Blood Rites

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Blood Rites is a tier V skill in the Voodoo Skill Tree, which grants you a spell damage increase whenever you pick up a Health Globe.

Contents 1 Background 2 Skill Design 3 Skill Rank Table 4 Synergies 5 Skill Rune Effects 6 Development 7 Media 8 Related Articles 9 References

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]
Blood Rites Passive, 5 ranks
Used by:	Witch Doctor
Skill Tree:	Voodoo Skill Tree
Skill Description:
Picking up health globes increases your spell damage X% for 12 seconds
Skill Details:
Type:	Buff
Quantity:	Duration
Effect:	Self
School:	Magical
Mana cost:	None
Cast time:	None
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	None
Synergies:	Unknown
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

The Witch Doctor performs blood rites before drinking the life force of his enemies, gaining knowledge that his enemies possessed.

Skill Design

A nice passive skill, the bonus spell damage is always welcome, and when coupled with other skills relating to Health Globes, will cause the witch doctor to gain a lot from picking one up.

Skill Rank Table

(legend (A) = Assumed)

• Rank: 1/5
  • Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 5% for 12 seconds.
  • Mana Cost: None
• Rank: 2/5
  • Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 10% for 12 seconds. (A)
  • Mana Cost: None
• Rank: 3/5
  • Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 15% for 12 seconds. (A)
  • Mana Cost: None
• Rank: 4/5
  • Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 20% for 12 seconds. (A)
  • Mana Cost: None
• Rank: 5/5
  • Picking up health globes increases your spell damage 25% for 12 seconds. (A)
  • Mana Cost: None

Synergies

• None known.

Skill Rune Effects

• None known.

Development

Blood Rites was first seen in the BlizzCon 2009 demo, and is a new skill. It is unknown if this skill was iterated, at least publicly.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery. Sadly, no images of Blood Rites have been seen:

• Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures

Related Articles

• Voodoo Skill Tree

References

• Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats

Voodoo Skills [e]
Tier I • Skull of Flame • Jungle Fortitude	Tier II • Hex • Corpse Spiders	Tier III • Locust Swarm • Plague of Toads	Tier IV • Pit of Fire • Firebats	Tier V • Acid Cloud • Blood Rites	Tier V • Fetish Army

Diablo III Skills [e]
Skills - Skill runes - Active skills - Passive skills - Signature skills
Barbarian (all) • Berserker • Juggernaut • Battlemaster • Archive	Monk (all) • Tree A • Tree B • Tree C • Archive	Witch Doctor (all) • Zombie • Spirit • Voodoo • Archive	Wizard (all) • Conjuring • Arcane • Storm • Archive	Unannounced • Tree 1 • Tree 2 • Tree 3 • Archive