Soulburn

Soulburn

Drain the life from up to 3 nearby enemies dealing 60% magic damage, leeching 100% health, interrupting attacks and inflicting Condemn.

Unlock Requirement

Tier 2 Spell Point

Magic School

Unholy

Class

Basic Spell

Type

Area, Can Crit

Cast Time

0.35s

Cooldown

8s

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Overview

Added in the Gloomrot update.

Soulburn will interrupt all casts except counters, but all its other effects still bypass them.

In the 1.1 October patch it was buffed in the following ways:

Damage increased from 50% to 60%.
Cooldown reduced from 9s to 8s.
Casttime reduced from 0.4s to 0.35s.
Area increased from 3.6 to 3.8.

Skeleton Warrior / Skeleton Mage has health equal to 200% of your Spell Power, and deals 30% / 50% of your Spell Power as magic damage. They cannot crit.

Unlock Requirement

Tier 2 Spell Point:

Jewel Modifiers

History

Soulburn was added with the release of V Rising's first expansion, Secrets of Gloomrot on May 17th, 2023.
It was unlocked upon defeating Lord Styx the Night Champion.
It had a cooldown of 9s, a cast time of 0.2s, and the following effect:

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Drain a life from up 3 nearby enemies dealing 70% magic damage, inflicting Condemn and Leeching 40% health. Cancels any attack the enemy performs, silencing them for 2.5s.

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The spell could instantly cancel almost all non-counter player spells and weapon skills. If none were cancelled immediately, a unique "Spell Block" debuff would automatically cancel the player's next spell or weapon skill cast for ~0.7s, including primary attacks. Only if something was cancelled would the silence trigger.
Over the years it was subjected to two nerfs:

In Gloomrot Hotfix #7 its silence duration was nerfed from 2.5s to 1.5s.

In Update 1.0 its cast time was nerfed from 0.2 to 0.5s.

Finally, in Update 1.1 it was reworked into its current iteration.

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