Summon Blood Fiend

Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack. — In-game description

Summon Blood Fiend

10.5½  16  

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Minion

Sequence

 → 

Summons

Blood Fiend

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

API

“

Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.

  Damage: 239 (0.15)^?

  Healing: 926

  Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Spiteful Renewal — Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.

Death Magic

• Flesh of the Master — Minions have increased health. Gain carapace for each minion you control. Your minions are destroyed when this trait is reassigned.
• Necromantic Corruption — Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. When a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target. There is a 10 second cooldown per minion.
• Death Nova — When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.

Blood Magic

• Vampiric — Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.
• 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.

Notes

• The blood fiend attacks approximately every 3 seconds.
• Healing in this way is not affected by the necromancer's healing power. Instead, it is affected by the Blood Fiend's Healing power (0,65x Healing Power - normally 0)
• It does around 100 DPS unbuffed.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 21, 2021	Reduced the blood fiend's base health from 13,306 to 9,315 in PvP only.
August 28, 2018	This minion will now grant life force upon death and regenerate health when out of combat.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Minion skill recharges have been reduced by 20%.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused an unusual blue visual effect to occur on the necromancer after casting this spell.
February 26, 2013	This minion's healing effect has been increased by ~80%.
November 15, 2012	The Blood Fiend's survivability has been increased, and its attack now heals the necromancer for 200% of its previous heal.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Summon Blood Fiend has been added to the game.