Desecrate

DesecrateSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (11-26) Mana
Cast Time: 0.60 secRequires Level 16Desecrates the ground, summoning corpses and dealing chaos damage to all enemies in the area. The corpses will be chosen from the monsters in the current area and any Spectres that have existed in this instance.Deals (8.2-294) Base Chaos Damage per second
Base duration is 4.00 seconds
Spawns 5 corpses
Spawns corpses up to Level (20-100)
Maximum of 10 corpses allowed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(1-20)% increased Cast SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 16Vendor Offer
1x Scroll FragmentMetadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemDesecrate

Desecrate is a spell that summons corpses and a patch of desecrated ground, which deals chaos damage to all enemies in the area.

Skill functions and interactions

• The level of the spawned corpses is determined by area level. The Spawns corpses up to Level # is only a maximum.
• Desecrate spawns corpses of monsters that have existed in the current area, as well as monsters previously raised by Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (15-28) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres
  Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances
  55% more Minion Movement Speed
  Minion Movement Speed is Capped
  Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating
  Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. The character remembers a number of monsters capped by their Spectre limit, even after the skill gem is removed.
  • Each corpse has a 15% chance of guaranteeing a spectre corpse. The remaining 85% are chosen randomly, and may still be spectres, meaning the chance of randomly selecting a spectre corpse can be improved by saving multiple different spectres. If those spectres have high life values, such as Kitava's Herald or Giant Gladiator Statue, this can provide more damage to skills like Detonate DeadDetonate DeadSpell, AoE, Fire
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost: (5-20) Mana
    Cast Time: 0.60 sec
    Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
    Effectiveness of Added Damage: 160%
    AoE Radius: 22Requires Level 4Targets a corpse, and deals spell damage to enemies around the corpse, as well as causing the corpse to explode, dealing fire damage. The explosion is not affected by modifiers to spell damage and cannot be reflected.Deals (15-798) to (22-1197) Fire Damage
    Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to (6-7.9)% of the corpse's Maximum Life
    Base radius is (2.2-2.6) metres
    
    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    (0.75-15)% chance to detonate an additional corpsePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. (Though it also risks taking more damage from enemies that explode corpses.)
  • In areas without monsters, a specific table is used.
• Spell Cascade SupportSpell Cascade SupportAoE, Spell, Support
  Icon: p
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 4Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Skills have (25-16)% less Area of Effect
  Supported Skills deal (40-31)% less Damage
  Supported Area of Effect Skills also affect areas in front of and behind the targeted area
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Area of EffectThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.: causes Desecrate to spawn the maximum of 10 corpses at one cast. Because this skill is mainly used to create corpses, the penalties of Spell Cascade like reduced AoE or reduced damage are irrelevant.
• The corpse generation is slightly delayed after the cast of the skill, so when triggered Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger
  Icon: !
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 250%
  Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38-70) or lower
  Supported Skills deal (65-27)% less Damage
  Trigger Supported Spells when you take (528-3272) total Damage from Hits
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills require (0.5-10)% reduced amount of Damage taken to TriggerThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. alongside an Offering, corpses will not be consumed on the first trigger, as corpses must already exist at the time of corpse consuming skills triggering to function.
• Proxies share the maximum 10 active corpses with each other and the player.
• On a PC, you can press and hold the "A" key to see the type of corpse when you hover your mouse over it. This can be changed to a different key or not requiring a key in the options.
• Desecrate's chaos damage over time is not increased by bonuses to spell damage. It is affected by bonuses to chaos damage, damage over time, and area damage. When linked to the Trap SupportTrap SupportSupport, Trap
  Icon: T
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 8Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a trap that will use the skill for you when an enemy walks near it. Traps cannot use channelling skills.Supported Attack Skills cannot be used with Melee Weapons
  Trap lasts 4 seconds
  Supported Skills deal (20-6)% less Trap Damage
  Supported Skills have (0-19)% increased Trap Throwing Speed
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Trap DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. gem it is affected by trap-related modifiers, and linked to a Spell Totem SupportSpell Totem SupportSupport, Spell, Totem
  Icon: T
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 200%Requires Level 8Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.Supported Skills deal (49-40)% less Damage
  Supported Skills will summon a Totem which uses that Skill
  Totem lasts 8 seconds
  Supported Skills have 40% less Cast Speed
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Totem Placement speedThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. gem it is affected by totem-related modifiers.
• Area of effect only affects the chaos dot ground and does not affect the spread of spawned corpses.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Chaos Damage per sec	Corpse Level	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	26	18	11	8.2	20	0	0
2	20	31	22	12	11.3	24	49725	49725
3	24	37	25	13	15.4	28	95714	145439
4	28	42	29	14	20.6	32	169595	315034
5	31	46	32	15	25.5	35	199345	514379
6	34	50	35	16	31.4	38	285815	800194
7	37	54	37	17	38.5	41	401344	1201538
8	40	58	40	18	46.9	44	554379	1755917
9	43	62	43	18	57	47	755049	2510966
10	46	66	46	19	69	50	1016533	3527499
11	49	70	48	20	83.4	53	1898602	5426101
12	52	74	51	21	100.5	56	1964019	7390120
13	55	78	54	22	120.7	59	2573731	9963851
14	58	82	57	23	144.8	62	4676439	14640290
15	60	84	59	23	163.2	65	3017327	17657617
16	62	87	60	24	183.9	69	7823001	25480618
17	64	90	62	25	207	73	15264208	40744826
18	66	92	64	25	232.8	77	26272845	67017671
19	68	95	66	26	261.7	81	62872274	129889945
20	70	98	68	26	294	100	212023122	341913067
21	72	100	70	27	330.1	100	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	27	370.3	100	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	28	415.2	100	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	29	465.3	100	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	29	521.2	100	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	30	583.5	100	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	30	653	100	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	31	730.4	100	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	32	816.6	100	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	32	912.6	100	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	32	964.6	100	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	33	1019.5	100	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	33	1077.3	100	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	33	1138.4	100	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	34	1202.8	100	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	34	1270.8	100	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	34	1342.4	100	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	34	1418	100	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	35	1497.7	100	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	35	1581.8	100	N/A	N/A

Gem quality

Type	Additional Effects per 1-20% Quality	Weight
Superior	(1-20)% increased Cast Speed	1

Item acquisition

Desecrate can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Desecrate can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description	Meta
3	The Bitter BlossomThe Bitter Blossom3Level 21 Chaos Gem Quality: +23% CorruptedThe pain you feel is of no consequence, it is evolution, to be made whole within something greater.	Random corrupted level 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality	A
13	The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.	Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem	A
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	Random level 20 gem	A
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	Random gem with 20% quality	A
1	Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.	Random gem with 1–20% quality	A
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Intruders in Black Act 2	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Intruders in Black Act 2 Yeena	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Desecrate.

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 Desecrate Additional Corpse 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Desecrate Spawns 2 additional corpses	helmet 100
Enchantment Desecrate Additional Corpse 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Desecrate Spawns 3 additional corpses	helmet 100
Enchantment Desecrate Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	20% increased Desecrate Duration	helmet 0
Enchantment Desecrate Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	30% increased Desecrate Duration	helmet 0

Related passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Desecrate:

Name	Stats
Undertaker	30% increased Damage if you have Consumed a corpse Recently Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you've Consumed a corpse Recently Desecrate and Unearth have +2 to Maximum number of corpses allowed [1]

Alternate skill effects

Desecrate has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Stygian Desecrate EffectStygian Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate becomes a Stygian Effect.	Your Desecrate becomes a Stygian Effect.
Tombstone Desecrate EffectTombstone Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate summons a cluster of necrotic tombstones	Your Desecrate summons a cluster of necrotic tombstones
Void Desecrate EffectVoid Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate becomes a Void Effect.	Your Desecrate becomes a Void Effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.23.0	Alternate quality gems, labyrinth helmet enchantments and unique threshold jewels are all systems that were trying to subtly modify the behaviour of skills. With this expansion these have been combined into a new system called Transfigured Gems that allows us to fully achieve the goal of these three systems, and then some. Anomalous, Divergent and Phantasmal Quality Gems have been removed from the game. Existing alternate Quality Gems now have the base Quality effect found on the respective Gem.
3.17.0	Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70) Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.'s most recent monster types are now saved to your character and may be Desecrated. The size of this list is capped by your Spectre limit. Desecrate and Corpse Walk now have a static 15% chance to spawn a Spectre Corpse, rather than a 2x relative weighting compared to all other possible corpse types. Lower the life of Spectre versions of monsters that have very high life totals. Their life is being brought down to match Kitava's Herald monsters. This will affect their corpse when created with Desecrate. Phantasmal Desecrate can now produce corpses of Scourge monsters. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
3.16.2	Reverted an unintended change where corpses of Spectre monsters were made to be just as likely as other corpses from Desecrate and other corpse generating skills. Spectre-based corpses are once again twice as likely as corpses from the area.
3.13.0	Phantasmal Desecrate now has a chance to produce a different special monster corpse based on its quality. Phantasmal Desecrate now has 1% chance to spawn a forgotten corpse per 1% gem quality (from 0.1% per 1% gem quality).
3.12.0	Now has alternative quality
3.8.0	Now has a corpse limit of 10 (from 15) Now has a cast time of 0.6 seconds (from 0.8) Now has a base duration of 4 seconds (from 5). No longer has a cooldown. The Labyrinth Helmet Enchantment for Desecrate which granted increased Cooldown Reduction now instead grants increased Duration at the same value. This affects existing items with this enchantment. This enchantment can no longer be obtained from the Labyrinth.
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 11 (was 8). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 26 (was 20).
3.5.0	Added physics interactions.
3.1.0	Now creates 5 corpses (up from 3). The cooldown has been reduced to 3 seconds per stack (down from 5), and the cast time has been reduced to 0.8 seconds (down from 1). Desecrate's maximum corpse level now grows more steadily as the skill gem levels up. It can now create higher level corpses at most levels, except level 19 of the gem, in which the maximum corpse level has been lowered from 100 to 81.
3.0.2b	Desecrate now chooses corpses from the monsters in the current area and any Spectres that existed in the instance.
3.0.2	Desecrate can now only create monsters that are in the instance it is used in. In areas where no monsters have spawned, a specific desecrate table is used. This fixes a longstanding bug with the desecration list that had further problems introduced due to persistent spectres.
1.1.0	The maximum level of a created corpse has been changed to being higher than the required level of the skill. This scales up to a monster level cap of 100 by level 20 of the gem. Desecrate also now enforces a limit of 15 corpses at a time.
1.0.6b	Fixed a bug where corpses created by Desecrate weren't limited by the level requirement of the gem.
1.0.6	Desecrate has been added to the game.