Bone Splinters

Bone Splinters is a Necromancer skill from the Basic skill tree. Its features are:

Creates Condition	Exploits Condition
Physical Dmg	Critical Strike Dmg
Essence
Critical Strike Chance
Vulnerable
Basic
Bone

'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.

Bone Splinters Details and Upgrades

Bone Splinters Generate Essence: 10 Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Fire 3 splinters of bone, dealing 15% damage each. Each subsequent time an enemy is hit by the same cast of Bone Splinters, you gain 1 Essence. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Basic, Bone

Upgrades

Enhanced Bone Splinters Bone Splinters has a 25% chance to fire 2 additional projectiles if cast while you have 50 or more Essence.	Acolyte's Bone Splinters Hitting the same enemy at least 3 times with the same cast of Bone Splinters grants + 8% Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.
	Initiate's Bone Splinters Bone Splinters has a 20% chance per hit to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Other Skills that work with Bone Splinters

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Bone Splinters can exploit
• Exploit a condition Bone Splinters creates

Bone Splinters Creates	Skills that Exploit This Condition
Critical Strike Chance (4 secs)	Paranormal Bone Spear | Enhanced Bone Spirit
Vulnerable	Plagued Corpse Explosion | Evulsion (p)
Bone Skills	Serration (p) | Compound Fracture (p) | Rapid Ossification (p) | Evulsion (p) | Ossified Essence (p)
Bone Splinters Exploits	Skills that Create This Condition
Critical Strike Damage	Evulsion (p)

Items that work with Bone Splinters

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Bone Splinters
• Create a condition Bone Splinters can exploit
• Exploit a condition Bone Splinters creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Expectant	Offensive	After attacking enemies with a Basic Skill, increase the damage of your next Core Skill cast within 5 seconds by 5 - 12% [x], up to 30% [x]. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Underroot (Map)	Scosglen	All
Aspect of Exposed Flesh	Resource	Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to generate 35 - 55 Essence when hitting a Vulnerable enemy. Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of Grasping Veins	Offensive	Gain 5 - 25% [+] increased Critical Strike Chance for 6 seconds when you cast Corpse Tendrils. You deal 10 - 50% [x] bonus Critical Strike Damage to enemies for 6 seconds after they are damaged by Corpse Tendrils. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Corrupted Grotto (Map)	Kehjistan	Necromancer
Aspect of Might	Defensive	Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for 2 - 10 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Dark Ravine (Map)	Dry Steppes	All
Aspect of Serration	Offensive	The Ossified Essence Key Passive also increases the [[Critical Strike Damage] of your Bone Skills by 1% [x] per Essence above 50, up to 25 - 45% [x]. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of Torment	Resource	Critical Strikes with Bone Skills increase your Essence Regeneration by 95 - 195% [x] for 4 seconds. Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Black Asylum (Map)	Fractured Peaks	Necromancer
Rapid Aspect	Offensive	Basic Skills gain 15 - 35% [+] Attack Speed. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Buried Halls (Map)	Dry Steppes	All
Splintering Aspect	Offensive	Bone Spear's primary attack makes enemies hit beyond the first Vulnerable for 3 seconds. Bone Shards from Bone Spear deal 30 - 70% bonus damage to Vulnerable enemies and pierce them. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Guulrahn Slums(Map)	Dry Steppes	Necromancer
Wind Striker Aspect	Mobility	Critical Strikes grant 8.5 - 19% [+] Movement Speed for 1 second, up to 6 seconds. Boots, Amulet (+50%)	Shivta Ruins (Map)	Kehjistan	All

Unique Items

There are no unique items that are tailored for use with Bone Splinters.

	Deathless Visage "Rathma is endless. He was the first Ancient, and will remain at the end. He is the master of the Great Cycle of Being. When Death comes for him, why should he fear it?" - Vauntus, Acolyte of Rathma Type: Unique Helm Class: Necromancer Description: Bone Spear leaves behind echoes that explode for [75 - 135] Physical damage, increased by 5%[x] for every 20% Critical Strike Damage you have.	Affixes: +[2 - 4] to Bone Spear +[23.5 - 32.5]% Chance for Bone Spear Projectiles to Cast Twice +[2,153 - 2,963] Armor +[12 - 20] Maximum Resource
	Mother's Embrace "Every tome, every scroll, every book in this temple produces the same answer. The only being willing to stand against the Eternal Conflict, against the Prime Evils, was Lilith." - Elias Type: Unique Ring Class: All Classes Description: If a Core Skill hits 4 or more enemies, 30 - 60% of the Resource cost is refunded.	+12.5% Resistance to All Elements +12.5% Shadow Resistance Affixes: +10.5 - 15% Attack Speed +7 - 8% Critical Strike Chance +7 - 8% Lucky Hit Chance +47 - 65 All Stats
	Paingorger's Gauntlets Crafted from fragments of Duriel's carapace, wearing these gloves, or being struck by them, causes an agonizing sensation akin to pushing one's hands through a thousand shards of glass. Type: Unique Gloves Class: All Classes Description: Damaging enemies with a Non-Basic Skill cast marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill's damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing [100 - 200]%[x] increased damage.	Affixes: +[7.0 - 9.0]% Attack Speed +[2 - 4] to Basic Skills [6.0 - 8.0]% Cooldown Reduction Lucky Hit: Up to a +[13.5 - 22.5]% Chance to Stun (CC) for 2 Seconds
	Ring of Starless Skies "Yours is the power to pluck the stars from the heavens with the ease of a child gathering fruit from the bough." - Unknown Type: Mythic Unique Ring Class: All Classes Description: Spending your Primary Resource reduces the Resource cost of your skills and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to x50%.	+12.5% Resistance to All Elements +12.5% Resistance to All Elements Affixes: (Item Power 800) +17.5% Attack Speed +12.5% Critical Strike Chance +12.5% Lucky Hit Chance +2 to Core Skills
	The Grandfather An unbroken lineage of unwavering strength. Type: Mythic Unique Two-Handed Sword Class: Barbarian, Necromancer Description: Increases your Critical Strike Damage by 100%[x]. The other properties on this weapon can roll higher than normal.	+150% Damage Ignore Durability Loss Affixes: (Item Power 800) +220 All Stats +300% Damage +1,800 Maximum Life +20 Maximum Resource

Paragon Glyphs

	Corporeal Effect: Grants + 30% (lvl 1) - 150% (lvl 21) bonus to all Magic Nodes within range. Legendary Bonus: Increase Physical damage by x0.5%.	Rare: Necromancer Additional Bonus: You deal x 10% increased Physical damage and you gain +1% Movement Speed for each active Minion. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Essence Rare: Necromancer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + 4% (lvl 1) - 20% (lvl 21) increased Critical Strike Damage.	Additional Bonus: Critical Strikes deal x 22% increased damage to enemies that are not Healthy. Requirements: 25 Dexterity (in radius range)
	Ruin Magic: Barbarian / Druid / Necromancer / Rogue / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity (Barb, Druid, Necro, Sorc) / Intelligence (Rogue) purchased within range, you gain + 1.1% increased Critical Strike Damage.
	Subdue Magic: Barbarian / Druid / Necromancer / Rogue / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity (Barb/Druid/Necro/Sorc) / Intelligence (Rogue) purchased within range, you gain + 0.8% increased damage to Vulnerable targets.

Item Affixes

The following Affixes are particularly useful with Bone Splinters

Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Off-Hand	Shield
Basic Skill Damage [18.5 - 39.5%]						✔		✔	✔
Basic Skill Damage [37 - 79%]							✔
Bone Skill Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]	✔			✔
Physical Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔
Critical Strike Damage with Bone Skills [12.6 - 21%]		✔			✔	✔
Critical Strike Damage with Bone Skills [33.6 - 50.4%]							✔
Critical Strike Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔				✔
Critical Strike Damage [28 - 42%]							✔
Sword: Critical Strike Damage [14%]						✔
Sword: Critical Strike Damage [28%]							✔
Vulnerable Damage [9.8 - 19.6%]		✔				✔
Vulnerable Damage [19.6 - 39.2%]							✔
Basic Skill Attack Speed [4.4 - 10%]			✔					✔	✔
Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Off-Hand	Shield

Changes to Bone Splinters

Patch 1.5.0, August 6, 2024

• Lucky Hit Chance has been increased from 17% to 30%.

Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

• Base damage increased from 8% to 9%.
• Essence generated increased from 6 to 7.