Buff

Buffs are a type of effect that can modify a creature's statistics and can be identified by having a specific green border around the icon. Those with primarily detrimental effects are typically referred to as debuffs and have a red border.

Identifying a buff

Onslaught Buff icon with green border

Each buff affecting the player will display an icon with green border in the top-left of the screen. This is one way to determine whether or not an effect is a buff - if it does not show an icon, it is not a buff that is attached to the player. For other icons shown there see active and temporary effects.

The functioning of buffs

A buff simply adds statistics and modifiers to the creature it is attached to. Although a buff may increase the damage of the that the affected creature deals with hits, a buff itself cannot deliver hits or take any action. A buff may include degeneration or damage-over-time effects. For example, if a monster is attacked by a player using the aura, the monster is not "hit" by the aura, or the buff, it is the player that hits the monster:

1. Wrath is a spell that is cast by the player.
2. The spell creates an aura that applies a buff to any allies within range.
3. The buff contains a modifier that adds lightning damage to the player's attacks
4. The player hits the monster, dealing the added lightning damage

Buff duration

All buffs have a duration, which can be infinite (as in the case of auras). This duration is affected by Buff Duration modifiers, and can also be affected by Skill Effect Duration modifiers if the buff was applied by a skill.

The passive skills which increase buff and debuff duration apply not to buffs on you but to buffs (including debuffs) you create, either on yourself or other entities. This includes all the above as well as such things as the debuffs placed on cursed monsters.

Buff effect

The effect of a buff can also be increased or reduced. Modifiers that increases Buff Effect increase the bonuses from buffs that affect yourself, that includes both positive and negative bonuses. Therefore one has to be careful when amplifying two-sided buffs.

Currently, the only source of #% increased Effect of Buffs on you comes from . This will for example increase:

• The amount of mana regeneration granted by the ClarityClarityAura, Spell, AoE
  Level: (1-20)
  Reservation: (34-279) Mana
  Cooldown Time: 1.20 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Cast Time: Instant
  AoE Radius: 36Requires Level 10Casts an aura that grants mana regeneration to you and your allies.+(0-1.9) metres to radius
  You and nearby Allies Regenerate (2.9-33) Mana per second
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (2-40)% increased Area of EffectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. aura.
• The amount of Fire Damage per second taken by the player using . It does not increase the amount of Fire Damage per second dealt to enemies since the mod specifies "on you".
• The spell damage bonus provided by a player using .
• Blood RageBlood RageSpell, Duration, Physical
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (12-29) Life
  Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Adds a buff that deals Physical Damage over time, while increasing Attack Speed and Life Leech. Killing an enemy while this buff is active refreshes the buff duration, and can grant a Frenzy Charge.Base duration is (7.00-10.80) seconds
  Grants (5-15)% increased Attack Speed
  1.2% of Attack Physical Damage Leeched as Life
  You take 4% of your Maximum Life per second as Physical Damage
  You take 4% of your Maximum Energy Shield per second as Physical Damage
  25% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Kill
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Grants (0.25-5)% increased Attack SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. increases the life leech amount as well as the attack speed on you, but also increases the total amount of Life and Energy Shields lost.

Buff copies

• Multiple copies of the same buff do no stack with each other. When multiples copies of the same buff are on one character, the game will only count the strongest buff as active.

Debuffs

Bleed Debuff icon with red border

A debuff is a type of effect that only provides a detrimental effect to the debuffed creature and can be identified by having a specific red border around the icon. For instance the damage over time from Bleed or Poison are considered debuffs.

Debuffs will last longer on enemies cursed with temporal chains.

Exception

Standing on enemy's consecrated ground is displayed without red border and is displayed as normal skill effect. Only such case.

Interactions

Monsters that can remove Buffs

• Nemesis monsters can have a modifier called nullifier. This will remove all temporary buff effects on a character every time the monster hits a character.

Related Effects

The unique jewel has the unique mods Adds (3-5) to (8-12) Fire Attack Damage per Buff on You and Adds (2-3) to (5-8) Fire Spell Damage per Buff on You.

List of buffs & debuffs

Buffs

Skills:

• All auras.
• The added damage from Heralds.
• The armour bonus from .
• The physical damage, attack speed, and life leech effects of Blood RageBlood RageSpell, Duration, Physical
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (12-29) Life
  Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Adds a buff that deals Physical Damage over time, while increasing Attack Speed and Life Leech. Killing an enemy while this buff is active refreshes the buff duration, and can grant a Frenzy Charge.Base duration is (7.00-10.80) seconds
  Grants (5-15)% increased Attack Speed
  1.2% of Attack Physical Damage Leeched as Life
  You take 4% of your Maximum Life per second as Physical Damage
  You take 4% of your Maximum Energy Shield per second as Physical Damage
  25% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Kill
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Grants (0.25-5)% increased Attack SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
• The charge timers of Explosive ArrowExplosive ArrowAttack, Projectile, AoE, Duration, Fire, Bow
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (8-10) Mana
  Projectile Speed: 3260
  AoE Radius: 15Requires Level 28Fires an arrow which will stick into an enemy or wall, and then explode, dealing area damage around it, either after a duration or when the maximum number of arrows stuck to that target is reached. If an enemy has multiple Explosive Arrows stuck in them, the first one to explode will consume the others, adding their damage to its explosion.Base duration is 1.00 seconds
  Explosion deals 50% less Base Damage
  Explosion will have (47-522) to (71-783) added Fire Damage
  +0.2 metres to Explosion Radius per Explosive Arrow on Target, up to a maximum of +1.2 metres
  Explosion deals 6% more Damage with Hits per Explosive Arrow on Target
  Explosion deals 3% more Damage with Ailments per Explosive Arrow on Target
  Maximum 20 Explosive Arrows stuck in an Enemy
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  +(0.1-2) Maximum Explosive Arrows stuck in an EnemyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
• The duration effect placed on enemies by Dominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: 8 Mana
  Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds
  Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds
  Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance
  Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance
  Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance
  25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. that turns them into minions.
• The effect placed on enemies hit by Dominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: 8 Mana
  Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds
  Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds
  Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance
  Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance
  Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance
  25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., , or that causes the skill's effects (domination, detonation, and gain power charge respectively) to activate if the enemy dies within a short time after the hit.
• The damage reduction of Arctic ArmourArctic ArmourSpell, Duration, Cold
  Level: (1-20)
  Reservation: 25% Mana
  Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Conjures an icy barrier that chills enemies when they hit you. You drop chilled ground while moving, and take less Fire and Physical damage while stationary.Base duration is (2.50-4.40) seconds
  Buff grants (11-21)% less Physical Damage taken from Hits while stationary
  Buff grants (11-20)% less Fire Damage taken from Hits while stationary
  Chill Enemy for 0.5 seconds when Hit, reducing their Action Speed by 30%
  Buff grants Immunity to Freeze
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (1-20)% increased Skill Effect DurationPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
• Golems grant buffs as long as they are alive.
• The life regeneration granted by .
• The Punisher buff granted by monsters cursed with .
• The increased damage and mana regeneration from .
• the life regeneration from Enduring CryEnduring CryWarcry, AoE, Duration
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (13-19) Mana
  Cooldown Time: 8.00 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Use Time: 0.80 sec
  AoE Radius: 60Requires Level 10Performs a warcry, taunting all nearby enemies to attack the user and granting endurance charges. Gives a brief burst of life regeneration, as well as a buff which grants resistances and physical damage reduction based on your endurance charges.Base duration is 2.00 seconds
  Regenerate (120-1976) Life over 1 second
  (0-38)% increased Warcry Speed
  Buff grants 2% additional Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge
  Buff grants +2% to all Elemental Resistances per Endurance Charge
  Counts total Power of Enemies in Range
  Gain 1 Endurance Charge per 5 Power
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..

Others:

• Adrenaline
• Fortify
• Onslaught
• Phasing
• Elemental Conflux
• Unholy Might
• Unholy Damage
• Auras from unique items such as , , , and .
• The effects granted by Trinkets.
• The effects granted by various Ascendancy passive skills.
• Buff applies by raised spectres: Snow Cloak, etc.

Debuffs

• Blind
• Maim
• Hinder
• Intimidate
• Unnerve
• Ash
• All curses
• Debuffs applied by monster skills: for example Screech, Suppressing Fire, Corrupted Blood, Gruthkul's Despair, Infested, Crystalised Fear, Sprouting Madness, Malignant Madness, Covered in Spiders, Coated in Azurite, Omnitect's Thruster, Corruption of the Awakener, etc.
  • Debuffs applied by monster auras: Degeneration aura, Slow aura, Endless Pain, etc.
  • Monsters possessed by essences would sometimes apply debuff of the same name: Essence of Anger, Essence of Hatred, Essence of Wrath, Essence of Misery, etc.
  • Monsters from Delirium league could trigger various debuffs: Diluting Touch, Eroding Touch, Paralysing Touch, Wasting Touch, Explosive Retch, etc.
• Debuffs applied by environmental effects: for example Creeping Darkness, Arc Trap, Creeping Ice, Inner/Outer Deatomization Storm, Fearful, Dark Vortex, etc.
• Debuffs applied by item: Eye of Malice

Passive skills

There are no passive skills that grant #% increased Effect of Buffs on you. The only way to get this modifier is by wielding .

Version history

Version	Changes
3.10.1c	All sources of "x% increased Effect of Auras on you" now instead grant "x% increased Effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills on you". The Purposeful Harbinger notable now grants "Aura Buffs from Skills have 10% increased Effect on you for each Herald affecting you".
3.10.1	x% increased Effect of Auras on You modifiers no longer apply to enemy debuff auras.
Unknown	Introduced to the game.