Deathly Swarm

Unleash an insect swarm to blind and transfer conditions to your enemies. — In-game description

Deathly Swarm

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Game link

API

10705

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0.5½  

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Deathly Swarm

Unleash an insect swarm to blind and transfer conditions to your enemies.

 Conditions Transferred: 2

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 37 (0.1)^?

 Number of Bounces: 3

 Conditions Transferred: 3

 Blindness (6s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

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

• Shrouded Removal — Lose a condition when you enter shroud and every few seconds while you remain in shroud. Gain carapace when removing conditions from yourself.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Blood Magic

• Overflowing Thirst — Gain life force when you strike a foe with a dagger.

Notes

• Condition transferral is checked as each bounce hits.
  • Casting this spell then immediately casting another skill that applies a condition to yourself will still transfer the condition, provided the projectile hasn't hit.
  • If a bounce hit transfers the remainder of your conditions, the next bounce hit won't apply any conditions other than the implicit blind, unless you receive other additional conditions in between bounces.
• Being Blinded will not cause this skill to miss if the condition is transferred; instead, it will stack in duration on the enemy with this skill's implicit blind.
• Weakness, however, can cause this skill to be a Glancing Blow before it's transferred.
• This skill's projectile is homing, meaning that it will track its target for a certain amount of time.
• The projectile(s) from this skill keeps to the ground, meaning that it can be aimed only horizontally; its path vertically is always along the ground. It also means that targets cannot be hit if there is a gap or large elevation in the ground between the target and the caster (e.g. harpy jumping puzzle in Uncategorized Fractal).

Bug:

Tooltip damage calculation adds 32 to the weapon strength midpoint, reporting marginally higher damage.

Anomaly:

PvE tooltip is ordered differently since August 23 2022.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 18 seconds to 16 seconds. Damage multiplier increased from 0.6 to 1.2.
July 07, 2020	Reduced the conditions transferred per target struck from 3 to 2 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.1.
April 19, 2016	The missile velocity of this skill has been increased by 100%. The casting time of the projectile has increased by 0.2 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Increased the projectile velocity by 30%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Deathly Swarm has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• This skill used to be linked to the Death Shroud mechanic in early development.