Sandstorm Shroud

Shade. Enter the final shroud, gaining a powerful barrier and priming the shroud for a powerful detonation that damages enemies and bolsters allies. Targets can only be affected by this skill once per activation. — In-game description

Sandstorm Shroud

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Profession

Necromancer (trait skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Trait

 Herald of Sorrow

Type

Shade, Shroud

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Shade. Enter the final shroud, gaining a powerful barrier and priming the shroud for a powerful detonation that damages enemies and bolsters allies.
Targets can only be affected by this skill once per activation.

  Life Force Cost: 3,224

  Damage: 798 (3.0)^?

  Damage: 598 (2.25)^?

  Initial Barrier: 2,188 (1.25)^?

  Initial Barrier: 2,028 (1.25)^?

  Barrier on Detonation: 842 (2.5)^?

  Barrier on Detonation: 650 (2.0)^?

 ₆ Torment (10s): 1,320 Damage, 1,908 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 ₆ Torment (5s): 660 Damage, 954 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

  Boons Converted to Conditions: 2

  Number of Targets: 3

  Duration: 30.5½ seconds

  Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.
• Signets of Suffering — Gain enhanced versions of your equipped signet passive effects while in shroud. Signets recharge every second you are in shroud.
• Spiteful Spirit — Strike around you when entering shroud.

Curses

• Plague Sending — Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
• Furious Demise — Gain fury when entering shroud. Gain additional precision.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Weakening Shroud — Cast Lesser Enfeeble when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

Death Magic

• Armored Shroud — Gain carapace when entering shroud.
• 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.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.
• Unholy Sanctuary — 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

• Life from Death — Heal and partially revive allies in an area when you exit shroud.
• Vampiric Presence — You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.
• Unholy Martyr — Entering shroud transfers conditions from allies to you. Exiting shroud consumes conditions currently on you and converts them to life force.

Soul Reaping

• Speed of Shadows — Entering shroud grants swiftness and removes movement-impairing conditions.
• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.
• Soul Barbs — Entering or exiting shroud increases all damage you deal for a duration.
• Eternal Life — Gain life force every interval up to the threshold when not in shroud. Gain protection when you enter shroud.
• Death Perception — Gain increased critical-strike chance. Gain increased critical-strike damage while in shroud.

Scourge

• Abrasive Grit — Sand Flare now also grants barrier to nearby allies. Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions afflicting them. 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.
• Herald of Sorrow — Desert Shroud becomes Sandstorm Shroud.
• 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.
• 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.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain that boon.

Notes

• The Scourge may occasionally shout one of these lines when entering Sandstorm Shroud:

Know pain!

Mantled in death.

May the sands take you!

Torment is my ally!

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: The base barrier granted by the skills Sand Cascade, Sand Flare, Desert Empowerment, Desert Shroud, and Sandstorm Shroud has been reduced. The contribution of healing power on these skills has been increased.
August 17, 2021	This skill has been renamed to Sandstorm Shroud. Reduced initial base barrier from 5,016 to 4,013 in PvP only. Reduced final base barrier from 1,684 to 1,327 in PvP only.
April 06, 2021	Reduced barrier attribute scaling on detonation from 2.0 to 1.65 in PvP only.
March 26, 2019	Removed an unnecessary skill fact for number of pulses. This skill now appropriately corrupts boons upon detonation.
March 05, 2019	Harbinger Shroud has been added to the game. Herald of Sorrow: Equipping this trait turns Desert Shroud into Harbinger Shroud, which removes the pulsing effects of Desert Shroud and instead shifts into a single detonation after a 3-second delay. This trait deals damage, corruption, and conditions in one strike while providing barrier to allies within the vicinity.