Signet of Undeath

Signet Passive: Generates life force while in combat. Signet Active: Sacrifice health to revive one downed ally in a target area. — In-game description

Signet of Undeath

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10611

Gallery
Overhead activation icon

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10.5½  9,606  75  

Signet of Undeath

Signet Passive: Generates life force while in combat.
Signet Active: Sacrifice health to revive one downed ally in a target area.

 Life Force per 3 Seconds: 4%

 Life Force per 3 Seconds: 2%

 Number of Allied Targets: 1

 Radius: 180

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Signets of Suffering — Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.

Notes

Bug:

A downed, poisoned player with less than 30% health will not be revived.

• Activating this skill costs additional 50% of the base health and the health gained from the base vitality, which is 9,606 health at level 80.
• Barrier will reduce the health lost.
• The cost is not affected by effects that reduce maximum health, such as Blight or Kryptis Essence.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 09, 2021	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to have a different recharge duration while players were underwater.
March 04, 2020	Reduced passive life force gained per interval from 4% to 2% in PvP only.
December 03, 2019	Reduced recharge to 75 seconds in all game modes. Reduced casting time from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds. Reduced the number of allies revived from 3 to 1. Added an additional health cost of 50% of base health to this skill. Increased the passive life force gain by 100%.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 150 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP and WvW.
July 26, 2016	Reduced the cooldown of this skill from 180 seconds to 150 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now has a small strike of damage to foes within its area of effect.
January 27, 2015	The passive life-force gain of this skill has been increased from 1% to 2%.
July 01, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of targets (3).
May 20, 2014	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to be ground targeted while under water. This skill now revives allies in an area around the player (240 radius) while under water.
June 25, 2013	Increased the cast time to 3 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Undeath has been added to the game.