Desiccate

Punishment. Draw vital energy from your foes to gain life force and grant boons to nearby allies. Gain additional life force per target struck. Convert a boon on affected enemies to torment. — In-game description

Desiccate

0.75¾  20  

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Utility

Type

Punishment

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Punishment. Draw vital energy from your foes to gain life force and grant boons to nearby allies. Gain additional life force per target struck. Convert a boon on affected enemies to torment.

  Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 ₅ Might (8s): 150 Condition Damage, 150 Power

 ₈ Might (6s): 240 Condition Damage, 240 Power

 ₃ Boon Conversion (8s): 528 Damage, 763 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

  Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

  Life Force: 10%

  Life Force per Hit: 2%

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 300

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.

Curses

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

Death Magic

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

Scourge

• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Sadistic Searing — Punishment skills gain reduced recharge and cause your next Manifest Sand Shade to inflict burning on foes near it.
• 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.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain that boon.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Punishment skills no longer inflict crippled when removing a boon. Increased number of torment stacks applied when removing a boon from 1 to 3.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced might duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds. Increased number of might stacks from 5 to 8.
March 05, 2019	Fixed a bug with this skill in which its might gain applied in a larger radius than the listed value. Removed an unlisted whirl finisher. Reduced the casting time from 1 second to 0.75 seconds. Increased its damage by 150%. This skill now grants a bonus 2% life force for each target it strikes.
February 06, 2018	Punishment Skills: The torment durations of this skill category have been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. The cripple duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Desiccate has been added to the game.