Decompose

Shadow Dmg (DoT)	N/A
+ Corpses
+ Essense
Slows (CC)
+ Movement
Vulnerable
Basic
Darkness
	Channeled

Decompose 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.

Decompose Details and Upgrades

Decompose

Tear the flesh from the enemy, dealing 33% damage per second (DoT) and forming a usable corpse with the flesh every 1 seconds.

Damage: Shadow

Generates : 10 Essence per second

Lucky Hit Chance: 40%

Tags: Basic, Darkness, Channeled

Upgrades

Enhanced Decompose

If an enemy dies while being Decomposed, you gain 10 Essence.

Acolyte's Decompose

Every 1.5 seconds, Decompose makes enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Initiate's Decompose

Decompose Slows (CC) enemies by 50%, and if you channel Decompose for at least 1.5 seconds, you gain + 30% Movement Speed for 5 second after ending the channel.

* Vulnerable enemies take 20% increased damage.

Other Skills that work with Decompose

The following skills either:

Create a condition Decompose can exploit
Exploit a condition Decompose creates

Decompose Creates	Skills that Exploit This Condition
Shadow Damage (DoT)	Shadowblight
Darkness	Reaper's Pursuit \| Crippling Darkness \| Gloom
Slows (CC)	Plagued Corpse Explosion \| Terror
Vulnerable	Plagued Corpse Explosion \| Enhanced Bone Prison \| Evulsion (p)
Corpses	Corpse Explosion
Decompose Exploits	Skills that Create This Condition
N/A

Items that work with Decompose

The following items either:

Grant a bonus when using Decompose
Create a condition Decompose can exploit
Exploit a condition Decompose creates

Legendary Aspects

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 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 Shared Misery	Utility	Lucky Hit: When you hit a Crowd Controlled enemy, there is up to a 30 - 50% chance for that Crowd Control effect to spread to another unaffected enemy. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Oblivion (Map)	Hawezar	All
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 the Long Shadow	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Your Shadow Damage Over Time (DoT) effects have a 10 - 30% chance to generate 3 Essence. Damage from your Shadowblight Key Passive will always generate 2 Essence. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Aspect of the Umbral	Resource	Restore 1 - 4 of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control an enemy. Ring	Champion's Demise (Map)	Dry Steppes	All
Assimilation Aspect	Resource	You have 8% increased Dodge Chance. When you Dodge, Fortify for 5-20% of your Maximum Life. Ring	N/A	Extraction	All
Exploiter's Aspect	Utility	You have + 20% increased Crowd Control Duration. While enemies are Unstoppable, you deal x 20 - 40% increased damage to them. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	All
Flesh-Rending Aspect	Resource	After Decompose spawns a Corpse, gain 20 - 40 Essence. Ring	Nostrava Deepwood (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
Rotting Aspect	Offensive	Decompose can chain up to 2 additional targets. When Decompose spawns a Corpse, it has a 50 - 100% chance to spawn a Corpse under all afflicted targets. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
Smiting Aspect	Offensive	You have x 10 - 20% increased Critical Strike Chance against Injured enemies. While you are Healthy, you gain x 20 - 40% increased Crowd Control Duration. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	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

Unique Items

Bloodless Scream

"My companion swung her odd weapon in a wide arc, and our pursuer stopped short. The look of horror on his face as his body fell to pieces will haunt me forever." - The Ebon Pages, Canto II, Verse XI

Type: Two-Handed Scythe
Class: Necromancer

Description: Your Darkness Skills Chill (CC) enemies for up to 100.0% and deal x 20 - 50% increased damage to Frozen enemies.

Lucky Hit: Your Darkness Skills have up to a 100.0% chance to generate 7 - 10 additional Essence against Frozen targets.

# Damage per Hit
# Attacks per Second (Slow)
+ Life On Kill

Affixes:

+ # Life On Kill
+ % Darkness Skills Damage
+ % Damage to Chilled enemies
+ # Intelligence
# Cold Resistance

Greaves of the Empty Tomb

"The massive door to my family's crypt, which had taken a dozen men to close, was thrown open. Had I known the horrors to come I never would have set foot inside!" -The Ebon Pages, Canto I, Verse VII

Type: Boots
Class: Necromancer

Description: Create desecrated ground beneath your Sever spectres as they travel, damaging enemies for 944 - 1,322 Shadow damage over 2.0 seconds. (DoT)

+ 2 Max Evade

Affixes:

+ % Movement Speed
+ % Damage Reduction from Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies
% Essence Cost Reduction
+ % Lucky Hit chance with Shadow 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

X'Fal's Corroded Signet

Skulking in the shadows of the Realm of Destruction, the Scarred Baron plots the downfall of the mortal who banished him there.

Type: Ring
Class: All

Description: Your Damage over Time effects have up to a 50% chance to erupt, dealing # damage of the same type to Nearby enemies.

+ % Resistance to All Elements
+ % Fire Resistance

Affixes:

% Cooldown Reduction
* % Lucky Hit Chance
+ % Damage Over Time
+ # All Stats

Paragon Glyphs


	Abyssal Rare: Necromancer Bonus: Paragon nodes within range gain + 15% (lvl 1) - 75% (lvl 21) bonus to their Non-physical damage and damage reduction modifiers.	Additional Bonus: You and your Minions deal x 10% increased Non-Physical damage. Requirements: 25 Dexterity (in radius range)
	Advantage Magic: Barbarian / Necromancer / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Willpower purchased within range, you gain + 1.1% increased damage to Crowd Controlled targets.
	Control Rare: Necromancer / Sorcerer / Rogue Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence (Necro) purchased within range, you deal + 2% (lvl 1) - 10% (lvl 21) increased damage to Crowd Controlled targets. For every 5 Intelligence (Rogue) / 5 Dexterity (Sorc) purchased within range, you deal 3% (lvl 1) - 15% (lvl 21) increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.	Additional Bonus: You (and your Minions, necro only) deal x 10% increased damage to Slowed (CC) or Chilled (CC) enemies or, instead, x 20% increased damage to Stunned (CC) or Frozen (CC) enemies. Requirements: 40 Int (Necro), 25 Int (Rogue), 25 Dex (Sorc) (in radius range)
	Darkness Rare: Necromancer Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence purchased within range, you deal + 1.3% (lvl 1) - 6.6% (lvl 21) increased Shadow damage.	Additional Bonus: Whenever you or your Minions deal Shadow damage to an enemy, that enemy deals 2% reduced damage, up to 10%, for 5 seconds. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Scourge Rare: Necromancer Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence purchased within range, you deal + 1.3% (lvl 1) - 6.6% (lvl 21) increased Shadow Damage over time(DoT).	Additional Bonus: You and your Minions deal x 10% increased damage to enemies affected by Shadow Damage over time (DoT) effects. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	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 Decompose


Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Legs	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Off-Hand	Shield
Basic Skill Damage [18.5 - 39.5%]							✔		✔	✔
Basic Skill Damage [37 - 79%]								✔
Darkness Skill Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]	✔			✔
Shadow Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔		✔
Damage Over Time [7.0 - 14.0%]		✔					✔
Damage Over Time [14 - 28%]								✔
Shadow Damage Over Time [12.5 - 19.5%]	✔					✔
Damage to 'Affected by Shadow Damage Over Time' Enemies [7 - 14%]		✔					✔
Damage to 'Affected by Shadow Damage Over Time' Enemies [14 - 28%]								✔
Damage to Slowed Enemies [16.5 - 23.5%]		✔					✔
Damage to Slowed Enemies [33 - 47%]								✔
Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [5 - 12%]		✔					✔
Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [10 - 24%]								✔
Crowd Control Duration [5 - 12%]	✔		✔						✔	✔
Vulnerable Damage [9.8 - 19.6%]		✔					✔
Vulnerable Damage [19.6 - 39.2%]								✔
Basic Skill Attack Speed [4.4 - 10%]			✔						✔	✔
Damage Reduction from 'Affected by Shadow Damage Over Time' Enemies [7 - 14%]	✔			✔	✔				✔	✔
Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Legs	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Off-Hand

Changes to Decompose

Patch 1.3.0, January 23, 2024

Acolyte's Decompose

Previous: You and your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage to enemies being Decomposed.
New: Every 1.5 seconds, Decompose makes enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Initiate's Decompose

Previous: Decompose Slows enemies by 50%.
New: Decompose Slows enemies by 50%, and if you channel Decompose for at least 1.5 seconds, you gain 30%[+] Movement Speed for 5 second after ending the channel.

Patch 1.1.0a, July 18, 2023

Initiate's Decompose - Slow increased from 30% to 50%.

Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

Base damage increased from 30% to 33%.
Base Essence generated per second increased from 7 to 8.
Corpses formed frequency increased from 2.5 to 2 seconds.