Demonic Lore

Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn. This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds. — In-game description

Demonic Lore

Specialization

Scourge (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Demonic Lore

Torment you inflict deals increased damage and causes your foes to burn.
This trait can only inflict burning on a particular target once every three seconds.

 Damage Increase: 33%

 Damage Increase: 20%

 Burning (1s): 131 Damage

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Devouring Darkness — Scepter
•   Feast of Corruption — Scepter
•   Harrowing Wave — Torch
•   Oppressive Collapse — Torch

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sand Flare — Punishment

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Desiccate — Punishment
•   Sand Swell — Punishment
•   Serpent Siphon — Punishment
•   Trail of Anguish — Punishment

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   Ghastly Breach — Punishment

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Manifest Sand Shade — Shade
•   Desert Shroud — Shade, Shroud

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sandstorm Shroud — Herald of Sorrow

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Curses

• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Scourge

• Fell Beacon — Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Master of Corruption — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.

Notes

• When  Master of Corruption is equipped and you cast   Blood Is Power, you will not be inflicted with Burning.
  • However, if you transfer the said-Torment, it will inflict Burning if the trait is ready.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Reduced the torment damage bonus from 33% to 20% in PvP only.
September 26, 2023	Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 1 second in PvE only.
July 18, 2023	Increased torment damage bonus from 25% to 33% in PvE only.
August 17, 2021	Fixed a bug that caused the internal cooldown of this trait to not occur under certain circumstances.
May 25, 2021	Reduced torment damage bonus from 33% to 25% in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 1 second.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Demonic Lore has been added to the game.