Sever

Sever is a Necromancer skill from the Core skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Shadow Dmg	N/A
Vulnerable
Core
Darkness

'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.

Sever Details and Upgrades

Sever A spectre of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for 75% damage then returns to you and attacks again for 25% damage. Damage: Shadow Essence Cost: 20 Lucky Hit Chance:: 20% Tags: Core, Darkness

Upgrades

Enhanced Sever Sever damages enemies along its path for 40% of its initial damage.	Supernatural Sever Sever deals x 2% increased damage for each Minion you have upon cast.
	Paranormal Sever Every 3rd cast of Sever makes enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Items that work with Sever

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Sever
• Create a condition Sever can exploit
• Exploit a condition Sever creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Empowering Reaper	Offensive	Critical Strikes from Sever have a 10 - 20% chance to spawn a pool of Blight under the target that deals 40 - 80% bonus damage. This effect can only happen once every 3 seconds. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Flooded Depths (Map)	Scosglen	Necromancer
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 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
Cadaverous Aspect	Offensive	Consuming a Corpse increases the damage of your next Core skill by 5 - 10%, up to 25 - 50%. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Necromancer
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

Changes to Sever

Patch 1.1.0a, July 18, 2023

• Paranormal Sever - Casts required for Vulnerable reduced from 4 to 3.

Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

• Initial base damage increased from 63% to 66%.
• Enhanced Sever - Return base damage increased from 25% to 40%.