Putrid Curse

Poison and bleed your foe. — In-game description

Putrid Curse

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

 →  → 

Damage type

Choking

Game link

API

10552

“

0.5½  

Putrid Curse

Chain. Poison and bleed your foe.

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 122 (0.333)^?

 Bleeding (40.5½s): 99 Damage

 Poison (6s): 201 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Range: 900

— 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.
• Lingering Curse — Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

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.

Notes

• Has a distinctive sound and red "poison blotch" animation over target foe when activated.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Autoattack Chain: Reduced power coefficients from 0.35/0.35/0.5 to 0.233/0.233/0.333.
July 10, 2018	This skill no longer corrupts a boon into a condition.
May 22, 2018	Removed a tooltip that was displayed incorrectly.
January 26, 2016	This skill now also converts up to 1 boon into conditions along with its innate effects.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Rending Curse / Putrid Curse: Updated these skills with new icons.
September 29, 2015	Increased the poison duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds. Now also applies bleeding for 4.5 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Increased the poison duration from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Putrid Curse has been added to the game.