Spectral Ring

Spectral. Create a spectral ring that protects allies and inflicts fear on foes. Gain life force when a foe is inflicted by fear from this skill. This skill can only inflict fear on the same foe once per interval. — In-game description

Spectral Ring

   

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Spectral

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

10608

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Spectral Ring

Spectral. Create a spectral ring that protects allies and inflicts fear on foes. Gain life force when a foe is inflicted by fear from this skill.
This skill can only inflict fear on the same foe once per interval.

 Protection (5s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Fear (1s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

 Life Force: 4%

 Number of Targets: 10

 Duration: 8 seconds

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Interval: 10.5½ seconds

 Combo Field: Ethereal

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

Death Magic

• Dark Defiance — If you are disabled, gain protection. Incoming condition damage is reduced while you have protection. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, and launch.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Soul Reaping

• Fear of Death — Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.

Reaper

• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.
• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Notes

• The ring does not pulse its effects, but instead only affects enemies or players passing through. Players cannot repeatedly stack protection, but after the protection expires it can be reapplied by passing through the ring again.
  • Fear will be reapplied every time the target walks through the ring (but will not stack)
• This skill is unblockable, goes through blind and is impossible to evade.
• The radius of this skill is 180, even though the tooltip does not list it.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	This skill now performs an initial strike that deals defiance-bar damage when deployed in PvE.
March 05, 2019	The description and skill facts for this skill have been updated to indicate the amount of life force that is gained when fear is applied to a foe.
December 11, 2018	This skill has been renamed Spectral Ring. It now creates a circular ring instead of a line. Its duration has been split between games modes, lasting 8 seconds in PvE and 5 seconds in PvP and WvW. This skill cannot apply fear to the same foe more than once every 1.5 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased duration from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 40 seconds.
April 19, 2016	The number of times this skill can be used to attempt to apply fear to an enemy has been capped at 10.
July 01, 2014	Updated the fear skill fact to scale correctly with Master of Terror.
May 20, 2014	Added an unblockable skill fact.
June 25, 2013	Normalized the amount of protection gained to 5 seconds for allies. Replaced the vulnerability with a 1-second fear when enemies try to cross the wall. Added 4% life force gain on hit. Increased the recharge to 45 seconds. Reduced the base duration to 5 seconds and 7.5 seconds while traited with Spectral Attunement.
February 26, 2013	This skill's combo field will now appear where the wall is instead of on top of the necromancer.
November 15, 2012	This skill now applies its recharge at the correct time instead of both during and after casting.
September 25, 2012	This skill has been updated to apply the correct amount of vulnerability (10).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Spectral Wall has been added to the game.