Blood Surge

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

Creates Condition	Exploits Condition
Physical Dmg	N/A
Heals
Fortifies
Overpowers
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 Surge Details and Upgrades

Blood Surge Essence Cost: 30 Lucky Hit Chance: 12% Draw blood from enemies, dealing 20% damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing 70% damage. Blood Surge's nova damage is increased by 5%[x] per enemy drained, up to 50%[x]. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Core, Blood

Upgrades

Enhanced Blood Surge Blood Surge heals you for 3% of your Maximum Life when drawing blood from enemies. If 4 or more enemies are drawn from, then heal for an additional 3% of your Maximum Life.	Supernatural Blood Surge Each time an enemy is hit by Blood Surge's nova, you are Fortified for 1.1% Maximum life. While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, Blood Surge deals x 30% increased damage.
	Paranormal Blood Surge If an enemy is damaged by Blood Surge's nova while you are Healthy , then gain 1 stack of Overwhelming Blood. When you have 5 stacks of Overwhelming Blood, your next Blood Surge Overpowers .

Other Skills that work with Blood Surge

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Blood Surge can exploit
• Exploit a condition Blood Surge creates

Blood Surge Creates	Skills that Exploit This Condition
Blood Surge Exploits	Skills that Create This Condition

Items that work with Blood Surge

The following items either:

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

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Rathma's Chosen	Offensive	Whenever your Blood Skills Overpower you gain [35 - 50]%[+] Attack Speed for 4 seconds. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of Untimely Death	Offensive	Each percent of your Maximum Life you Heal beyond 100% grants you 0.5%[x] bonus Critical Strike Damage on your next Critical Strike, up to a [30 - 60]%[x] bonus.You may now drink your Healing Potion while at full Life. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer

Unique Items

Deathspeaker's Pendant Once a sanctum for Rathma's studies, the Temple of the Deathspeaker became a proving grounds for potential leaders of his priesthood. Its halls are filled with the corpses of those who failed. Type: Unique Amulet Class: Necromancer Description: Blood Surge casts a mini nova on your Minions, dealing [41 - 86] damage. Damage is increased by 10% per target drained by the initial cast, up to 50%.

+25.0% Resistance to All Elements Affixes: (Item Power 925) +[2 - 3] to Coalesced Blood +[7.0 - 9.0]% Attack Speed +[3 - 5] to Blood Surge +1 Essence per Enemy Drained by Blood Surge

Changes to Blood Surge

Patch 1.3.3, March 5, 2024

• Damage bonus per enemy drained reduced from x10% to x5%.
• Nova damage increased by 40%.
• Supernatural Blood Surge - Damage bonus increased from x 20% to x 30%.

Patch 1.2.0, October 17, 2023

• Supernatural Blood Surge - Fortify amount changed from being based on Base Life to Maximum life.

Patch 1.1.0a, July 18, 2023

• Enhanced Blood Surge - Healing increased from 2.5% to 3% of Maximum Life.