Summon Blood Fiend

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Summon Blood Fiend

Profession
Necromancer icon small.png Necromancer (skill list)
Slot
Healing
Type
Minion
Sequence
Summon Blood Fiend.png
 → Taste of Death.png
Summons
Blood Fiend
Training cost
2 Hero points
Game link
API
10547
10.5½ Activation time  16 Recharge time  
Summon Blood Fiend

Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.

Damage.png Damage: 239 (0.15)?
Healing.png Healing: 926
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits[edit]

Spite Spite

Death Magic Death Magic

Blood Magic Blood Magic

Soul Reaping Soul Reaping

Notes[edit]

  • Summons a Blood Fiend that attacks foes from 900 range with Fiend Leech every 3 seconds approximately, doing roughly 80 DPS, or 95 with Necromantic Corruption Necromantic Corruption.
    • Fiend Leech deals about 250 damage (300 with the aforementioned trait).
    • The attack heals the necromancer for 926 health.
    • The damage and healing scale with the power and healing power of the Blood Fiend. However, it has 0 healing power and cannot be increased by any means. Effects that improve or reduce healing will affect this amount. For example, Vital Persistence Vital Persistence increases the healing to 1111.
  • The summoned Blood Fiend can be sacrificed to heal the necromancer for a moderate amount by casting this skill again, commencing its recharge. This healing does not occur if the Blood Fiend is killed.

Version history[edit]

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch Changes
September 21, 2021
  • Reduced the blood fiend's base health from 13,306 to 9,315 in PvP only.
August 28, 2018
  • This minion will now grant life force upon death and regenerate health when out of combat.
June 23, 2015 Specialization update:
  • Minion skill recharges have been reduced by 20%.
May 20, 2014
  • Fixed a bug that caused an unusual blue visual effect to occur on the necromancer after casting this spell.
February 26, 2013
  • This minion's healing effect has been increased by ~80%.
November 15, 2012
  • The Blood Fiend's survivability has been increased, and its attack now heals the necromancer for 200% of its previous heal.
August 28, 2012 Game release:
  • Summon Blood Fiend has been added to the game.