Sand Swell

Punishment. Plunge into the ground, creating a portal through Tyria for allied use. Grant allies using this passage a health barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment. — In-game description

Sand Swell

   

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Utility

Type

Punishment

Movement

Teleport

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

42917

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Sand Swell

Punishment. Plunge into the ground, creating a portal through Tyria for allied use. Grant allies using this passage a health barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment.

 Damage: 372 (1.4)^?

 Barrier: 1,618 (0.75)^?

₃ Boon Conversion (8s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

 Duration: 8 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Scourge

• 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.
• 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 barrier.
• 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.
• 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.

Notes

• Applies the  Path Uses effect which indicates how many times the portal can be used. It has 20 uses.
• Each use has around a two-second cool down.
• Barrier only applies the first time using the portal.
• Like all other teleport skills, Sand Swell requires valid path to the destination.
  • Unlike all other teleport skills, Sand Swell also requires line of sight to the destination.
  • The portal is created after the scourge teleports. If the scourge teleports and loses line of sight to their location of origin, a "no line of sight" message will appear and no portal will be created. This happens, for example, when teleporting to a high ground surrounded by a railing or banister; the banister does not block line of sight from the low ground to the high ground, but it does block line of sight from the high ground to the low ground.
• The barrier skill fact is incorrect, the applied barrier is:

 Barrier: 1,861 (0.8625)^?

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Punishment skills no longer inflict crippled when removing a boon. Increased number of torment stacks applied when removing a boon from 1 to 3.
December 03, 2019	Once activated, this skill can no longer be canceled by movement.
April 23, 2019	Fixed a bug that could prevent movement for a short time when the skill failed due to targeting an invalid location.
February 06, 2018	Increased the speed of the portal's formation once the skill has been cast, and altered the effect so it doesn't get culled when in high-density situations. Punishment Skills: The torment durations of this skill category have been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. The cripple duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	All skills that grant barrier now give 15% more barrier. Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
November 07, 2017	This skill can no longer be canceled by other skills before the portal is created. Fixed an issue where the displayed casting time did not reflect the actual casting time.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Sand Swell has been added to the game.