Soul Barbs

Entering or exiting shroud increases all damage you deal for a duration. — In-game description

Soul Barbs

Specialization

Soul Reaping (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Soul Barbs

Entering or exiting shroud increases all damage you deal for a duration.

 Damage Increase: 10%

 Duration: 15 seconds

 Duration: 10 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Death Shroud — Shroud
•   End Death Shroud
•   Reaper's Shroud — Shroud
•   Exit Reaper's Shroud
•   Desert Shroud — Shade, Shroud
•   Harbinger Shroud — Shroud
•   Exit Harbinger Shroud

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sandstorm Shroud — Herald of Sorrow

Notes

• If used with Desert Shroud, characters will gain a total of 21 seconds of Soul Barbs (6 from entering until Desert Shroud expires, with another 15 after it ends).
• Increases strike damage, condition damage, and life steal damage.
• Applies the Soul Barbs effect.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Increased duration from 10 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE only.
May 11, 2021	This trait now increases all damage dealt, not only strike damage.
December 11, 2018	Soul Barbs: This trait has replaced Spectral Mastery in the Master tier. It grants a 10% damage increase to all attacks for 10 seconds whenever necromancers enter or exit a shroud.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this trait.