Deep Wound

File:Health bar-deep wound.png

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

File:Deep Wound.jpg

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

Concise description: Your maximum Health is reduced by 20% and you receive 20% less benefit from healing.

— in-game description

Game mechanics

Deep wound is a condition that lowers the affected character's maximum health by 20%, and reduces healing 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 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%.

Skills that cause deep wound

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:"Find Their Weakness!".jpg	"Find Their Weakness!"	Shout. (5...17...20 seconds.) Target ally deals +5...41...50 damage and inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) with the next attack.	0	1010	0	01515		paragona	CommandZ	Nightfall
File:"Find Their Weakness!" (PvP).jpg	"Find Their Weakness!" (PvP)	Shout. (5...17...20 seconds.) Target ally inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) with the next critical hit.	0	1010	0	01515		paragona	CommandZ	Nightfall
File:"Finish Him!".jpg	"Finish Him!"	Shout. Deals 44...80 damage and inflicts Cracked Armor and Deep Wound conditions (12...20 seconds). No effect unless target foe has less than 50% Health.	0	1010	0	01515		a	Norn rankZ	Eye of the North
File:Accumulated Pain.jpg	Accumulated Pain	Spell. Deals 15...63...75 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) if target foe has 2 or more hexes.	0	055	02.002	01212		mesmera	Illusion MagicZ	Factions
File:Accumulated Pain (PvP).jpg	Accumulated Pain (PvP)	Spell. Deals 10...30...35 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) if target foe has 2 or more hexes.	0	055	02.002	01515		mesmera	Illusion MagicZ	Factions
File:Augury of Death.jpg	Augury of Death	Half Range Hex Spell. (5...29...35 seconds.) Inflict Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) and Shadow Step to target foe the next time damage would drop this foe's Health below 50%.	0	055	01.001	02020		assassina	Deadly ArtsZ	Nightfall
File:Body Blow.jpg	Body Blow	Melee Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound (0...12...15 second[s]) if target foe has Cracked Armor.	7	0	0	0		warriora	StrengthZ	Eye of the North
File:Chest Thumper.jpg	Chest Thumper	Spear Attack. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) if target foe has Cracked Armor.	0	055	0	0055		paragona	Spear MasteryZ	Eye of the North
File:Cruel Spear.jpg	Cruel Spear	Elite Spear Attack. Deals +10...42...50 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) if target is not moving.	6	0	0	0		paragona	Spear MasteryZ	Nightfall
File:Crushing Blow.jpg	Crushing Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +1...16...20 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition if target foe is knocked-down (5...17...20 seconds).	0	055	0	01010		warriora	Hammer MasteryZ	Prophecies
File:Decapitate.jpg	Decapitate	Elite Axe Attack. Deals +5...65...80 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds). Automatic critical hit. If foe is killed, nearby foes are Weakened (8 seconds). You lose all adrenaline and Energy.	7	0	0	0		warriora	Axe MasteryZ	Nightfall
File:Desperation Blow.jpg	Desperation Blow	Melee Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage. Inflicts one of the following random conditions: Deep Wound (20 seconds), Weakness (20 seconds), Bleeding (25 seconds), or Crippled (15 seconds). You are knocked-down.	0	055	0	0077		warriora	TacticsZ	Prophecies
File:Dismember.jpg	Dismember	Axe Attack. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds).	5	0	0	0		warriora	Axe MasteryZ	Core
File:Drunken Blow.jpg	Drunken Blow	Melee Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage. Inflicts one of the following random conditions: Deep Wound (20 seconds), Weakness (20 seconds), Bleeding (25 seconds), or Crippled (15 seconds). You are knocked-down.	0	055	0	0077		warriora	TacticsZ	Factions
File:Enraged Lunge.jpg	Enraged Lunge	Elite Pet Attack. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds) and deals +10...42...50 damage.	0	055	0	0055		rangera	Beast MasteryZ	Factions
	Eviscerate	Elite Axe Attack. Deals +10...38...45 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds).	8	0	0	0		warriora	Axe MasteryZ	Prophecies
File:Fierce Blow.jpg	Fierce Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound (1...7...8 second[s]) if target foe is Weakened.	6	0	0	0		warriora	Hammer MasteryZ	Factions

Related skills

Skills that benefit from deep wound

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:Agonizing Chop.jpg	Agonizing Chop	Axe Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Interrupts an action if target foe has a Deep Wound.	6	0	01.001	0		warriora	Axe MasteryZ	Nightfall

Skills with deep wound-dependent effects

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:Axe Rake.jpg	Axe Rake	Axe Attack. Deals +4...14...16 damage and inflicts Crippled condition (15 seconds) if target foe has a Deep Wound.	5	0	0	0		warriora	Axe MasteryZ	Core
File:Axe Twist.jpg	Axe Twist	Axe Attack. Deals +5...21...25 damage and inflicts Weakness condition (20 seconds) if target foe has a Deep Wound.	5	0	0	0		warriora	Axe MasteryZ	Prophecies

Skills that mimic the deep wound effect

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:Defile Flesh.jpg	Defile Flesh	Hex Spell. (5...29...35 seconds.) Reduces healing target foe receives by 33%. Only skills with the word "heal" in the description are affected.	}10%	1010	01.001	01010		necromancera	CursesZ	Core

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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