Bladefall

Bladefall is a spell. It creates a rain of weapons in an area, dealing physical damage to enemies in a sequence of volleys, each wider but less damaging than the last. Enemies can be hit multiple times where these overlap.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Spell Damage: despite the fact that it does physical damage, Bladefall is a spell and not an attack. It does not utilize weapon damage in any way. Bladefall is one of three skills that work in this manner, the other two being and .

Physical Damage: because Bladefall deals physical damage, it can be boosted by support gems and passive skills that are more commonly used to modify attacks, such as the support gem and the Hatred aura.

Waves: casting the spell summons five cascading waves of blades, with each wave dealing damage once (6% less damage per wave after the first), and each falling one wave's width further than the last (there is no space in between waves where damage is not dealt). Enemies can be knocked back by this skill or others, allowing for the possibility of multiple hits. The first wave of the spell will always fall where the player points the cursor on cast.

Spell Echo: using will recast Bladefall so that the waves fall in the same place as the first, rather than adding additional waves.

Area of Effect: area of effect increases and decreases apply to both the lateral width of the waves and their thickness, essentially increasing potential DPS when reduced due to the constant size of enemy hitboxes.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Physical 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

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Golden Bladefall EffectGolden Bladefall EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Bladefall becomes a rain of golden blades.	90	Replaces the standard effect on a skill gem with a golden effect. Preview

Version history

Version	Changes
2.2.0	Bladefall had a bug that caused its damage per volley reduction to apply too early, reducing the damage of the first four stages. This has been fixed, which has raised its damage. To compensate, Bladefall's damage has been reduced by 25% at all levels. Bladefall now does 6% less damage per stage (up from 5%). Its damage effectiveness has been reduced from 120% to 90%.
2.1.1b	Fixed a bug where Bladefall was unable to hit targets around corners.
2.1.0	Added to the game.