Sacrifice

Sacrifice is when a Necromancer uses his/her own blood for performing rituals. Unlike real necromancers, Guild Wars necromancers only sacrifice their own blood to power their dark magics.

A subset of Necromancer skills involve the user losing a percentage of their maximum health while casting them. The amount of health sacrificed ranges from 8% to 33%, based on the skill.

Since users lose their health based on their max health, it is possible for a Necromancer to kill himself by casting a sacrifice skill while the his current health is less than the percentage of health needed for the sacrifice.

Related Skills
These skills sacrifice health:
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Barbed Signet (8%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Blood of the Master (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Blood Renewal (25%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Blood Ritual (17%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Blood is Power (33%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Dark Fury (17%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Dark Pact (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Defile Flesh (20%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Demonic Flesh (20%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Enfeebling Blood (17%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Lingering Curse (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Offering of Blood (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Order of Pain (17%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Order of the Vampire (17%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Plague Sending (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Signet of Agony (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Touch of Agony (10%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Verata's Aura (33%)
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Verata's Sacrifice (15%)

These skills involve sacrifice in other ways:
 * [[image:Monk-icon.png|15px]] Scourge Sacrifice increases the cost of sacrifices by foes.
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Awaken the Blood increases its user's sacrifice costs.
 * [[image:Necromancer-icon.png|15px]] Dark Aura deals damage to nearby foes and removes health from its user whenever he sacrifices.