Ghastly Breach

Punishment. Breach into the realm of torment for a brief time, granting might to allies and slowing enemies. Convert a boon on enemies into torment each pulse. — In-game description

Ghastly Breach

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Elite

Type

Punishment

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

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Punishment. Breach into the realm of torment for a brief time, granting might to allies and slowing enemies. Convert a boon on enemies into torment each pulse.

  Damage (5x): 930 (3.5)^?

 ₃ Torment (8s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 ₃ Might per Pulse (6s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

  Slow per Pulse (2s): Skills and actions are slower.

  Slow per Pulse (1s): Skills and actions are slower.

  Burning (2s): 262 Damage

  Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

  Pulses: 5

  Interval: 1 second

  Radius: 300

  Combo Field: Dark

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.

Curses

• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Scourge

• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Sadistic Searing — Punishment skills gain reduced recharge and cause your next Manifest Sand Shade to inflict burning on foes near it.
• Demonic Lore — Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain that boon.

Notes

• Applies  Burning every pulse.
• The Scourge may occasionally shout one of these lines when using Ghastly Breach:

Behold! The nightmare realm!

Sanity is but a mirage!

Torment beckons!

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Punishment skills no longer inflict crippled when removing a boon. Increased number of torment stacks applied when removing a boon from 1 to 3.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced slow duration from 2 seconds to 1 second.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 75 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	Punishment Skills: The torment durations of this skill category have been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. The cripple duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Ghastly Breach has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The Realm of Torment is a realm in the Mists featured in Guild Wars: Nightfall.