Gaze of Darkness

Legendary Dragon. Consume. Consume Facet of Darkness to reveal the area around you, pulling foes out of stealth and blinding them. — In-game description

Gaze of Darkness

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Specialization

Herald

Slot

Utility

Type

Legendary Dragon, Consume

Sequence

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Game link

API

27080

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Gaze of Darkness

Legendary Dragon. Consume. Consume Facet of Darkness to reveal the area around you, pulling foes out of stealth and blinding them.

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Revealed (5s): You cannot stealth

₁₀ Vulnerability (6s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 600

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

Corruption

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

Salvation

• Words of Censure — Blinding, immobilizing, or affecting a foe with crowd control heals nearby allies. Skills that strike many foes at the same time can heal multiple times.
• Generous Abundance — Heal allies around yourself when using a Legend skill. Heal allies around Ventari's Tablet when using a Legendary Centaur skill. Dragon Facet skills and Ventari's Will cannot activate this trait.

Invocation

• Glaring Resolve — Gain stability and heal yourself when you break stuns.
• Contained Temper — Gain energy when you break stun.

Devastation

• Notoriety — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when using a legendary stance skill.
• 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.

Herald

• Shining Aspects — Using a consume skill heals you.
• Draconic Echo — You retain your facet passives for a duration after using their consume skills. Your facet passives grant additional bonuses.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds.
October 15, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from inflicting vulnerability and blindness on visible enemies.
October 01, 2019	This skill now reveals stealth [sic] enemies up to a range of 600, inflicting blindness and vulnerability.
August 28, 2018	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE and WvW. This skill is now labeled as a consume skill.
December 12, 2017	Energy Drain Skills: All skills that cancel energy-drain skills have been modified to be usable in midair.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Gaze of Darkness has been added to the game.