Tainted Shackles

Shroud. Begin binding nearby enemies with your life force, pulsing out conditions; they can break this binding if they get far enough away from you. Bound foes are immobilized if the binding finishes. — In-game description

Tainted Shackles

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Death Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Game link

API

19504

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0.25¼  25  

Tainted Shackles

Shroud. Begin binding nearby enemies with your life force, pulsing out conditions; they can break this binding if they get far enough away from you. Bound foes are immobilized if the binding finishes.

 Damage: 332 (1.25)^?

₂ Torment (12s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Revealed (5s): You cannot stealth

 Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Plague Sending — Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Blood Magic

• Vampiric Presence — You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.

Notes

• Inflicts the  Dark Binding on enemies for up to 4 seconds.

Bug:

Despite the tooltip indicating that it scales from offhand weapon strength, the actual damage seems to be based on unequipped weapon strength 690.5.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Reduced recharge from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
October 02, 2018	The torment duration per pulse has been increased from 10 seconds to 12 seconds. The immobilize duration has been increased from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds. The final impact's damage has been increased by 25% and will now inflict torment in addition to immobilize.
May 16, 2017	Updated the skill fact to correctly indicate that this skill applies 5 seconds of Revealed when hitting an enemy.
May 16, 2017	This skill will now apply 5 seconds of Revealed to enemies the first time it successfully hits.
July 01, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of targets (5).
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for immobilize. Added a duration skill fact.
October 15, 2013	This skill now uses radius instead of range.
August 06, 2013	This skill's damage tooltip now displays the appropriate damage.
June 25, 2013	Tainted Shackles has been added to the game.