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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4)
What Are Blood Orbs: How to Spawn and Effects
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This is a guide about Blood Orbs in Diablo 4 (D4), Read on to know about Blood Orbs including its effects, how to create Blood Orbs, and all Skills that create Blood Orbs.
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What Are Blood Orbs
A Healing Orb that Can Be Picked Up to Heal You and your Minions
Blood Orbs are tiny little orbs that can spawn around the battlefield. These orbs can be picked up to restore your HP and your skeletal minions and golem's HP as well.
Exclusive to the Necromancer
The Blood Orb is an exclusive mechanic for the Necromancer. Only Necromancers can create Blood Orbs and use them to restore their character and minion's hp as well as use them for a plethora of different effects.
Allows you to Use Exclusive Effects on Skills
Aside from providing healing, there are also unique effects that you can trigger by consuming Blood Orbs on the field depending on your skills and equipped aspects.
How to Use Blood Orbs
Use Skills that Generate Blood Orbs
Not all skills can generate Blood Orbs so be sure to choose skills that can create Blood Orbs to spawn them. Blood Orbs usually belong to skills that rely on blood usage but not all blood skills can create the said orbs.
All Blood Orb Related Skills
| List of Skills | |
|---|---|
 Hemorrhage
(Basic) |
Active Skill Cooldown: - Generation: 9 Essence Damage Type: Physical Damage |
| Effect: Burst an enemy's blood, dealing XX% damage. Hemorrhage has a 20% chance to form a Blood Orb. | |
 Rathma's Vigor
(Key Passive) |
Passive Skill Cooldown: - |
| Effect: After being Healthy for 12 seconds, your next Blood Skill Overpowers. This timer is reduced by 2 seconds each time Blood Orbs Heal or Overheal you for an amount greater than or equal to your base Life. | |
 Transfusion
(Corpse and Macabre 2) |
Passive Skill Cooldown: - |
| Effect: Lucky Hit: Blood Skills have a X% chance on hit to spawn a Blood Orb. This can only occur once every 4 seconds. This chance is doubled against bosses. | |
All Blood Orb Related Skill Upgrades
| Upgrade | Description |
|---|---|
 Enhanced Hemorrhage
|
After picking up a Blood Orb, your next Hemorrhage also deals damage to enemies around your target and grants 2 additional Essence per enemy hit. |
 Supernatural Blood Lance
|
After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit. |
 Blighted Corpse Tendrils
|
Corpse Tendrils has a 35% chance when damaging enemies to drop a Blood Orb. |
 Supreme Blood Wave
|
Blood Wave leaves behind 3 Blood Orbs as it travels. |
All Blood Orb Related Aspects
| Skill | Effect |
|---|---|
 Fastblood Aspect
|
Blood Orbs reduce your Ultimate Cooldown by (XX) seconds. |
|
Aspect of Potent Blood
|
Blood Orbs grant 10-25 Essence. |
 Aspect of the Embalmer
|
Consuming a Corpse has a (20-30)% chance to spawn a Blood Orb. |
 Aspect of Gore Quills
|
Blood Lance will consume Blood Orbs to also conjure lances from them. Each additional Blood Lance deals (20-50)% of normal damage and prioritizes targeting un-lanced enemies. |
All Unique Gear Related Aspects
| Equipment | Effect and Affixes |
|---|---|
 Blood Artisan's Cuirass
(Chest Armor) |
Effect: When you pick up 10 - 3 Blood Orbs, a free Bone Spirit is spawned, dealing bonus damage based on your current Life percent. Item Affixes: ・+ 957 - 1,259 Maximum Life ・+ 103.5 - 135% Damage for 4 Seconds After Picking Up a Blood Orb ・Blood Orbs Restore 8 - 12 Essence ・+ 2 - 3 to Bone Spirit |
|
Mutilator Plate
(Chest Armor) |
Effect: You are Blood Lanced, and when Blood Lance would deal damage to you, it instead Fortifies you for 1 - 4% of your Maximum Life and has a 10% chance to form a Blood Orb. Blood Lance deals 10 - 40% increased damage. Item Affixes: ・13 - 17.5% Maximum Life ・+ 46.5 - 60% Blood Lance Duration ・13 - 17.5% Damage Reduction from Enemies Affected by Blood Skills ・+ 2 - 4 to Blood Lance |
Consume Blood Orbs by Picking them Up
Blood Orbs will spawn on the ground and approaching them will automatically consume the Blood Orb. A higher movement speed will greatly help in repositioning and getting blood orbs all over the field.
Certain Aspects Allow you to Use Blood Orbs
There are other effects that you can create by utilizing the blood orbs around you either by picking them up or consuming them via a different way. For example, the Aspect of Gore Quills allows you to consume the blood orbs around you by using a Blood Lance to fire additional blood lances from the Blood Orb's location.
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