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Weaken

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Description

Curses a group of enemies, reducing the amount of damage they inflict.

Lowers the physical damage the target inflicts by 33% at level 1 and by 1 percent point more for each level after.

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Trang Oul

Lore

This bane allows the Necromancer to sap the strength from his enemy.

Enemies are enfeebled to the point that their blows become highly ineffective.

Can be used to make Runewords:

Teebling Admin

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Curses a group of enemies, reducing the amount of damage they inflict.

Lowers the physical damage the target inflicts by 33% at level 1 and by 1 percent point more for each level after.

Deleted User 632

Guest

2 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Patch 2.4

Blizzard wrote:

Weaken
Damage reduction now scales based on level, from just 33%, to now 33% and +1% per level

Internally, this Curse functions as off-weapon Enhanced Damage with a negative value. This has several repercussions.

First, the reduction in damage is limited to the same circumstances as those where off-weapon Enhanced Damage would be beneficial (i.e. the physical damage component of basic Attacks and skills derived therefrom).

Furthermore, most player characters affected by

Weaken will experience only a very minor decrease to their damage, as off-weapon Enhanced Damage values are typically quite high as a consequence of Skills and Attributes.

Relatedly,

Weaken will have a much less-noticeable effect on the physical damage of Aura Enchanted elite packs that have a Might or

Fanaticism aura.