Death's Design
Damage taken from the reaper who applied this effect is increased. Increases said reaper's Soul Gauge if defeated before effect expires.
— In-game description
Death's Design is a detrimental status effect that can be applied by 
reapers. It increases damage taken by the reaper who applied the effect by 10%.
There are two actions that can apply Death's Design. Both actions apply Death's Design for 30 seconds:
| Action | Acquired | 
|
Level | Type | MP | Casting | Recast | Range Radius |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow of Death | RPR
|
10 | Weaponskill | Instant | 2.5s |  3y 0y
|
Delivers an attack with a potency of 300. Additional Effect: Afflicts target with Death's Design, increasing damage you deal target by 10% Duration: 30s Extends duration of Death's Design by 30s to a maximum of 60s. Additional Effect: Increases Soul Gauge by 10 if target is KO'd before effect expires | ||
| Whorl of Death | RPR
|
35 | Weaponskill | Instant | 2.5s | 0y 5y
|
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Afflicts target with Death's Design, increasing damage you deal target by 10% Duration: 30s Extends duration of Death's Design by 30s to a maximum of 60s. Additional Effect: Increases Soul Gauge by 10 if target is KO'd before effect expires |
Gameplay
Death's Design can be applied up to 60 seconds. Applications that would overcap this timer will be capped at 60 seconds. It is highly recommended to always have this status effect applied on opponents. Reapers should refresh Death's Design before it expires, but not overcap the duration. Opponents who are defeated while under this status effect grants 10 Soul Gauge to the reaper who applied it. This allows for exellent Death Gauge generation from trash pulls, allowing to recoup for the loses of GCDs in between travel time, or even additional uses of Enshroud windows. Actions that apply Death's Design do not generate Soul Gauge; opponent(s) who force downtime may result in more potential Soul Gauge being lost.
Both actions are available while Enshrouded. This is to ensure that the potencies of the actions granted by Enshroud can be boosted by Death's Design. For optimization purposes, these actions also act as both a refresh and a filler action to facilitate the execution of "double Enshroud" bursts, which is the inclusion of two uses of Communio, Perfectio, and as many 
Reaping and 
Lemure actions as possible within the duration of Arcane Circle. This is to also allow for Plentiful Harvest to be executed at a perfect time, as it cannot be executed until 
Bloodsown Circle granted by Arcane Circle wears off.
