Plague Cloud

Witch skill · Decay line · tier 2

Beta 0.7.2

Releases the cloud of purple smoke over the horde. The rest is patience.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 9 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Plague Cloud scales with Decay. Its value at each rank is 25 + 7.1 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	32.1	39.2	46.3	53.4	60.5	67.6	74.7	81.8	88.9	96

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 Decay 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
Rank 5 in Necrotic Touch Tier 1 of the Decay line.
2
Hero level 12 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 Plague Cloud opens Wither.

Mastery and synergies

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

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

Decay line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Necrotic Touch	1	Damage over time	8 s	Decay
Plague Cloud	2	Area damage	9 s	Decay
Rot	3	Damage over time	8 s	Decay
Wither	4	Debuff	10 s	Expose
Pestilence	5	Ultimate	16 s	Decay