Blood Lance

Blood Lance is a Necromancer skill from the Core skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Physical Dmg	N/A
Blood Orbs
Attack Speed
Core
Blood

'Creates Condition' means this skill creates this condition i.e it could make a target Vulnerable that other skills can take advantage of. 'Exploits Condition' means this skill takes advantage of a condition, not necessarily of its own making. So for example another skill might Stun and this skill could take advantage of that.

Blood Lance Details and Upgrades

Blood Lance Essence Cost: 15 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing 80% damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies. Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Core, Blood

Upgrades

Enhanced Blood Lance After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.	Supernatural Blood Lance Blood Lance deals 15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and 15%[x] increased Overpower Damage.
	Paranormal Blood Lance While at least 2 enemies or a Boss are affected by Blood Lance, you gain + 15% Attack Speed and Blood Lance's Essence cost is reduced by 3.

Items that work with Blood Lance

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Blood Lance
• Create a condition Blood Lance can exploit
• Exploit a condition Blood Lance creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Hungry Blood	Offensive	Each cast of Blood Lance will launch an additional Blood Lance at a Nearby enemy when it first hits an enemy that is already lanced, dealing 40 - 80% of normal damage. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of Rathma's Chosen	Offensive	Whenever your Blood Skills Overpower you gain 35 - 55% [+] Attack Speed for 4 seconds. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Blood Seeker's Aspect	Offensive	Blood Lance deals 10 - 30% [x] increased damage to its primary target per lanced enemy. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Mercy's Reach (Map)	Fractured Peaks	Necromancer
Cadaverous Aspect	Offensive	Consuming a Corpse increases the damage of your Core Skills by 3.5 - 7% for 5 seconds, up to 18 - 35% [x]. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of Gore Quills	Offensive	Casting Blood Lance will consume Blood Orbs to also conjure lances from them. Each additional Blood Lance deals 20 - 60% of normal damage and prioritizes targeting un-lanced enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer

Unique Items

There are no Unique Items that affect Blood Lance.

Changes to Blood Lance

Patch 2.0, October 8, 2024

• Blood Lance now always pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
• Enhanced Blood Lance
  • Previous - Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
  • Now - After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
• Supernatural Blood Lance
  • Previous - After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
  • Now - Blood Lance deals 15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and 15%[x] increased Overpower Damage.

Patch 1.1.0a, July 18, 2023

• Enhanced Blood Lance - Damage reduction for piercing reduced from 15% to 10%.

Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

• Supernatural Blood Lance - Overpower requirement reduced from 8 to 6 casts.

Patch 1.0.2d, June 4, 2023

• Damage increased from 67.5% to 80%.