Assassin's Annihilation

Siphon life from foes when hitting a foe from behind or the side. — In-game description

Assassin's Annihilation

Specialization

Devastation (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

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Assassin's Annihilation

Siphon life from foes when hitting a foe from behind or the side.

 Life Siphon Damage: 297 (0.108)^?

 Life Siphon Damage: 151 (0.0877)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 306 (0.1)^?

— In-game description

Notes

• For more information about Life Siphoning, refer to Life Steal.
• The sides and behind in tooltip mean 270 degrees around the target excluding the front side.
• Unrelenting Assault procs this trait almost always.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This trait has been retired and replaced with Dance of Death.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage dealt by 20% (PvE only).
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug in which this trait would trigger from skills that did no damage.
April 25, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused Assassin's Annihilation to deal too much damage when striking with missiles.
December 01, 2015	Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from showing up in the combat log.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Assassin's Annihilation has been added to the game.