Grasping Dead

Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area. — In-game description

Animation

Grasping Dead

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Game link

API

10532

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0.75¾  10  

Grasping Dead

Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.

  Damage: 293 (0.8)^?

  Damage: 220 (0.6)^?

 ₃ Bleeding (10s): 660 Damage

 ₂ Bleeding (12s): 528 Damage

  Cripple (7s): -50% Movement Speed

  Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 240

  Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• 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.
• Lingering Curse — Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

Death Magic

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

Blood Magic

• Blood Bond — Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on your foe when you inflict bleeding on them that matches or exceeds the threshold.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Adjusted bleeding from 3 stacks for 10 seconds to 2 stacks for 12 seconds. Reduced cripple duration from 7 seconds to 5 seconds. Reduced power coefficient from 0.8 to 0.6.
September 29, 2015	Increased damage by 14%. Increased bleeding duration from 7 seconds to 10 seconds. Increased cripple duration from 5 seconds to 7 seconds. This skill is no longer split and applies 3 stacks of bleeding in all game modes.
August 25, 2015	(PvP version) Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from gaining the benefits of the trait Lingering Curse. (PvP version) Fixed an incorrect number of bleeding stacks on the skill fact for this skill.
September 03, 2013	This skill now applies two stacks of bleeding instead of three (PvP only).
May 28, 2013	Now lists the correct number of bleed stacks (3) in its tooltip.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Grasping Dead has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Initially this skill's area of effect was a line, it was then changed to circle in a later patch.