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 Wrath 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 ony source of #% increased Effect of Buffs on you comes from IchimonjiIchimonji
Corsair SwordOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: (45-58.5) to (167.4-195)
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: (1.86-1.94)
Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 58, 81 Str, 117 Dex40% increased Global Accuracy Rating(80-95)% increased Physical Damage
Adds (5-10) to (13-20) Physical Damage
(20-25)% increased Attack Speed
10% increased Effect of Buffs on you
10% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills
Allies' Aura Buffs do not affect you
Your Aura Buffs do not affect alliesMaster yourself before you seek to master others.. This will for example increase:

• The amount of mana regeneration granted by the 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 Rage 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.

Debuffs

Bleed Debuff icon with red border

A debuff is a buff 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 or Viper Strike are considered debuffs.

List of buffs & debuffs

Skills

• All auras.
• All curses.
• The added damage from Heralds.
• The armour bonus from .
• The physical damage, attack speed, and life leech effects of Blood Rage.
• The charge timers of .
• The duration effect placed on enemies by that turns them into minions.
• The effect placed on enemies hit by , Infernal Blow, or Power Siphon 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 Armour.
• The increased physical damage and attack speed granted by monsters cursed with Punishment.
• The reduced damage taken from .
• The three Golems Summon Chaos Golem, and Summon Flame Golem grant buffs as long as they are alive.
• The life regeneration granted by Rejuvenation Totem.

Other

• The effects granted by some items, like Onslaught and Unholy Might, as well as the auras from KingmakerKingmaker
  Despot AxeTwo Handed Axe
  Physical Damage: (360-414) to (488-561.2)
  Critical Strike Chance: (6.50-7.00)%
  Attacks per Second: (1.50-1.57)
  Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 66, 140 Str, 86 Dex(300-360)% increased Physical Damage
  (7-12)% increased Attack Speed
  (30-40)% increased Critical Strike Chance
  Nearby Allies have 30% increased Item Rarity
  Nearby Allies have Culling Strike
  Insufficient Mana doesn't prevent your Melee Attacks
  Nearby Allies have +50% to Critical Strike Multiplier
  Nearby Allies have +10 FortificationA King and his people are linked together
  like a soul and a beating heart.
  Both can be severed by a same edge,
  then forged anew., Dying BreathDying Breath
  Iron StaffWarstaff
  Physical Damage: 14-42
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.40%
  Attacks per Second: 1.30
  Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+18% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff18% increased Cast Speed
  18% increased maximum Mana
  18% increased Area of Effect of Aura Skills
  18% increased Area of Effect of Hex Skills
  Nearby Enemies have 18% increased Effect of Curses on them
  Nearby allies gain 18% increased Damage
  18% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your SkillsThe whispers of the dead
  Carry wisdom for the living,
  If you are willing to give your life
  To listen., Leer CastLeer Cast
  Festival MaskEvasion: (77-88)
  Energy Shield: (17-19)Requires Level 28, 33 Dex, 33 Int+(20-30) to Dexterity
  25% reduced Damage
  +(60-100) to maximum Life
  +(60-100) to maximum Mana
  You and nearby allies gain 50% increased DamageFor none of us are as cruel as all of us. and Shaper's SeedShaper's Seed
  Agate AmuletRequires Level 16+(16-24) to Strength and Intelligence(60-100)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
  Regenerate 4% of Life per second
  Nearby Allies gain 4% of Life Regenerated per second
  Nearby Allies gain 80% increased Mana Regeneration RateThe first light to grow in the primordial darkness..
• Map effects like Creeping Darkness.

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 IchimonjiIchimonji
Corsair SwordOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: (45-58.5) to (167.4-195)
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: (1.86-1.94)
Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 58, 81 Str, 117 Dex40% increased Global Accuracy Rating(80-95)% increased Physical Damage
Adds (5-10) to (13-20) Physical Damage
(20-25)% increased Attack Speed
10% increased Effect of Buffs on you
10% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills
Allies' Aura Buffs do not affect you
Your Aura Buffs do not affect alliesMaster yourself before you seek to master others..