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).
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.Changed in 0.5
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.
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).
Item effects
6 linesVaal Cultivation Orb
Other Unique ruleThe 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 ruleHow to get The Unborn Lich
restricted drop | Drop restrictedThe 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 enchantmentsVaal Orb can corrupt The Unborn Lich. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.
- 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.
- For jewellery, no change. (This outcome is not removed by Omen of Corruption.)
- The item cannot have more sockets than the amount of space the item takes up.
- If the item is socketed with Cadigan's Epiphany, the item cannot gain an augment socket via corruption.
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
How it works
1 interactions(60-80)% increased Desecrated Modifier magnitudes
Patch history
5 changesThe 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).
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.
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.
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).
The Unborn Lich now rolls 4 desecrated modifiers (previously 3).





