Arc

In game

Lightning that leaps between enemies. Can shock, making them take more damage.

Type

Spell

Mana cost

8 at level 1

Speed

1.25 casts per second

Damage

2–20 Lightning

Critical chance

5%

Lore Concept

Lightning goes looking for the next body, the way rumour goes through Hearthold.

How it works

Strikes the enemy nearest your cursor (within 3 tiles of it, up to 13.5 tiles from you, in line of sight); with nobody near the cursor it takes the nearest enemy in a narrow cone toward it. From there it leaps up to 4 more times (more with additional chains, up to 7 in all), each time to the nearest enemy within 8 tiles that it hasn't hit yet. Every enemy hit gets its own damage roll. Its leap distance is not affected by area of effect.

Scales with

• Increased lightning damage
• Increased spell damage
• Increased damage
• Increased cast speed
• Increased critical strike chance
• Critical strike multiplier
• Spell skill level
• Additional chains

Damage by gem level

Base damage before any increases, critical strikes or resistances. A gem is as strong as a character of the level it requires (1.12 times per level of that), and each +1 to the level of spell skills counts as one more such level.

As a gem

A Intelligence gem with the tags Spell, Chaining, Lightning. It requires 9 Intelligence at gem level 1; 120 Intelligence at gem level 10; 257 Intelligence at gem level 20; 365 Intelligence at gem level 30. Support gems that fit it: Faster Casting, Elemental Focus, Chain, Critical Strikes.

Mana cost by level

Costs grow 3.5% per level the gem requires, with the gem at the highest level a character of each level can use; support gems multiply it.

Other skills: Strike, Earthshatter, Fireball, Frost Nova, Ember Dash