List of necromancer skills

This is a list of core necromancer skills. For additional skills available to necromancer's elite specializations, see:

• List of reaper skills
• List of scourge skills
• List of harbinger skills

Note that after you've unlocked Weaponmaster Training, you can use all weapons that are normally tied to an elite specialization even if you don't have it active.

Profession mechanic

Death Shroud is the necromancer's profession mechanic, occupying the F1 slot above the skill bar. Activating Death Shroud will transform you into a phantasmal state with special skills, where your accumulated life force takes the place of health but slowly depletes over time.

#	Skill			Description
F1	Death Shroud		10	Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
F1	End Death Shroud			Leave Death Shroud and return to your normal form.
Death Shroud (Terrestrial)
1	Life Blast	1		Shroud. Blast your foe with life force.
2	Dark Path	0.75¾	8	Shroud. Send out a claw. If it hits a foe, it inflicts bleeding and chill on nearby foes and you may cast Dark Pursuit to shadowstep to the initial target.
2	Dark Pursuit			Shadowstep to the foe marked by Dark Path.
3	Doom	0.75¾	20	Shroud. Inflict fear on your foe.
4	Life Transfer	30.5½	20	Shroud. Damage nearby foes and steal their life force.
5	Tainted Shackles	0.25¼	25	Shroud. Begin binding nearby enemies with your life force, pulsing out conditions; they can break this binding if they get far enough away from you. Bound foes are immobilized if the binding finishes.
Death Shroud (Aquatic)
1	Plague Blast	0.5½		Blast a foe with a plague that transfers one condition to them.
2	Dark Water	0.5½	8	Blind and poison foes near your target with a dark cloud.
3	Wave of Fear	0.5½	20	Terrify all foes in front of you with a wave of fear.
4	Gathering Plague	10.25¼	25	Draw conditions from nearby allies to yourself, and inflict weakness on yourself.
5	Tainted Shackles	0.25¼	25	Shroud. Begin binding nearby enemies with your life force, pulsing out conditions; they can break this binding if they get far enough away from you. Bound foes are immobilized if the binding finishes.

Weapon skills

Two-handed

#	Skill			Description
Staff
1	Necrotic Grasp	0.75¾		Send out a grasping hand that damages foes in a line and grants you life force.
2	Mark of Blood	0.75¾	40.75¾	Mark. Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies.
3	Chillblains	0.75¾	12	Mark. Inscribe a mark that inflicts chill and poison on foes when triggered.
4	Putrid Mark	0.75¾	15	Mark. Inscribe a mark that damages enemies and transfers your conditions to them when triggered.
5	Reaper's Mark	0.75¾	18	Mark. Inscribe a mark that inflicts fear on foes when triggered.
Greatsword		(requires Weaponmaster Training or Reaper)
1	Dusk Strike	0.75¾		Chain. Cleave foes in front of you.
1	Fading Twilight	0.75¾		Chain. Cleave foes in front of you again.
1	Chilling Scythe	1		Chain. Strike foes, and chill them. A successful strike reduces the recharge on Gravedigger.
2	Gravedigger	10.25¼	8	Perform a huge swing that deals heavy damage. Recharges faster if it hits a downed or low-health foe.
3	Death Spiral	1	10	Conjure a drill of dark energy on your blade, and rend the armor of foes in front of you.
4	Nightfall	0.5½	20	Call down a growing column of shadows that damages and conditions foes every pulse.
5	Grasping Darkness	0.75¾	25	Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
Spear		(requires Lowland Spear Training or Lowland Spear Unlock)
1	Dark Slash	0.75¾		Chain. Slash your foes with your spear.
1	Deadly Slice	0.5½		Chain. Slice foes in front of you with your spear.
1	Sinister Stab	0.75¾		Stab foes and chill them. Gain a soul shard if you strike a foe.
2	Perforate	1	8	Attack foes in front of you with a series of strikes, consuming any active soul shards. Deal additional damage against foes below the health threshold.
3	Addle	0.25¼	12	Daze your target and gain life force and soul shards. If your target is using a skill, the daze duration is extended and you gain additional life force and soul shards. If you have a number of soul shards above the threshold when you activate this skill, your target is also immobilized.
4	Isolate	0.5½	18	Throw a spear at your target. If it strikes a foe, it inflicts conditions and you may reactivate to teleport to that foe. This skill recharges when exiting death shroud.
4	Distress			Teleport to the foe marked by Isolate, recharge Perforate, and gain soul shards. Gain additional soul shards if there are no other enemies nearby.
5	Extirpate	1	20	Perform a wide swing that removes boons from foes. Gain soul shards and might for each target struck.

Main-hand only

#	Skill			Description
Axe
1	Rending Claws	1		Slash your foe twice with ghostly claws to make them vulnerable. Vulnerability applied increases against foes below the health threshold.
2	Ghastly Claws	10.75¾	8	Summon spectral claws to slash your foe in a quick flurry of strikes, gaining life force per strike. This attack deals increased damage per stack of vulnerability on your target.
3	Unholy Feast	1	12	Cripple nearby foes and remove their boons. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold.
Scepter
1	Blood Curse	0.5½		Chain. Bleed your foe.
1	Rending Curse	0.5½		Chain. Bleed your foe.
1	Putrid Curse	0.5½		Chain. Poison and bleed your foe.
2	Grasping Dead	0.75¾	10	Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.
3	Feast of Corruption	0.75¾	10	Strike your target, gain life force, and corrupt boons on your foe. For each condition on your target up to the condition threshold, gain additional life force and inflict torment.
Pistol		(requires Weaponmaster Training or Harbinger)
1	Vicious Shot	0.5½		Fire a tormenting bullet that bounces between nearby foes.
2	Weeping Shots	10.25¼	6	Pierce your enemies with a series of corrosive bullets, inflicting torment and vulnerability. Gain life force for the first target hit by each bullet.
3	Vile Blast	0.75¾	12	Fire a dart that shatters on impact, releasing noxious liquid that stuns, weakens, and poisons foes in the area. Gain life force for each target struck.

Main and off-hand

#	Skill			Description
Dagger
1	Necrotic Slash			Chain. Slash your foe twice.
1	Necrotic Stab			Chain. Strike your foe again.
1	Necrotic Bite	0.25¼		Strike your foe and gain life force.
2	Life Siphon	0.75¾	8	Siphon health from your foe. Healing effectiveness increases if you are bleeding. Damage increases if your foe is bleeding.
3	Dark Pact	1	12	Bleed yourself. Immobilize your foe and remove their boons. Gain life force for each boon removed.
4	Deathly Swarm	0.5½	16	Unleash an insect swarm to blind and transfer conditions to your enemies.
5	Enfeebling Blood	0.75¾	20	Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area.
Sword		(requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency)
1	Enervation Blade			Chain. Fire a wide piercing projectile from your blade. Heal if a target is struck. Healing is reduced for each target beyond the first.
1	Enervation Echo	0.5½		Chain. Fire another wide piercing projectile from your blade.
1	Deathly Enervation	0.75¾		Fire an even wider piercing projectile that inflicts chill.
2	Ravenous Wave	0.25¼	6	Send a wave of necrotic energy cascading toward your target. Gain life force if you hit an enemy. Reactivate this skill to inflict additional damage on all targets hit by the wave.
2	Satiate	0.5½		Sacrifice health to inflict additional damage on all targets hit by the wave, dealing additional damage to targets below the health threshold.
3	Path of Gluttony	0.75¾	10	Dash forward, releasing dark energy on nearby targets. Damage enemies hit and heal per target hit with reduced healing beyond the first. This skill can be reactivated to dash again.
3	Gorge	0.75¾		Sacrifice health to dash again. Corrupt boons on enemies struck.
4	Hungering Maelstrom	1	16	Create a dark maelstrom that deals damage, inflicts vulnerability, and steals health. Reactivate this skill to inflict additional damage and conditions on all targets hit by the maelstrom.
4	Gormandize	0.5½		Sacrifice health to inflict additional damage and conditions on all targets hit by the maelstrom.
5	Devouring Visage	0.75¾	20	Fire an orb of death magic that explodes on impact, inflicting fear on enemies. Gain life force for each target struck. Reactivate this skill to drain the strength of all enemies struck by the explosion.
5	Consume	0.5½		Sacrifice health to drain the strength of your enemies, inflicting weakness while granting might to yourself for each target affected.

Off-hand only

#	Skill			Description
Focus
4	Soul Grasp	0.5½	3	Release a disembodied hand to draw life force from your foe.
5	Spinal Shivers	1	16	Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.
Warhorn
4	Wail of Doom	0.75¾	24	Screech a wail of doom in a cone pattern, inflicting fear on foes. (Does bonus defiance-bar damage to defiant foes.)
5	Locust Swarm	0.5½	24	Grant swiftness to allies and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.
Torch		(requires Weaponmaster Training or Scourge)
4	Harrowing Wave	0.5½	16	Unleash a wave of corrupted fire, burning and tormenting enemies. Gain life force for each enemy struck.
5	Oppressive Collapse	0.75¾	20	Corrupt the ground under your target; if they remain within the area, they will be knocked down. Grant might to allies near your target based on how many conditions they have.

Aquatic

#	Skill			Description
Spear
1	Cruel Strike	0.5½		Chain. Stab your foe.
1	Wicked Strike	0.75¾		Chain. Strike your foe again.
1	Reaper's Scythe	0.75¾		Reap life force from nearby foes.
2	Wicked Spiral	10.75¾	8	Spin multiple times, dealing damage and applying vulnerability to each foe struck.
3	Deadly Feast	0.5½	15	Gain swiftness and summon a swarm of vampiric shrimp that siphon health from nearby foes.
4	Deadly Catch	0.75¾	25	Whirl around, throwing spears that cripple foes and pull them to you.
5	Dark Spear	0.5½	25	Throw your spear and shadowstep to the first target it hits, delivering a rending strike in the area around you.
Trident
1	Crimson Tide	0.75¾		Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.
2	Feast	0.5½	10	Weaken and damage foes around you. Gain life force per foe struck. Fire a Crimson Tide at each enemy in the area.
3	Foul Current	10.75¾	12	Dart at your foe and strike them with tremendous force, inflicting poison based on distance traveled. You constantly release Crimson Tide toward your target as you travel.
4	Sinking Tomb	0.5½	20	Entomb your foe, making them sink. Fire Crimson Tide at your target multiple times.
5	Frozen Abyss	2	25	Create a continually expanding field near you that applies chill and vulnerability to enemies and deals damage when it ends. Fire Crimson Tide on each pulse at enemies within the maximum range.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Consume Conditions		1	25	Corruption. Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. You become vulnerable.
Summon Blood Fiend		10.5½	16	Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.
Taste of Death		0.75¾		Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself.
Signet of Vampirism		0.75¾	24	Signet Passive: Steal health from nearby foes while in combat. Signet Active: Heal yourself and mark a foe. Allied players will siphon life from the marked enemy.
Well of Blood		1	25	Well. Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.

Utility

Skill				Description
Corruption
Blood Is Power		0.75¾	0.5½	Corruption. Bleed yourself to grant might to allies around you and bleed your target.
Corrosive Poison Cloud		0.5½	30	Corruption. Weaken yourself and envelope[sic] the target area in a noxious cloud that blocks enemy missiles and poisons foes and leaves them weakened.
Corrupt Boon		0.5½	0.5½	Corruption. Poison yourself. Transform boons on your foe into negative conditions.
Epidemic		1	20	Corruption. Apply vulnerability to yourself. Spread conditions on a target foe to all nearby foes at a reduced duration. WvW only: does not affect structures or targets with resistance.
Minion
Summon Bone Fiend		10.5½	24	Minion. Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds.
Rigor Mortis			50	Immobilize your bone fiend, and it will immobilize foes.
Summon Bone Minions		10.5½	16	Minion. Summon two bone minions.
Putrid Explosion			1	Explode a bone minion.
Summon Flesh Wurm		10.5½	25	Minion. Summon an immobile flesh wurm to attack foes.
Necrotic Traversal				Sacrifice your flesh wurm, teleport to it, and poison foes.
Summon Shadow Fiend		10.5½	24	Minion. Summon a shadow fiend to attack foes.
Haunt			20	Command your shadow fiend to teleport to a foe and attack all nearby foes, inflicting conditions.
Signet
Plague Signet			20	Signet Passive: Reduce incoming condition damage. Signet Active: Send your conditions to a foe.
Signet of Spite		0.75¾	40	Signet Passive: Improves power. Signet Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness on your foe.
Signet of the Locust		0.75¾	20	Signet Passive: Your movement speed is increased. Signet Active: [sic]Strike and remove boons from nearby foes. Heal for each foe you strike and for each boon removed.
Signet of Undeath		10.5½	75	Signet Passive: Generates life force while in combat. Signet Active: Sacrifice health to revive one downed ally in a target area.
Spectral
Spectral Armor			20	Spectral. Gain life force as you take damage.
Spectral Grasp		0.5½	35	Spectral. Pull target foe and all nearby foes to you, chill them, and gain life force.
Spectral Walk			20	Spectral. Create a shadowy tether and become spectral, consuming conditions for life force. You may return to your initial position by using Spectral Recall.
Spectral Recall				Return to the point where Spectral Walk began.
Spectral Ring		0.25¼	30	Spectral. Create a spectral ring that protects allies and inflicts fear on foes. Gain life force when a foe is inflicted by fear from this skill. This skill can only inflict fear on the same foe once per interval.
Well
Well of Corruption		0.25¼	32	Well. Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions.
Well of Darkness		0.25¼	25	Well. Target area pulses, blinding foes with each pulse.
Well of Power		0.25¼	20	Well. Target area pulses, converting conditions on allies into boons and granting might.
Well of Suffering		0.25¼	25	Well. Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.

Elite

Skill				Description
Plaguelands		1	90	Corruption. Create a virulent cloud that inflicts conditions on foes in its area. This plague inflicts additional conditions every second it persists. Inflict bleeding on yourself.
Summon Flesh Golem		10.5½	48	Minion. Summon a flesh golem to attack foes with crippling claws.
Charge		0.75¾	40	Command your flesh golem to gain stability and charge a foe, knocking down or launching enemies in its path.
Lich Form		1	150	Spectral. Assume the form of a lich for a brief time, improving your precision and vitality. Gain life force when this skill ends. Entering this form removes other spectral effects.

Downed and drowning skills

#	Skill			Description
Downed
1	Life Leech	60.25¼		Leech health from a foe to heal yourself.
2	Fear	10.25¼	10	Make your foe flee in fear.
3	Fetid Ground	0.25¼	20	Create fetid ground that damages and poisons foes.
4	Bandage	490.25¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.
Drowning
1	Life Leech	60.25¼		Leech health from a foe to heal yourself.
2	Feeding Frenzy	0.5½	5	Summon a school of undead fish to swarm your foe.
3	Death Curse	0.5½	20	Poison your foe and make them flee in fear.
4	Bandage	490.25¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.

Auxiliary skillbars

These skills replace the main skillbar after activating the specified primary skills.

Lich Form

#	Skill			Description
1	Deathly Claws	0.75¾		Send out grasping claws to damage your foes.
2	Lich's Gaze		0.25¼	Fire a debilitating projectile at a random nearby target.
3	Ripple of Horror	0.5½	15	Launch a wave that terrorizes foes it hits. You may activate March of Undeath to shadowstep to the wave.
3	March of Undeath		12	Shadowstep to your Ripple of Horror, destroying it.
4	Summon Madness	10.5½	30	Minion. Repeatedly summon minions that explode after a period of time if they are not killed.
5	Grim Specter	0.75¾	30	Siphon health from nearby enemies over time, gaining vitality each time you hit an enemy. Players struck by this ability lose equivalent vitality.

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