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 several skills that work in this manner, the others include , 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.

• 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	43 to 65	0	0
2	31	73	13	54 to 80	199345	199345
3	34	79	14	66 to 99	285815	485160
4	37	85	15	80 to 121	401344	886504
5	40	92	15	98 to 147	554379	1440883
6	42	96	16	111 to 167	477437	1918320
7	44	100	16	126 to 189	583786	2502106
8	46	104	17	143 to 215	710359	3212465
9	48	109	17	162 to 243	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	18	183 to 275	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	18	207 to 310	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	19	233 to 350	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	19	263 to 395	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	20	296 to 445	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	20	334 to 500	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	21	375 to 563	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	21	421 to 632	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	22	473 to 710	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	22	531 to 796	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	23	595 to 893	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	24	667 to 1000	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	24	747 to 1120	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	25	836 to 1254	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	25	935 to 1402	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	26	1045 to 1568	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	26	1168 to 1752	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	27	1304 to 1956	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27	1456 to 2184	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28	1625 to 2437	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	28	1812 to 2719	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	28	1914 to 2871	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	29	2021 to 3031	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	29	2133 to 3200	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	29	2252 to 3378	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	29	2377 to 3566	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	30	2509 to 3764	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	30	2648 to 3972	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	30	2795 to 4192	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	30	2949 to 4423	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	31	3111 to 4667	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Demonic Bladefall EffectDemonic Bladefall EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Bladefall gains a demonic effect.	90	Replaces the standard effect on a skill gem with a demonic version. Preview
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

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Bladefall.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Bladefall Additional Volley	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Bladefall has an additional Volley	helmet 75
Enchantment Bladefall Critical Strike Chance 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	60% increased Bladefall Critical Strike Chance	helmet 100
Enchantment Bladefall Critical Strike Chance 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	90% increased Bladefall Critical Strike Chance	helmet 75
Enchantment Bladefall Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Bladefall Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Bladefall Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Bladefall Damage	helmet 75
Enchantment Bladefall Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Bladefall Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Bladefall Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Bladefall Area of Effect	helmet 75

Version history

Version	Changes
3.1.0	Bladefall's area of effect was wider than intended close to the caster. The area of effect now better matches the area the blades visually land. The total width of Bladefall's area of effect has been increased slightly to compensate for the now-narrower early stages.
2.4.0	The trap/mine behaviour of Bladefall has been made more consistent with other traps/mines. The blades fall from the mine itself, not targeting the location where the monster is. (They will fall in the direction of the monster though).
2.3.0	If you use , and Bladefall to target a blocked location then they will be now used on the nearest valid location.
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.