Plaguelands

Corruption. Create a virulent cloud that inflicts conditions on foes in its area. This plague inflicts additional conditions every second it persists. Inflict bleeding on yourself. — In-game description

Plaguelands

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Corruption

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

10549

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Plaguelands

Corruption. Create a virulent cloud that inflicts conditions on foes in its area. This plague inflicts additional conditions every second it persists. Inflict bleeding on yourself.

 Damage: 104 (0.39)^?

 First Pulse (8s): 176 Damage

 Second Pulse (5s): 168 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Third Pulse (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Fourth Pulse (8s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Fifth Pulse (2s): -50% Movement Speed

 Sixth Pulse (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Seventh Pulse (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Eighth Pulse (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Final Pulse (10s): 1,310 Damage

 Self-Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 10 seconds

 Damaging Pulse: 1 second

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Chilling Darkness — Blinding a target will also apply chill.
• Master of Corruption — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
• 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

• 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.

Blood Magic

• Blood Bond — Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on your foe when you inflict bleeding on them that matches or exceeds the threshold.

Reaper

• Chilling Nova — Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.
• Chilling Victory — Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
• Decimate Defenses — Striking a foe with vulnerability increases your critical hit chance.
• Cold Shoulder — Chill lasts longer, and chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks.
• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Scourge

• Fell Beacon — Burning you inflict does more damage. Gain expertise based on your condition damage.
• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• 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.

Notes

• This is cast at your feet.
• After 1 second, Plaguelands pulses damage and conditions in that area for 9 seconds. Each pulse applies a new condition, and each pulse applies all conditions from every pulse before it.
• The total conditions are: ₉ Bleeding (8s), ₈ Poisoned (5s), ₇ Torment (5s), ₆ Vulnerability (8s),  Crippled (2s) x5,  Weakness (3s) x4,  Blinded (3s) x3,  Chilled (2s) x2,  Burning (10s).
• The effect looks like a Dark Field, but isn't.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 03, 2019	Reduced recharge from 120 seconds to 90 seconds in PvE only.
July 30, 2019	This skill now uses different effects depending on whether the caster is an enemy or an ally.
December 12, 2017	Burning has been adjusted from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 10 seconds.
May 16, 2017	Plague: This skill has been reworked and has been renamed to Plaguelands.
October 01, 2015	Fixed an issue that prevented the descriptions for Plague and Lich Form from appearing properly.
September 29, 2015	Updated this transformation to no longer destroy your active minions.
July 07, 2015	This skill no longer inflicts bleeding every second while it is active. Instead, it inflicts 10 seconds of bleeding when it is first activated. When traited with Master of Corruption, it inflicts 4 seconds of poison.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill is now considered a corruption skill and applies 1 stack of bleeding for 2 seconds every second it is active on you. Increased the poison duration from 1 second to 2 seconds per pulse.
March 16, 2015	This ability now grants 3 stacks of stability every 3 seconds, with a 3-second duration.
October 21, 2014	Added a stability skill fact.
September 09, 2014	This transform no longer increases power levels exponentially. The damage of skills in these transforms has been adjusted to compensate. Fixed a bug that caused the listed skill fact damage to be incorrect.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the ring effect to persist on the player if they exited the skill early.
December 10, 2013	Fixed a bug that prevented both of the spectral buffs from the Spectral Walk to be removed when activating this skill.
August 20, 2013	Updated the skill fact description so that it doesn't indicate it removes spectral forms.
June 25, 2013	All elite player transforms (racial and profession) now have a 1-second cooldown on leaving them. This was done to prevent unintentionally leaving through double-clicking.
October 22, 2012	Entering Lich Form or Plague destroys all minions and removes all spectral effects now.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Plague has been added to the game.