Spectral Mastery

Reduces recharge on spectral skills. Spectral skills last longer and grant life force on use. — In-game description

Spectral Mastery

Specialization

Soul Reaping (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

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Spectral Mastery

Reduces recharge on spectral skills. Spectral skills last longer and grant life force on use.

 Life Force: 5%

 Recharge Reduced: 20%

 Duration Increase: 20%

— In-game description

Notes

• Increases Spectral Armor's protection duration and Spectral Grasp's chill duration.
• Does not increase the swiftness, protection, or fear durations from Spectral Walk, or Spectral Wall

Anomalies:

• Spectral Grasp must hit an enemy to gain the extra life force, instead of being granted on-use.
• The chill duration tooltip of Spectral Grasp is not affected, but the duration is increased.

	Skill	Traited recharge
Utility	Spectral Armor (PvE)	20	→	16
	Spectral Armor (WvW, PvP)	30	→	24
	Spectral Grasp	35	→	28
	Spectral Ring	40	→	32
	Spectral Walk (PvE)	20	→	16
	Spectral Walk (WvW, PvP)	50	→	40
Elite	Lich Form	150	→	120

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
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.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Duration increase has been reduced from 50% to 20%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Master tier. Added: Spectral skills last 50% longer and grant 5% life force on use.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Spectral Mastery has been added to the game.