Manifest Sand Shade

Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Using a shade ability strikes enemies near you and your shades. — In-game description

Manifest Sand Shade

0.5½  

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shade

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Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Using a shade ability strikes enemies near you and your shades.

  Damage: 177 (0.666)^?

  Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

  Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Moving

  Torment (1s): 22 Damage, 32 Damage if Moving

  Number of Targets: 3

  Number of Targets: 2

  Duration: 20 seconds

  Duration: 15 seconds

  Maximum Count: 3

  Count Recharge: 8 seconds

  Count Recharge: 15 seconds

  Radius: 180

  Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

 Spite

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

 Soul Reaping

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

 Scourge

•  Desert Empowerment — Manifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it.
•  Sadistic Searing — Punishment skills gain reduced recharge and cause your next Manifest Sand Shade to inflict burning on foes near it.
•  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.
•  Blood as Sand — Reduce incoming damage for each sand shade you have active.
•  Sand Sage — Gain concentration and expertise for each of your active sand shades.

Trivia

• The Scourge may occasionally shout one of these lines when using Manifest Sand Shade:

By my will!

The compact is sworn.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 28, 2020	Increased ammo recharge time from 8 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
July 08, 2020	Reduced the target cap of shades from 3 to 2 in WvW only. Reduced the target cap of greater shades from 5 to 2 in WvW only.
July 07, 2020	Shade skills have been changed back to triggering at both the necromancer's location and their shade locations with each use. (Undocumented change) Target cap reduced to 3.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.666 to 0.1. Reduced torment duration from 2 seconds to 1 second. This skill now uses the PvE ammo recharge of 8 seconds in all game modes.
December 03, 2019	This skill no longer inflicts cripple in all game modes. Reduced ammunition recharge for the untraited version of this skill from 15 seconds to 8 seconds in PvE only.
October 15, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented the effect of this skill from lasting more than 10 seconds in PvP and WvW when not traited with Sand Savant. The effect will now last for the increased duration of 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
October 01, 2019	Shade skills no longer affect the area around the scourge while they have a shade present in the world. Increased the number of targets affected by shade skills from 3 to 5. The duration of sand shades in WvW and PvP has been increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Scourge (Profession): Fixed an issue that caused an obstruction error when there wasn't a line of sight to a target, but there was a line of sight to the shade. Enemies in range of the shade will now be struck if the shade is visible to the necromancer. Fixed an issue in which this skill could still hit downed enemies multiple times.
February 06, 2018	Added a 0.5-second warning to enemy players on each shade and on the player when activating a shade skill.
November 07, 2017	Fixed a bug that could cause this skill's targets to be lost due to proximity between shades or the casting scourge. Made back-end changes to increase the priority of shade visibility.
October 17, 2017	Fixed a bug that allowed strikes from this skill to hit from multiple sand shades on the same target. (WvW and PvP only): The spawn duration of sand shades has been reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Manifest Sand Shade has been added to the game.