Death Shroud/history

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March 30, 2022

  • Death Shroud: (PvP Only) Increased life force lost per second from 4% to 5%.

February 28, 2022

  • Death Shroud: Death Shroud now has a tooltip fact indicating that damage is reduced while in shroud. Damage reduction has been decreased from 50% to 33% in PvE only.
Death Shroud.png

Death Shroud

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shroud
Sequence
Death Shroud.png → End Death Shroud.png
Game link
10 Recharge time  
Death Shroud

Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.

— In-game description

November 30, 2021

  • Death Shroud: This skill no longer disables autoattack when activated or deactivated.

September 01, 2021

  • Death Shroud: Fixed an issue that caused strike damage reduction to stack additively with other sources instead of multiplicatively.

August 17, 2021

  • Death Shroud: Players may now use the mount key while in Death Shroud. Doing so will automatically deactivate Death Shroud.

April 28, 2020

  • Death Shroud: Increased the life force lost per second from 3% to 4% in PvP only.

July 16, 2019

  • Death Shroud: Fixed an issue in which the UI icon displayed while in shroud incorrectly used the icon for Dark Path.

September 22, 2017

  • Death Shroud: Added a 0.5-second delay on activation before being able to exit.

August 09, 2017

  • Death Shroud: The base drain of life force from being in death shroud has been reduced 25%.

October 23, 2015

  • Death Shroud: Shroud now counts as a weapon swap for the purposes of sigil upgrades that activate when swapping weapons.

November 04, 2014

  • Death Shroud: Reverted a change that caused this effect to incorrectly cancel abilities (such as stomping) when the necromancer's death shroud runs out.

October 21, 2014

September 30, 2014

  • Death Shroud: Leaving Death Shroud by running out of life force now engages the same cooldown as manually ending Death Shroud by using the End Death Shroud.

September 09, 2014

  • Death Shroud: Necromancers are now able to interact with NPCs and players while in this form.

July 01, 2014

April 15, 2014

  • Death Shroud: Fixed a bug that caused necromancer skills to be locked for 1 second after exiting death shroud.
    • Removed old text from this skill's description stating that entering Death Shroud removes spectral effects.
Death Shroud.png

Death Shroud

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Slot
Profession mechanic
Sequence
Death Shroud.png → End Death Shroud.png
Game link
10 Recharge time  
Death Shroud

Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.

— In-game description

July 23, 2013

  • Death Shroud: Damage taken while in death shroud will now overflow to the necromancer's health pool if the damage taken is greater than the remaining life force.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the necromancer to take increased damage from direct attacks while in death shroud.

June 25, 2013

March 26, 2013

  • Death Shroud: No longer uses a custom skill bar interface, thereby allowing players using Death Shroud to see buffs, health, and endurance.
    • The screen and sound effects are unchanged.

Original version

Death Shroud.png

Death Shroud

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Slot
Profession mechanic
Sequence
Death Shroud.png → End Death Shroud.png
Game link
10 Recharge time  
Death Shroud

Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health. Entering this form removes other spectral effects.

— In-game description