Grasp of the Dead

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Grasp of the Dead is a Support Witch Doctor skill unlocked at level 3. This skill is a curse; it inflicts victims with much slower foot speed and deals damage as well. It's highly useful in the Arena PvP.



Background

Grasp of the Dead in action

A powerful debuff. This curses the target with much reduced movement speed and deals damage as well.


Skill Effects

The following is a very quick list. See the Grasp of the Dead rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.


Icon Skill Description
IconGraspDead.png Grasp of the Dead
Command
(Level 3)

[e]

Cost: 53 Mana
Cooldown: 8 seconds

Hands reach out from the ground slowing enemy movement by 50% and dealing 50% weapon damage per second as Physical for 8 seconds.

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Death is Life

[e]

Killed targets have a 65% chance to produce a health globe.

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Groping Eels

[e]

Increases the damage done to 120% weapon damage per second as Physical.

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Desperate Grasp

[e]

Reduces the cooldown to 4.5 seconds.

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Rain of Corpses

[e]

Corpses fall from the sky dealing 70% weapon damage as Physical to nearby enemies.

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Unbreakable Grasp

[e]

Increase the slow amount to 64%.

Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.


Skill Design

Grasp of the Dead vs. Zombies. Beta shot.

This skill is powerful, but has a very small radius of effect. Possibly this can be increased with a runestone. As it is, GotD requires precise aim and timing to hit a moving target.

Synergies


Development

Grasp of the Dead was first listed in the BlizzCon 2009 gameplay demo at Tier III in the Zombie Skill Tree, but it had not yet been implemented.

This skill was present on the pre-made Witch Doctor in the Blizzcon 2010 Arena as a Tier 3 skill, and was quite effective. Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Grasp of the Dead became a level 3 skill.


Media

Grasp of the Dead can be seen in action on video here:

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:


References