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

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
	Barbed Signet	Signet. Target and adjacent foes suffer from Bleeding (3...13...15 seconds).	}8%	0	01.001	01010		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
	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
	Blood Ritual	Enchantment Spell. (8...13...14 seconds.) +3 Energy regeneration. Cannot self-target.	}17%	055	02.002	0022		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
	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
	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
	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
	Dark Pact	Spell. Deals 10...40...48 damage.	}10%	011	01.001	0022		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
	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
	Enfeebling Blood	Spell. Inflicts Weakness condition (5...17...20 seconds) on this foe and nearby foes.	}10%	011	01.001	0088		necromancera	CursesZ	Core
	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
	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
	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
	Meekness	Hex Spell. Also hexes foes in the area of target (5...25...30 seconds). These foes attack 50% slower.	}17%	1515	02.002	01515		necromancera	CursesZ	Nightfall
	Offering of Blood	Elite Spell. You gain 8...18...20 Energy.	}20%	011	00.250.25¼	01515		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
	Offering of Spirit	Elite Spell. You gain 8...15...17 Energy. You do not sacrifice Health if any spirits are within earshot.	}17%	055	00.250.25¼	01515		ritualista	Channeling MagicZ	Nightfall
	Offering of Spirit (Togo)	Elite Spell. You gain 16...16...17 Energy. You do not sacrifice Health if any spirits are within earshot.	}17%	055	00.250.25¼	01515		a	Channeling MagicZ	Bonus Mission Pack
	Order of Pain	Enchantment Spell. Enchants all party members (5 seconds). 3...13...16 more damage whenever these party members hit with physical damage.	}17%	1010	02.002	0		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
	Order of the Vampire	Elite Enchantment Spell. Enchants all party members (5 seconds.) These party members steal 3...13...16 Health with each physical damage attack. Party members under another Necromancer enchantment are not affected.	}17%	055	02.002	0055		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
	Plague Sending	Spell. Transfer 1...3...3 condition[s] and [its/their] remaining duration[s] from yourself to target foe and all adjacent foes.	}10%	011	01.001	0055		necromancera	CursesZ	Prophecies
	Ravenous Gaze	Elite Spell. Deals 15...27...30 damage and steals 15...27...30 Health from target and nearby foes.	}8%	011	01.001	01010		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Nightfall
	Ritual Lord	Elite Skill. (5...29...35 seconds.) You have +2...4...4 to all Ritualist attributes for your next skill. If that skill is a Binding Ritual, it recharges 10...50...60% faster and Ritual Lord recharges instantly.	}2%	0	0	04545		ritualista	Spawning PowerZ	Factions
	Signet of Agony	Signet. Deals 10...58...70 damage to foes near you. You begin Bleeding (25 seconds).	}10%	0	00.750.75¾	0088		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
	Signet of Agony (PvP)	Signet. Deals 10...58...70 damage to foes near you. You begin Bleeding (25 seconds).	}10%	0	00.750.75¾	02020		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Core
	Spirit Light	Spell. Heals for 60...156...180. You don't sacrifice Health if you are within earshot of any spirits.	}17%	055	01.001	0044		ritualista	Restoration MagicZ	Factions
	Touch of Agony	Touch Skill. Deals 20...50...58 damage.	}10%	011	00.750.75¾	0033		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Prophecies
	Verata's Aura	Enchantment Spell. (120...264...300 seconds.) Become master of all hostile undead servants in the area. End effect: your undead servants become masterless. 50% failure chance unless Death Magic 5 or more.	}33%	1515	00.750.75¾	03030		necromancera	Death MagicZ	Prophecies
	Verata's Sacrifice	Spell. (5...9...10 seconds.) 10 undead allied servants gain +10 Health regeneration. Instantly recharges if you have control of 3 or fewer servants. Transfers all conditions from those servants to you.	}15%	1010	02.002	06060		necromancera	Death MagicZ	Prophecies
	Wail of Doom	Elite Hex Spell. (1...3...4 second[s].) Target foe's attributes are 0.	}10%	011	00.250.25¼	01515		necromancera	Soul ReapingZ	Factions
	Wallow's Bite	Touch Skill. Deals 20...50...58 damage.	}10%	011	00.750.75¾	0033		necromancera	Blood MagicZ	Factions

Bug.Despite not stated, Verata's Gaze actually has a 0% health sacrifice cost.

Monster skills

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
	Animate Undead	Spell. All Minions of Zoldark are resurrected with 100% Health and 50% Energy.	}5%	055	02.002	01212		monstera	Z	Eye of the North
	Animate Undead	Spell. All Palawa Joko's minions are resurrected with 100% Health and 50% Energy.	}5%	055	02.002	01212		monstera	Z	Eye of the North
	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		monstera	Z	Winds of Change
	Redemption of Purity	Spell. Target minion is destroyed and replaced with a level 12 Spirit of Pain. This spirit deals 30 damage and dies after 150 seconds.	}15%	055	0	02525		monstera	Z	Winds of Change
	Verata's Promise	Enchantment Spell. (10...50...60 seconds.) Your undead servants have +10 Health regeneration. End effect: all of your servants die.	}33%	1515	01.001	03030		monstera	Blood MagicZ	Winds of Change

Related skills

Skills which interact with sacrifice

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
	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
	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	02020		necromancera	Death MagicZ	Nightfall
	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
	Masochism	Enchantment Spell. (10...34...40 seconds.) You have +2 Death Magic and Soul Reaping. Sacrifice 5...3...3% Health when you cast a spell.	0	055	01.001	02020		necromancera	Soul ReapingZ	Eye of the North
	Masochism (PvP)	Enchantment Spell. (30 seconds.) You gain 1...3...3 Energy whenever you sacrifice Health.	0	055	01.001	02020		necromancera	Soul ReapingZ	Eye of the North
	Scourge Sacrifice	Hex Spell. Also hexes foes adjacent to target (8...18...20 seconds). Doubles Health sacrifice.	0	1010	01.001	0055		monka	Smiting PrayersZ	Prophecies
	Soul Taker	Elite Enchantment Spell. (3...25...30 seconds.) Attacks deal +15...19...20 damage and sacrifice 15...19...20 health. PvE Skill	0	055	01.001	01515		necromancera	Soul ReapingZ	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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