Dark Pact

Bleed yourself. Immobilize your foe and remove their boons. Gain life force for each boon removed. — In-game description

Dark Pact

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Game link

API

10529

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Dark Pact

Bleed yourself. Immobilize your foe and remove their boons. Gain life force for each boon removed.

 Damage: 880 (2.4)^?

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Immobilize (6s): Unable to move.

 Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

₂ Bleeding (10s): 440 Damage

₂ Self-Bleeding (10s): 440 Damage

 Life Force: 5%

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 3

 Boons Removed: 3

 Boons Removed: 2

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• 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

• Overflowing Thirst — Gain life force when you strike a foe with a dagger.

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.

Notes

• Boons are converted as follows:

Boon	Condition
Aegis	Burning (1 stack, 3 s)
Alacrity	Chilled (3 s)
Fury	Blinded (5 s)
Might	Weakness (5 s)
Protection	Vulnerability (3 stacks, 8 s)
Quickness	Slow (3 s)
Regeneration	Poisoned (6s)
Resistance	Chilled (3 s)
Resolution	Confusion (3 stacks, 5 s)
Stability	Fear (1 s)
Swiftness	Crippled (10 s)
Vigor	Bleeding (2 stacks, 8 s)

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	This skill now also inflicts bleeding on the target and grants life force to the caster for each boon removed. This skill now removes boons instead of corrupting them in PvP and WvW. Increased the number of boons removed from 1 to 3 in PvP, 1 to 2 in WvW, and 2 to 3 in PvE.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds. Damage multiplier increased from 1.2 to 2.4. Immobilize duration increased from 3 seconds to 6 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced number of boons corrupted from 2 to 1.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use a 15-second cooldown instead of the 25- and 20-second cooldowns it previously used.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill has been unsplit from PvP and now uses the higher damage value in all game modes.
June 20, 2017	The damage of this skill has been increased by 33% in PvP only.
May 16, 2017	Increased damage by 20%. Now inflicts 2 stacks of bleeding on you for 10 seconds.
January 26, 2016	This skill now also converts up to 2 boons into conditions along with its innate effects.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Dark Pact has been added to the game.

Trivia

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