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 Spawns corpses up to Level (20-100) Maximum of 10 corpses allowed Spawns 5 corpses Base duration is 4 seconds
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: 1% increased Cast Speed10% increased Chaos Damage3% chance to spawn an additional CorpseEach Corpse spawned has 1% chance to be a Forgotten CorpsePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Note that the levels stated beneath are maximum levels of the corpses created by Desecrate. The real level of the spawned corpses is still capped by the zone level.[1]
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.
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.: Desecrate may also spawn corpses which can be raised as spectres the player can bring into a zone. Desecrate also has a corpse spawn table based on the monsters found in the area. 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.[2]
When Triggered by 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 exist at the time of corpse consuming skills triggering to function.[3]
Totems share a pool of 10 corpses with each other, and most likely 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.
Having spectres with high base life will increase the chance of getting high life corpses. These corpses provide more damage for 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.. These high life corpses will also make enemies who use detonate dead do more damage to the character.
Alternative quality
Phantasmal Desecrate has a chance (1% per 1% quality) to spawn a corpse of a Forgotten Corpse, such as Flickershade, which is the only way to obtain them for 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..
Additionally, inaccessible monsters from previous leagues are otherwise inaccessible this way. Currently, the pool of potential monsters includes those from Scourge league.
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 corruptedlevel 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 corruptedlevel 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:
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.
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]
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.
(Undocumented in patch note) Phantasmal Desecrate can now produce corpses of Scourge monsters.
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.[4]
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.
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.
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.
Trap SupportTrap SupportSupport, Trap
gem it is affected by trap-related modifiers, and linked to a 
Spell Totem SupportSpell Totem SupportSupport, Spell, Totem
gem it is affected by totem-related modifiers.
Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion
: Desecrate may also spawn corpses which can be raised as spectres the player can bring into a zone. Desecrate also has a corpse spawn table based on the monsters found in the area. In areas without monsters, a specific table is used.
Spell Cascade SupportSpell Cascade SupportAoE, Spell, Support
: 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.[2]
Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger
alongside an Offering, corpses will not be consumed on the first trigger, as corpses must exist at the time of corpse consuming skills triggering to function.[3]
Detonate DeadDetonate DeadSpell, AoE, Fire
. These high life corpses will also make enemies who use detonate dead do more damage to the character.
The Bitter Blossom
The Bitter Blossom
3Level 21 Chaos Gem
The Cataclysm
13Level 21 Spell Gem
The Fox
6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
Gemcutter's Promise
3Gem
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
The Void
1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Stygian Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate becomes a Stygian Effect.
Tombstone Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate summons a cluster of necrotic tombstones
Void Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate becomes a Void Effect.