Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon. Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast. — In-game description

Nefarious Favor

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Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Shade

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Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

  Life Force Cost: 1,935

  Conditions Converted to Boons: 1

  Conditions Converted to Boons: 2

  Number of Targets: 3

  Number of Targets: 2

  Radius: 180

— In-game description ^[?]

Notes

• Conditions are converted as follows:

Condition	Boon
Bleeding	Vigor (10 s)
Blinded	Fury (5 s)
Burning	Aegis (5 s)
Chilled	Alacrity (2 s)
Confusion	Retaliation (5 s)
Crippled	Swiftness (10 s)
Fear	Stability (3 s)
Immobile	Resistance (2 s)
Poisoned	Regeneration (5 s)
Slow	Quickness (3 s)
Taunt	Stability (3 s)
Torment	Might (3 stacks, 10 s)
Vulnerability	Protection (3 s)
Weakness	Might (3 stacks, 10 s)

Related traits

 Curses

•  Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.

 Soul Reaping

•  Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.

 Scourge

•  Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
•  Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain that boon.
•  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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
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: Increased number of conditions converted to boons from 1 to 2. Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
October 02, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from respecting party and squad prioritization.
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.
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. Reduced the number of conditions converted to boons from 2 to 1 in all game modes. Increased the cooldown of this skill from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in WvW and PvP.
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.
October 17, 2017	(WvW and PvP only) The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Nefarious Favor has been added to the game.