Spectral Grasp

Spectral. Pull target foe and all nearby foes to you, chill them, and gain life force. — In-game description

Spectral Grasp

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Spectral

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

10620

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0.5½  35  

Spectral Grasp

Spectral. Pull target foe and all nearby foes to you, chill them, and gain life force.

 Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Life Force: 15%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• 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.

Reaper

• Chilling Nova — Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.
• Chilling Victory — Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
• Cold Shoulder — Chill lasts longer, and chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks.
• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Notes

• This skill fires an arcing, non-homing projectile at up to five different foes within 1200 range - inflicting chill and pulling them to the caster on contact.
• The Pull effect on each projectile hand does 150 Defiance Break
• Does not actually require a target and will PBAoE pull up to 5 targets within 1200 range.
• Multiple hands can affect the same target if enemies are lined up, or if the necromancer is inside of a large enemy, dealing significant defiance bar damage.
• Life Force is gained for each hand that hits a target.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 35-second recharge in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 50 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now fires at the necromancer's original target and up to 4 other enemies within a 1,200 range. Increased the recharge from 20 seconds to 50 seconds. This skill has been unsplit from PvP and now functions the same in all game modes.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
October 15, 2013	This skill now grants bonus life force when traited with Spectral Attunement.
July 23, 2013	This skill now grants 15% life force (up from 10%).
June 11, 2013	This ability will now pull the full 1200 range, instead of 900.
November 15, 2012	This skill's projectile velocity has been increased by 33%.
October 01, 2012	This skill now also grants 10% life force when used. It also benefits from the Curses trait Spectral Attunement to properly increase the chill duration to 6 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Spectral Grasp has been added to the game.