Insidious Disruption

Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. — In-game description

Insidious Disruption

Specialization

Curses (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Insidious Disruption

Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them.
Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

 Torment (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Devouring Visage — Sword
•   Wail of Doom — Warhorn
•   Reaper's Mark — Staff
•   Addle — Spear
•   Deadly Catch — Spear
•   Sinking Tomb — Trident
•   Grasping Darkness — Greatsword
•   Oppressive Collapse — Torch
•   Vile Blast — Pistol

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Doom — Death Shroud
•   Wave of Fear — Death Shroud
•   Ripple of Horror — Lich Form
•   Terrify — Reaper's Shroud
•   Executioner's Scythe — Reaper's Shroud
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud
•   Vital Draw — Harbinger Shroud

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Spectral Grasp — Spectral
•   Spectral Ring — Spectral

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Charge
•   "Chilled to the Bone!" — Shout

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Garish Pillar — Shade

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fear

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Death Curse

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

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.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Scourge

• 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 trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	Increased duration of torment from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
March 09, 2021	Fixed a bug that allowed this trait to apply torment to the necromancer.
December 03, 2019	Terrifying Descent: This trait has been reworked. It has been renamed Insidious Disruption. It now causes control effects to inflict torment on foes.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait now also inflicts 1 stack of torment for 3 seconds on foes you fear, in addition to its previous functionality. The skill activated when taking falling damage has been named Lesser Terrify.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Terrifying Descent has been added to the game.