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

Technical details

UID

Interrupt_ChannelDivinity_TouchOfDeath

Interrupt Contexts

OnCastHit

Enable Contexts

OnStatusApplied, OnStatusRemoved

How to learn

Granted by features:

•  Channel Divinity: Touch of Death

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 it to also trigger Touch of Death.
  • In particular,  Bone Chill also benefits from  Reaper, so it can make two melee attacks with a single casting while Daredevil Proximity is active. Touch of Death can be triggered against both targets, though this does consume  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 the  Boots of Stormy Clamour,  Coldbrim Hat, and  Diadem of Arcane Synergy.
• The Necrotic damage dealt by this reaction is non-magical, except in Honour mode, where it is magical.
• This reaction uses the icon for  Wasteland Wanderer: Poison instead of  Channel Divinity: Touch of Death.