Sacrifice

A Sacrifice succeeds only when the required resource can be removed. Sacrificing your own Life cannot reduce you below 1 Life, but sacrificing Life from another entity, such as a Minion, can kill that entity. Read the exact effect for the resource, amount, target, and reward because Sacrifice is a loss method, not one universal skill.

Sacrifice is resource loss, not damage

The sacrificed amount is removed directly. It does not count as taking damage, so effects that prevent, mitigate, or react to damage do not automatically apply to the Sacrifice.

The sacrificed amount is not a skill cost

A skill can have its normal Mana, Life, or other cost and also require a Sacrifice. Cost Efficiency and effects that track resources spent on skill costs do not automatically change or count the separate sacrificed amount.

The resource must be available

You cannot Sacrifice a resource you do not have. If an effect promises a reward only when a stated Sacrifice is fully made, having too little of that resource prevents that reward.

Your own Life stops at 1

Sacrificing your own Life cannot reduce you below 1 Life. This floor does not let an effect pretend that a larger required Sacrifice was fully made.

Another entity can die from sacrificed Life

The self-Life floor applies to the player causing the Sacrifice, not to another entity whose Life is sacrificed. A Minion can be reduced to zero Life and die from a Sacrifice applied to it.

Life, Mana, and Energy Shield use the same keyword rules

The named resource changes, but the basic distinction remains: direct resource loss, not damage and not a skill cost. Demon Stitcher uses Life, Font of Power and The Black Doubt use Mana, and Eldritch Empowerment uses Energy Shield.

Runic Ward can be produced or sacrificed

Animus Exchange sacrifices Life and recovers Runic Ward based on the Life actually sacrificed. Hollow Shell goes the other direction by sacrificing its Runic Ward to grant Guard to nearby allies.

Sacrifice the Spirit skill is a separate subject

The Persistent Spirit skill named Sacrifice lets eligible corpse-targeting skills use undead Reviving Minions in place of Corpses and makes Minions revive more slowly. It does not replace the keyword definition, and the corpse-using skill still determines how and when its target is consumed.

Corpse sacrifice is not the player Life floor

Ritual Sacrifice can sacrifice the Corpse of a Rare Monster to grant its modifiers. That removes the corpse entity. Its alternate self-powered use is a separate effect and must be read from the skill rather than treated as the same target rule.