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Weapon Sets, Skills & Effects

  • Fire Attunement10
    Attunement. Attune to fire, gaining heavy damage and burning abilities.
  • Water Attunement10
    Attunement. Attune to water, gaining superior support and healing abilities.
  • Air Attunement10
    Attunement. Attune to air, gaining heavy damage and control abilities.
  • Earth Attunement10
    Attunement. Attune to earth, gaining superior damage-over-time and defensive abilities.
  • Death Shroud10
    Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
    Fury: 5 s
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  • Virtue of Justice25
    Virtue. Burn foes with every fifth attack.
    Activate: You and your allies inflict burning on the next attack.
    Burning: 2 s (328 damage) (passive)Burning: 5 s (1640 damage) (active)
  • Virtue of Resolve50
    Virtue. Regenerates health.
    Activate: Heal yourself and nearby allies.
    Passive Regeneration: 3 sHealing: 84
  • Virtue of Courage75
    Virtue. Grants aegis every 40 seconds.
    Activate: Grant aegis to yourself and nearby allies.
    Aegis: 5 s
  • Mind Wrack12
    Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, damaging nearby foes.
    Damage: 280Damage (2x): 378Damage (3x): 492Range: 1,200
  • Cry of Frustration25
    Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, confusing nearby foes.
    Confusion: 3 s (65 damage on skill use)Damage: 80Range: 1,200
  • Diversion38
    Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, dazing their targets.
    Daze: 1 sRange: 1,200
  • Distortion50
    Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, gaining distortion for each one shattered.
    Distortion: 1 sRange: 1,200
  • Death Shroud10
    Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
    Fury: 5 s
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  • Steal30
    Steal. Shadowstep to your foe and steal from them.
    Range: 1,200
  • Death Shroud10
    Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
    Fury: 5 s
  • Blood Curse½
    Bleed your foe.
    Damage: 118Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Range: 900
    • Rending Curse
      Bleed your foe.
      Damage: 118Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Range: 900
    • Putrid Curse
      Poison your foe.
      Damage: 168Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Poison: 6 s (336 damage)Range: 900
  • Grasping Dead¾ 10
    Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.
    Damage: 270Crippled: 7 sx3Bleeding: 10 s (398 damage)Radius: 240Range: 900
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  • Feast of Corruption¾ 10
    Strike your target, dealing additional damage and gaining life force for each condition on them.
    Damage: 371Life force: 8% + 1% per condition.x2Torment: 4 s + 1 stack per condition.Range: 900
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  • Deathly Swarm¼ 18
    Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack.
    Damage: 208Number of bounces: 3Blind: 6 sRange: 900
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  • Enfeebling Blood¾ 25
    Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area.
    Damage: 168Weakness: 10 sx2Bleeding: 10 s (850 damage)Radius: 240Range: 900
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  • Consume Conditions30
    Corruption. Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed.
    Healing: 5,240Heal per condition: 724x5Self Vulnerability: 4 s
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  • Corrupt Boon40
    Corruption. Poison yourself. Convert up to 5 boons on your foe into negative conditions.
    Self poison: 6 s (504 damage)UnblockableRange: 1,200
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  • Plague Signet30
    Signet Passive: Transfers conditions from nearby allies to yourself.
    Signet Active: Send your conditions to a foe.
    Passive Radius: 1200Breaks stunRange: 1,200
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  • Blood is Power30
    Corruption. Bleed yourself to gain might for yourself and nearby allies while bleeding your target.
    Damage: 130x8Might: 8 sx2Bleeding: 30 s (2550 damage)x2Self bleeding: 10 s (850 damage)Range: 1,200
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  • Plague180
    Corruption. Become a virulent cloud and inflict multiple conditions on foes you touch.
    Damage: 75x3Stability: 3 s (per pulse)Poison: 2 s (84 damage)Self-Bleeding (10s): 425 DamageDuration: 20Radius: 240
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Boons & Effects

  • Aegis
    Block the next attack.
  • Fury
    20% critical chance increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Might
    X damage per attack increase. Stacks intensity.
  • Protection
    33% damage reduction. Stacks in duration.
  • Regeneration
    Regenerates X health per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Retaliation
    Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. Stacks in duration.
  • Stability
    Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, or feared.
  • Swiftness
    33% movement speed increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Vigor
    Faster endurance regeneration. Stacks in duration.
  • Quickness
    Makes all skills and actions 50% faster.
  • Resistance
    Resistance temporarily negates the affected target of all effects caused by conditions.
  • Distortion
    Allows mesmers to evade attacks for some time.
  • Frenzy
    Increases damage taken by 25%. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Frosty Armor
    Chills foes that hit you.
  • Haste
    Regenerate endurance at 50% effectiveness when under the effects of this skill. It's typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Invulnerability
    Prevents the target from taking damage or receiving conditions. It is also placed on rallied players for one second.
  • Quickening Zephyr
    Prevents healing. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Rejuvenation
    Regenerates health. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession through the Virtue of Resolve.
  • Smiting
    Causes every fifth attack to apply burning. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession.
  • Stealth
    Allows the user to be invisible to enemy players and avoid being spotted by enemy NPCs.

Conditions

  • Bleeding
    Bleeding is a stackable condition that deals damage over time.
  • Blind
    Causes the target's next hit to miss instead.
  • Burning
    Inflicts X damage per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Chilled
    Reduces movement speed and skill recharge by 66%. Stacks in duration.
  • Confusion
    Inflicts X damage each time a foe uses skill. Stacks in intensity.
  • Crippled
    Crippled is a condition which decreases movement speed by 50%. Stacks in duration.
  • Fear
    Causes the target to run directly away from the caster.
  • Immobilized
    Immobilized is a condition which prevents movement and dodging. Victims also can't turn. Stacks in duration.
  • Poison
    Inflicts X damage per second. Reduces outgoing heals by 33%. Stacks in duration.
  • Torment
    Deals damage every second; deals additional damage if moving; stacks intensity.
  • Vulnerability
    Increases damage the target takes by 1%. Stacks in intensity.
  • Weakness
    Causes 50% of attacks to be glancing and reduces endurance regeneration by 50%. Stacks in duration.
  • Slow
    Slow is a condition that reduces the activation time of skills and abilities.
  • Agony
    Agony is an effect unique to Fractals of the Mists that removes a percentage of the player's health every second and reduces received healing by ~50%.

Control

  • Break Stun
    Stun break is an effect which can break control effects on a character.
  • Daze
    Interrupts and prevents the target from using skills for a period of time.
  • Float
    Forces the affected target(s) to move towards the surface.
  • Knockdown
    Interrupts and causes the foe to be unable to move or use skills for a short duration. Knocked down foes fall to the ground.
  • Launch
    Interrupts and tosses a character into the air.
  • Pull
    Shortens the distance between the user and the foe by drawing one of them to another. If a foe is pulled, this can result in an interrupt.
  • Push
    Physically pushes foes away from the player and interrupts them.
  • Sink
    Forces the affected target(s) to move away from the surface.
  • Stun
    Interrupts, immobilizes, and incapacitates foes for a short duration.
  • Teleport
    Teleport (alternatively, flash) is a mechanic that causes the user or target(s) to instantly move from one location to another.
  • Taunt
    Taunt is a control effect that forces the affected target to run towards the source of taunt with all skills except stun breakers disabled while using their auto-attack skill.

Fields & Finishers

  • Dark Field
    Dark Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Blindness
    Leap Finisher: Blindness
    Projectile Finisher: Life stealing
    Whirl Finsher: Leeching Bolts
  • Ethereal Field
    Ethereal Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Chaos Armor
    Leap Finisher: Chaos Armor
    Projectile Finisher: Confusion
    Whirl Finsher: Confounding Bolts
  • Fire Field
    Fire Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Might
    Leap Finisher: Fire Shield
    Projectile Finisher: Burning
    Whirl Finsher: Burning Bolts
  • Ice Field
    Ice Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Frost Aura
    Leap Finisher: Frost Aura
    Projectile Finisher: Chilled
    Whirl Finsher: Chilling Bolts
  • Light Field
    Light Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Retaliation
    Leap Finisher: Retaliation
    Projectile Finisher: Remove Condition
    Whirl Finsher: Cleansing Bolts
  • Lightning Field
    Lightning Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Swiftness
    Leap Finisher: Dazing Strike
    Projectile Finisher: Vulnerability
    Whirl Finsher: Brutal Bolts
  • Poison Field
    Poison Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Weakness
    Leap Finisher: Weakness
    Projectile Finisher: Poison
    Whirl Finsher: Poison Bolts
  • Smoke Field
    Smoke Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Stealth
    Leap Finisher: Stealth
    Projectile Finisher: Blindness
    Whirl Finsher: Blinding Bolts
  • Water Field
    Water Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Healing
    Leap Finisher: Healing
    Projectile Finisher: Regeneration
    Whirl Finsher: Healing Bolts
  • Super Speed
    Activate your slick shoes, enabling you to move at superior speeds.
  • Revealed
    Revealed is an effect applied when stealth is broken, for example by entering combat or exiting a Shadow Refuge circle prematurely.
Combo
  • Blast Finisher
    Blast Combo Effects

    Dark: Area Blindness
    Ethereal: Area Chaos Armor
    Fire: Area Might
    Ice: Area Frost Aura
    Light: Area Retaliation
    Lightning: Area Swiftness
    Poison: Area Weakness
    Smoke: Area Stealth
    Water: Area Healing
  • Leap Finisher
    Leap Combo Effects

    Dark: Blindness
    Ethereal: Chaos Armor
    Fire: Fire Shield
    Ice: Frost Aura
    Light: Retaliation
    Lightning: Dazing Strike
    Poison: Weakness
    Smoke: Stealth
    Water: Healing
  • Projectile Finisher
    Projectile Combo Effects

    Dark: Life stealing
    Ethereal: Confusion
    Fire: Burning
    Ice: Chilled
    Light: Remove Condition
    Lightning: Vulnerability
    Poison: Poison
    Smoke: Blindness
    Water: Regeneration
  • Whirl Finisher
    Whirl Combo Effects

    Dark: Leeching Bolts
    Ethereal: Confounding Bolts
    Fire: Burning Bolts
    Ice: Chilling Bolts
    Light: Cleansing Bolts
    Lightning: Brutal Bolts
    Poison: Poison Bolts
    Smoke: Blinding Bolts
    Water: Healing Bolts

Traits

Death Magic

  • Armored Shroud
    Gain 180 toughness while in death shroud.
    • Flesh of the Master
      Minions have 50% increased health. Gain 20 bonus toughness for each minion you control.
    • Shrouded Removal
      Remove a condition when you enter shroud and every 3 seconds that you remain in shroud.
    • Putrid Defense
      Poisoned foes deal 10% less damage to you.
  • Soul Comprehension
    Your passive life-force generation from nearby deaths is increased by 20%
    • Necromantic Corruption
      Increases minion damage by 25%. Every 10 seconds your minions will take one condition from you. Minions transfer conditions when they hit with attacks (this can only occur once every 10 seconds per minion).
    • Reaper’s Protection
      If you are inflicted by a crowd control effect you inflict fear for 2 seconds on nearby foes (60s ICD).
    • Deadly Strength
      Gain power equal to 7% of your toughness. If you are in shroud this value is doubled.
  • Beyond the Veil
    When you exit shroud you and all your minions gain protection for 3 seconds.
    • Death Nova
      Minions explode when they die in a cloud of poison. This effect also occurs if you are downed. When you kill a foe summon a jagged horror (this effect can only occur once every 15 seconds).
    • Corrupter’s Fervor
      Whenever you apply a condition to a foe gain a stack of Corrupter’s Fervor for 8 seconds which grants 30 toughness and 2% reduced incoming condition damage per stack (maximum 10 stacks).
    • Unholy Sanctuary
      Heal every second while you are in shroud. If you would take fatal damage and you have at least 10% lifeforce you enter shroud instead (30s ICD).

Curses

  • Barbed Precision
    Critical hits have a 33% chance to inflict bleeding. The duration of your applied bleeding stacks is increased by 20%.
    • Terrifying Descent
      When you take falling damage, inflict fear for 1 second on nearby foes. Reduces fall damage by 50%.
    • Plague Sending
      When you have 3 or more conditions on you your next critical hit casts Plague Signet on your target. This trait benefits from the recharge bonus of Signets of Suffering.
    • Chilling Darkness
      Blinding a foe inflicts chill on them for 2 seconds. 5-second internal cooldown
  • Furious Demise
    When you enter shroud, gain fury for 5 seconds.
    • Master of Corruption
      Reduces recharge of corruption skills by 33% but causes corruption skills to apply additional conditions to you when cast. (Condition applied varies per skill.)
    • Path of Corruption
      Shroud skill 2 converts boons on struck foes to conditions.
    • Terror
      Causes fear to deal damage per second scaling with your condition damage stat. Damage is increased vs foes that have at least one other condition on them.
  • Target the Weak
    Your critical hit chance is increased by 2% for each condition on your target. Additionally you gain condition damage equal to 13% of your precision.
    • Weakening Shroud
      Critical hits inflict weakness for 5 seconds (10s ICD). When you enter shroud cast Enfeeble on nearby foes (Enfeeble is functionally identical to the dagger skill Enfeebling Blood.)
    • Parasitic Contagion
      You are healed for 10% of your outgoing condition damage.
    • Lingering Curse
      Gain 150 condition damage while wielding a scepter. The base duration of all scepter conditions is increased by 50%.

Blood Magic

  • Mark of Evasion
    Cast Mark of Blood when you dodge roll. (8s ICD)
    • Ritual of Life
      Revive allies 10% faster. When you start reviving an ally cast Well of Blood. This trait benefits from the recharge bonus of Vampiric Wells.
    • Quickening Thirst
      Reduces recharge of dagger skills by 33% if used while you are over 75% health. Move 25% faster while wielding at least one dagger.
    • Blood Bond
      When you inflict at least 4 stacks of bleeding to a single target cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on them. This trait benefits from the recharge bonus of Signets of Suffering.
  • Vampiric
    You siphon health with your attacks. Your minions siphon health and give it to you.
    • Life from Death
      When you exit shroud you heal and partially revive allies around you.
    • Banshee’s Wail
      Reduces recharge of warhorn skills by 20% and increases effect durations for warhorn skills by 50%.
    • Vampiric Presence
      You and allies near you siphon health with attacks (combat only). This effect stacks with the siphoning granted by Vampiric.
  • Last Rites
    Gain increasing healing power based on how low your health is. Other allies near you do not bleed out while downed (combat only).
    • Vampiric Rituals
      Reduces recharge of well skills by 20%. Wells siphon health for you every pulse and grant protection to allies when cast.
    • Unholy Martyr
      Draws conditions from allies when you enter shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud. Gain life force each time a condition is transferred.
    • Transfusion
      Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies. Additionally you teleport up to 5 nearby downed allies to your location while channeling this skill.

Stats

Primary Stats

  • Health 19212 (+0)
  • Vitality 1000 (+0)
  • Armor 2820 (+900)
  • Toughness 1900 (+900)
  • Attack 1996 (+0)
  • Power 1000 (+0)
  • Critical Hit 47% (+47%)
  • Precision 1900 (+900)

Secondary Stats

  • Bleeding Duration 20% (+20%)
  • Condition Damage 1622 (+1622)
  • Condition Duration 15% (+15%)
  • Damage 996 (+0%)
  • Defense 920 (+0)

Active Stat Bonuses

Food Nourishment

Duration:

Utility Nourishment

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Active Boons

(Click to activate a Boon or change the Intensity amount.)
  • Fury
    20% critical chance increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Might
    X damage per attack increase. Stacks intensity.
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  • Protection
    33% damage reduction. Stacks in duration.
  • Regeneration
    Regenerates X health per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Retaliation
    Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. Stacks in duration.
  • Swiftness
    33% movement speed increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Vigor
    Faster endurance regeneration. Stacks in duration.

World vs World Bonuses

(Click to activate bonus and change the Intensity amount.)
  • Energetic
    Faster Endurance Gain
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  • Scavenger
    Bonus Gold Per Kill
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  • Robust
    Maximum Health Increase
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  • Wisdom
    Bonus Experience Per Kill
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  • Medic
    Healing Effectiveness Increase
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Runes, Sigils, Accessories & Jewels

Armor & Runes

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    PvP Rune of the Nightmare
    1. Condition Damage: 25
    2. Condition Duration: 5%
    3. Condition Damage: 50
    4. Condition Duration: 10%
    5. Condition Damage: 100
    6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
    Infusion
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        PvP Rune of the Nightmare
        1. Condition Damage: 25
        2. Condition Duration: 5%
        3. Condition Damage: 50
        4. Condition Duration: 10%
        5. Condition Damage: 100
        6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
        Infusion
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            PvP Rune of the Nightmare
            1. Condition Damage: 25
            2. Condition Duration: 5%
            3. Condition Damage: 50
            4. Condition Duration: 10%
            5. Condition Damage: 100
            6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
            Infusion
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                PvP Rune of the Nightmare
                1. Condition Damage: 25
                2. Condition Duration: 5%
                3. Condition Damage: 50
                4. Condition Duration: 10%
                5. Condition Damage: 100
                6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
                Infusion
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                    PvP Rune of the Nightmare
                    1. Condition Damage: 25
                    2. Condition Duration: 5%
                    3. Condition Damage: 50
                    4. Condition Duration: 10%
                    5. Condition Damage: 100
                    6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
                    Infusion
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                        PvP Rune of the Nightmare
                        1. Condition Damage: 25
                        2. Condition Duration: 5%
                        3. Condition Damage: 50
                        4. Condition Duration: 10%
                        5. Condition Damage: 100
                        6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
                        Infusion

                          Rune Stat Totals

                          • Condition Damage 175
                          • Condition Duration 15%

                          Rune Bonuses

                          PvP Rune of the Nightmare
                          1. Condition Damage: 25
                          2. Condition Duration: 5%
                          3. Condition Damage: 50
                          4. Condition Duration: 10%
                          5. Condition Damage: 100
                          6. 50% chance when struck to inflict fear for 1 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)

                          Accessories & Jewels

                          Rabid Amulet
                          • Precision: 900
                          • Toughness: 900
                          • Condition Damage: 1200
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                                    Accessory Totals

                                    • Precision:900
                                    • Toughness:900
                                    • Condition Damage:1200

                                    Weapon Set Sigils

                                    Sigil of Superior Earth
                                    60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.
                                    Infusion
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                                        Sigil of Superior Agony
                                        Bleeds you apply last 20% longer.
                                        Infusion

                                          Weapon Set I

                                          Sigil of Superior Earth

                                          60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

                                          Sigil of Superior Agony

                                          Bleeds you apply last 20% longer.

                                          Sigil of Superior Doom
                                          You deal poison on your next attack for 8 seconds after you swap to this weapon while in combat.
                                          Infusion
                                            Infusion
                                              Sigil of Superior Earth
                                              60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.
                                              Infusion

                                                Weapon Set II

                                                Sigil of Superior Doom

                                                You deal poison on your next attack for 8 seconds after you swap to this weapon while in combat.

                                                Sigil of Superior Earth

                                                60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

                                                Infusion
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                                                        Water Weapon I

                                                        Water Weapon II