Explosive Arrow

Explosive ArrowAttack, Projectile, AoE, Duration, Fire, Bow
Level: (1-20)
Projectile Speed: 3260
AoE Radius: 15Requires Level 28Fires an arrow which will stick into an enemy or wall, and then explode after a duration, dealing area damage around it. 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 seconds
+2 to Explosion Radius per Explosive Arrow on Target, up to +(10-19)
Explosion will have (47-522) to (71-783) added Fire Damage
Explosion deals 50% of Base Damage
Explosion deals 3% more Damage with Ignite per Explosive Arrow on TargetPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 28Vendor Prices

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Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemExplosiveArrow

Explosive Arrow is a bow attack skill that fires an arrow which sticks to an enemy or wall and detonates after a duration, dealing fire area of effect damage. Any additional arrows stuck to the enemy after the first one will add its damage to the explosion. The skill has increased area of effect and ignite damage for each explosive arrow the enemy had when the arrow detonated.

Skill functions and interactions

Explosive Arrow has two separate damaging effects: an attack and an explosion.

Attack: The Explosive Arrow attack is an arrow which deals weapon damage based on the bow equipped. This component of the skill is affected by any modifiers to bow attacks. At the final destination of the arrow, one of three effects will occur:

• If the arrow gets stuck on the terrain or on an obstacle, it will leave a single fuse charge that will explode after a duration.
• If the arrow gets stuck on a target that does not yet have the debuff Hit by Explosive Arrow, it will apply that debuff with a single fuse charge, which creates an explosion when it expires after a duration.
• If the arrow gets stuck on a target that already has the debuff Hit by Explosive Arrow, the arrow's intended explosion damage will get added to the final explosion.

If the arrow pierces or is evaded by a target, it will not leave a fuse charge on the target, but can still leave a fuse charge on the terrain behind it.

Chaining this projectile will only leave a Fuse Charge on the last target struck, and due to the speed of the initial projectile, can sometimes miss the intended target and collide with an object or terrain, placing a Fuse Charge on the location it hit.

Explosion: When the debuff Hit by Explosive Arrow, or a fuse stuck on terrain expires, it causes an explosion based on the number of fuse charges. This damage is area projectile fire damage, which is also considered bow damage and will scale with sources of weapon damage, bow damage, etc.

If the arrow that applied the Hit by Explosive Arrow debuff is a crit, the explosion will also crit. While subsequent arrows which have crit will apply its total damage to the explosion after critical strike modifiers, the explosion itself will not crit.

Duration: Modifiers to duration, such as from Less Duration SupportLess Duration SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: d
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that has a duration.Supported Skills deal (10-19)% more Damage
Supported Skills have (40-49)% less Skill Effect Duration

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% less Skill Effect DurationThis 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., will affect the duration of the debuff when it is applied, as well as the duration of the fuse charge if it hits the terrain or an obstacle.

Totem: Ranged Attack Totem will execute this attack until the targeted enemy dies, instantly triggering the explosion, or until the totem is destroyed, causing the applied Fuse Charges to last their remaining duration before exploding.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Fire Damage per Fuse	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	8	N/A	0	0
2	31	73	8	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	79	8	N/A	285815	485160
4	37	85	8	N/A	401344	886504
5	40	92	9	N/A	554379	1440883
6	42	96	9	N/A	477437	1918320
7	44	100	9	N/A	583786	2502106
8	46	104	9	N/A	710359	3212465
9	48	109	9	N/A	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	9	N/A	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	9	N/A	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	10	N/A	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	10	N/A	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	10	N/A	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	10	N/A	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	10	N/A	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	10	N/A	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	10	N/A	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	10	N/A	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	10	N/A	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	10	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	10	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A

Item acquisition

Explosive Arrow can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Explosive Arrow can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description	Meta
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

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 ↓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Explosive Arrow.

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 Explosive Arrow Attack Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 10% increased Attack Speed	helmet 75
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Attack Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 15% increased Attack Speed	helmet 75
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow deals 25% increased Damage	helmet 75
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow deals 40% increased Damage	helmet 75
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Increased Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 25% increased Duration	helmet 50
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Increased Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 40% increased Duration	helmet 50
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 16% increased Area of Effect	helmet 75
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 24% increased Area of Effect	helmet 75
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Reduced Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 20% reduced Duration	helmet 50
Enchantment Explosive Arrow Reduced Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Explosive Arrow has 30% reduced Duration	helmet 50

Version history

Version	Changes
3.9.0	Now costs 8 mana at gem level 1 (from 18), up to 10 at gem level 20 (from 27). Arrows stick into the enemy or wall and explode after a duration. The duration no longer refreshes whenever a new arrow is attached (previously they were handled like "charges", which refresh their duration whenever a new one is gained). If an enemy has multiple arrows stuck in them, the first one to explode will consume all other attached arrows, adding their damage to the first arrow's explosion. On-hit effects such as Chance to Ignite or Critical Strikes are determined by the exploding arrow, however each arrow's damage is calculated with their independent critical strike chance taken into account. For example, if the exploding arrow did not successfully roll a critical strike or ignite, the explosion will not ignite. If two other arrows were also attached at the point of the explosion and they successfully rolled to critically strike, they will add their critical strike damage to the explosion, but it will not cause an ignite (or trigger any other on-critical-strike effects). Explosions now deal 50% of base damage (previously weapon damage was not taken into account). Explosions now also deal added fire damage based on gem level, up to 522 to 783 at gem level 20 (from 586 to 879). Now inherits its base critical strike chance from your weapon (previously had a 6% base critical strike chance). Now gains +2 to explosion radius up to a cap determined by gem level, up to +19 at gem level 20. Previously it naturally capped at +10 due to the charge limit. Explosions now deal 3% more damage with Ignite per explosive arrow on the target.
1.1.1b	Fixed a bug that caused the first level of Explosive Arrow to have a greater mana cost than intended.
0.9.12m	The explosion damage is now classified as projectile damage and is hence scaled down by Lesser and Greater Multiple Projectiles support gems.
0.9.12f	Fixed a client crash with Explosive Arrow.
0.9.12	Explosive Arrows now have their own arrow effect. If they miss and stick into terrain, they'll explode as normal after a short time. Now does not explode each time it pierces through monsters.
0.9.8	Reduced the mana cost.
0.9.5	Made Explosive Arrow more powerful. The damage has been increased and the fuse time is now one second.
0.9.4	Increased the damage Explosive Arrow.
0.9.3g	Changed Explosive Arrow to not have the damage scaled by mods that affect Spell Damage.
0.9.3e	Increased damage by 15%.
0.9.2g	Fixed a server crash that would occasionally occur when using Explosive Arrow.
0.9.2f	Fixed a bug with Explosive Arrow not exploding serverside when the monster is killed by the arrow outright. Fixed a bug with Explosive Arrow interacting badly with other buffs. Fixed two server crashes that occured rarely when using Explosive Arrow.
0.9.2b	Updated the description to describe that the Area of effect of the explosion is proportional to the number of fuse charges.
0.9.2	Explosive Arrow has been added to the game.