Death Perception

Gain increased critical-strike chance. Gain increased critical-strike damage while in shroud. — In-game description

Death Perception

Specialization

Soul Reaping (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Death Perception

Gain increased critical-strike chance. Gain increased critical-strike damage while in shroud.

 Critical Damage Increase: 10%

 Critical Damage Increase: 15%

 Critical Chance Increase: 15%

 Critical Chance Increase: 10%

— In-game description

Mechanics

Anomaly:

Instead of increasing the Critical Damage attribute like the tooltip implies, this acts as a 10% multiplicative strike damage modifier only applied to critical hits.

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Death Shroud — Shroud
•   Reaper's Shroud — Shroud
•   Desert Shroud — Shroud, Shade
•   Harbinger Shroud — Shroud

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sandstorm Shroud — Herald of Sorrow

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the critical damage increase from 15% to 10% in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Additional critical chance increased from 10% to 15% in PvE and WvW.
June 28, 2022	This trait now gives 10% critical chance, regardless of whether the necromancer is in shroud. This trait now increases critical damage by 15% instead of increasing ferocity while in shroud.
August 28, 2018	The critical hit chance increase of this trait has been reduced from 50% to 33% while in a shroud. This trait now additionally grants up to 300 ferocity at level 80.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Traits that previously referred to Death Shroud now refer to the more ubiquitous Shroud.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from updating the critical chance display in the Hero panel.
June 25, 2013	Death Perception has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The name of this trait is likely a play on words referencing "Depth Perception".