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Touch of Death

Rank 1/15

PotencyCentipede Cooldown: 15 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Strike an enemy and infect them, dealing 5% damage and applying 300% Poisoning damage over 9 seconds. When the infection expires or the host dies, a swarm hatches and seeks enemies for 9 seconds, dealing 10% damage per hit. You can have up to 3 swarms active at once. Poison Damage

Touch of Death is a Spiritborn Skill in Diablo 4. Touch of Death is a potency centipede skill that infects an enemy as it hits it, applying devastating poison damage for 9 seconds. The targeted enemy may infect another enemy. The Spiritborn is a new class added with the Vessel of Hatred DLC content.

Touch of Death Diablo 4 Information

Touch of Death belongs to the Spiritborn class Skill Tree, and is part of the Potency Cluster.

Active Skills can be ranked up to Rank 15. Players can also Enhance and then Upgrade the skill to add new features to its effects.

Active Skills are represented by big square icons in the Skill Tree menu.

Touch of Death Effects in Diablo 4

Touch of Death can be upgraded up to Rank 15, by spending more skill points. Upgrading Touch of Death will further increase its benefits depending on its rank.

Rank	Upgrade
Rank 1	Poisoning Damage  [300%] Swarm Damage:  [10%]
Rank 2	Poisoning Damage  [330%] Swarm Damage:  [11%]
Rank 3	Poisoning Damage  [360%] Swarm Damage:  [12%]
Rank 4	Poisoning Damage  [390%] Swarm Damage:  [13%]
Rank 5	Poisoning Damage  [435%] Swarm Damage:  [15%]
Rank 6	Poisoning Damage  [465%] Swarm Damage:  [16%]
Rank 7	Poisoning Damage  [495%] Swarm Damage:  [17%]
Rank 8	Poisoning Damage  [525%] Swarm Damage:  [17%]
Rank 9	Poisoning Damage  [555%] Swarm Damage:  [19%]
Rank 10	Poisoning Damage  [600%] Swarm Damage:  [20%]
Rank 11	Poisoning Damage  [630%] Swarm Damage:  [21%]
Rank 12	Poisoning Damage  [660%] Swarm Damage:  [22%]
Rank 13	Poisoning Damage  [690%] Swarm Damage:  [23%]
Rank 14	Poisoning Damage  [720%] Swarm Damage:  [24%]
Rank 15	Poisoning Damage  [765%] Swarm Damage:  [25%]

Diablo 4 Enhance & Upgrade for Touch of Death

Touch of Death can lead into the following Skill upgrades in the Skill Tree:

• Erupting Swarm: Touch of Death's swarm bursts every second, applying X Poisoning damage over 6 seconds to surrounding enemies.
• Swarm of Swarms: Touch of Death is also a Core Skill which costs 70 Vigor and has no Cooldown.
  When a swarm is replaced early, it bursts for 150% of the damage it would have done.
• Touch of Lightning: Touch of Death becomes an Eagle Skill that deals Lightning damage.
  Touch of Death strikes an enemy, dealing
  X damage and conjuring a Spirit Storm which Sparks enemies for X damage. If the enemy dies before the Spirit Storm dissipates, conjure a second moving Spirit Storm.
  When you conjure a Spirit Storm, reduce Touch of Death's Cooldown by 1 second.

These Skill upgrades are represented by diamond-shaped icons in the Skill Tree menu, and players can only select one between them. These are major skill upgrades that change drastically how Touch of Death works.

There are also 4 minor upgrades for Touch of Death. They are divided into two groups, and players can only select one between them.

• Healing (Touch of Death):  Touch of Death's infection Heals you for 1.0% of your Maximum Life (X) per second for a total of 9% Maximum Life (X). You Heal any remaining when the swarm hatches.
• Weakened Damage (Touch of Death): If Touch of Death's strike hits a Weakened enemy, Touch of Death deals 20% increased damage.

And also one between:

• Additional Charge (Touch of Death): Touch of Death gains an additional Charge.
• Vulnerable (Touch of Death): Touch of Death makes enemies Vulnerable.

Builds that use Touch of Death in Diablo 4

Diablo 4 Touch of Death Notes & Tips

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