Consume (necromancer)

Sacrifice health to drain the strength of your enemies, inflicting weakness while granting might to yourself for each target affected. — In-game description

Consume

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand sword

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

71926

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0.5½  

2,882

961

 

Consume

Sacrifice health to drain the strength of your enemies, inflicting weakness while granting might to yourself for each target affected.

 Damage (5x): 915 (2.5)^?

 Weakness (4s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

₅ Might (8s): 150 Condition Damage, 150 Power

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pierces

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.

Curses

• 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

• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Notes

• Activating this skill costs additional 15% of the base health in PvE, 5% in PvP and WvW, which is 2882 health in PvE or 961 health in PvP and WvW at level 80.
• Barrier will reduce the health lost.
• Base health is calculated using a value of 19212, i.e. without any additional vitality caused by equipment.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Reduced the health cost from 10% to 5% of base health in WvW and PvP.
February 27, 2024	Consume has been added to the game. This skill has been reworked. It now siphons strength from targets hit by Devouring Visage, damaging them and inflicting weakness. Gain might for each target affected.
November 28, 2023	Consume was available during the beta event.