Touch of Death

This article is about the on-hit reaction. For the corresponding passive feature, see Channel Divinity: Touch of Death.

Touch of Death is a Death Domain cleric reaction which allows the cleric to deal extra ⁠Necrotic damage after a melee attack.

Description

When hitting a creature with a melee attack,  Channel Divinity Charges can be used to deal extra ⁠Necrotic damage.

Properties

Cost

 Channel Divinity Charge

Damage: 5 + modifiers

5 + (2 × Cleric level)⁠Necrotic

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 2: Death Domain

Notes

• This can trigger from any melee attack roll, including spells which require a melee attack roll, such as  Inflict Wounds and  Vampiric Touch.
• When used with  Vampiric Touch, this bonus damage does not increase the siphoned healing amount.
• Any spell with an attack roll can be turned into a melee attack spell with  Daredevil Proximity allowing them to also trigger Touch of Death.
  • In particular,  Bone Chill also benefits from  Reaper so it can make two melee attacks with a single cast while Daredevil Proximity is active. Touch of Death can be triggered against both targets, though this does require  2 Channel Divinity Charges as expected.

Bugs

• The tooltip incorrectly displays the bonus damage as 5 + 2d12⁠⁠Necrotic at all Cleric levels. It is displayed correctly in the combat log.
• A hidden technical condition, which is responsible for applying a visual effect to struck targets, triggers the passives from  Boots of Stormy Clamour,  Coldbrim Hat, and  Diadem of Arcane Synergy.