Ailment

Status ailments (also referred to as elemental status ailments) encompass a variety of detrimental effects that are associated with elemental damage. Status ailments are in some ways similar to debuffs and curses, but they are categorically different. There is no inherent limit on the number of different status ailments a target can have at any given time.

List of status ailments

Icon	Description
File:Burning.png	Ignite is associated with fire and causes the affected target to burn, taking fire damage over time.
File:Chilled.png	Chill is inherent to cold and applies a slow effect to the character, affecting the animation speed at which the character plays.
File:Frozen.png	Freeze is also associated with cold and prevents the affected target from taking actions.
File:Shocked.png	Shock is associated with lightning and causes the affected target to take increased damage from all sources.

Mechanics

Any hit of cold damage has the potential to chill the target. Chill can also be inflicted by skills such as Ice Shot, and Arctic Armour, which leave patches of chilling ground.

Ignite, freeze, and shock can only be inflicted by critical strikes of their corresponding element or due to something granting chance to Ignite, Freeze or Shock. Several examples how to gain a chance to apply Status ailments include: cursing a target with Conductivity which grants additional chance to shock, skills such as Burning Arrow have a built-in chance to inflict elemental status ailments and the notable passive skill Static Blows grants an additional chance to shock.

Alter the default behaviour

There are few ways to change the default mechanics:

• The unique changes which element can apply a particular status ailment.
• Elemental Conflux makes hits apply chill, shock and ignite based on damage dealt from all combined damage types.

Proliferation

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Elemental proliferation makes status ailments spread to nearby enemies in a certain radius.

Sources of elemental proliferation:

• • Doryani's CatalystDoryani's Catalyst
    Vaal SceptreSceptre
    Physical Damage: (102-122) to (170-230)
    Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
    Attacks per Second: (1.55-1.61)
    Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 75, 113 Str, 113 Int32% increased Elemental DamageSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Elemental Proliferation
    Adds (65-85) to (100-160) Physical Damage
    (11-15)% increased Attack Speed
    (6-10)% increased Cast Speed
    (30-40)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
    0.2% of Elemental Damage Leeched as Life
    (80-100)% increased Elemental DamageThe result of the catalytic reaction would be either immortality for all,
    or death for all. It was a risk Doryani was willing to take.
  • Thousand RibbonsThousand Ribbons
    Simple RobeEvasion: (30-60)
    Energy Shield: (44-80)
    Movement Speed: -3%Requires 17 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 5 Elemental Proliferation
    Adds (2-4) to (5-9) Fire Damage to Spells and Attacks
    Adds (2-4) to (5-9) Cold Damage to Spells and Attacks
    Adds 1 to (4-12) Lightning Damage to Spells and Attacks
    +(30-60) to Evasion Rating
    +(30-60) to maximum Energy Shield
    +(25-50) to maximum Life
    +(25-50) to maximum Mana
    +(15-30)% to Fire Resistance
    +(15-30)% to Cold Resistance
    +(15-30)% to Lightning ResistanceThe night of a thousand ribbons
    To remember the day of a thousand flames
    When Sarn burned
    And was born again
• Elementalist's passive Beacon of Ruin

Achievements

Name	Description
Elemental Trinity	Slay an enemy that is simultaneously Ignited, Shocked, and Frozen.

See also

• Poison
• Bleed
• Blind