Shock Nova

Shock Nova is a lightning spell with a high chance to shock that casts an initial ring of lightning followed by a larger circular area of lightning damage.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Shaded region indicates initial ring, outer circle indicates radius of second area damage. Red enemies are hit twice for 150% of base damage, orange enemies are hit once for 100% of base damage, white enemies are not hit.

Shock Nova has two damaging components: an initial ring of lightning, and then a larger, circular area of lightning damage. The initial ring has a fixed width such that monsters near the center 'dead zone' will not be hit. The subsequent lightning area damage has a larger radius than the initial ring, and all monsters up to that radius will be hit. Therefore it is possible for monsters to be hit by either both components, or just the larger area damage, or neither.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Lightning Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	12	N/A	0	0
2	31	73	13	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	79	14	N/A	285815	485160
4	37	85	15	N/A	401344	886504
5	40	92	15	N/A	554379	1440883
6	42	96	16	N/A	477437	1918320
7	44	100	16	N/A	583786	2502106
8	46	104	17	N/A	710359	3212465
9	48	109	17	N/A	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	18	N/A	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	18	N/A	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	19	N/A	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	19	N/A	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	20	N/A	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	20	N/A	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	21	N/A	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	21	N/A	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	22	N/A	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	22	N/A	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	23	N/A	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	25	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	25	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	26	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	26	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	27	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	28	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	28	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	29	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	29	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	29	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	29	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	30	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	30	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	30	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	30	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	31	N/A	N/A	N/A

Version history

Version	Changes
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by 20% at level one, improving to a 35% increase in damage by level 20. Damage effectiveness increased from 50% to 60%.
1.0.0	Reduced mana cost.
0.10.0	Increased base critical strike chance from 3% to 4%. Mana cost has been reduced.
0.9.12s	Damage progression increased. By skill level 15, it's doing 14% more damage than before.
0.9.12	Damage increased by 14%.
0.9.9	Increased cast speed.
0.9.7	Improved the effects.
0.9.6	Shock Nova has been reimplemented so that it doesn't scale its damage with distance and doesn't hit monsters that are close to you.
0.9.5g	Increased the critical strike chance.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Shock Nova (2,6%).
0.9.3c	Now scales all damage from support gems in the same way as the main skill damage (based on distance). Shock Nova now deals its damage from outside (maximum damage) to inside (minimum/no damage). The outside damage is dealt first. It is a linear damage progression (not exponential) now.
0.9.2	Fixed a bug with Shock Nova's damage calculation if the Area of Effect was increased. Reduced upper Shock Nova damage by 30%.
0.9.1	Changed the damage equation for Shock Nova so that the deadzone immediately around the player works better. It's now much more important to have enemies at maximum range. Reduced damage and collision size.
0.8.7	Shock Nova added to the game.