Despair

Despair is a spell that curses all targets in an area, making them take increased chaos damage, damage over time, and chaos damage on hit.

Skill functions and interactions

• Cursed enemies take increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects: Because these stats are an increase to the target's damage taken, they are multiplicative with attacker's damage dealt and additive with any other effects to damage taken on the defender.
• Adds Chaos Damage to Hits against Cursed Enemies: Skills, passives, and items that grant Increased effect of your Curses will increase the added chaos damage granted by this curse (Note: These increases are not reflected in the tooltip, they only display base values). This added damage is identical in function to other sources of added damage, such as Added Chaos Damage SupportAdded Chaos Damage SupportChaos, Support
  Icon: H
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that hits enemies.Supported Skills have (18-154) to (26-231) added Chaos Damage
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Chaos 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., and thus can be further increased by any of the applicable increases to the attacker's damage.
• Cursed enemies have -x% to Chaos Resistance: The reduction to Chaos Resistance granted by this curse (after modifiers) stacks additively with the Occultist's Void Beacon and the Ascendant's Occultist ascendancy passives.
• Despair can be turned into an aura by linking it with the Blasphemy SupportBlasphemy SupportSupport, Hex, Aura
  Icon: A
  Level: (1-20)
  Reservation: 35% Mana
  Cooldown Time: 1.20 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 31Supports hex curse skills, turning them into auras that will apply their effect to all enemies in an area around you.Supported Curse Skills apply their Curses as Auras
  Supported Curse Skills also count as Aura Skills
  Using Supported Skills is Instant
  25% less Effect of Supported Curses
  (0-76)% increased Area of Effect of Supported Curse Skills
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (1-20)% increased Area of Effect of Supported Curse SkillsThis 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 level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Base duration	Duration	-x% Chaos Resistance	x% inc. DoT	Chaos Damage	Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	24	25	37	16	8.00 sec	8.00s	-15%	N/A	N/A	N/A	0	0
2	27	28	41	17	8.20 sec	8.20s	-16%	N/A	N/A	N/A	118383	118383
3	30	31	45	18	8.40 sec	8.40s	-17%	N/A	N/A	N/A	175816	294199
4	33	34	49	19	8.60 sec	8.60s	-18%	N/A	N/A	N/A	254061	548260
5	36	36	52	21	8.80 sec	8.80s	-18%	N/A	N/A	N/A	359090	907350
6	39	39	56	22	9.00 sec	9.00s	-19%	N/A	N/A	N/A	498508	1405858
7	42	42	60	23	9.20 sec	9.20s	-20%	N/A	N/A	N/A	682057	2087915
8	45	45	64	24	9.40 sec	9.40s	-21%	N/A	N/A	N/A	921777	3009692
9	48	48	68	25	9.60 sec	9.60s	-21%	N/A	N/A	N/A	1727879	4737571
10	50	49	71	26	9.80 sec	9.80s	-22%	N/A	N/A	N/A	1138877	5876448
11	52	51	74	26	10.00 sec	10.00s	-23%	N/A	N/A	N/A	1368233	7244681
12	54	53	76	27	10.20 sec	10.20s	-24%	N/A	N/A	N/A	1638338	8883019
13	56	55	79	28	10.40 sec	10.40s	-24%	N/A	N/A	N/A	1956648	10839667
14	58	57	82	29	10.60 sec	10.60s	-25%	N/A	N/A	N/A	3655184	14494851
15	60	59	84	29	10.80 sec	10.80s	-26%	N/A	N/A	N/A	3017327	17512178
16	62	60	87	30	11.00 sec	11.00s	-27%	N/A	N/A	N/A	7793914	25306092
17	64	62	90	31	11.20 sec	11.20s	-27%	N/A	N/A	N/A	15206031	40512123
18	66	64	92	31	11.40 sec	11.40s	-28%	N/A	N/A	N/A	26185582	66697705
19	68	66	95	32	11.60 sec	11.60s	-29%	N/A	N/A	N/A	62755923	129453628
20	70	68	98	33	11.80 sec	11.80s	-30%	N/A	N/A	N/A	211877683	341331311
21	72	70	100	34	12.00 sec	12.00s	-30%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	34	12.20 sec	12.20s	-31%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	35	12.40 sec	12.40s	-32%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	36	12.60 sec	12.60s	-33%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	36	12.80 sec	12.80s	-33%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	37	13.00 sec	13.00s	-34%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	38	13.20 sec	13.20s	-35%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	39	13.40 sec	13.40s	-36%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	39	13.60 sec	13.60s	-36%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	40	13.80 sec	13.80s	-37%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	40	13.90 sec	13.90s	-37%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	41	14.00 sec	14.00s	-38%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	41	14.10 sec	14.10s	-38%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	42	14.20 sec	14.20s	-39%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	42	14.30 sec	14.30s	-39%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	42	14.40 sec	14.40s	-39%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	43	14.50 sec	14.50s	-40%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	43	14.60 sec	14.60s	-40%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	43	14.70 sec	14.70s	-40%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	44	14.80 sec	14.80s	-41%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Despair.

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 Despair Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	30% increased Despair Duration	helmet 100
Enchantment Despair Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	45% increased Despair Duration	helmet 100
Enchantment Despair Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Despair Curse Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Despair Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Despair Curse Effect	helmet 100

Version history

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Changes

3.1.0

Existing Vulnerability Skill gems are now DespairDespairSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Curse, Hex Level: (1-20) Cost: (16-33) Mana Cast Time: 0.50 sec AoE Radius: 22Requires Level 24Curses all targets in an area, lowering their chaos resistance.Base duration is (8.00-11.80) seconds +(0-1) metre to radius Cursed enemies have -(15-30)% to Chaos Resistance Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% increased Effect of CursePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. gems. Despair curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage, and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit. There is a new red skill gem called VulnerabilityVulnerabilitySpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Physical, Hex Level: (1-20) Cost: (16-33) Mana Cast Time: 0.50 sec AoE Radius: 22Requires Level 24Curse all targets in an area, causing them to take increased physical damage. Attacks against the cursed enemies have a chance to inflict bleeding.Base duration is (8.00-11.80) seconds +(0-1) metre to radius Cursed enemies take (15-30)% increased Physical Damage Attacks Hits against Cursed Enemies have 25% chance to inflict Bleeding Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Duration of Bleeding on Cursed EnemiesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..