Lich Form

Spectral. Assume the form of a lich for a brief time, improving your precision and vitality. Gain life force when this skill ends. Entering this form removes other spectral effects. — In-game description

Lich Form

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Spectral

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

10550

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Lich Form

Spectral. Assume the form of a lich for a brief time, improving your precision and vitality. Gain life force when this skill ends.
Entering this form removes other spectral effects.

 Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Precision: +1,000

 Vitality: +1,000

 Life Force When Ending: 15%

 Life Force When Ending: 5%

 Boon Application Interval: 3 seconds

 Duration: 20 seconds

 Duration: 10 seconds

— In-game description

Skills

• Lich Form transforms the user into a large ghastly figure with an ephemeral green tone. The player's skill bar is replaced as follows:

#	Skill			Description
1	Deathly Claws	0.75¾		Send out grasping claws to damage your foes.
2	Lich's Gaze		0.75¾	Fire a debilitating projectile at your target to corrupt their boons.
3	Ripple of Horror	0.5½	15	Launch a wave that terrorizes foes it hits. You may activate March of Undeath to shadowstep to the wave.
3	March of Undeath		12	Shadowstep to your Ripple of Horror, destroying it.
4	Summon Madness	10.5½	30	Minion. Repeatedly summon minions that explode after a period of time if they are not killed.
5	Grim Specter	0.75¾	30	Siphon health from nearby enemies over time, gaining vitality each time you hit an enemy. Players struck by this ability lose equivalent vitality.

Notes

• As with other transforms, the elite slot is replaced with a skill allowing the player to cancel the form early.
• Using this skill provides the  Lich Form effect for its duration.
• The form uses a weapon strength of 1,015 (level 78 Fexotic staff) in PvP, and 772.5 weapon strength (level 78 Cfine staff) in PvE.
• The form also doubles base Precision and Vitality. At level 80, this adds 1,000 Precision (47.6% Critical Chance) and 1,000 Vitality (10,000 Health).
• The life force gain when Lich Form ends is based on the life force pool without the extra health from Lich Form.
• Signet of Humility can end Lich Form prematurely.

Anomaly:

The precision and vitality skill facts are using the generic attribute bonus icon rather than the related attribute icon: resp. .

Gallery

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  Lich Form appearance.

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  Concept art.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Reduced the recharge from 150 seconds to 120 seconds.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Reduced the amount of life force granted when exiting the transformation from 15% to 5% in PvP only.
February 23, 2021	Fixed a bug in which this skill would go on full cooldown if interrupted after a certain point during the casting time.
February 02, 2021	Updated skill description and tooltip to include attribute increases granted while transformed.
March 04, 2020	Reduced duration from 20 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP only.
January 14, 2020	Exiting Lich Form no longer removes stability.
December 11, 2018	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 180 seconds to 150 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill has had a functionality rework for many of its skills. Its active duration has been increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
October 01, 2015	Fixed an issue that prevented the descriptions for Plague and Lich Form from appearing properly.
September 29, 2015	Updated this transformation to no longer destroy your active minions.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill is now considered a spectral skill and grants 15% life force when it ends. Reduced duration of this skill from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
March 16, 2015	This ability now grants 1 stack of stability every 3 seconds, with a 3-second duration.
September 09, 2014	The duration of this transform has been reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. This transform no longer increases power levels exponentially. The damage of skills in this transform has been adjusted to compensate.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug in which entering Lich Form would not remove all of the effects of Spectral Walk. Fixed a bug in which this skill would occasionally go on full cooldown after being interrupted.
August 20, 2013	Updated the skill fact description so that it doesn't indicate it removes spectral forms.
June 25, 2013	All elite player transforms (racial and profession) now have a 1-second cooldown on leaving them. This was done to prevent unintentionally leaving through double-clicking.
November 15, 2012	Leaving this skill now removes stability from the player to make the removal consistent with all other transform elites.
October 22, 2012	Entering Lich Form or Plague destroys all minions and removes all spectral effects now.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lich Form has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Emotes used while in this form use a special voice and follow the norn animations, regardless of the character's race.