Malicious Intent (passive skill)

For the unique jewel, see Malicious Intent.

Malicious Intent

Notable Passive Skill

20% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments against Cursed Enemies
Hexes you inflict have +4 Doom [1]

Malicious Intent is a notable passive skill.

Mechanics

• Hexes you inflict have +4 Doom: Only self casted hex curse gains Doom over time. The modifier seems unclear in wording, but the back end stat id is hex_starting_doom. It means hex you inflicted has an initial Doom = 4, and then (if it is self cast hex) gain Doom according to the rate of that hex. E.g. Elemental WeaknessElemental WeaknessSpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Hex
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (16-33) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.50 sec
  Radius: 22Requires Level 24Curses all targets in an area, lowering their elemental resistances.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentCursed enemies have -0.25% to Elemental Resistances0.5% increased Effect of Curse0.5% increased Duration of Elemental Ailments on Cursed enemiesBase duration is (9-10.9) seconds
  Cursed enemies have -(20-39)% to Elemental Resistances
  Curse gains 10 Doom per second if you Cast this Spell yourself
  +(0-10) to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. Curse gains 10 Doom per second.

It is not clear that it does apply to the initial Doom of hex aura or not, as the wording "inflict" is also used in other aura-like mechanic such as the interaction of Nearby Enemies have # Exposure and Exposure you inflict applies an extra -#% to the affected Resistance.

• 20% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments against Cursed Enemies: ailments that deal damage are poison, bleed and ignite.

Anointment

Blight anointment to unlock the passive:

Oil #1	Oil #2	Oil #3	Outcome
Silver Oil	Indigo Oil	Indigo Oil	Malicious Intent	20% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments against Cursed Enemies Hexes you inflict have +4 Doom

Version history

Version	Changes
3.12.2	Can now be anointed.
3.12.0	Introduced to the game.