Manifest Sand Shade/history
June 27, 2023
- Manifest Sand Shade: Reduced shade duration from 20 seconds to 8 seconds in PvE only.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Using a shade ability strikes enemies near you and your shades.
Damage: 177 (0.666)? Damage: 27 (0.1)? Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Torment (1s): 22 Damage, 32 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Duration: 8 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
Count Recharge: 8 seconds Count Recharge: 15 seconds- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
July 28, 2020
- Manifest Sand Shade: Increased ammo recharge time from 8 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Using a shade ability strikes enemies near you and your shades.
Damage: 177 (0.666)? Damage: 27 (0.1)? Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Torment (1s): 22 Damage, 32 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
Count Recharge: 8 seconds Count Recharge: 15 seconds- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
July 08, 2020
- Shade Skills: Reduced the target cap of shades from 3 to 2 in WvW only. Reduced the target cap of greater shades from 5 to 2 in WvW only.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Using a shade ability strikes enemies near you and your shades.
Damage: 177 (0.666)? Damage: 27 (0.1)? Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Torment (1s): 22 Damage, 32 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
- Count Recharge: 8 seconds
- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
July 07, 2020
- Shade Skills: These have been changed back to triggering at both the necromancer's location and their shade locations with each use.
- Manifest Sand Shade: (Undocumented) Target cap reduced to 3.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Whenever you use a shade ability, your sand shades strike nearby enemies. While no sand shades are present, shade skills occur around you.
Damage: 177 (0.666)? Damage: 27 (0.1)? Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Torment (1s): 22 Damage, 32 Damage if Foe Is Stationary- Number of Targets: 3
Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
- Count Recharge: 8 seconds
- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Manifest Sand Shade: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.666 to 0.1. Reduced torment duration from 2 seconds to 1 second. This skill now uses the PvE ammo recharge of 8 seconds in all game modes.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Whenever you use a shade ability, your sand shades strike nearby enemies. While no sand shades are present, shade skills occur around you.
Damage: 177 (0.666)? Damage: 27 (0.1)? Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary Torment (1s): 22 Damage, 32 Damage if Foe Is Stationary- Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
- Count Recharge: 8 seconds
- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
December 03, 2019
- Manifest Sand Shade: This skill no longer inflicts cripple in all game modes. Reduced ammunition recharge for the untraited version of this skill from 15 seconds to 8 seconds in PvE only.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Whenever you use a shade ability, your sand shades strike nearby enemies. While no sand shades are present, shade skills occur around you.
- Damage: 177 (0.666)?
- Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary
- Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
Count Recharge: 8 seconds Count Recharge: 15 seconds- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
October 15, 2019
- Manifest Sand Shade: Fixed a bug that prevented the effect of this skill from lasting more than 10 seconds in PvP and WvW when not traited with Sand Savant. The effect will now last for the increased duration of 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
October 01, 2019
- Shade skills no longer affect the area around the scourge while they have a shade present in the world.
- Increased the number of targets affected by shade skills from 3 to 5.
- Manifest Sand Shade: The duration of sand shades in WvW and PvP has been increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
Manifest Sand Shade
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force[sic]. Whenever you use a shade ability, your sand shades strike nearby foes. While no sand shades are present, shade skills occur around you.
- Damage: 177 (0.666)?
- Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
- Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary
- Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 15 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
- Count Recharge: 15 seconds
- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
March 27, 2018
- Scourge (Profession): Fixed an issue that caused an obstruction error when there wasn't a line of sight to a target, but there was a line of sight to the shade.
- Enemies in range of the shade will now be struck if the shade is visible to the necromancer.
- Fixed an issue in which this skill could still hit downed enemies multiple times.
February 06, 2018
- Shades: Added a 0.5-second warning to enemy players on each shade and on the player when activating a shade skill.
November 07, 2017
- Manifest Sand Shade: Fixed a bug that could cause this skill's targets to be lost due to proximity between shades or the casting scourge.
- Made back-end changes to increase the priority of shade visibility.
October 17, 2017
- Manifest Sand Shade: Fixed a bug that allowed strikes from this skill to hit from multiple sand shades on the same target.
- (WvW and PvP only): The spawn duration of sand shades has been reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds.
Manifest Sand Shade
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Type
- Shade
- Game link
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force. Whenever you use a shade ability, you and your sand shades strike nearby foes.
- Damage: 177 (0.666)?
- Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
- Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary
- Number of Targets: 3
Duration: 20 seconds Duration: 10 seconds- Maximum Count: 3
- Count Recharge: 15 seconds
- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description
Original version
Manifest Sand Shade
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Type
- Shade
- Game link
“Shade. Manifest a sand shade using some of your life force. Whenever you use a shade ability, you and your sand shades strike nearby foes.
- Damage: 177 (0.666)?
- Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
- Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary
- Number of Targets: 3
- Duration: 20 seconds
- Maximum Count: 3
- Count Recharge: 15 seconds
- Radius: 180
- Range: 900
— In-game description