Signet of Shadows

Signet Passive: Grants a 25% increase in movement speed. Signet Active: Apply conditions to foes near your target and gain dark aura. — In-game description

Signet of Shadows

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

13060

Gallery
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Signet of Shadows

Signet Passive: Grants a 25% increase in movement speed.
Signet Active: Apply conditions to foes near your target and gain dark aura.

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Weakness (5s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

₁₀ Vulnerability (5s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage

 Dark Aura (4s): -20% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill can be used when the target is not in your line of sight. This means you can hit targets behind walls.

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Signets of Power — Signets grant initiative.

Shadow Arts

• Shadow Savior — Gain dark aura when you steal. Granting yourself dark aura heals nearby allies.
• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Cover of Shadow — When you steal, create a field around yourself that grants allies protection. Granting dark aura to yourself removes a condition from nearby allies.

Daredevil

• Weakening Strikes — Your next attack after dodging causes weakness to foes struck. Weakened enemies deal less damage to you, and you deal increased strike damage to them.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This skill now grants dark aura in addition to its previous effects.
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 16 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 20-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The active effect now applies weakness and 10 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds, in addition to blind. This skill now requires a target before it will activate. This skill will no longer activate and do nothing if it is cast on a target out of range.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Signet of Shadows has been added to the game.

Trivia

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