Bone Splinters

Physical Dmg	Critical Strike Dmg
Essence
Critical Strike Chance
Vulnerable
Basic
Bone

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

'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

Fire 3 bone splinters, dealing 9% damage each.

Each subsequent time an enemy is hit by the same cast of Bone Splinters, you gain 1 Essence.

Damage: Physical

Generates Essence : 7

Lucky Hit Chance: 17%

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 x 5 - 10%, up to x 30%. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Underroot (Map)	Codex of Power	All
Aspect of Exposed Flesh	Resource	Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to generate 30 - 50 Essence when hitting a Vulnerable. Ring	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of Grasping Veins	Offensive	Gain 10 - 20% increased Critical Strike Chance for 6 seconds when you cast Corpse Tendrils. You deal 20 - 40% bonus Critical Strike Damage to enemies 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 - 6 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% per Essence above 50, up to 30 - 40%. 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 90 - 170% for 4 seconds. Ring	Black Asylum (Map)	Fractured Peaks	Necromancer
Rapid Aspect	Offensive	Basic skills gain + 15 - 30% 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 1.5 - 2.5 seconds. Bone Shards from Bone Spear deal 30 - 60% 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 - 16% 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: Helm
Class: Necromancer

Description: Bone Spear leaves behind echoes as it travels that explode, dealing # damage.

Affixes:

+ % Damage Reduction
+ % Physical Damage
+ % Critical Strike Damage on Bone Skills
+ # Maximum Essence

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: Ring
Class: All

Description: If a Core Skill hits 4 or more enemies, 30% - 50% of the Resource cost is refunded.

Affixes:

+ % Resist All
+ % Shadow Resistance
+ # All Stats
+ % Maximum Life
+ % Critical Strike Damage

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: Gloves
Class: All

Description: Damaging enemies with a cast Non–Basic Skill 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 x 100 – 200% increased damage.

Affixes:

+ % Critical Strike Chance
+ % Attack Speed
+ 8 - 14 All Stats
+ % Basic Skill Damage

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: Ring - Uber Unique
Class: All

Description: Spending resources reduces your resource costs and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to 40%.

+ % All Resistances

Affixes:

The Grandfather

An unbroken lineage of unwavering strength.

Type: Two-Handed Sword - Uber Unique
Class: Barbarian and Necromancer

Description: Increases your Critical Strike Damage by x 60-100%.

The other properties on this weapon can roll higher than normal.

+ # % Critical Strike Damage

Affixes:

+ # % Damage
+ # Max Life
+ # All Stats
Ignores Durability Loss

Paragon Glyphs


	Corporeal Rare: Necromancer Bonus: Grants + 30% (lvl 1) - 150% (lvl 21) bonus to their Physical damage and damage reduction modifiers.	Additional Bonus: You and your Minions deal x 10% increased Physical damage. 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 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

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