Crimson Tide

Send a devouring surge toward your enemy. — In-game description

Crimson Tide

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Trident

Game link

API

10623, 50471

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Crimson Tide

Send a devouring surge toward your enemy.

 Damage (2x): 184 (0.5)^?

₂ Bleeding (2s): 88 Damage

 Life Force: 2%

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Notes

Bugs:

* The version triggered by other skills does not give life force.^{[verification requested]}

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 02, 2026	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to grant less life force than intended.
April 23, 2019	This skill now grants 2% life force per hit.
May 08, 2018	This skill now fires a projectile at enemies rather than delivering a direct attack. The projectile strikes the target twice over a short duration upon impact, inflicting bleeding for 2 seconds with each impact. This skill is now used with other necromancer trident attacks.
August 06, 2013	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to ignore line of sight.
June 25, 2013	The bleed duration has been increased from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
December 14, 2012	This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crimson Tide has been added to the game.

Trivia

• See Crimson Tide for a list of possible references.
• Before the August 6, 2013 game update, this attack could hit through walls and other obstructions.