Wicked Corruption

Deal increased strike damage for each stack of blight you have. Critical strikes deal increased damage to targets with torment. — In-game description

Wicked Corruption

Specialization

Harbinger (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Wicked Corruption

Deal increased strike damage for each stack of blight you have. Critical strikes deal increased damage to targets with torment.

 Damage Increase: 1%

 Damage Increase: 0.5½%

 Critical Damage Increase: 120.5½%

 Critical Damage Increase: 10%

— In-game description

Mechanics

Anomaly:

Instead of increasing the Critical Damage attribute like the tooltip implies, this acts as a 12.5% multiplicative strike damage modifier only applied to critical hits.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Increased the damage modifier per blight stack from 0.5% to 1% in PvE only. Increased the critical-strike damage modifier from 10% to 12.5% in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Wicked Corruption has been added to the game. (Undocumented) Now deals increased critical damage to targets with torment.
November 30, 2021	Wicked Corruption was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. Bonus strike damage per stack of Blight reduced from 1% to 0.5%.
August 17, 2021	Wicked Corruption was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 1.