Life Blast

Shroud. Blast your foe with life force. — In-game description

Animation

Life Blast

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Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Death Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Game link

API

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This skill has an underwater replacement: Plague Blast

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Shroud. Blast your foe with life force.

  Damage: 372 (1.4)^?

  Damage: 306 (1.15)^?

  Number of Targets: 5

  Pierces

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Reaper's Might — Shroud skill 1 grants might.

Curses

• Plague Sending — Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.

Blood Magic

• Vampiric Presence — You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.

Soul Reaping

• Unyielding Blast — Shroud skill 1 inflicts vulnerability.
• Dhuumfire — Shroud skill 1 inflicts burning on your target.

Notes

• Attack speed is approximately 1.2 seconds per attack.
• Damage value is calculated with the weapon strength of the active weapon before shroud is activated. Wiki value assumes unequipped value of 690.5
• The trait Dhuumfire replaces this skill with the skill Dhuumfire.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.4 to 1.15.
October 02, 2018	Reduced the aftercast of this skill by 0.25 seconds.
July 26, 2016	The higher damage value of this skill is now dealt at all ranges rather than at close range only.
January 26, 2016	This skill now pierces by default.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Fixed a bug that caused the projectiles fired from these skills to not deal damage to the caster if they were reflected.
June 25, 2013	This skill now scales based on range instead of amount of life force. At more than 600 units, this skill's low value has been increased by 43%; at less than 600 units, this skill uses the old high value. Range has been increased to 1200.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Life Blast has been added to the game.