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August 17, 2021

  • Nefarious Favor: Reduced the number of conditions converted to boons from 2 to 1 in PvP only.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
12 Recharge time
12 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 2
Radius.png Radius: 180

— 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.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
12 Recharge time
12 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 2
Radius.png Radius: 180

— 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.
  • Nefarious Favor: (Undocumented) Target cap reduced to 3.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
12 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 2
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 180

— In-game description

February 25, 2020

  • Nefarious Favor: (Competitive split) Increased number of conditions converted to boons from 1 to 2. Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
12 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 2
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Radius.png Radius: 180

— In-game description

October 02, 2018

  • Nefarious Favor: Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from respecting party and squad prioritization.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
10 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. You and your shade convert conditions from nearby allies into boons.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 180

— In-game description

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.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Slot
Profession mechanic
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
10 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. Your shades convert a condition on nearby allies into a boon.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Radius.png Radius: 180

— 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

  • Added a 0.5-second warning to enemy players on each shade and on the player when activating a shade skill.
  • Nefarious Favor: Reduced the number of conditions converted to boons from 2 to 1 in all game modes.
    • Increased the cooldown of this skill from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in WvW and PvP.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
10 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. You and your shade convert conditions from nearby allies into boons.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 180

— In-game description

November 07, 2017

  • Nefarious Favor: Fixed a bug that could cause this skill's targets to be lost due to proximity between shades or the casting scourge.

October 17, 2017

  • Nefarious Favor (WvW and PvP only): The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 5 seconds to 8 seconds.
Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time
8 Recharge time
 
Nefarious Favor

Shade. You and your shade convert conditions from nearby allies into boons.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 1
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 180

— In-game description

Original version

Nefarious Favor.png

Nefarious Favor

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Specialization
Scourge icon small.png Scourge
Type
Shade
Game link
5 Recharge time  
Nefarious Favor

Shade. You and your shade convert conditions from nearby allies into boons.
Targets affected by this ability can only be affected once per cast.

Life Force Cost.png Life Force Cost: 1,935
Miscellaneous effect.png Conditions Converted to Boons: 2
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Radius.png Radius: 180

— In-game description