Death Curse

Poison your foe and make them flee in fear. — In-game description

Death Curse

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Drowning

Game link

API

10641

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0.5½  20  

Death Curse

Poison your foe and make them flee in fear.

 Damage: 106 (0.4)^?

 Fear (2s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

 Poison (8s): 268 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Death's Embrace — Deal increased strike damage while downed. Inflict vulnerability when you strike a foe below the health threshold. Cannot apply vulnerability to the same target more than once per interval.
• Dread — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.

Curses

• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• 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.
• Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

Death Magic

• Putrid Defense — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Soul Reaping

• Fear of Death — Your fear effects have increased durations. Inflicting fear generates life force.

Reaper

• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the poison duration from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Death Curse has been added to the game.