Curse

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale All Skills Fire Skills Skill bonus Oskill Aura Equipped Charges Charged suffix Chance to Cast On Attack On Striking When Struck When You Die Kill an Enemy Level-up Curses are debuffs, applying negative effects to targets for a duration. Normally curses must be cast at a point within line of sight of the caster, but those that apply their effects within a radius can apply to targets not in line of sight but within radius, even if there is a wall or closed door in the way. This can be a useful scouting tool, since cursed targets are illuminated. Using Fade and Cleansing can reduce curse length: Fade must be active at the time cursed, while Cleansing can be active after cursing since it applies to remaining curse length every two seconds. [1] Drinking from a Well will cure a curse immediately, as will visiting a healer in town. Curse Only one of the following can be active on a unit at one time, as indicated by the overlay displayed above it: Amplify Damage Necromancer Oblivion Knight Stygian Fury Cursed Attract Necromancer Battle Cry Barbarian Blood Mana Succubus Stygian Fury Baal (Chamber) Uber Baal Cloak of Shadows Assassin Shadow Warrior Shadow Master Confuse Necromancer Taunt Barbarian Decrepify Necromancer Oblivion Knight Baal (Throne) Defense Curse Succubus Stygian Fury Baal (Chamber) Uber Baal Dim Vision Necromancer Raven (skill) Hit Blinds Target Grim Ward Barbarian HCMF Item Howl Barbarian Terror Necromancer Iron Maiden Necromancer Life Tap Necromancer Oblivion Knight Lower Resist Necromancer Weaken Necromancer Oblivion Knight Stygian Fury When same curse is cast on a cursed target, it will normally overwrite the previous cast if the skill level is equal or greater. Exceptions are Attract, Cloak of Shadows, Confuse and Howl, which cannot overwrite themselves and must expire before they can apply to the same target again (although in the case of Cloak of Shadows, only when cast by the same player). [2] When different curse is cast on a cursed target, it will normally overwrite the previous one. Exceptions are as follows: [3] Grim Ward can only be overwritten by Confuse and Attract Fleeing effects have their own hierarchy; those higher on the following list cannot be overwritten by those lower: Grim Ward Terror Hit Causes Monster to Flee Howl Confuse cannot overwrite itself or be overwritten by any of the following: Attract Dim Vision Grim Ward Hit Blinds Target Taunt Terror Attract cannot be overwritten by anything, including itself. Shrines which apply a buff for a duration can also overwrite curses, and vice versa. When Confuse is overwritten, some units may continue to attack each other; when a fleeing effect is overwritten, units may continue to flee. This will stop when the units make their next AI check. When applying poison damage, Lower Resist only applies when units are poisoned, so it can be overwritten afterwards without losing effect on previously poisoned units, even those that become Immune to Poison again. Although otherwise only one curse can affect a unit at a time, differing radius means that multiple curses can be used at once: higher radius curse(s) can be cast first, then lower radius curse(s) can be cast for more localised effect. Cannot be cursed Possessed cannot be cursed, and neither can the following units because they are static: [4] Animal Construct Demon Blood Hawk Nest Coldworm the Burrower Sand Maggot Egg Tentacle Beast Barricade Barricaded Door Barricaded Tower Catapult Evil Demon Hut Fire Tower Gargoyle Trap Lightning Spire Prison Door Mummy Sarcophagus Trapped Soul Window Festering Appendage However, Battle Cry and Cloak of Shadows still apply. Effects which alter AI only apply to normal and minion monsters, with the following exceptions: Minion of Destruction Oblivion Knight Putrid Defiler Suicide Minion Cloak of Shadows will not blind these monsters but it will still apply -% Defense (although not to Putrid Defilers, since they are bosses). References Curses (Arreat Summit) Open Wounds (Technical Discussion) Which elements are most resisted in Hell? (Technical Discussion) Onderduiker, Chance to Cast and Curses Tests (Technical Discussion)