Unique Staves

The Unborn Lich

The Unborn Lich is a unique Ravenous Staff built around Desecrated affixes. It increases Desecrated modifier magnitudes and carries one custom Desecrated prefix, one Lich prefix, and two Lich suffixes.
0.5.4d
Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.3
Direct change

The His Grave Command Skill granted by The Unborn Lich Unique Staff no longer has a Spirit cost (previously a percentage based Spirit Reservation similar to Tame Beast). Quality on His Grave Command now grants 0-20% more Minion Life (previously 0-20% increased Reservation Efficiency).

0.5.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where the His Winnowing Flame skill granted by The Unborn Lich unique staff applied critical weakness on hit, and another bug where its triggered explosions from consuming Ignite dealt no damage.

0.5.0
Direct change

The Skills granted by the Unborn Lich Unique Staff have received the following changes: [li]His Foul Emergence now has a Mana Cost of 0 (previously 18-189 at gem levels 1-20) and a Cooldown Time of 8 seconds at all levels (previously 25-15.5 at Gem levels 1-20). Inflicted Wither now lasts 10 seconds (previously 8) and Withering Ground duration is now 8 seconds (previously 5).

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Item effects

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SkillGrants Skill: Feast of Flesh
SkillGrants Skill: His Winnowing Flame
01(60-80)% increased Desecrated Modifier magnitudes
02[Custom Desecrated prefix]
03[Lich's Desecrated prefix]
04[Lich's Desecrated suffix]

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

The Unborn Lich is not listed among the 48 corrupted Vaal Uniques with an item-specific Cultivation modifier pool. Using a Vaal Cultivation Orb follows the separate rule for other Uniques: it replaces the item with a random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class.

Target class
Staves
Result
Random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class
Exact pool
Not published as an exhaustive list

The exact random pool depends on item class and current eligibility rules, so it is not represented as a fixed item-to-item outcome.

Compare the Vaal Unique modifier pools and the other Unique rule

How to get The Unborn Lich

restricted drop | Drop restricted
restricted drop

The Unborn Lich has restrictions on where or how it can drop. Drops from Vessel of Kulemak.

Drop
Enabled
Restriction
Restricted
Orb of Chance
Not eligible

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 14 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt The Unborn Lich. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

01
No change.
02
Applies a modifier magnitude multiplier of 0.78x to 1.22x (in 0.01 increments) before rounding to explicit modifiers. Applies before quality effects.
  • The resulting values are rounded to the nearest whole number, rather than always being rounded down like most decimal values in the game. However, testing suggests the game may use truncation with a +0.5 shift instead of standard rounding. This appears to bias internally negative stats (like 10% Reduced Dexterity) toward zero, preventing some expected values from appearing while making others more common. A formula of trunc(value + 0.5) may explain this behavior.
03
Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.
04
Adds an item socket to weapons (including sceptres) and armour, ignoring socket limits.
Possible corruption enchantments14

(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1

(10-15)% increased Cast SpeedGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Critical Hit Chance for SpellsGlobal / Level 1

Gain (20-25) Life per Enemy KilledGlobal / Level 1

Gain (10-15) Mana per Enemy KilledGlobal / Level 1

(40-50)% increased Spell DamageLocal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased chance to IgniteGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Freeze BuildupGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased chance to ShockGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Level of all Physical Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Level of all Fire Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Level of all Cold Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Level of all Lightning Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Level of all Chaos Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1

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How it works

1 interactions

Patch history

5 changes
0.5.3
Direct change

The His Grave Command Skill granted by The Unborn Lich Unique Staff no longer has a Spirit cost (previously a percentage based Spirit Reservation similar to Tame Beast). Quality on His Grave Command now grants 0-20% more Minion Life (previously 0-20% increased Reservation Efficiency).

0.3.0c
Direct change

The His Scattering Calamity Skill granted by The Unborn Lich Unique Staff now has "Duration between Launching Wellsprites is 1.2 seconds", which can be affected by modifiers to Skill Effect Duration.

0.5.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where the His Winnowing Flame skill granted by The Unborn Lich unique staff applied critical weakness on hit, and another bug where its triggered explosions from consuming Ignite dealt no damage.

0.5.0
Direct change

The Skills granted by the Unborn Lich Unique Staff have received the following changes: [li]His Foul Emergence now has a Mana Cost of 0 (previously 18-189 at gem levels 1-20) and a Cooldown Time of 8 seconds at all levels (previously 25-15.5 at Gem levels 1-20). Inflicted Wither now lasts 10 seconds (previously 8) and Withering Ground duration is now 8 seconds (previously 5).

0.4.0
Direct change

The Unborn Lich now rolls 4 desecrated modifiers (previously 3).

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