Cursed Plague
Witch skill · Curse line · tier 4
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:
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | 41.4 | 50.6 | 59.8 | 69 | 78.2 | 87.4 | 96.6 | 105.8 | 115 | 124.2 |
The value is the game's internal number for this skill.
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
- 2 Hero level 22 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
- 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
| Skill | Tier | Type | Cooldown | Scales with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Debuff | 10 s | Curse | |
| 2 | Debuff | 10 s | Weaken | |
| 3 | Debuff | 10 s | Expose | |
| 4 | Damage over time | 8 s | Decay | |
| 5 | Ultimate | 16 s | Curse |
Other Witch skills
Source: closed-beta game client 0.7.2. Data from the closed beta, so values may change at launch.