Cursed Plague

Witch skill · Curse line · tier 4

Beta 0.7.2

A gravestone rises behind it and its soul haunts it while the plague eats away.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 8 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Cursed Plague scales with Decay. Its value at each rank is 32.2 + 9.2 × rank:

Rank12345678910
Value41.450.659.86978.287.496.6105.8115124.2

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Curse skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

  1. 1
    Rank 5 in Jinx or Frailty Tier 2 or tier 3 of the Curse line.
  2. 2
    Hero level 22 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
  3. 3
    One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Cursed Plague opens Overwhelming Curse.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Curse skills makes Cursed Plague 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Cursed Plague has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Curse line

SkillTierTypeCooldownScales with
Curse1Debuff10 sCurse
Jinx2Debuff10 sWeaken
Frailty3Debuff10 sExpose
Cursed Plague4Damage over time8 sDecay
Overwhelming Curse5Ultimate16 sCurse

Other Witch skills

Source: closed-beta game client 0.7.2. Data from the closed beta, so values may change at launch.