Spell Icon Vampiric Curse  

Description

3: Decrease Hitpoints by 21 per tick. Max: 21 per tick
4: Return 100% of damage as Hitpoints. Max per Hit: 74

Details   Raw Spell Data, Lucy Spell View

Mana: 144 Skill: Alteration
Casting Time: 4 Recast Time: 10
Fizzle Time: 1.5 Resist: Magic
Resist Adjust: -200 Range: 200
Location: Any Time of Day: Any
Fizzle Adj: 25 Deletable: Yes
Dot Stacking: Yes Reflectable: Yes
Focusable: Yes Dispellable: Yes
Interruptable: Yes Short Buff Box: No
Target Type: Single Spell Type: Detrimental
Source: Live 02/06

Messages

Cast on you: You feel your blood being drained away.
Cast on other: Soandso pales.
Effect Fades: The curse fades.

Game Description

Drains the life from your target, doing @3 damage every six seconds for 54 secs (9 ticks). 100% of the life-force taken is used to heal your wounds.

Items with this effect

Quick Facts

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Spell: Vampiric Curse
Spell: Vampiric Curse

ClassLevel
SHD57
NEC29

Expansion:
Ruins of Kunark

Duration:
9 ticks
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kunark
# Aug 23 2020 at 9:12 AM Rating: Good
Scholar
37 posts
This should be tagged Kunark
loc
# Nov 20 2011 at 6:32 AM Rating: Decent
1 post
This spell is also sold by Lord Vizaroth in the basement of the SK/Shaman guild in East Cabilis.
Leech upgrade
# Mar 15 2008 at 5:39 PM Rating: Decent
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59 posts
For a necro Leech sucks by this time, so it's a great upgrade, somewhat long overdue. I feel there should've been another Leech spell in between Leech and Vampiric Curse. But still, this is nice. It counters HP degen very well and it is a DOT on the mob as well (albeit a minor one) which makes it worth your while.

As for Shadow Knights, I agree it comes too little too late. Nice for "medium-level" farming though, just to get your HP ticking. or for one of those group moments when life tap seems a little too much, yet the gap in the HP is annoying enough to bother the group cleric. It works as a space filler, but I would agree its usage is too limited by this level.
Decrease the Required Level of the SK
# Jun 18 2006 at 12:00 AM Rating: Decent
I thought this spell should change to Shadowknight level 48-52 can use.

when you are lv57,you think how many HP your target mob have?This spell can hurt target 189hp and give it to you,but your target mob can hurt your >100HP each hurt.

so i suggest this spell should change to Shadowknight level 48-52 can use.

Edited, Sat Jun 17 23:50:02 2006
ot sell
# Jun 16 2004 at 3:10 AM Rating: Default
ot sell~~
Healing
# Feb 16 2004 at 10:17 AM Rating: Decent
when you cast this spell you get the recorse effects on you no matter what, so if your in need of a healing, you can always cast it on that orc pawn. It will kill him prety much when you cast it, but the recorse will still be there after hes dead.
#REDACTED, Posted: Feb 03 2004 at 12:36 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) yes,
Mana cost with FE and conversion
# Nov 25 2003 at 3:15 AM Rating: Default
With BA II and MP II, this spell costs 130, returns 210, and does approximately 230 points of dmg. Below level 49, your best lich is 50% health to mana. So assuming you keep yourself below 100% health for maximum lich efficiency, you can lich back 105 mana. Net value of this spell below level 49 is then a 230 DOT at a cost of only 25 mana.

At level 49, your best lich is 62.5%. If you keep health below 100%, you can lich back 131 mana, so the spell return 1 mana in profit.
Of course, at that level, this spell is not quite as useful since the mobs have a 2K-5K in hitpoints.

Edited, Tue Nov 25 03:21:32 2003
RE: Mana cost with FE and conversion
# Nov 25 2003 at 3:44 AM Rating: Decent
With AEII, you save 25% mana, so the cast costs you 112 mana. You lich back 105, so thats a 230 point dot for only 7 mana.
Not a Necro
# Nov 09 2003 at 12:01 PM Rating: Default
Ok I see here that Grindervs says we are not necro's and yes I agree with him, however I also think that by casting these spells that we help our group at nicely. Normally in a group I am not the main tank (unless i have about 3 levels on a warrior) there for I am secondary damage. While I am behind the mob attacking I am free to cast dots on a mob to add to the dps. So if i cast Dooming Darkness, Boil Blood, Heart Flutter, and Vampiric Curse which adds another 8 points to my DPS. Also I can use my pet to even add more. (Not sure how much he adds) All this plus my windblade makes for alot of secondary damage.
Just my 2cp =)
Stack?
# May 18 2003 at 6:13 PM Rating: Default
Would this stack with dots such as boil blood and dooming darkness? If it would that would mean one dead mob.
RE: Stack?
# Apr 08 2006 at 5:41 AM Rating: Decent
i personally would assume it doesn't stack with darkness, since both are magic type dots. i can't guarantee it, though since i dont have the spell yet and cant test it.

and one use of the spell would be if your getting screwed. throw the dot on, click a heal potion, then FD. will get plenty of hp back while he walks away, then get back up and try again
RE: Stack?
# Aug 30 2003 at 12:09 PM Rating: Default
you realise that mobs you'll be fighting at this level for XP have 11k hp + right ?

meaning that this spell will do less then 2%damage.


not to say its not a handy spell but we're not necro's we don rely on dots to kill stuff ;)

and by 61 when we get festering darkness [1000 hp DoT *roughly*] even that really doesnt do an awful lot of damage ...maybe 5% on an XP mob.

but to answer your question, yes it does stack with boil blood, together doing a *huge* 700 damage (roughly).

=)
RE: Stack?
# Oct 25 2003 at 10:24 PM Rating: Decent
Yes, by the looks of it, this is really a necro only spell. I doubt any SK would waste time worrying about a 20 point lifetap when mobs can quad for 800 per tick.
RE: Stack?
# Aug 11 2004 at 7:37 PM Rating: Decent
Not all dark blue mobs to a level 57 SK are planar and many don't hit that hard at all. Good spell for use when soloing weaker mobs to keep your HP up.

Also If you want to save a little mana over a regular lifetap, AND help the cleric out a "little", use this spell.


RE: Stack?
# Sep 15 2003 at 10:19 AM Rating: Good
Umm... not when Necros get this spell at 29... If i run across a mob at 29 with 11k+ HPs, time to FD and hope it believes it =P
loc
# May 17 2003 at 12:42 PM Rating: Decent
I bought it in POK at the SK vendor named "Reaver Nydlil". Enjoy. =)
where
# May 12 2003 at 8:06 AM Rating: Default
So where can you get this spell from ?
I hate Allakhazam's Explainations
# Mar 10 2003 at 12:32 PM Rating: Default
DOT, takes away the mobs life and gives it to you.
mana cost
# Feb 24 2003 at 3:55 PM Rating: Decent
At 57 level, this is the cheapest mana cost healing spell for an SK, many people say it is not good but i can say its nice, just consider you will use 37% more mana to get the same HPs by using Spirit Tap and 10% more mana by using
Drain Spirit, isnt this good enough?
Also consider this as an agroo holder.

57SK-Eru-Hammer
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