Crimson Tide

Send a devouring surge toward your enemy. — In-game description

Crimson Tide

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Game link

API

10623, 50471

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Crimson Tide

Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.

 Damage (2x): 184 (0.5)^?

₂ Bleeding (2s): 88 Damage

 Life Force: 2%

 Range: 1,200

— 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.

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.

Notes

Bugs:

• Gives 2 life force per hit instead 2%.
• The version triggered by other skills does not give life force.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 23, 2019	This skill now grants 2% life force per hit.
May 08, 2018	This skill now fires a projectile at enemies rather than delivering a direct attack. The projectile strikes the target twice over a short duration upon impact, inflicting bleeding for 2 seconds with each impact. This skill is now used with other necromancer trident attacks.
August 06, 2013	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to ignore line of sight.
June 25, 2013	The bleed duration has been increased from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
December 14, 2012	This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crimson Tide has been added to the game.

Trivia

• See Crimson Tide for a list of possible references.
• Before the August 6, 2013 game update, this attack could hit through walls and other obstructions.