Blood Ritual

Ritual of Blood is a passive skill available exclusively to the Witch Doctor. It allows the class to transfer 30% of mana costs to health, allowing for more spell-casting, with a slightly increased risk of death.

Lore

Not known yet.

Design

30% of mana costs for skills is taken from health instead.

Level Requirement

• Witch Doctor: level 18

Synergies

No synergies with any active skills or other passive skills are known.

Development

Passive skills have had a long and storied history. When Diablo III debuted at the WWI 2008, skill trees included passive skills, much like in Diablo II. In 2010, it was announced that passive skills had been renamed traits and separated out from active skills. At the July 2011 Press Event, Blizzard announced that passive skills were once again in the game, replacing the traits system. Like many passive skills, Ritual of Blood was moved directly from a trait of the same name when traits were changed back to passive skills in early 2011. Neither the name nor the function changed, though the stats may have been tweaked slightly.

• Ritual of Blood (skill) - The original passive skill.
• Ritual of Blood (trait) - As a trait, Ritual of Blood took 50% of mana costs from health.

See the traits page for more details on previous versions of this and many other passive skills.

References

• Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011

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