Embrace the Darkness

Legendary Demon. Summon the power of the legendary demon to transform into a powerful avatar. Pulse torment to nearby foes. Using skills that cost energy increases the torment applied on the next pulse. — In-game description

Embrace the Darkness

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Legendary Demon

Sequence

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Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

28287

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Embrace the Darkness

Legendary Demon. Summon the power of the legendary demon to transform into a powerful avatar. Pulse torment to nearby foes. Using skills that cost energy increases the torment applied on the next pulse.

 Damage: 80 (0.3)^?

 Torment (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Torment (6s): 132 Damage, 191 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Additional Torment (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

₂ Additional Torment (6s): 264 Damage, 382 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Additional Torment (6s): 132 Damage, 191 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Number of Targets: 5

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Dark

— In-game description

Related traits

Corruption

• Acolyte of Torment — Torment deals increased damage.
• Demonic Defiance — Gain resistance and remove a damaging condition when you use a Legendary Demon skill.
• Pact of Pain — Conditions you apply to foes last longer, but conditions applied to you also last longer.
• Yearning Empowerment — Damaging conditions you apply last longer.

Salvation

• Generous Abundance — Heal allies around yourself when using a Legend skill. Heal allies around Ventari's Tablet when using a Legendary Centaur skill. Dragon Facet skills and Ventari's Will cannot activate this trait.

Devastation

• Expose Defenses — Your first attack when entering combat applies vulnerability. This ability is refreshed when you use an elite skill.
• Notoriety — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when using a legendary stance skill.

Notes

• The dark type field has a maximum duration of 3 minutes and 18 seconds, damage and torment pulses, however, will not stop.
• Mallyx occasionally shouts "Now you shall witness true ultimate power!" on use. This is a direct quote that he used in the original Guild Wars.

Gallery

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  Ground texture

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Decreased the bonus torment count from 2 to 1 PvE only.
October 29, 2025	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill's dark field from deactivating properly under certain circumstances.
June 08, 2021	Reduced the duration of applied torment from 5.5 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only.
May 11, 2021	Reduced torment duration from 6 seconds to 5.5 seconds in PvE only.
March 04, 2020	Reduced additional torment stacks after using an energy skill from 2 to 1 in PvP only.
October 01, 2019	Lowered the recharge from 10 seconds to 3 seconds.
July 16, 2019	This skill is now a mobile dark field. Increased recharge to 10 seconds. This skill no longer grants a stat increase and is no longer unblockable and unblindable. The amount of torment applied per pulse is unchanged, but using a skill that costs energy now increases the stacks of torment applied on the next pulse by 2. This skill now deals a small amount of damage each pulse.
July 10, 2018	Reduced the energy upkeep of this skill from 7 to 6 energy per second. Reduced the casting time of this skill by approximately 0.25 seconds.
March 27, 2018	Increased the attribute bonus from 10% to 15% in PvP and WvW.
July 28, 2016	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to be instantly activated.
July 26, 2016	This skill now applies and removes stacks of Hardening Persistence correctly. Fixed a bug that prevented torment from being applied to downed enemies.
February 23, 2016	This skill will now deliver an attack instead of piercing all defenses. The skill remains unblockable and will ignore blindness, but it will no longer pierce evasion.
December 15, 2015	Fixed a bug that allowed this ability to be active while not in legendary demon stance.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Embrace the Darkness has been added to the game.

Trivia

• When the player uses this skill, their character's appearance changes to a dark purple skin and their face to Mallyx's/a Margonite's face with blinking eyes.