Unholy Feast

Cripple nearby foes and remove their boons. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold. — In-game description

Unholy Feast

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand axe

Game link

API

10701

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Unholy Feast

Cripple nearby foes and remove their boons. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold.

 Damage: 917 (2.5)^?

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

 Boons Removed: 2

 Boons Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Spiteful Talisman — Deal increased strike damage to foes with no boons. Focus and axe skills recharge faster.

Curses

• 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.

Reaper

• 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.

Scourge

• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.

Notes

• Unholy Burst will be triggered if the enemy is only reduced below 50% by the damage of Unholy Feast, or killed by it.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Increased the power coefficient from 2.0 to 2.5 in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	This skill now removes boons instead of converting them into conditions. Increased power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.2 in WvW and from 1.3 to 1.5 in PvP.
May 02, 2023	Increased power coefficient from 0.88 to 2.0 in PvE only. Increased threshold for second strike from 25% to 50% in PvE only.
May 10, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 1.3 to 1.0 in WvW only.
March 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.3 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased power coefficient from 0.88 to 1.0. Increased bonus damage health threshold from 25% to 50%. Reduced number of boons corrupted from 2 to 1.
December 12, 2017	Increased damage by 10%.
May 16, 2017	This skill no longer applies retaliation. It now invokes a secondary AoE strike against foes below 25% health. Fixed skill-fact bugs that showed range instead of radius and did not display the correct number of boons converted.
October 18, 2016	The number of boons converted to conditions has been increased from 1 to 2.
September 29, 2015	Decreased the recharge from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Instead of removing a boon, this skill now converts a boon to a condition on struck foes.
June 25, 2013	This ability now removes 1 boon from each target hit.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Unholy Feast has been added to the game.

Trivia

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