Funerary Pick
Siphon Blood gains the effect of all its runes, drains 25 Essence each time damage is dealt, and drains blood from 2 14 additional targets. If there are less than 15 targets, damage is split between targets. Spends 6% of your Life every second while channeled.
Explainer:
- All runes: Siphon Blood picks globes, slows ennemies (Krysbin), damage stacks
- All runes: Allows synergies with Nayr’s Black Death, Frostburn gloves, etc.
- More rays: x5 increased damage. Works against multiple targets or Rift Guardian
- More rays: Damage dealt more often, gains faster Power Shift stacks
- Essence spender, each time damage is dealt: Nullifies the Purity of Essence rune. -5 Essence * 15 rays = -75 Essence per attack. Essence spending allows Leger’s Disdain to buff this skill with max damage 100% of the time
- Life spender, every second while channeled: Nullifies the Drain Life rune. Life spending allows Trag’Oul’s Avatar to buff this skill
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Siphon Blood / Power Shift
Damage is increased by 10% 100% each time damage is dealt. Max 10 100 stacks. Siphon Blood’s damage turns into Poison.
Explainer:
- x10 increased damage
- x10 stacks to reward damage over time
- Since Funerary Pick spends life, and Power Shift is a Poison Skill, It means you can synergize Trag’Oul’s Avatar and Nayr’s Black Death to buff Siphon Blood / Power Shift. This combination is unprecedented
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Leger’s Disdain
Grim Scythe and Siphon Blood deals an additional 65 - 80% damage for each point of essence it they restores.
Explainer
- Leger’s Disdain is now usable with Siphon Blood
- Fluid Gameplay: since Funerary Pick is now an essence spender, you essence is always empty, which means Siphon Blood can restore Essence (which is immediately consumed) thus Leger’s Disdain can do max damage 100% of the time.
- Since Funerary Pick spends life, it means you can synergize Trag’Oul’s Avatar and Leger’s Disdain to buff Siphon Blood. This combination is unprecedented
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Haunted Visions
Simulacrum now drains 1% of your maximum life every second and lasts forever. They can now duplicate Grim Scythe or Siphon Blood instead of Skeletal Mage.
- Haunted Visions is now usable with Siphon Blood
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Lidless Wall (shield)
Each stack of Power Shift increase your damage reduction by 5% for 60s. Max 500% damage reduction. (Necromancer Only)
Requires level 11
Explainer
- Gives this item a legendary power
- Up to 500% damage reduction (with 100 stacks of Power Shift)
- Strong defense option, but you have to stack Siphon Blood (not for everyone)
- Will probably be part of all Nayr’s Black Death builds with Power Shift rune
- Requires level 11 allows player to blood shards bet it at season start
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Arthef’s Sparkle of Life (2 hands mace)
Heal for 3% of your missing Life when you kill an Undead enemy.
Command Skeletons, Command Golem and Revive can now duplicate Siphon Blood. Siphon Blood deal 1000% increased damage. (Necromancer Only)
Explainer
- 1000% Siphon Blood damage increase
- If you use Siphon Blood, Command Skeletons, Command Golem and Revive will mimic it
- Active powers of Command Skeletons, Command Golem and Revive remain usable
- This bone-looking mace will probably replace all of 2-handed Scythes in the cube, at least for Siphon Blood builds. That’s new.
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Mantle of Channeling
Explainer
- Already buff Siphon Blood by 25% while channeling
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Taeguk
Explainer
- Already buff Siphon Blood (Or devs have to ensure it is the case)
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Convention of Elements / Stone of Jordan / Krysbin
Explainer
- Since Funerary Pick unlocks all runes of Siphon Blood (Physical / Cold / Poison), it will synergize with Convention of Elements (200%) and Stone of Jordan (up to 80% x 3 = 240%). Siphon Blood / Suppress rune can trigger Krysbin 100%. Paired with Frostburn gloves, it can trigger Krysbin 300%.
- …But we can do better with specialized items…
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Lornelle’s Sunstone
Your damage reduction is increased by 0.75 - 0.95% 10% for every 1% Life you are missing. Siphon Blood deal 500% increased damage.
Explainer
- x10 damage reduction
- 500% Siphon Blood damage increase
- Makes this item versatile: both Attack and Defense
- Makes this item interesting for end-game
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Rogar’s Huge Stone
Increase your Life per Second by up to 75 - 100% 1000% based on your missing Life. Siphon Blood deal 500% increased damage.
Explainer
- x10 Life per second (Negligible side effect: Death’s Bargain)
- 500% Siphon Blood damage increase
- Makes this item versatile: both Attack and Defense
- Makes this item interesting for end-game
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Wisdom of Kalan
Increases the maximum stacks of Bone Armor by 5 20. Each stack of Bone armor increase the damage of Siphon Blood by 10% the damage bonus of Bone armor.
Explainer
- x4 Bone armor stacks bonus
- Rewards usage of Bone armor (stacks and damage)
- Inarius buffing Bone Armor (damage) might skyrocket this one, at the cost of body contact: { Bone Armor (10 stacks) + Wisdom of Kalan (20 stacks) } * { Bone Armor/ Vengeful Armaments (145%) + Inarius 2p (1000%) } / 10 = 30 stacks * 1145% / 10 = 3435%
- Makes this item versatile: both Attack and Defense
- Makes this item interesting for end-game
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Defiler Cuisses
Your Bone Spirit’s damage is increased by 400 - 500% for every second it is active Siphon Blood is channeling. Damage bonus is reset after 10 seconds without any Siphon Blood channeling.
Explainer
- There is a high demand to buff somehow Bone Spirit. That’s an answer
- Previous mechanic was clunky because it forced you to move 10 kms away your target to let enough time for Bone Spirit to stack damage. Plus, at 10 kms, the shot was not precise.
- Now, Siphon Blood channeling allows to stack Bone Spirit damage. It’s a support skill
- Damage bonus is kept during 10s. You have 10s to touch the target with your Bone Spirit (fire at distance or move near the target) to benefit from the damage stacked.
- Gameplay : You channel 60s, then you fire a Bone Spirit to finish Rift Guardian. If Rift Guardian is still alive, rechannel immediately (previous stacks are kept if you are still in the 10s interval)
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Conclusion
- Fun
- New items powers and synergies
- Lots of possibilities (pets and/or body contact)