Well of Darkness

Well. Target area pulses, blinding foes with each pulse. — In-game description

Well of Darkness

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Well

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

10607, 10672

“

0.25¼  

25

35

35

 

Well of Darkness

Well. Target area pulses, blinding foes with each pulse.

 Damage (6x): 1,278 (4.8)^?

 Damage (6x): 648 (2.436)^?

 Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulse: 1 second

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Dark

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Well of Darkness.

Related traits

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.

Curses

• 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.

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

• Well of Darkness starts with a loud gasp sound from Necrotic Grasp, then plays the corrupted god statue audio that includes mumbled voices, and the sound bytes of human female NPC's taking a hit or dying to choking damage. Well of Power shares the same sounds.

Anomaly:

The damage coefficients are roughly 2.436 in WvW and not as stated in the game update notes 2.7.

Bug:

The damage tooltip facts disappear underwater.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 01, 2020	Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.8 to 0.45 in WvW only.[sic]
July 08, 2020	Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Reduced recharge from 35 seconds to 25 seconds. This well is no longer unblockable and has a damaging strike associated with it. It now also inflicts 2 seconds of chill each pulse in addition to blindness.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 35 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused wells to display their effects incorrectly while under the effects of quickness or slow.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 50 seconds to 45 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Well skills now use ground targeting by default. When used underwater, wells cast at the player's location.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the cooldown to 50 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Well of Darkness has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.