Ground effect

A ground effect is the general term for a patch of terrain that has some consequence on characters or monsters positioned on it. Burning ground created by the Fire TrapFire TrapTrap, Spell, Duration, AoE, Fire
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (8-20) Mana
Cast Time: 1.00 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 260%
AoE Radius: 15Requires Level 12Throws a trap that explodes when triggered, dealing fire damage to surrounding enemies and leaving an area of burning ground that damages enemies who walk through it.Trap lasts 4 seconds
Deals (32.5-3018.8) Base Fire Damage per second
Base duration is 1.75 seconds
Deals (10-915) to (15-1373) Fire Damage
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
+(0-0.8) metres to radius
(3-286) to (5-429) added Fire Damage against Burning Enemies

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(4-80)% increased Trap Trigger Area of EffectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. skill is one common example of a ground effect.

List of ground effects

Fire damage over time:

• Burning ground

Cold damage over time:

• Vortex ground
• Cold Snap ground

Lightning damage over time:

• Mana Rune

Physical damage over time:

• Blood Ritual
• Eldritch decay

Chaos damage over time:

• Desecrated ground
• Caustic ground

Movement speed debuffs:

• Tarred ground
• Net throw

Other debuffs:

• Chilled ground
• Shocked ground
• Scorched ground
• Brittle ground
• Sapped ground
• Consecrated ground
• Profane ground
• Fungal ground

Related effects:

• Smoke cloud
• Slipstream

Mechanics

Detrimental ground effects do not affect allies of the character that created them, while those ground effects created by monsters or the environment will not affect other monsters. The inverse is true for beneficial ground effects. Modifiers on items that care about ground effects affecting the player only apply to non-player ground effects.

Characters and monsters can be affected simultaneously by different types of overlapping ground effects. Those of the same type do not cumulatively stack their effects. For ground effects that inflict damage, only one of each type with the highest damage per second will cause damage at any given moment.

Flying monsters, including Raging Spirits and Watchers, are not affected by certain ground effects that lie close to the ground. Other ground effects, such as those that consist of vapor or smoke, can influence monsters above the ground as well.

Ground effect	Affects flying
Burning ground	✗
Chilled ground	✗
Frozen ground	✗
Shocked ground	✗
Consecrated ground	✓
Desecrated ground	✓
Tarred ground	✗
Caustic ground	✗
Smoke cloud	✓
Fungal Ground
Slipstream

Version history

Version	Changes
3.18.1c	The radius of Ground Effects from Map modifiers are no longer affected by increases and reductions to Map modifier effect.
3.10.1d	Improved performance of several ground effects.
2.1.0	We've made performance improvements to ground effects. They now use considerably less bandwidth and server resources. Disconnections or lockstep stuttering near ground effects should occur far less often.
0.9.9	Added support for ground fire and other environmental hazards.