Locust Swarm

Grant swiftness to allies and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes. — In-game description

Animation

Locust Swarm

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Warhorn

Game link

API

10557

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Locust Swarm

Grant swiftness to allies and summon a swarm of locusts that siphons health to you and your allies from nearby foes.

 Life Siphon Damage: 117 (0.08)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 37 (0.08)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 55 (0.08)^?

 Swiftness (15s): +33% Movement Speed

 Life Force: 10.5½%

 Number of Impacts: 10

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Allied Targets: 4

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Healing Radius: 360

— In-game description

Related traits

Blood Magic

• Banshee's Wail — Warhorn skills gain increased effect duration.

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.

Notes

• For more information about Life Siphoning, refer to Life Steal.
• Applies  Locust Swarm effect.
• The swarm lasts for 5 seconds and pulses in a point-blank area of effect every 0.5 second, generating life force, and dealing damage with each pulse.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	This skill now grants swiftness to nearby allies in addition to its previous effects.
May 02, 2023	Increased life-siphon healing from 37 to 55 in PvP and WvW.
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
June 28, 2022	This skill now heals nearby allies around the necromancer based on the number of enemies hit, in addition to its previous effects.
April 23, 2019	This skill will now inflict its effects every 0.5 seconds instead of every second. The duration of this skill has been halved, so the same number of attacks will occur, but they will occur faster. The radius of this skill has been reduced from 210 to 180 to make the range a standard multiple of 60. Finally, rather than inflicting damage on each pulse, Locust Swarm will now siphon health from enemies within its area of effect.
January 27, 2015	The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds.
September 09, 2014	Increased base swiftness duration from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. Fixed a bug which caused this skill to have incorrect skill facts and duration when traited with Banshee's Wail. Added a range indicator for this skill.
April 15, 2014	Added skill facts for duration and number of impacts.
October 15, 2013	Increased the base cripple duration to 2 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Increased the radius to 210. Increased the animation size to better reflect its attack area.
February 26, 2013	The radius of this ability has been increased by ~16% and now has the range of a normal melee ability.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Locust Swarm has been added to the game.