Signet of Spite

Signet Passive: Improves power. Signet Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness on your foe. — In-game description

Signet of Spite

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

Gallery
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Signet Passive: Improves power.
Signet Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness on your foe.

  Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

  Signet of Spite: 180 Power

 ₂ Bleeding (10s): 440 Damage

  Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

  Cripple (10s): -50% Movement Speed

 ₂ Poison (10s): 670 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 ₂ Torment (6s): 264 Damage, 382 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 ₅ Vulnerability (10s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 ₅ Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

  Weakness (10s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Signets of Suffering — Gain enhanced versions of your equipped signet passive effects while in shroud. Signets recharge every second you are in shroud.

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Chilling Darkness — Blinding a target will also apply chill.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

Death Magic

• Putrid Defense — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Blood Magic

• Blood Bond — Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on your foe when you inflict bleeding on them that matches or exceeds the threshold.

Reaper

• Decimate Defenses — Striking a foe with vulnerability increases your critical hit chance.

Scourge

• 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.

Notes

• Increases power by 2 * (10 + character level) and by 3 * (10 + character level) with the trait Signets of Suffering for a total of 270 power.
• Spread its conditions with Epidemic or use it to increase the effectiveness of Feast of Corruption.
• Although the skill inflicts Torment it's not mentioned in the description.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced vulnerability duration from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: When activated, this skill now inflicts 2 stacks of torment for 6 seconds, in addition to its previous active effects.
November 04, 2015	Fixed an issue causing this skill to not play an animation while equipped with a greatsword.
September 29, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to apply 1 stack of vulnerability instead of 5.
August 25, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to inflict less bleeding than indicated in its tooltip.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the number of poison stacks from 1 stack for 10 seconds to 2 stacks for 10 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Now applies 2 stacks of bleeding for 10 seconds, blind for 5 seconds, cripple for 10 seconds, poison for 10 seconds, 5 stacks of vulnerability for 10 seconds, and weakness for 10 seconds. Reduced the recharge to 60 seconds.
April 30, 2013	Updated the skill facts to indicate the passive effect of this skill. Increased the passive power boost by 100%.
November 15, 2012	This skill's description now indicates all conditions applied.
October 07, 2012	Signet of Spite can now be cast while on the move.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Spite has been added to the game.