Part 64

Explore Guild Wars 2 Necromancer skills like Soul Leech, Spiteful Spirit, and Strip Enchantment. Learn unlock and purchase locations.

Skills:

Consume Corpse

• Effect: Consume a nearby corpse for 50 to 234 health.
• Comment: Offers significant healing but requires corpses, which are scarce late-game.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Willem [Yak's Bend]
• Purchase from: Captain Osric [Yak's Bend]

Soul Leech [Elite]

• Attribute: Blood Magic
• Energy Cost: 10
• Casting Time: 2
• Recharge Time: 15
• Effect: Hex. For 10 seconds, whenever target foe casts a spell, you steal 16 to 67 health from that foe.
• Comment: An underrated elite skill that can indefinitely disable casters when paired with backfire.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Dakk [Droknar's Forge]
• Capture From: Goss Darkweb [Abaddon's Mouth]

Spinal Shivers

• Attribute: Curses
• Energy Cost: 10
• Casting Time: 2
• Recharge Time: 15
• Effect: Hex. For 10 to 34 seconds, whenever target foe takes cold damage, that foe is interrupted and you lose 10 to 6 energy or Spinal Shivers ends.
• Comment: Considered useless unless a specific combo is found.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Rocius [Amnoon Oasis]
• Purchase from: Mazzim [Fisherman's Haven]

Spiteful Spirit [Elite]

• Attribute: Curses
• Energy Cost: 15
• Casting Time: 2
• Recharge Time: 10
• Effect: Hex. For 8 to 18 seconds, target foe takes 5 to 29 damage each time that foe attacks or uses a skill. All foes adjacent to that foe also take the damage.
• Comment: An underrated skill with decent duration, fast recharge, and AoE damage on clustered enemies.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Dakk [Droknar's Forge]
• Capture From: Nighh SpineChill [Talus Chute], Ceru Gloomrunner [Iron Mines of Moladune], Sapph Blacktracker [Snake Dance]

Strip Enchantment

• Attribute: Blood Magic
• Energy Cost: 10
• Casting Time: 1
• Recharge Time: 20
• Effect: Remove one enchantment from target foe. You gain 30 to 102 health for removing it.
• Comment: A good spell for both enchantment removal and health gain.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Jhoneil [Lion's Arch]
• Purchase from: Firstwatch Sergio [Lion's Arch]

Suffering

• Attribute: Curses
• Energy Cost: 15
• Casting Time: 2
• Recharge Time: 20
• Effect: Hex. For 6 to 25 seconds, target foe and all those nearby suffer health degeneration of 2.
• Comment: A decent spell for the middle game due to its good duration and area of effect, despite low health degeneration.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Jhoneil [Lion's Arch]
• Purchase from: Firstwatch Sergio [Lion's Arch]

Tainted Flesh [Elite]

• Attribute: Death Magic
• Energy Cost: 5
• Casting Time: 1
• Recharge Time: 0
• Effect: Enchantment. For 20 to 39 seconds, target ally is immune to disease and anyone striking that ally in melee becomes diseased for 3 to 13 seconds.
• Comment: Rarely used.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Dakk [Droknar's Forge]
• Capture From: Dosakaru Fevertouch [Perdition Rock]

Taste of Death

• Attribute: Death Magic
• Energy Cost: 5
• Casting Time: 0.25
• Recharge Time: 0
• Effect: Steal 100 to 340 health from target animated undead ally.
• Comment: Useful for summoners but difficult to target minions in combat.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Narius [Henge of Denravi]
• Purchase from: Captain Greywind [Ascalon Settlement]

Touch of Agony

• Attribute: Blood Magic
• Energy Cost: 5
• Casting Time: 0.75
• Recharge Time: 3
• Effect: Sacrifice 10% max health. Target touched foe takes 20 to 50 shadow damage.
• Comment: Considered a waste of health.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Narius [Henge of Denravi]
• Purchase from: Ephaz [Beetletun]

Unholy Feast

• Attribute: Blood Magic
• Energy Cost: 15
• Casting Time: 1
• Recharge Time: 30
• Effect: Steal 8 to 34 health from each nearby foe.
• Comment: Handy when facing many foes, but high cost and recharge limit its effectiveness.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Rocius [Amnoon Oasis]
• Purchase from: Avena [Maguuma Stade]

Vampiric Gaze

• Attribute: Blood Magic
• Energy Cost: 10
• Casting Time: 1
• Recharge Time: 5
• Effect: Steal 18 to 52 health from target foe.
• Comment: A great moderate damage/healing skill for a necromancer.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Garemm [Ascalon City]
• Purchase from: Sir Bertran [Ascalon City]

Vampiric Touch

• Attribute: Blood Magic
• Energy Cost: 15
• Casting Time: 0.75
• Recharge Time: 5
• Effect: Steal 29 to 65 health from target touched foe.
• Comment: Deals more damage than Vampiric Gaze, but requires touching the enemy, which can be risky.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Garemm [Ascalon City]
• Purchase from: Sir Bertran [Ascalon City]

Verata's Aura

• Attribute: Death Magic
• Energy Cost: 15
• Casting Time: 0.75
• Recharge Time: 30
• Effect: Enchantment. Sacrifice 33% max health. All hostile animated undead in the area become bound to you. This spell ends after 120 to 264 seconds. When it ends, you lose your bond with any undead minions bound to you. 50% failure with death magic 4 or less.
• Comment: Useful for summoners anticipating fighting other summoners, otherwise situational.
• Unlock from [Needed only for PvP]: Tyren [Droknar's Forge]
• Purchase from: Gammel [Copperhammer Mines]

Verata's Gaze

• Attribute: Death Magic
• Energy Cost: 5
• Casting Time: 1
• Recharge: (Incomplete in source)