Death Drop

Drop from above, delivering a massive strike on the focused area. — In-game description

Death Drop

Profession

Revenant (trait skill list)

Specialization

Vindicator

Trait

 Forerunner of Death

Game link

API

62693

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Death Drop

Drop from above, delivering a massive strike on the focused area.

 Damage: 1,117 (4.2)^?

 Damage: 590 (2.22)^?

 Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

₅ Vulnerability (10s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 Forerunner of Death (10s): +25% Damage

 Forerunner of Death (10s): +15% Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Corruption

• Pact of Pain — Conditions you apply to foes last longer, but conditions applied to you also last longer.

Devastation

• Targeted Destruction — Deal increased strike damage to targets based on their vulnerability stacks.
• Dance of Death — Applying vulnerability to foes grants stacks of Battle Scars. The healing from Battle Scars is increased while you are below the health threshold.

Vindicator

• Forerunner of Death — Dodging now deals more damage but affects a smaller area. Outgoing strike damage is increased for a period of time upon impact.

Notes

• The effect is applied after the strike is delivered

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 15, 2025	Forerunner of Death: Increased the power coefficient of Death Drop from 3.75 to 4.2 in PvE only. Guild Wars 2 Wiki note: Affects the trait skill Death Drop.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.335 to 0.75 in PvP only.
September 26, 2023	Increased damage bonus from 15% to 25% in PvE only.
May 02, 2023	Increased power coefficient from 3.0 to 3.75 in PvE only.
October 04, 2022	(Undocumented) Reduced duration of Forerunner of Death effect from 15 seconds to 10 seconds in all game modes.
March 15, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 2.67 to 2.22 in WvW only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Death Drop has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Death Drop was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. Damage dealt has been increased by 66% in PvE only. Wiki notes: tooltip is unchanged
September 21, 2021	Death Drop was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 2.