Siphon

Steal. — In-game description

Siphon

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Specter

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Steal

Game link

API

API

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0.5½  18  

Steal.

 Enemy target: Steal your foe's shadow, slowing them for a period of time while gaining shadow force.

  Slow (5s): Skills and actions are slower.

  Slow (3s): Skills and actions are slower.

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

  Shadow Force Gain: 25

  Shadow Force Gain: 15

 Ally target: Grant your target barrier and reduce the cooldown of Siphon. If you are in shroud, transfer your tether to the target.

  Barrier: 1,428 (0.5)^?

  Shrouded Ally: Entering Shadow Shroud without an ally targeted will attach you to your siphoned ally. Breaks if you move outside of the range of Shroud.

  Allied Target Recharge Reduction: 50

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Serpent's Touch — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
• Mug — Deal damage and gain life when stealing. This attack cannot critically hit enemies.
• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Improvisation — Use stolen skills twice. Recharge one random equipped utility skill when you steal. Goes on cooldown regardless of whether a utility skill is recharged. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.

Acrobatics

• Swindler's Equilibrium — Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or spear recharges Steal. Swords and spears deal increased damage.

Trickery

• Kleptomaniac — Stealing gives you initiative.
• Thrill of the Crime — When you Steal, you and all nearby allies gain fury, might, and swiftness for 10 seconds.
• Bountiful Theft — Stealing grants you and all nearby allies vigor. You rip boons from your target and grant them to nearby allies.
• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.
• Sleight of Hand — Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Specter

• Dark Sentry — Apply Rot Wallow Venom to allies you grant barrier to. Outgoing healing to allies is increased. Rot Wallow Venom effect cannot apply to yourself.
• Amplified Siphoning — Gain increased shadow force when hitting a foe with Siphon. Grant increased barrier when targeting an ally.
• Shadestep — Siphon now grants you barrier when targeting enemies, and it revives allies when targeting them. Shadowstepping breaks your barrier and grants it to nearby allies, proportional to the number of allies affected.

Notes

Bugs:

• Although it lists  Vulnerability, it does not inflict any.
• If the target is a miniature, the skill will go on full cool down and activate steal-related traits.

• Your character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines upon using this skill:
  • "Thanks for sharing." (enemy)
  • "I'll need your shadow." (enemy)
  • "A gift from the shadows." (ally)
  • "Back to the fight!" (ally)

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 30, 2022	(PvP only) Reduced shadow force gained from 25% to 15%. Reduced slow duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
March 29, 2022	Fixed a bug that caused the incorrect cooldown to occur when targeting a fully defeated ally.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Siphon has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Siphon was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. No longer requires a pathing check in order to execute.
October 26, 2021	Siphon was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 3.