Deep Wound. How?

Deep Wound reduces max health and healing by 20%. It's irrelevant when you use it, it's going to deal the same amount of damage. So on a target with 500 hp, a deep wound would lower that target's health by 100 hp regardless of if you use eviscerate (or whichever skill) when he's at 450 hp, 350 hp, etc. to add: Also using Deep Wound in Conjunction with that spell that only allows for 2/3 healing, makes healing only half effective too, useful with deep wound/bleeding and cripple for ownage!

--The Shim

do deepwounds stack? No.

They don't. I'm just saying in conjunction with other skills/spells it makes it more effective.

--The Shim

Deep Wound damage - 20% of max health - is applied on the next hit, not when you actually cause the Deep Wound. Hm. Is Phantom Pain an exception to the usual rule, then? I'm pretty sure I've had deep wounds appear on me when I wasn't being hit at all, from Phantom Pain expiring.

Deep Wound damage - 20% of max health - is applied on the next hit, not when you actually cause the Deep Wound.

^ Got my point across

This confuses me so much. Basically Deep Wound scales down the healing to match the current percentage of health. ^ I was just saying, when it lowers hp by 20%, it scales healing down to fit the new hp, use that spell <I still can't for the life of me remember the name> but it only for a said time allows for 2/3 actual effects from healing. So on top of the deep wound scaling, you've just inflicted another 1/3 loss in HP healing. Makes it tough to keep up as a monk spammin mend condition. Sorry it confused you!

--The Shim

Hm. Is Phantom Pain an exception to the usual rule, then? I'm pretty sure I've had deep wounds appear on me when I wasn't being hit at all, from Phantom Pain expiring. Sorry, I thought you meant Deep Wound damage, not the actual condition. Deep Wound happens after the hit if I remember correctly.

Sorry, I thought you meant Deep Wound damage, not the actual condition. Deep Wound happens after the hit if I remember correctly. Er, I did mean the deep wound damage, though I didn't express it very clearly.

It's my experience that when Phantom Pain wears off, I acquire a deep wound and immediately lose the 20% health, even if I'm not being hit.

If you get a Deep Wound simultaneously with damage of some kind (i.e. casting Shatter Delusions on Phantom Pain), then the Deep Wound damage is calculated first, then the damage of the other attack. Because of this, SD-->PP is a spell combo that can kill you if your health is low enough. And that is rather strange. Because you Shatter the Hex. Deep wound kicks in AFTER PP has gone?? It does work that way i know that. But it has to be PP > SD >recive dmg from SD > PP ends > deep wound kicks in lowering your health.
SD does damage on the hex you have on you, not the condition that it provides.
Or am i just thinking to far away

Discussed, tested, and proven many times...

A Deep Wound will always take 20% of your max health away from both your current health and max health. It will never go lower than 1HP (meaning it can't kill you). The damage is taken away instantly, regardless of what you see the health bar doing, and that damage will return when the Deep Wound ends. A person who has 200/500 health will be at 100/400 when receiving a Deep Wound.

If you get a Deep Wound simultaneously with damage of some kind (i.e. casting Shatter Delusions on Phantom Pain), then the Deep Wound damage is calculated first, then the damage of the other attack. Because of this, SD-->PP is a spell combo that can kill you if your health is low enough. This is exactly what I wanted, thanks