List of necromancer traits

This is a list of necromancer traits.

Spite

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"You will feel my spite, deep in your bones."

Your growing spite increases your outgoing damage by enhancing your ability to gain might and strengthening your signets. Strip boons from your enemies, leaving them defenseless against the onslaught.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Reaper's Might		Shroud skill 1 grants might.
Major Adept	Spiteful Talisman		Deal increased strike damage to foes with no boons. Focus and axe skills recharge faster.
Major Adept	Malicious Swarm		Cast Lesser Signet of the Locust when you use a healing skill.
Major Adept	Bitter Chill		Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.
Minor Master	Awaken the Pain		Might grants you more power. Gain might when entering shroud.
Major Master	Chill of Death		Cast Lesser Spinal Shivers on a foe when attacking them while their health is below the threshold.
Major Master	Spiteful Fortitude		Gain vitality based on a percentage of your power. Gain life force when you strike an[sic] foe below the health threshold.
Major Master	Signets of Suffering		Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.
Minor Grandmaster	Siphoned Power	1	Gain might when you strike a foe below the health threshold.
Major Grandmaster	Dread	1	Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons and increases your strike damage for a short time.
Major Grandmaster	Close to Death		Deal increased strike damage to enemies below the health threshold.
Major Grandmaster	Spiteful Spirit		Strike around you when entering shroud.

Curses

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"Your suffering fuels me."

Specializing in curses improves the potency of your condition output and critical-hit efficiency. Increase the number of conditions you can apply, and send conditions applied to you right back to your foes. You're just returning the favor, after all.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Barbed Precision		Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
Major Adept	Insidious Disruption		Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Adept	Plague Sending		Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
Major Adept	Chilling Darkness	3	Blinding a target will also apply chill.
Minor Master	Furious Demise		Gain fury when entering shroud. Gain additional precision.
Major Master	Master of Corruption		Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
Major Master	Path of Corruption		Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
Major Master	Parasitic Contagion		A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
Minor Grandmaster	Target the Weak		Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
Major Grandmaster	Weakening Shroud	10	Cast Lesser Enfeeble when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.
Major Grandmaster	Terror		Fear you inflict deals damage each second.
Major Grandmaster	Lingering Curse		Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

Death Magic

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"Death is only the beginning."

Death magic focuses on the summoning and use of undead minions. As you create minions or inflict suffering on your foes, you can gain Death's Carapace, granting additional toughness and increasing power.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Armored Shroud		Gain carapace when entering shroud.
Major Adept	Flesh of the Master		Minions have increased health. Gain carapace for each minion you control. Your minions are destroyed when this trait is reassigned.
Major Adept	Putrid Defense		Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.
Major Adept	Shrouded Removal		Lose a condition when you enter shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud. Gain carapace when removing conditions from yourself.
Minor Master	Soul Comprehension		Your passive life-force generation from nearby deaths is increased. Kills grant carapace. When you enter shroud, gain life-force per stack of carapace.
Major Master	Necromantic Corruption		Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. When a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target. There is a 10 second cooldown per minion.
Major Master	Dark Defiance	20	If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
Major Master	Deadly Strength		Carapace stacks grant power and condition damage.
Minor Grandmaster	Beyond the Veil		Take reduced condition damage while at or above the threshold of carapace stacks.
Major Grandmaster	Death Nova		When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
Major Grandmaster	Corrupter's Fervor		Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.
Major Grandmaster	Unholy Sanctuary	30	Regenerate health while in shroud. If your life force is above the threshold, your shroud will activate if you would take a lethal blow.

Blood Magic

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"Your life for mine."

Use the unrelenting power of blood magic to heal yourself by draining the life from your foes. Siphon dark energies into healing for your allies, allowing them to cheat death and live on.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Mark of Evasion		Leave a Mark of Blood when you dodge.
Major Adept	Ritual of Life		Cast Lesser Well of Blood when reviving an ally. Wells of Blood revive allies every pulse.
Major Adept	Overflowing Thirst		Dagger skills grant nearby allies Taste for Blood.
Major Adept	Blood Renewal	5	Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.
Minor Master	Vampiric		Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.
Major Master	Life from Death		Heal allies in an area when you exit shroud. Increase healing to other allies.
Major Master	Banshee's Wail		Warhorn skills gain increased effect duration.
Major Master	Vampiric Presence		You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.
Minor Grandmaster	Last Rites		As long as you are not downed, allies near you do not bleed out if they are downed. Gain healing power based on your current health.
Major Grandmaster	Blood Bank		Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.
Major Grandmaster	Unholy Martyr		Entering shroud transfers conditions from allies to you. Exiting shroud consumes conditions currently on you and converts them to life force.
Major Grandmaster	Transfusion		Marks can be triggered by allies to heal them and provide them with additional benefits. Create Lesser Chilblains at your location when you use your fourth shroud skill.

Soul Reaping

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"I will feast upon your soul."

Gorge on the souls of your defeated enemies, improving the power of your Death Shroud and increasing your life force capability. Gain additional enhancements to your shroud to inflict further pain, stifling the life from your foes.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Gluttony		Increases the amount of life force gained from all sources.
Major Adept	Unyielding Blast		Shroud skill 1 inflicts vulnerability.
Major Adept	Soul Marks		Marks become unblockable and generate life force when triggered.
Major Adept	Speed of Shadows		Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions.
Minor Master	Sinister Shroud		Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.
Major Master	Soul Barbs		Entering or exiting shroud increases all damage you deal for a duration.
Major Master	Vital Persistence		Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.
Major Master	Fear of Death	5	Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.
Minor Grandmaster	Soul Battery		Maximum life force is increased.
Major Grandmaster	Eternal Life		Gain life force every interval up to the threshold when not in shroud. Gain protection when you enter shroud.
Major Grandmaster	Death Perception		Gain increased critical-strike chance. Gain increased critical-strike damage while in shroud.
Major Grandmaster	Dhuumfire		Shroud skill 1 inflicts burning on your target.

Reaper

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"My scythe, it thirsts..."

The reaper is a harbinger of death, cleaving through multiple foes at once. Utilize your Reaper's Shroud, chilling your foes gaining access to a spectral scythe to cut down all who stand in your way.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Greatsword Proficiency		You can wield greatswords.
Minor Adept	Shroud Knight		Death Shroud is replaced with Reaper's Shroud, which has more melee-oriented skills and consumes life force at a faster rate. Gain access to shouts.
Major Adept	Augury of Death		Shouts now siphon health. This effect is increased on foes in melee range.
Major Adept	Chilling Nova	3	Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.
Major Adept	Relentless Pursuit		Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Additional reduction while in reaper's shroud.
Minor Master	Shivers of Dread		Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.
Major Master	Soul Eater		Striking foes within the range threshold deals increased strike damage and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt.
Major Master	Chilling Victory	1	Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
Major Master	Decimate Defenses		Striking a foe with vulnerability increases your critical hit chance.
Minor Grandmaster	Cold Shoulder		Chill lasts longer, and chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks.
Major Grandmaster	Blighter's Boon		Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.
Major Grandmaster	Deathly Chill		Chill deals damage over time.
Major Grandmaster	Reaper's Onslaught		Gain ferocity and quickness while in Reaper's Shroud. Hitting with Life Reap reduces the recharge time of shroud skills. Recharge reduction can only occur once per use of Life Reap.

Scourge

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"Sink into a sea of sand."

The scourge harnesses the power of the desert to summon sand shades onto the battlefield. While they lose many of the protective benefits of death shroud, they control the battlefield by afflicting foes while bolstering allies and granting barrier.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Torch Proficiency		You can wield torches.
Minor Adept	Mantle of Sand		Gain the power to craft sand shadows and command them using your life force. Gain access to Punishment and Shade skills. Shade skills inherit the effects of traits that affect shroud skills.
Major Adept	Abrasive Grit		Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions afflicting them and grants might. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
Major Adept	Fell Beacon		Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
Major Adept	Nourishing Ashes	3	Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
Minor Master	Sand Sage		Gain concentration and expertise when you have an active shade.
Major Master	Feed from Corruption	1	When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.
Major Master	Sadistic Searing		Nefarious Favor now burns nearby enemy targets.
Major Master	Herald of Sorrow		Desert Shroud becomes Sandstorm Shroud.
Minor Grandmaster	Blood as Sand		Reduce all incoming damage taken when you have a shade active.
Major Grandmaster	Sand Savant		Summon only one shade at a time. This greater shade has a modified recharge. Influence a larger area with shade skills. A greater shade counts as three shades for related traits.
Major Grandmaster	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.
Major Grandmaster	Desert Empowerment		Manifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.

Harbinger

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"Volatile powers, all at my fingertips..."

The Harbinger is a gunslinger and an alchemist, empowering their pistol and utilizing elixirs imbued with dark energies. But strength comes at a cost, and the Harbinger must balance on a knife's edge between power and corruption.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Pistol Proficiency		You can wield pistols.
Minor Adept	Dark Disciple		Death Shroud is replaced with Harbinger Shroud, granting powerful offensive skills but leaving you vulnerable to attack. As you remain in Harbinger Shroud, you accumulate stacking Blight. Blight decreases your maximum health.
Major Adept	Wicked Corruption		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of blight you have. Critical strikes deal increased damage to targets with torment.
Major Adept	Bolstering Brew		Elixir skills grant protection.
Major Adept	Septic Corruption		Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud 2 skill also inflicts poison.
Minor Master	Alchemic Vigor		Gain increased vitality. Heal each second for each stack of blight you have.
Major Master	Implacable Foe		Gain stability and damage reduction when entering Harbinger Shroud. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.
Major Master	Twisted Medicine		Elixir skills also grant their boons to allies within the elixir impact radius. Gain concentration based on your vitality.
Major Master	Dark Gunslinger		Pistol skills gain reduced recharge. Gain expertise based on your vitality.
Minor Grandmaster	Corrupted Talent		Gain life force when you enter Harbinger Shroud.
Major Grandmaster	Cascading Corruption		Your power is increased. While in Harbinger Shroud, you gain an aura that pulses each interval to damage and cripple nearby enemies.
Major Grandmaster	Deathly Haste		While in Harbinger Shroud, gain an aura that pulses each interval to grant quickness to yourself and nearby allies.
Major Grandmaster	Doom Approaches		Your condition damage is increased. While in Harbinger Shroud, you gain an aura that pulses each interval to torment and weaken nearby enemies.

Ritualist

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"Embrace the world beyond."

Ritualists are one of the oldest known professions in Tyria, having existed well before the gods gifted magic to the wider world. These spirit callers channel entities from the Mists, who they beckon forth to aid them in battle.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Spawning Power		Death shroud is replaced with ritualist's shroud. Spirits created by shroud skills will persist until you exit shroud. After performing their initial attack, spirits will periodically attack enemies. Gain access to weapon spells.
Major Adept	Wandering Spirits		Spirits teleport to you before they perform their autoattack.
Major Adept	Spirit's Gift		Heal nearby allies when you summon a creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
Major Adept	Explosive Growth		When you summon a creature, deal damage to enemies around that creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
Minor Master	Boon of Creation		Gain concentration. Gain life force when you summon a creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
Major Master	Spirits' Remedy		Remove conditions from nearby allies when you summon a creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
Major Master	Empowering Spirits		Grant boons to nearby allies when you summon a spirit.
Major Master	Spirit's Strength		Your summoned creatures deal more damage and their healing is increased. Spirits and minions are creatures.
Minor Grandmaster	Charged Souls		Gain access to spirit innervation skills, allowing you to channel energy to your spirits for an additional effect. Gain life force when you use an innervate skill.
Major Grandmaster	Wielder's Boon		Weapon spells remove conditions from affected allies. Affected allies receive the full benefit of weapon spells.
Major Grandmaster	Lingering Spirits		Gain a bonus for each active spirit. Spirits persist when exiting ritualist's shroud but continue to drain life force. Life force that is gained during this time will not be consumed by spirits.
Major Grandmaster	Soul Twisting		The first spirit skill you use when entering ritualist's shroud recharges instantly.

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