Locust Swarm/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 skill that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this skill, see Locust Swarm. |
October 08, 2024
- Locust Swarm: This skill now grants swiftness to nearby allies in addition to its previous effects.
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Locust SwarmGrant swiftness to allies and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.
Life Siphon Damage: 117 (0.08)?
Swiftness (15s): +33% Movement Speed
Life Force: 1½%
Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 5 seconds
Radius: 180
— In-game description
May 02, 2023
- Locust Swarm: Increased life-siphon healing from 37 to 55 in PvP and WvW.
“½Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.
— In-game description
February 14, 2023
- Locust Swarm: Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
“½Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.
Life Siphon Healing: 37 (0.08)?
— In-game description
June 28, 2022
- Locust Swarm: This skill now heals nearby allies around the necromancer based on the number of enemies hit, in addition to its previous effects.
“½Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.
— In-game description
April 23, 2019
- Locust Swarm: This skill will now inflict its effects every 0.5 seconds instead of every second.
- The duration of this skill has been halved, so the same number of attacks will occur, but they will occur faster.
- The radius of this skill has been reduced from 210 to 180 to make the range a standard multiple of 60.
- Finally, rather than inflicting damage on each pulse, Locust Swarm will now siphon health from enemies within its area of effect.
“½Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that siphon health to you from nearby foes.
— In-game description
January 27, 2015
- Locust Swarm: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds.
“½Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
— In-game description
September 09, 2014
- Locust Swarm Increased base swiftness duration from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
- Locust Swarm Fixed a bug which caused this skill to have incorrect skill facts and duration when traited with Banshee's Wail.
- Added a range indicator for this skill.
“1Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
— In-game description
April 15, 2014
- Locust Swarm: Added skill facts for duration and number of impacts.
“1Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
— In-game description
October 15, 2013
- Locust Swarm: Increased the base cripple duration to 2 seconds.
“1Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
— In-game description
June 25, 2013
- Locust Swarm: Increased the radius to 210. Increased the animation size to better reflect its attack area.
“1Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
— In-game description
February 26, 2013
- Locust Swarm: The radius of this ability has been increased by ~16% and now has the range of a normal melee ability.
“1Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
— In-game description
Original version
“1Locust SwarmGain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes.
— In-game description
