Deep Wound

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Condition. While suffering from this injury, your maximum Health is reduced by 20% and you receive less benefit from healing.

–In-game description

[edit] Related skills

[edit] Skills that cause deep wound

• Crushing Blow - if target is knocked down
• Decapitate (elite)
• Desperation Blow - 25% chance on hit
• Drunken Blow - 25% chance on hit
• Dismember
• Eviscerate (elite)
• Gash - if target is Bleeding
• Swift Chop - if blocked
• Pulverizing Smash - if foe is knocked down
• Body Blow - if target has Cracked Armor
• Phantom Pain - at end of hex
• Accumulated Pain - if target suffers from at least two Hexes
• Augury of Death - if target's health drops below 50%
• Golden Fang Strike - if you are enchanted
• Impale - follows a dual attack
• Shadow Fang - at end of hex
• Twisting Fangs - dual attack
• "Find Their Weakness!" - next time ally criticals (applies before the critical hit strikes)
• Chest Thumper - if target has Cracked Armor
• Cruel Spear (elite) - if target is not moving
• Merciless Spear - if target's health is below 50%
• Slayer's Spear - if target has more health than you
• Vicious Attack - if critical hit
• Reaper's Sweep (elite) - if target's health is below 50%
• Wearying Strike - inflict weakness on self
• Pious Assault - lose one enchantment
• Wounding Strike (elite) - if you are enchanted
• "Finish Him!" (PvE only) - if target has less than 50% health
• Volfen Claw (PvE only, under Volfen Blessing (elite))

[edit] Skills that benefit from deep wound

• Agonizing Chop
• Axe Rake
• Axe Twist

[edit] Notes

• Direct healing is reduced by 20%. The reduction in health effectiveness does not affect the healing from health regeneration skills, like Troll Unguent and Healing Breeze, or natural regeneration.
• Deep Wound will never reduce your health by more than 100 points, even if your original health was more than 500. The health lost is also removed from your current health which is why a Deep Wound can be seen as a damage of 20% of maximum health until it's removed.
• Deep Wound is a condition that lowers the affected character's health by 20%, and reduces health effectiveness by the same amount. Unlike other conditions, deep wound has no visual indication on the affected character, however the right 20% of the affected character's health bar turns gray to indicate the deep wound.
• Deep Wound can never kill you by itself; the game will always show you to have at least one point of health regardless of how much health you have lost, though your actual health may be below zero. If, after being healed, your health is still below zero including the health removed by Deep Wound, however, you will die. Health regeneration won't kill you, but you will only appear to gain health once you have reached positive health, including the health removed by Deep Wound.
• Deep wound is a very useful condition and is often used in PvP. For spike teams it provides extra damage on the spike, and for pressure teams, it adds to the accumulating pressure applied upon the opposing party.
• Deep Wound is often caused by attacks and for the Warrior several axe skills cause, or benefit from, Deep Wound.
• If Deep Wound is removed before the affected creature takes any damage, it won't have done anything as it doesn't do any permanent damage in itself. The longer a Deep Wound is in effect, the more trouble it will cause by reducing healing and making a creature more vulnerable.
• Cruel upgrade components for weapons increase Deep Wound duration by 33%.
• A Rune of Recovery or the inscription "Strength of Body" can be used to reduce Deep Wound duration by 20%.
• List of condition removal skills.
• If you're at full health with Deep wound you will not be considered to be at 80% Hp so skills like Edge of Extinction will not trigger.

Conditions
Bleeding • Blind • Burning • Cracked Armor • Crippled • Dazed • Deep Wound • Disease • Poison • Weakness