Dark Spear

Throw your spear and shadowstep to the first target it hits, delivering a rending strike in the area around you. — In-game description

Dark Spear

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Movement

Shadowstep

Game link

API

10616

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.5½  25  

Dark Spear

Throw your spear and shadowstep to the first target it hits, delivering a rending strike in the area around you.

 Missile Damage: 458 (1.25)^?

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

₅ Bleeding (8s): 880 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blast Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• 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.

Blood Magic

• Blood Bond — Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on your foe when you inflict bleeding on them that matches or exceeds the threshold.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	This skill no longer pulls the necromancer and instead shadowsteps them to their target to deliver a bleeding attack in a 240 radius that's separate from the initial spear strike. The spear strike's damage has been increased by 38%.
December 14, 2012	This skill is now a projectile finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Dark Spear has been added to the game.