Sacrifice

Sacrifice cost is a resource cost required by a few skills, mostly from the necromancer profession. After successfully activating these skills, you forfeit a fraction of your maximum health, making it possible to sacrifice yourself to death.

Sacrifice vs. your health

Sacrifice counts as health loss and cannot be eliminated by any means, although you can reduce sacrifice costs by lowering your maximum health. Similar to Life Stealing, if a character uses a skill or effect that would sacrifice more Health than it actually has, it will lose all of its health plus 1. Health sacrifice also ignores the short span after resurrection during which accumulating of Death Penalty would be prevented.

Skills with a sacrifice cost

Well spells can be created without a corpse by sacrificing 66% of your maximum health.
Necrotic Traversal can be cast without a corpse by sacrificing 30...22...20% of your maximum health.

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:Barbed Signet.jpg	Barbed Signet	Signet. Target and adjacent foes suffer from Bleeding (3...13...15 seconds).	}8%	0	01.001	01010		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
File:Blood Renewal.jpg	Blood Renewal	Enchantment Spell. (7 seconds.) You have +3...5...6 Health regeneration. End effect: heals you for 40...160...190.	}15%	011	01.001	0077		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
File:Blood Ritual.jpg	Blood Ritual	Enchantment Spell. (8...13...14 seconds.) +3 Energy regeneration. Cannot self-target.	}17%	055	01.001	0022		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
File:Blood is Power.jpg	Blood is Power	Elite Enchantment Spell. (10 seconds.) +3...5...6 Energy regeneration. Cannot self-target.	}33%	011	00.250.25¼	0		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
File:Blood of the Master.jpg	Blood of the Master	Spell. Heals your undead servants for 30...99...116. Healing cost: +2% Health sacrifice per servant healed.	}5%+	055	01.001	0022		necromancera	Death MagicZ	Core
File:Dark Fury.jpg	Dark Fury	Enchantment Spell. Enchants party members (5 seconds). These party members gain one strike of adrenaline each time they hit with an attack. 50% failure chance unless Blood Magic 5 or more.	}17%	1010	00.750.75¾	0055		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
File:Dark Pact.jpg	Dark Pact	Spell. Deals 20...52...60 damage.	}10%	011	01.001	0022		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
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
File:Enfeebling Blood.jpg	Enfeebling Blood	Spell. Inflicts Weakness condition (5...17...20 seconds) on this foe and nearby foes.	}10%	011	01.001	0088		necromancera	CursesZ	Core
File:Enfeebling Blood (PvP).jpg	Enfeebling Blood (PvP)	Spell. Inflicts Weakness condition (1...13...16 second[s]) on this foe and nearby foes.	}17%	011	01.001	0088		necromancera	CursesZ	Core
File:Generous Was Tsungrai.jpg	Generous Was Tsungrai	Item Spell. (15...51...60 seconds.) You have +50...122...140 maximum Health. Drop effect: you gain 100...244...280 Health.	}10%	055	01.001	01515		ritualista	Restoration MagicZ	Factions
File:Holiday Blues.jpg	Holiday Blues	Spell. Deals 50 damage to nearby foes. Foes within the area have -15 Health degeneration (30 seconds).	}50%	0	01.001	04545		necromancera	Z	Core

Monster skills

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:Animate Undead.jpg	Animate Undead	Spell. All Minions of Zoldark are resurrected with 100% Health and 50% Energy.	}5%	055	02.002	01212		monsteraMonster	Z	Eye of the North
File:Animate Undead (Palawa Joko).jpg	Animate Undead	Spell. All Palawa Joko's minions are resurrected with 100% Health and 50% Energy.	}5%	055	02.002	01212		monsteraMonster	Z	Eye of the North
File:Jade Brotherhood Bomb.jpg	Jade Brotherhood Bomb	Spell. Self destruct, dealing 750 damage to adjacent foes, 500 damage to nearby foes and 250 damage to foes in the area	}100%	1010	02.002	0088		monsteraMonster	Z	Winds of Change

Related skills

Skills which interact with sacrifice

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
File:Awaken the Blood.jpg	Awaken the Blood	Enchantment Spell. (20...39...44 seconds.) You have +2 Blood Magic and Curses. Sacrifice 50% more Health than normal.	0	1010	01.001	04545		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
File:Contagion.jpg	Contagion	Elite Enchantment Spell. (60 seconds.) Whenever you gain a condition, all foes in the area gain that same condition. You sacrifice 10...6...5% maximum Health each time this happens.	0	055	01.001	01010		necromancera	Death MagicZ	Nightfall
File:Dark Aura.jpg	Dark Aura	Enchantment Spell. (30 seconds). Deals 5...41...50 damage to adjacent foes whenever target ally sacrifices Health. Damage cost: you lose 5...17...20 Health.	0	1010	01.001	01010		necromancera	Death MagicZ	Core

Trivia

• During the original Beta-testing for Guild Wars, sacrifice skills applied a fixed health cost rather than current method of using a fraction of the user's maximum health. For example, Plague Sending cost exactly 25 health.

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