How does Necrotic Strike work?

Classes Death Knight
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Sorry if this seems obvious to everyone else.

I have played DK for a while now and I use Necrotic Strike as recommended, and do good with it. But how does the “absorb healing” part of the spell work exactly? :sweat_smile:

I have read the description but can’t figure out the mechanic behind it :confused: Here are the possible mechanics I get from the description:

  1. We absorb and heal ourselves instantly for 5% of the targets max health.
  2. We absorb and heal ourselves over time for 5% of the targets max health.
  3. We heal for 5% of the targets max health when they receive healing.

I think what confuses me the most is that #1 makes the most sense to me from reading the description, but not when seeing that Necrotic Wound is a debuff on the target that stacks? :confused:

Help me understand it please? :sweat_smile:

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It wont heal you.
It just negates the healing your enemy receives.
Let’s say your enemy has 300k health, and you use necrotic strike on him. He got a debuff which absorbs healing up to 5% of his health, so basically the next 15k healing your target receives will do nothing.

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Ah thank you :slight_smile: that clears things up for me. Then I won’t use it as a “self-heal” spell :sweat_smile:

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Fun fact: maximum amount is 5% of your max health. If you use it on a target that has more HP than you, it only scales up to 5% of your max hp pool.

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