Doom

Shroud. Inflict fear on your foe. — In-game description

Animation

Doom

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Death Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Game link

API

10588

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This skill has an underwater replacement: Wave of Fear

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0.75¾  20  

Doom

Shroud. Inflict fear on your foe.

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Fear (2s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.

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.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

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.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.
• Fear of Death — Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.

Reaper

• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.

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Notes

• Damage value is calculated with the weapon strength of the active weapon before shroud is activated. Wiki value assumes unequipped value of 690.5

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This skill now has a casting time and inflicts fear on your foe at 0.64 seconds. The fear duration has been increased from 1 second at a distance (1.5 seconds at close proximity) to 2 seconds on successful hit regardless of distance.
July 01, 2014	Updated the fear skill fact to scale correctly with Master of Terror.
August 06, 2013	Added an effect that plays on the necromancer when this skill is used.
June 25, 2013	This skill now scales based on range. If more than 600 units, it will apply 1 second of fear; If less than 600 units, it will apply 1.5 seconds of fear. This ability now lists the damage it deals to enemy targets.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Doom has been added to the game.

Trivia

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