Torment

Deals damage every second. Deals additional damage to foes that aren't moving. Stacks intensity. — In-game description

Torment

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Intensity

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Deals damage every second. Deals additional damage to foes that aren't moving. Stacks intensity.

— In-game description

Torment is a condition that inflicts damage over time and stacks in intensity. If the victim isn't moving, they take more damage than they would while moving. Characters suffering from torment have black smoke on their legs (if applicable) and large red scratch marks around their lower body. The moving damage is higher in PvE than it is in WvW and sPvP. The damage dealt by torment is determined by the following formula:

While moving (PvE only):

(0.06 * Condition Damage) + (0.25 * Level) + 2 damage per stack per second,

(0.06 * Condition Damage) + 22 damage per stack per second at level 80.

While moving (WvW and sPvP):

(0.054 * Condition Damage) + (0.23 * Level) + 1.4 damage per stack per second.

While stationary (PvE only):

(0.09 * Condition Damage) + (0.36 * Level) + 3 damage per stack per second,

(0.09 * Condition Damage) + 31.8 damage per stack per second at level 80.

While stationary (WvW and sPvP):

(0.07 * Condition Damage) + (0.29 * Level) + 2.8 damage per stack per second.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that apply torment

Weapon skills that apply torment

•   Frigid Blitz — Axe
•   Temporal Rift — Axe
•   Anguish Swipe — Mace
•   Echoing Eruption — Mace
•   Misery Swipe — Mace
•   Abyssal Fire — Spear
•   Abyssal Raze — Spear
•   Abyssal Strike — Spear
•   Spear of Anguish — Spear
•   Mistsfire — Trident
•   Portal Fire — Trident
•   Reckoning Blast — Trident
•   Torrential Mists — Trident
•   Sevenshot — Short bow
•   Impale — Sword
•   Toxic Shot — Short bow
•   Jagged Fan — Harpoon gun
•   Harrowing Storm — Axe
•   Dancing Dagger — Dagger
•   Shadow Strike — Pistol
•   Malicious Sneak Attack — Pistol
•   Double Bolt — Scepter
•   Endless Night — Scepter
•   Shadow Bolt — Scepter
•   Triple Bolt — Scepter
•   Triple Threat — Scepter
•   Twilight Combo — Scepter
•   Ether Blast — Scepter
•   Ether Bolt — Scepter
•   Ether Clone — Scepter
•   Illusionary Counter — Scepter
•   Phantasmal Warlock — Staff
•   Winds of Chaos — Staff
•   Ethereal Chop — Axe
•   Imaginary Axes — Axe
•   Lacerating Chop — Axe
•   Lingering Thoughts — Axe
•   Mirror Strikes — Axe
•   Phantom Razor — Dagger
•   Ether Barrage — Scepter
•   Chaos Vortex — Staff
•   Lingering Thoughts — Axe
•   Devouring Darkness — Scepter
•   Feast of Corruption — Scepter
•   Harrowing Wave — Torch
•   Oppressive Collapse — Torch
•   Vicious Shot — Pistol
•   Weeping Shots — Pistol

Transform skills that apply torment

•   Plague of Darkness — Elixir X (underwater)
•   Grasping Shadows — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Grasping Shadows — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Haunt Shot — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Tainted Shackles — Death Shroud
•   Dark Barrage — Harbinger Shroud
•   Devouring Cut — Harbinger Shroud
•   Tainted Bolts — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud

Healing skills that apply torment

•   Sand Flare — Punishment

Utility skills that apply torment

•   Icerazor's Ire — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Razorclaw's Rage — Legendary Renegade Stance
•   Skale Venom — Venom
•   Well of Sorrow — Well
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Desiccate — Punishment
•   Sand Swell — Punishment
•   Serpent Siphon — Punishment
•   Trail of Anguish — Punishment

Elite skills that apply torment

•   Embrace the Darkness — Legendary Demon Stance
•   Spear of Archemorus — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   Ghastly Breach — Punishment
•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Profession mechanic skills that apply torment

•   Crippling Anguish
•   Ley-Line Vortex
•   Tormenting Visions
•   Throw Cursed Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Steal Resistance — Stolen skill
•   Desert Shroud — Shade, Shroud
•   Manifest Sand Shade — Shade

Pet skills that apply torment

•   Crippling Anguish — Fanged Iboga
•   Evil Eye — Demon
•   Ley-Line Vortex — Aether Hunter
•   Tormenting Visions — Spinegazer

Downed skills that apply torment

•   Forceful Displacement

Common skills that apply torment

•   Alkar's Alchemical Acid
•   Channeled Agony
•   Launch Emotions — Scruffy 2.0, Recollector
•   Night Terror
•   Night Terror
•   Skewer — Tengu Longbow (bundle)
•   Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
•   Toxic Caltrops
•   Unstable Magic Volley — Gliding

Skills that remove torment

See also: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons, Condition#Skills that remove conditions

Healing skills that remove torment

•   A.E.D. — Gadget
•   Withdraw — Trick

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply torment

• Replenishing Despair (Corruption) — While maintaining an upkeep skill, your energy pips are increased, but you apply torment to yourself every interval.
• Abyssal Chill (Corruption ) — When you chill a foe, you also inflict torment on them.
• Pressure Striking (Trickery) — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Dark Sentry (Specter) — Apply Rot Wallow Venom to allies you grant barrier to. Outgoing healing to allies is increased. Rot Wallow Venom effect cannot apply to yourself.
• Maim the Disillusioned (Illusions) — Shatter skills inflict torment on hit.
• Mirage Mantle (Mirage) —  Ambush[sic] skills are improved.
• Insidious Disruption (Curses) — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Master of Corruption (Curses) — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.

Trait skills that apply torment

•   Call of the Demon (Song of the Mists) — Strike enemies around you, inflicting conditions on struck foes.
•   Invoke Torment (Invoking Torment) — Charge up and release a burst of torment energy on nearby foes.
•   Impaling Lotus (Lotus Training) — Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies.
•   Phantasmal Seeking Axe (Mirrored Axes) — Release a phantasmal axe that seeks out a target after a delay, inflicting conditions.
•   Sandstorm Shroud (Herald of Sorrow) — Shade. Enter the final shroud, pulsing barrier to allies around yourself and priming the shroud for a powerful detonation that damages enemies and bolsters allies. Targets can only be affected by this skill once per activation.
•   Approaching Doom (Doom Approaches) — Nearby foes are tormented and weakened.

Traits that improve torment

• Acolyte of Torment (Corruption) — Torment deals increased damage.
• Yearning Empowerment (Corruption) — Damaging conditions you apply last longer.
• Larcenous Torment (Specter) — Steal health and gain shadow force when you torment a foe. Does not grant shadow force while in shroud.
• Strength of Shadows (Specter) — Gain expertise based on a percentage of your vitality. Torment you inflict deals increased damage.
• Jagged Mind (Virtuoso) — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Parasitic Contagion (Curses) — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Demonic Lore (Scourge) — Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.

Traits that remove torment

• Shadow's Embrace (Shadow Arts) — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.

Related effects

Effects that apply torment when struck

•   Dark Aura

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply torment

• Relic of Akeem — When you disable an enemy that is afflicted by 5 or more stacks of confusion or torment, inflict confusion and torment on enemies around the target.
• Relic of the Fractal — When you inflict bleeding on an enemy with 6 or more stacks of bleeding, also inflict burning and torment.
• Relic of the Krait — After using an elite skill, emit a wave of corruption that inflicts damaging conditions.
• Relic of the Mirage — Inflict torment upon successfully evading an attack.
• Relic of Peitha — After shadowstepping or using a deception skill, fire a blade at a nearby enemy after a short delay, applying torment and increasing your strike damage against that target.

Upgrade components that apply torment

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Torment — Inflict 2 stacks of torment for 5 seconds to enemies around your target upon landing a critical hit. (Cooldown: 5 Seconds)

Upgrade components that affect torment

Runes

• Superior Rune of Tormenting (rank 2, 4, & 6 – increase duration)

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Demons (increase duration)

Related consumables

See also: Food#Torment

• Meaty Asparagus Skewer (increase duration by 15%)

Notes

• Synergy with immobile and control effects, since they suppress movement of the the victim.
• "Moving" includes running (or walking), strafing, or backpedalling (default key binds W, Q, E, and S respectively). Turning in place (default key binds A and D) does not count as moving.

Version history

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Torment: In PvP and WvW, damage has been adjusted as follows: While moving: Increased base damage from 15.9 to 19.8. Increased condition damage scaling from 0.045 to 0.054. While stationary: Reduced base damage from 31.8 to 26. Reduced condition damage scaling from 0.09 to 0.07.
May 11, 2021	Deals damage every second. Deals additional damage to foes that are not moving. Stacks intensity.
August 09, 2017	Base damage has been increased to match bleed's base damage; movement damage has been reduced to compensate for this. This change only applies to PvE.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All damage conditions will now stack up to 1500 times. The formula for this condition has been rescaled to account for the new behavior of damaging conditions and to put more focus on the condition damage stat. New damage over time: 1.5 + (0.18 * Level) + (0.045 * Condition Damage) New damage while moving: 3 + (0.36 * Level) + (0.09 * Condition Damage)
October 15, 2013	Updated the description to more accurately display the damage done while standing still and moving.
June 25, 2013	Torment has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Torment was introduced to the game as part of the Sky Pirates of Tyria release.

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