Blade Vortex

Template:Gem Infobox Blade Vortex creates an ethereal blade that spins around the caster that deals physical damage, each blade lasts for the minimum duration of 5 seconds. Because of the duration nature of this skill, it is possible to have multiple blades active at the same time, up to a maximum of 50 blades. Once the limit is reached, creating a new blade will simply remove the oldest existing active blade, similar to Summon Raging Spirit.

Despite the fact that it does physical damage, Blade Vortex is a spell and not an attack. It does not utilize weapon damage in any way.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Like all other spells, only the and support gems will grant leech effects to Blade Vortex. All other forms of leeching work only on physical damage from attacks.

Physical Damage: Because Blade Vortex deals physical damage, it can be boosted by supports and skills that are more commonly used to modify attacks, such as the support gem and the Hatred aura.

Spell Damage: Since Blade Vertex is considered a Spell its damage can be amplified by Spell Damage on items and passives from the skill tree, as well as support gems that increase spell damage. Because Blade Vortex also has a cast time, its cast speed can be effected by supports skills such as Spell Echo and Faster Casting.

Area of Effect: Due to the fact that Blade Vortex has the AoE tag, increases and decreases in AoE will augment the radius in which the skill deals damage e.g. (Increased Area of Effect, Concentrated Effect, Carcass Jack).

Gem level progression

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Version history

Version	Changes
2.1.0	Blade Vortex has been added to the game.