Serpent Siphon/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 skill that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this skill, see Serpent Siphon. |
March 19, 2024
- Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in WvW only.
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
Necromancer (skill list)- Specialization
Scourge- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Training cost
- 15 Hero points
- Game link
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203020Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash a ghostly serpent toward a targeted area. Upon arriving, the serpent will burst into sand, granting barrier and boons to nearby allies and poisoning enemies. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment.
Damage: 226 (0.85)?
Barrier: 1,295 (1.0)?
Poison (10s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness
3 Boon Conversion (8s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary
Aegis (5s): Block the next incoming attack.
Regen (9s): 1,170 Heal
Boons Converted to Conditions: 1
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 240
Range: 900
— In-game description
June 27, 2023
- Serpent Siphon: This skill has been reworked. It will now send a serpent to a target area that will detonate upon arrival. Allies in the area will gain barrier, regeneration, and aegis. Enemies will be poisoned and one of their boons will be converted into torment. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Training cost
- 15 Hero points
- Game link
“½
Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash a ghostly serpent toward a targeted area. Upon arriving, the serpent will burst into sand, granting barrier and boons to nearby allies and poisoning enemies. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment.
— In-game description
October 04, 2022
- Punishment skills no longer inflict crippled when removing a boon. Increased number of torment stacks applied when removing a boon from 1 to 3.
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Training cost
- 15 Hero points
- Game link
“½Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment.
Unblockable
— In-game description
March 05, 2019
- Serpent Siphon: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to list an incorrect amount of barrier. Reduced its recharge time from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. Increased its damage by 21%.
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Game link
“½Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment and cripple.
Boon Conversion (2s): -50% Movement Speed
— In-game description
February 06, 2018
- Punishment Skills: The torment durations of this skill category have been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
- The cripple duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Game link
“½Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment and cripple.
— In-game description
December 12, 2017
- All skills that grant barrier now give 15% more barrier.
- Serpent Siphon: Poison has been adjusted from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
- Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Game link
“½Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment and cripple.
— In-game description
Original version
Serpent Siphon
- Profession
- Necromancer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Scourge
- Slot
- Utility
- Type
- Punishment
- Game link
“½Serpent SiphonPunishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment and cripple.
— In-game description
