Aura of the Lich


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Description
For 15...39 seconds, your maximum Health is halved, but you take half damage from all sources. When Aura of the Lich ends, you're healed for 50...202 Health. This is an elite skill.

Usage Notes
This skill also works well with the many spells available in Blood Magic: the amount of HP you sacrifice is divided by four (halved for having less max HP, and halved again because it's damage), and many Blood skills allow you to heal yourself. This allows a wily Necromancer to sacrifice much more frequently.

In PvP play, this skill is excellent for melee necromancers with Unholy Feast and other skills that target nearby foes, because it also protects from AoE DoT smiting. Its ideal for all king of the hill maps.

The downside of Aura of the Lich is that health degeneration will kill twice as quickly, since you have only half the health and degeneration is not reduced by the enchantment. Any time you are using this skill it is advisable to bring some kind of health regeneration like Blood Renewal, Life Siphon, Well of Blood, or, for Monk secondaries, Healing Breeze in order to counteract degenerative hexes and conditions.

Acquisition

 * Hell's Precipice (Mission): Signet of Capture, Maligo Libens