Grasping Darkness/history
August 22, 2023
- Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in WvW only.
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
Damage: 524 (1.3)? Damage: 4 (0.01)?- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
Life Force: 10% Life Force: 4%- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 900
— In-game description
November 29, 2022
- Grasping Darkness: Increased life force gain per hit from 4% to 10% in PvE only.
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
Damage: 524 (1.3)? Damage: 4 (0.01)?- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
Life Force: 10% Life Force: 4%- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 900
— In-game description
June 28, 2022
- Grasping Darkness: Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
Damage: 524 (1.3)? Damage: 4 (0.01)?- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
- Life Force: 4%
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 900
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Grasping Darkness: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.3 to 0.01.
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
Damage: 524 (1.3)? Damage: 4 (0.01)?- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
- Life Force: 4%
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 900
— In-game description
October 01, 2019
- Grasping Darkness: Fixed an issue that could cause the claw effect to pop out of existence before the skill completed. Removed misleading legendary projectile effects from this skill due to it not being a projectile.
September 17, 2019
- Grasping Darkness: This skill will now attempt to make the player face the target when activated instead of immediately failing when used on targets behind the player.
April 23, 2019
- Grasping Darkness: Increased the range from 750 to 900 to make the range a standard multiple of 60.
- Fixed issues that caused this skill to unexpectedly fail when hitting some objects.
- This skill will no longer be stopped by projectile blocking or reflecting.
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Conjure claws of darkness from the shadows to attack foes, applying a condition to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
- Damage: 524 (1.3)?
- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
- Life Force: 4%
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 900
— In-game description
February 22, 2017
- Grasping Darkness: The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
- Increased damage by 30%.
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Toss spectral scythes at foes in front of you, applying chill to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
- Damage: 524 (1.3)?
- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
- Life Force: 4%
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 750
— In-game description
Original version
Grasping Darkness
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Reaper
- Weapon
- Greatsword
- Game link
“Toss spectral scythes at foes in front of you, applying chill to them and pulling them to you. Gain life force for each struck foe.
- Damage: 403 (1.0)?
- Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed
- Life Force: 4%
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 750
— In-game description