Feast of Corruption

Strike your target, gain life force, and corrupt boons on your foe. For each condition on your target up to the condition threshold, gain additional life force and inflict torment. — In-game description

Feast of Corruption

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Game link

API

10709

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0.75¾  

10

12

 

Feast of Corruption

Strike your target, gain life force, and corrupt boons on your foe. For each condition on your target up to the condition threshold, gain additional life force and inflict torment.

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 275 (0.75)^?

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

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 3

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 2

 Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

 Life Force: 8%

 Life Force per Condition: 1%

 Condition Threshold: 5

 Range: 900

— In-game description

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.

Notes

• 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)

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	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.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.75. Reduced number of boons corrupted from 2 to 1.
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.
July 10, 2018	This skill no longer automatically inflicts torment. It now corrupts boons before gaining life force and inflicting torment based upon the number of conditions on the necromancer's target. The number of boons corrupted is 2 in PvP and 3 in PvE and WvW.
December 12, 2017	Torment has been adjusted from 2 stacks for 4 seconds to 1 stack for 8 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Now grants 8% life-force gain on hit, plus 1% per additional condition on the target. Now applies 2 stacks of torment for 4 seconds on hit, plus 1 additional stack per condition on the target. No longer deals bonus damage per condition. Bonuses cap at 5 conditions.
June 25, 2013	Increased the life force gain from 2/condition to 3/condition.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Feast of Corruption has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.