Ball Lightning

Template:Gem Infobox Ball Lightning is a spell that creates a moving ball dealing lightning damage.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Ball Lightning is a slow moving projectile, that strikes targets with bolts of lightning around itself. Lightning bolts strike targets every 200 milliseconds and each target cannot be hit more often than this. That restriction is shared between all balls fired on the same cast. The base projectile speed is roughly 36 units per second.

• and increase the number of projectiles, and thus the area of effect. However, since a target cannot be hit more than once within 200 ms, it cannot be used to "shotgun" the target by hitting them with multiple projectiles at once, leading to a possible DPS loss.
• Balls cast by do not share the 200 ms cooldown between each other because every trap counts as a separate "caster".
• 's second cast does not share the 200 ms cooldown with the first one.
• increases the range of the bolts fired from the lightning balls.
• and "Area of Effect damage" passive nodes do not increase Ball Lightning's damage (changes to Area of Effect radius still apply).
• increases the amount of time the enemy spends within the ball's area of effect, resulting in a higher potential number of lightning strikes per cast.
• and have no effect as Ball Lightning automatically pierces targets. More details can be found on the Projectile page.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 31 || 73 || 15 || 2–38 || 179,320 |- ! 2 | 33 || 77 || 16 || 2–43 || 225,766 |- ! 3 | 35 || 81 || 17 || 3–48 || 282,073 |- ! 4 | 37 || 85 || 18 || 3–53 || 349,759 |- ! 5 | 39 || 90 || 19 || 3–59 || 431,204 |- ! 6 | 41 || 94 || 20 || 3–66 || 528,465 |- ! 7 | 43 || 98 || 21 || 4–74 || 644,165 |- ! 8 | 45 || 102 || 22 || 4–82 || 782,325 |- ! 9 | 47 || 106 || 22 || 5–90 || 945,554 |- ! 10 | 49 || 111 || 23 || 5–100 || 1,138,877 |- ! 11 | 51 || 115 || 24 || 6–111 || 1,368,233 |- ! 12 | 53 || 119 || 24 || 6–122 || 1,638,338 |- ! 13 | 55 || 123 || 25 || 7–135 || 1,956,648 |- ! 14 | 57 || 127 || 25 || 8–149 || 2,329,968 |- ! 15 | 59 || 132 || 26 || 9–164 || 9,826,462 |- ! 16 | 61 || 136 || 26 || 9–180 || 21,126,787 |- ! 17 | 63 || 140 || 26 || 10–198 || 50,254,966 |- ! 18 | 65 || 144 || 26 || 11–217 || 89,391,985 |- ! 19 | 67 || 148 || 27 || 13–239 || 146,266,188 |- ! 20 | 69 || 153 || 27 || 14–262 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Skill Video

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Path of Exile BALL LIGHTNING - Skill Gem Analysis & Mechanics Guide

Quest reward

Please check the Quest Rewards page.

Trivia

This skill was released accidentally in Version 1.1.0 and was removed until Version 1.1.5.. A history of the skill can be found in Supporter newsletter 73.

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	Base radius increased by 33% (from 12 to 16). Damage reduced. At player level 68 it should deal approximately 24% less damage.
1.2.0	Damage has been increased by 30% at all levels. Critical chance increased to 5%.
1.1.5	Added to the game.