Kitava's Thirst

Kitava's Thirst is a unique .

Mechanics

• 50% chance to Trigger Socketed Spells:
  • Each time you use a skill with a mana cost of 100 or higher, there is a 50% chance all socketed spells will trigger. Typically only one spell can be triggered at a time, which makes this item more unique.
  • If multiple of the same spell skill gem are socketed, only one will trigger. For example, if two skill gems are socketed, only one will cast.
• when you Spend at least 100 Mana:
  • 100 or more mana must be spent in order to trigger socketed spells.
    • 100 mana must be spent all at once, not across multiple uses.
    • Skills cast with life via Blood Magic or energy shield via Eldritch Battery will not trigger socketed spells.
    • Using or other methods that avoid mana costs will not trigger socketed spells.
    • Mana reservation can trigger socketed spells.
• Use a Skill:
  • Channeled skills with a mana cost of 100 or above can only trigger spells with the initial cast. This is because Kitava's Thirst triggers when spending mana to use a skill, not to maintain an already-used skill.
• Targeting
  • Triggered spells will target a nearby target. The triggered spells will not necessarily target the same location or enemy targeted by the original skill.
  • If there are no nearby potential targets, the casts will target 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:

• 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 up to 80.
• has good synergy, as it grants an innate level 30 Greater Spell Echo Support which includes a large 150% mana multuipler and also significantly increases the player's mana pool.
• A copy of the Unique Jewel can also be socketed into the passive skill tree to boost the cost of all skills.
• 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 to Total Mana Cost of Skills mod. The additional cast speed helps also helps offset 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., , , ,, and curses with base cast time 0.5s. is faster, but it has 0 mana cost. is the fastest attack skill.

Mana consumption of a character using Kitava's Thirst offensively is huge. In average, one needs to spend 200 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 are irrelevant here). Leeching that amount of mana is problematic because of the limitations of leech. There is one way to surpress this limit of regen, with tickster ascendecy Weave the Arcane.

Legacy variants

Kitava's Thirst has a legacy variant.

Version discontinued	Stats Compare each legacy variant to the current variant. Stat line – Same as current variant Stat line – Different from current variant
3.11.0	30% chance to Trigger Socketed Spells when you Spend at least 100 Mana to Use a Skill 15% reduced Cast Speed (70–80)% increased Armour and Energy Shield +(30–50) to maximum Mana

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Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.0	Now has a 50% chance to trigger socketed spells when you spend at least 100 mana to use a skill (from 30%).
2.4.0	Introduced to the game.