Devouring Darkness

Corrupt boons from enemies around your target. Inflict torment and gain life force for each condition on your initial target up to the threshold. Gain extra life force for each extra foe struck. — In-game description

Devouring Darkness

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Trait req.

 Lingering Curse

Game link

API

51647

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Devouring Darkness

Corrupt boons from enemies around your target. Inflict torment and gain life force for each condition on your initial target up to the threshold. Gain extra life force for each extra foe struck.

 Damage: 425 (1.16)^?

 Damage: 340 (0.928)^?

 Torment per Condition (4s): 88 Damage, 127 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Torment per Condition (6s): 132 Damage, 191 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 2

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 3

 Life Force: 8%

 Life Force per Condition: 1%

 Life Force per Foe: 2%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Condition Threshold: 5

 Radius: 360

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Only active when Lingering Curse is traited.
• Compared with the replaced Feast of Corruption:
  • This skill hits 4 additional foes within 360 radius of the target.
  • Provides an additional 2% life force for each extra foe hit, up to 8% for 4 foes.
• Can be blocked by  Aegis.
• Boons are corrupted per the following:

Boon	Condition
Aegis	Burning (1 stack, 3 s)
Alacrity	Chilled (3 s)
Fury	Blinded (5 s)
Might	Weakness (5 s)
Protection	Vulnerability (3 stacks, 8 s)
Quickness	Slow (3 s)
Regeneration	Poisoned (6s)
Resistance	Chilled (3 s)
Resolution	Confusion (3 stacks, 5 s)
Stability	Fear (1 s)
Swiftness	Crippled (10 s)
Vigor	Bleeding (2 stacks, 8 s)

Related traits

Curses

• 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.
• Lingering Curse — Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

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.

Scourge

• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.
• Demonic Lore — Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	(Undocumented) Reduced the power coefficient from 1.16 to 0.928 in WvW and PvP. Increased the number of boons corrupted from 1 to 2 in PvP only. Increased the cooldown from 10 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP only.
September 26, 2023	Reduced torment duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 18 seconds in WvW only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Devouring Darkness (Lingering Curse): PvP will now use the WvW version of the skill, which converts 1 boon to a condition.
December 03, 2019	Reduced the number of boons corrupted from 2 to 1 in WvW only.
October 01, 2019	Reduced damage by 20% in PvP and WvW. The existing split of corrupting 2 boons in PvP has been brought to WvW as well. This skill continues to corrupt 3 boons in PvE. This skill now queues behind other skills rather than interrupting them.
October 02, 2018	Fixed the line-of-sight check on this skill. Foes inside the area of effect can now block or evade the attack.
August 28, 2018	Devouring Darkness has been added to the game. Lingering Curse: The condition damage gained from this trait has been increased from 150 to 200. This trait also changes Feast of Corruption into a new, area-affecting version called Devouring Darkness.