Kitava's Thirst

Kitava's Thirst is a unique .

Mechanics

30% chance to Cast Socketed Spells: Each time you use a qualifying skill a single roll determines whether all the socketed spells will cast, unlike the standard trigger condition where only one socketed spell will activate per trigger.

However, it will not cast multiple of the same spell on activation. For example, if two gems were socketed, only one of them will be used.

Spend at least 100 Mana: Mana must be spent in order to qualify. Utilizing Blood Magic does not trigger the spells. Spending energy shield via Eldritch Battery does not trigger the spells. Aura reservation cost can activate socketed spells, as limited in usefulness as this is. Using to avoid actually spending mana does not work.

Use a Skill: For channeled skills with a Mana cost of above 100, Only the initial cast will trigger spells. This is because Kitava's Thirst triggers when spending mana to use a skill, not to maintain an already-used skill.

Targeting

The spells are targeted at nearby target. This does not necessarily mean those that the skill was originally targeted. If there are no nearby targets, the casts are targeted randomly.

Strategy

There are several methods that can be used to raise the cost of skills to help Kitava's Thirst trigger its socketed spells more regularly and expand the list of usable skills that can trigger this unique. Rapid cast or attacking abilities are preferred when using Kitava's Thirst to increase the likeliness of socketed spells triggering. Because of the high mana cost needed, several spells and most attack skills struggle to reach the 100 mana threshold, however there are a few unique items that can be used to assist with this:

• The unique gloves are ideal for critical strike spell builds, as they grant a global increase to spell critical strike chance as well as boosting mana cost of skills by 80%. These gloves are great for spell users wanting to focus on adding a layer of Cast on Cast mechanics to their character.
• Spell users may also find the use of quite useful in conjunction with this helmet, as it grants an innate level 30 (mana multiplier intact), and expands the player's mana pool allowing for more casts before needing to restore mana.
• Copies of the Unique Jewel can also be socketed into the passive skill tree to boost the cost of all the players skills. Multiple copies of this jewel can be socketed allowing for a wider array of skills to be used to trigger Kitava's Thirst and offering increased damage to the socketed spells.
• The unique wand Apep's RageApep's Rage
  Omen WandWand
  Physical Damage: 33-61
  Critical Strike Chance: 8.00%
  Attacks per Second: 1.20Requires Level 53, 200 Int(27-31)% increased Spell DamageAdds (90-130) to (140-190) Chaos Damage to Spells
  (25-30)% increased Cast Speed
  +(5-10)% to Chaos Resistance
  Lose 40 Mana when you use a Skill
  Poisons you inflict deal Damage (30-50)% fasterApep's poison entraps, encircles,
  and engulfs the leaking mind of Man. is another way to push a spell's mana cost over the 100 mana threshold with its 40% increased mana cost of skills mod. The cast speed helps offsetting the cast speed penalty of Kitava's Thirst and the added chaos damage to spells makes it great for spellcaster utilizing chaos and poison damage.

Channeled skills are the fastest skills, but they activate the cast only once per use (if the mana cost is sufficient), so the player has to start channeling and end channeling rapidly, which is tedious but possible.

Fastest non-channeled skills are Blade VortexBlade VortexSpell, AoE, Duration, Physical
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-16) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 30%Requires Level 12This spell creates ethereal blades which orbit in an area around you, dealing damage every 0.6 seconds to all enemies in their radius. As more blades are added, the damage becomes greater and more frequent.Deals (3-140) to (5-211) Physical Damage
Base duration is 4.00 seconds
+(0-0.2) metres to radius
35% increased Hit Rate for each blade
35% more Damage for each blade
Can have up to 10 active spinning blades

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(0.25-5)% increased Hit Rate for each bladePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., Flame SurgeFlame SurgeSpell, AoE, Fire, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-16) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 190%
AoE Radius: 30Requires Level 12Strikes enemies in front of you with a surge of flame. Burning enemies are dealt more damage. If you hit an ignited enemy, will create burning ground under them. Your damage modifiers don't apply to this burning ground.Base duration is 4.00 seconds
Deals (26-832) to (40-1247) Fire Damage
(50-88)% more Damage with Hits against Burning enemies
Cannot Ignite
+(0-9) to Area of Effect length
Hits on Ignited Enemies create Burning Ground, no more than once every 2 seconds
Burning Ground deals 25% of Fire Damage per second of Ignite affecting Enemy

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(1-20)% more Damage with Hits against Burning enemiesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., , , and curses with base cast time 0.5s. Detonate MinesDetonate MinesMine, Spell
Level: 1
Cooldown Time: 0.20 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 8Detonates a Mine, starting a Detonation Sequence which will detonate other Mines around it.First Mine Detonates Instantly
Mines get 10% more Detonation Speed for each prior Mine in Detonation Sequence

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Mines have (1-20)% increased Detonation SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. is faster, but it has 0 mana cost. FrenzyFrenzyAttack, Projectile, Melee, Strike, Bow
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 10 Mana
Attack Damage: (115-135)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (115-135)%Requires Level 16Performs an attack that gives the character a frenzy charge if it hits. Frenzy charges increase your attack speed.5% more Attack Damage per Frenzy Charge
5% more Attack Speed per Frenzy Charge

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(0.1-2)% more Attack Damage per Frenzy Charge
+(0.1-2)% more Attack Speed per Frenzy ChargePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. is the fastest attack skill.

Mana consumption of a character using Kitava's Thirst offensively is huge. In average, one needs to spend 333 mana for one activation. A character with 4000 mana and 400% increased mana regeneration is unable to sustain casting to activate Kitava's Thirst more than 1-2 times per second (flasks, and ClarityClarityAura, Spell, AoE
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: (34-279) Mana
Cooldown Time: 1.20 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: Instant
AoE Radius: 36Requires Level 10Casts an aura that grants mana regeneration to you and your allies.+(0-1.9) metres to radius
You and nearby Allies Regenerate (2.9-33) Mana per second

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(2-40)% increased Area of EffectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. are irrelevant here). Leeching that amount of mana is problematic because of the limitations of leech. Therefore, this property should be used mostly to activate auxiliary spells (time-limited summons, curses, buffs, etc.)

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Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	Introduced to the game.