Overflowing Thirst

Dagger skills grant nearby allies Taste for Blood. — In-game description

Overflowing Thirst

Specialization

Blood Magic (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Overflowing Thirst

Dagger skills grant nearby allies Taste for Blood.

 Life Siphon Damage: 375 (0.05)^?

 Life Siphon Damage: 375 (0.0025)^?

 Life Siphon Damage: 375 (0.002)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 450 (0.08)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 229 (0.125)^?

 Taste For Blood (10s): Siphon health from enemies on hit.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Combat Only

— In-game description

Mechanics

• 3 stacks are applied by all dagger skills except the autoattack chain. Stacks of Taste for Blood will not be applied if a single hit skill such as Dark Pact is how the user enters combat. Stacks are removed per hit on enemy. The single stack applied by Necrotic Bite is consumed instantly by necrotic bite.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	This trait has been reworked. It now causes dagger skills to grant other nearby allies stacks of Taste for Blood. Taste for Blood causes your next strike to siphon health.
October 08, 2024	Increased the life force per strike from 1% to 1.5%.
June 27, 2023	This trait has been reworked. Gain life force when you strike an enemy with a dagger skill. (undocumented) This trait has been renamed from Quickening Thirst to Overflowing Thirst.
October 02, 2018	This trait no longer grants movement speed when the necromancer is using a dagger. It now grants increased movement speed when the necromancer's health is above 75%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Adept tier. Removed movement increase dependant on the number of daggers you are wielding. Added: Reduces recharge of dagger skills by 33% if used while you are over 75% health. Added: Move 25% faster while wielding at least one dagger.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug in which this trait would not activate if a player only had a dagger in their off-hand.
December 14, 2012	Movement speed increased from 10%/5% to 15%/10%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Overflowing Thirst has been added to the game.