Blood Rites is a tier V skill in the Voodoo Skill Tree, which grants you a spell damage increase whenever you pick up a Health Globe.
Contents
Background
| Diablo III Skill [e] | |
|---|---|
| |
| Blood Rites Passive, 5 ranks | |
| Used by: | Witch Doctor |
| Picking up health globes increases your spell damage X% for 12 seconds | |
| Type: | Buff |
| Quantity: | Duration |
| Effect: | Self |
| School: | Magical |
| Mana cost: | None |
| Cast time: | None |
| Duration: | None |
| Cooldown: | None |
| Synergies: | Unknown |
| Requires: | N/A |
| Prereq of: | N/A |
The Witch Doctor performs blood rites before drinking the life force of his enemies, gaining knowledge that his enemies possessed.
Skill Design
A nice passive skill, the bonus spell damage is always welcome, and when coupled with other skills relating to Health Globes, will cause the witch doctor to gain a lot from picking one up.
Skill Rank Table
(legend (A) = Assumed)
- Rank: 1/5
- Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 5% for 12 seconds.
- Mana Cost: None
- Rank: 2/5
- Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 10% for 12 seconds. (A)
- Mana Cost: None
- Rank: 3/5
- Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 15% for 12 seconds. (A)
- Mana Cost: None
- Rank: 4/5
- Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 20% for 12 seconds. (A)
- Mana Cost: None
- Rank: 5/5
- Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 25% for 12 seconds. (A)
- Mana Cost: None
Synergies
- None known.
Skill Rune Effects
- None known.
Development
Blood Rites was first seen in the BlizzCon 2009 demo, and is a new skill. It is unknown if this skill was iterated, at least publicly.
Media
You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery. Sadly, no images of Blood Rites have been seen:
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References
| Voodoo Skills [e] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier I • Skull of Flame |
Tier II • Hex |
Tier III |
Tier IV • Pit of Fire |
Tier V |
Tier V |