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Consume Conditions — Corruption
•   Sand Flare — Punishment
•   Elixir of Promise — Elixir

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blood Is Power — Corruption
•   Corrosive Poison Cloud — Corruption
•   Corrupt Boon — Corruption
•   Epidemic — Corruption
•   Summon Bone Fiend — Minion
•   Rigor Mortis
•   Necrotic Traversal
•   Haunt
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Spectral Grasp — Spectral
•   Spectral Ring — Spectral
•   Well of Corruption — Well
•   Well of Darkness — Well
•   Well of Suffering — Well
•   "Nothing Can Save You!" — Shout
•   "Suffer!" — Shout
•   "You Are All Weaklings!" — Shout
•   Desiccate — Punishment
•   Sand Swell — Punishment
•   Serpent Siphon — Punishment
•   Trail of Anguish — Punishment
•   Elixir of Anguish — Elixir
•   Elixir of Bliss — Elixir
•   Elixir of Ignorance — Elixir
•   Elixir of Risk — Elixir

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   Summon Flesh Golem — Minion
•   "Chilled to the Bone!" — Shout
•   Ghastly Breach — Punishment
•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Manifest Sand Shade — Shade
•   Garish Pillar — Shade
•   Desert Shroud — Shade, Shroud

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fear
•   Fetid Ground

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Death Curse

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dhuumfire — Dhuumfire
•   Dhuumfire — Dhuumfire
•   Lesser Enfeeble — Weakening Shroud
•   Lesser Mark of Blood — Mark of Evasion
•   Lesser Spinal Shivers — Chill of Death
•   Poison Nova — Death Nova
•   Spiteful Spirit — Spiteful Spirit
•   Chilling Nova — Chilling Nova
•   Sandstorm Shroud — Herald of Sorrow
•   Approaching Doom — Doom Approaches
•   Cascading Corruption — Cascading Corruption

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Death Magic

• Dark Defiance — If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
• Deadly Strength — Carapace stacks grant power and condition damage.
• Beyond the Veil — Take reduced condition damage while at or above the threshold of carapace stacks.

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.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.
• Death's Embrace — Deal increased strike damage while downed. Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold. Cannot apply vulnerability to the same target more than once per interval.

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Chilling Darkness — Blinding a target will also apply chill.
• Master of Corruption — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
• Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
• Weakening Shroud — Cast Lesser Enfeeble when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.

Soul Reaping

• Unyielding Blast — Shroud skill 1 inflicts vulnerability.
• Dhuumfire — Shroud skill 1 inflicts burning on your target.

Reaper

• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.
• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Scourge

• Sadistic Searing — Nefarious Favor now burns nearby enemy targets.
• 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.

Harbinger

• Septic Corruption — Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud 2 skill also inflicts poison.

Notes

• Conditions inflicted by minions will also trigger the effect.
• Does not trigger when spreading conditions with   Epidemic.
• Stacks of carapace are gained for each condition applied, including each stack, e.g.   Chillblains will cause you to gain 3 stacks of carapace per enemy hit.
• Stacks with  Putrid Defense, e.g. with both traits, Chillblains will cause you to gain 5 stacks of carapace per enemy hit.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 19, 2022	Reduced protection duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
October 01, 2019	This trait has been reworked. It now grants 1 Death's Carapace stack when applying any condition. Additionally, at 25 Death's Carapace stacks or above, the necromancer gains pulsing protection for 3 seconds every 3 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from functioning while downed. The toughness granted by this effect now scales with your effective level.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Corrupter's Fervor has been added to the game.