Serpent Siphon

Punishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment. — In-game description

Serpent Siphon

 0.5½  25    

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Specialization

Scourge

Slot

Utility

Type

Punishment

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Punishment. Unleash ghostly serpents toward foes in the targeted area; serpents striking their targets become magical sand, which grants allies a barrier. Convert a boon from struck enemies into torment.

  Damage: 226 (0.85)^?

  Barrier: 1,487 (1.426)^?

  Poison (10s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

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

  Boons Converted to Conditions: 1

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 360

  Unblockable

  Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

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

• 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.

Scourge

• Abrasive Grit — Sand Flare now also grants barrier to nearby allies. Granting an ally a barrier removes conditions afflicting them. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.
• 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.

Notes

• Each target struck by the attack drops a small packet on the ground next to it that is consumed and grants a barrier to the first ally that touches it. It is possible for a single ally to collect all barriers.
• Each barrier packet lasts around 6 seconds.

Bug:

This skill will summon a snake if the AoE is neither positioned on the caster or an ally; there will be no snake otherwise.

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.
March 05, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to list an incorrect amount of barrier. Reduced its recharge time from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. Increased its damage by 21%.
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	All skills that grant barrier now give 15% more barrier. Poison has been adjusted from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds. Adjusted torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Serpent Siphon has been added to the game.