Transfusion

Marks can be triggered by allies to heal them and provide them with additional benefits. Create Lesser Chilblains at your location when you use your fourth shroud skill. — In-game description

Transfusion

Specialization

Blood Magic (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Transfusion

Marks can be triggered by allies to heal them and provide them with additional benefits. Create Lesser Chilblains at your location when you use your fourth shroud skill.

 Healing: 404 (0.45)^?

 Healing: 404 (0.3)^?

 Healing: 200 (0.1)^?

 Vigor (4s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Vigor (1s): +50% Endurance Regeneration

 Heals and Grants Protection

 Removes 3 Conditions

 Removes 2 Conditions

₃ Stability (4s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

₁ Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Chillblains additional effects are:

 Healing: 1,302 (0.5)^?

 Healing: 822 (0.5)^?

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (2s): -33% Incoming Damage

• Lesser Chilblains additional reduced effects are:

 Healing: 1,302 (0.5)^?

 Healing: 662 (0.3)^?

 Healing: 419 (0.35)^?

 Healing: 404 (0.3)^?

 Healing: 280 (0.3)^?

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (2s): -33% Incoming Damage

• Putrid Mark will transfer your conditions before cleansing additional ones from you.
• Lesser Mark of Blood from Mark of Evasion is treated as a Mark of Blood for the purposes of this trait, granting both the direct healing and Vigor boon.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Mark of Blood — Staff
•   Chillblains — Staff
•   Putrid Mark — Staff
•   Reaper's Mark — Staff

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Gathering Plague — Death Shroud
•   Life Transfer — Death Shroud
•   Soul Spiral — Reaper's Shroud
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud
•   Preservation — Ritualist's Shroud

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Garish Pillar — Shade

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Mark of Blood — Mark of Evasion

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Blood Magic

• Blood Bank — Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.

Soul Reaping

• Vital Persistence — Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.

Reaper

• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 09, 2025	Reduced the base healing from 280 to 200 and the healing power coefficient from 0.3 to 0.1 (in PvP only). Reduced the vigor duration from Mark of Blood from 2 seconds to 1 second in PvP only.
August 19, 2025	This trait now creates a Lesser Chilblains instead of a full-strength Chilblains. Reduced the protection applied by Chilblains from 3 seconds to 2 seconds, reduced the number of conditions removed by Putrid Mark from 3 to 2, and lowered the stability applied by Reaper's Mark from 3 stacks for 4 seconds to 1 stack for 3 seconds in PvP only.
July 01, 2025	Reduced the base healing from 404 to 280, reduced the vigor duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds, and reduced the Chilblains healing from 1,302 to 822 in PvP only. (Undocumented) Fixed the stability skill fact in the description listing the wrong duration.
June 27, 2025	Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented this trait from properly interacting with Voracious Arc.
June 24, 2025	This trait has been reworked. Marks can now be triggered by allies and will heal and grant additional supportive effects to allies when triggered. Create Chilblains at your location when you use your fourth shroud skill. Mark of Blood: Grants vigor to allies in the area. Chillblains: Heals and grants protection to allies in the area. Putrid Mark: Removes conditions from allies in the area. Reaper's Mark: Grants stability to allies in the area.
October 08, 2024	This trait no longer teleports downed allies to the user. This trait no longer increases the cooldown of Garish Pillar in WvW. Increased the revive percentage when the scourge elite specialization is equipped from 1% to 2% in PvE only.
March 19, 2024	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from healing the user when they are a harbinger.
January 30, 2024	This trait now increases the cooldown of Garish Pillar to 60 seconds in WvW only.
June 27, 2023	This trait now only teleports downed allies when initially activated. Reduced the revival pulse from 2% to 1% when used with the scourge elite specialization in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Fixed an issue that prevented harbingers from healing themselves with this trait. (Wiki note: this issue wasn't actually fixed).
April 06, 2021	Reduced pulse heal scaling from 0.1 to 0.08 in PvP only when the Scourge specialization is equipped.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) The following updates are for the scourge elite specialization only: Reduced pulse base heal from 292 to 204. Reduced pulse healing coefficient from 0.3 to 0.1. Reduced revive pulse from 2% to 1%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier. Added: Shroud Skill 4 partially revives nearby allies. Added: Additionally, you teleport up to 5 nearby downed allies to your location while channeling this skill. Traits that previously referred to specific skills available while in Death Shroud now refer to specific skills as Shroud Skill 1, Shroud Skill 4, etc.
October 15, 2013	This trait now scales with healing power at a rate of 20%, where it didn't previously scale.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Transfusion has been added to the game.