Curses

Specialization background.

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"Your suffering fuels me."

Specializing in curses improves the potency of your condition output and critical-hit efficiency. Increase the number of conditions you can apply, and send conditions applied to you right back to your foes. You're just returning the favor, after all.

— In-game description

Curses is a core specialization for the necromancer that focuses on benefits for and from critical hits and conditions, especially with the use of corruption and scepter skills.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Barbed Precision		Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
Major Adept	Insidious Disruption		Disabling a foe inflicts torment on them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Adept	Plague Sending		Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
Major Adept	Chilling Darkness	3	Blinding a target will also apply chill.
Minor Master	Furious Demise		Gain fury when entering shroud. Gain additional precision.
Major Master	Master of Corruption		Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
Major Master	Path of Corruption		Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
Major Master	Parasitic Contagion		A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
Minor Grandmaster	Target the Weak		Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
Major Grandmaster	Weakening Shroud	10	Cast Weakening Shroud when entering shroud. Critical hits inflict weakness.
Major Grandmaster	Terror		Fear you inflict deals damage each second.
Major Grandmaster	Lingering Curse		Your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have longer durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

See also: List of necromancer traits

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Necromancer