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[[Image:Health bar-deep wound.png|175px|right|thumb|The visual effect on the health bar of a wounded character: a 20%-long greyed part on the rightmost side of the current health indicator]]

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

'''Concise description:''' Your maximum Health is reduced by 20% and you receive 20% less benefit from healing.
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==Game mechanics==
Deep wound is a [[condition]] that lowers the affected character's maximum [[health]] by 20%, and reduces [[heal]]ing 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 healing reduction '''does not''' affect [[life stealing]], [[health gain]], and [[health regeneration]] skills (i.e. [[Troll Unguent]] and [[Healing Breeze]]) or [[natural regeneration]].
*Deep wound will '''never reduce''' your maximum health by more than 100 health, even if your maximum 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 damage of 20% of maximum health until it is removed.

;Upgrades
*[[Cruel]] [[upgrade component]]s for [[weapon]]s 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%.

==Skills that cause deep wound==
{{skill table
| category = Skills that cause Deep Wound
| notcategory = Historical content
| show attribute = y
| show campaign = y
| show profession = y
| extra cost header = [[File:Any-tango-icon-20.png|Other]]
}}

==Related skills==

===Skills that benefit from deep wound===
{{Skill table
| titlematch = Agonizing Chop¦
| show attribute = y
| show campaign = y
| show profession = y
| extra cost header = [[File:Any-tango-icon-20.png|Other]]
}}

=== Skills with deep wound-dependent effects ===
{{Skill table
| titlematch = Axe Rake¦Axe Twist
| show attribute = y
| show campaign = y
| show profession = y
| extra cost header = [[File:Any-tango-icon-20.png|Other]]
}}

===Skills that mimic the deep wound effect===
{{Skill table
| titlematch = Predatory Season¦Defile Flesh¦Lingering Curse¦Malign Intervention¦Mark of Death¦¦¦
| show attribute = y
| show campaign = y
| show profession = y
| extra cost header = [[File:Any-tango-icon-20.png|Other]]
}}

==Notes==
* Deep wound can never kill you by itself; the "[[health loss]]" will not take effect until it is triggered through gaining or losing health (excluding health regeneration). If deep wound would bring you below 0 health, you will not die unless it is triggered; if triggered by health gain, then you will only die if that health gain does not bring your health above zero.
** A [[health degeneration]] effect such as [[Bleeding]] can help with killing a target faster, without requiring an extra attack.
* Characters who are at full health with a deep wound are still considered to be at full health, so skills such as [[Edge of Extinction]] will not trigger.
* Skills with effects on targets that have lower health (like [[Thrill of Victory]]) are calculated based on the reduced health amount caused by deep wound.
* If deep wound is removed before the affected creature is healed or 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.
* Deep wound is a very useful condition and is often used in [[PvP]]. For [[spike]] teams, it provides extra damage on the spike; for [[pressure]] teams, it adds healing reduction to the accumulating pressure applied upon the opposing party.
* Healing reduction from multiple sources stacks up to -40%.

==Trivia==
*The icon for deep wound appears to be a modified version of the icon used for the skill [[Dismember]].

==See also==
* [[List of condition removal skills]]

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[[Category:Conditions]]

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