Decrepify Class: Necromancer (Diablo II) Required Level: 24 Skill Tree: Curses Requires: Amplify Damage, Weaken, Terror Active Cost: 11 Mana A crippling curse that halves enemy units' speed, damage and physical resistances. Damage Type: Magic Other Stats: Only one Curse may be active on a target at a time  |
Decrepify is a Necromancer skill in Diablo II.
Lore[]
This curse gives the victim a glimpse of his own mortality, briefly aging the victim. Imagining itself with an infirm body of advanced age, the afflicted believes it is no longer capable of youthful exertions.
General Information[]
Synergies[]
- Gives synergy to: None
- Receives synergy from: None
Decrepify combines the effects of Amplify Damage and Weaken, and also slows opponents as though they were chilled. Damage, speed, and physical resistance are all reduced by 50%.
Decrepify can therefore decrease the damage output of enemies by slowing their attack (although it does not slow the actual speed of their projectiles). Its effects, however, are independent of cold damage and Slows Target equipment; any combination of the three can stack and slow enemies to a very slow crawl. Amplify Damage is still better for damage-dealing purposes as its reduction to enemy physical resist is higher.
This curse breaks the Immune to Physical on monsters, though resistance penalty is greatly weakened (working at only 1/5th effectiveness) in these cases.
The Reaper's Toll and Lawbringer have a high chance of casting this spell on striking. The Executioner's Justice causes Decrepify to be cast whenever it is used to kill a target.
Items[]
Several items grant Decrepify skill:
- Wands and Shrunken Heads: +1-3 to class skill staffmod
- Ume's Lament, unique Grim Wand: +2 to class skill
- Spellsteel, unique Bearded Axe: level 3, 30 charges
- Lawbringer, hammer/scepter/sword runeword, CtC on striking, 20%, level 15
- The Reaper's Toll, unique Thresher, CtC on striking, 33%, level 1
- Wrath, missile weapon runeword, CtC on striking, 30%, level 1
- The Fetid Sprinkler, unique Holy Water Sprinkler, CtC on striking, 5%, level 1
- Executioner's Justice, unique Glorious Axe, CtC on kill, 50%, level 6
Skill Progression[]
Physical Resist: -50% (not visible in description due to a bug in SkillDest.txt where descline has 0 instead of par5 as the calc value)
Damage: -50%
Attack Speed: -50%
Run/Walk Speed: -50%
Mana Cost: 11
Radius: 4 yards
| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 4s | 4.6s | 5.2s | 5.8s | 6.4s | 7s | 7.6s | 8.2s | 8.8s | 9.4s | 10s |
| Level | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 10.6s | 11.2s | 11.8s | 12.4s | 13s | 13.6s | 14.2s | 14.8s | 15.4s |
Diablo III[]
Necromancers in Diablo III use the spell named Decrepify of similar functionality.
Decrepify also somewhat returns reworked to Curse of Mud. The curse is used only by an Enslaved Nightmare, but it inflicts a high movement speed debuff on the victim.
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