Parasitic Contagion

A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health. — In-game description

Parasitic Contagion

Specialization

Curses (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Parasitic Contagion

A percentage of your condition damage heals you.
Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

 Percent: 5%

 Percent: 10%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Enfeebling Blood — Dagger
•   Blood Curse — Scepter
•   Rending Curse — Scepter
•   Putrid Curse — Scepter
•   Grasping Dead — Scepter
•   Devouring Darkness — Scepter
•   Feast of Corruption — Scepter
•   Mark of Blood — Staff
•   Chillblains — Staff
•   Dark Spear — Spear
•   Crimson Tide — Trident
•   Foul Current — Trident
•   Harrowing Wave — Torch
•   Oppressive Collapse — Torch
•   Vicious Shot — Pistol
•   Weeping Shots — Pistol
•   Vile Blast — Pistol

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dark Path — Death Shroud
•   Dark Water — Death Shroud
•   Life Transfer — Death Shroud
•   Tainted Shackles — Death Shroud
•   Soul Spiral — Reaper's Shroud
•   Tainted Bolts — Harbinger Shroud
•   Dark Barrage — Harbinger Shroud
•   Devouring Cut — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Arc — Harbinger Shroud
•   Voracious Dive — Harbinger Shroud

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sand Flare — Punishment
•   Elixir of Promise — Elixir

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blood Is Power — Corruption
•   Corrosive Poison Cloud — Corruption
•   Necrotic Traversal
•   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
•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

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

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fetid Ground

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Death Curse

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Dhuumfire — Dhuumfire
•   Dhuumfire — Dhuumfire
•   Lesser Enfeeble — Weakening Shroud
•   Lesser Mark of Blood — Mark of Evasion
•   Poison Nova — Death Nova
•   Sandstorm Shroud — Herald of Sorrow
•   Approaching Doom — Doom Approaches

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Blood Magic

• Blood Bank — Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.

Soul Reaping

• Vital Persistence — Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Insidious Disruption — Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Terror — Fear you inflict deals damage each second.

Soul Reaping

• Dhuumfire — Shroud skill 1 inflicts burning on your target.

Reaper

• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Scourge

• Sadistic Searing — Nefarious Favor now burns nearby enemy targets.
• 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.

Harbinger

• Septic Corruption — Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud 2 skill also inflicts poison.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	This trait has been moved to the master tier.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Life-stealing percentage reduced from 10% to 5% in PvE only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Curses Grandmaster tier. Increased health gain from outgoing condition damage to 10%.
April 15, 2014	Parasitic Contagion has been added to the game.