Summon Bone Fiend

Minion. Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds. — In-game description

Summon Bone Fiend

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Minion

Sequence

 → 

Summons

Bone Fiend

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

10533

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Summon Bone Fiend

Minion. Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds.

 Damage (2x): 572 (0.4)^?

₂ Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Flesh of the Master — Minions have increased health. Gain carapace for each minion you control. Your minions are destroyed when this trait is reassigned.
• Necromantic Corruption — Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. When a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target. There is a 10 second cooldown per minion.
• Death Nova — When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Blood Magic

• Vampiric — Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.

Ritualist

• Spirit's Gift — Heal nearby allies when you summon a creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
• Explosive Growth — When you summon a creature, deal damage to enemies around that creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
• Boon of Creation — Gain concentration. Gain life force when you summon a creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
• Spirits' Remedy — Remove conditions from nearby allies when you summon a creature. Spirits and minions are creatures.
• Spirit's Strength — Your summoned creatures deal more damage and their healing is increased. Spirits and minions are creatures.

Notes

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Animate Bone Fiend.

• This minion, when summoned at level 80, has a base Power of 1,500. It has two projectile finishers with each attack. This makes it quite powerful when appropriate combo fields(such as fire) are present.
• The attacks that cause cripple, both of them together, do about the damage of the tooltip; but the attacks which do not cause cripple seem to do about half that much.
• It ends up doing around 160 DPS unbuffed and without considering projectile finishers.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 21, 2021	Reduced the bone fiend's base health from 7,036 to 4,926 in PvP only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Minion skill recharges have been reduced by 20%.
June 03, 2014	Updated the skill fact to show that the crippling attack applies 2 stacks of cripple.
August 06, 2013	Added a range fact.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Summon Bone Fiend has been added to the game.