Herald of Ash

Herald of Ash is a spell that reserves mana to increase damage output. See also Herald of Ice.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Area of Effect: AoE modifiers affect the radius of the on-kill effect. It is currently unknown if the damage multiplier from affects the ignite.

Elemental Proliferation: The ignite status effect from the on-kill effect can be proliferated.

Fire: It can be assumed from the fire tag that the extra fire damage gained from this skill can be scaled further using increased fire damage % mods.

Overkill Damage: The overkill damage value used for the on-kill effect is based on the total damage of the killing hit, not just its fire damage.

Skill Video

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Path of Exile: HERALD OF ASH Skill Gem Mechanics Guide & Analysis

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 24 || 37 || 25 || 100 || 118,383 |- ! 2 | 27 || 41 || 28 || 103 || 175,816 |- ! 3 | 30 || 45 || 31 || 106 || 254,061 |- ! 4 | 33 || 49 || 34 || 109 || 225,766 |- ! 5 | 35 || 51 || 36 || 112 || 447,718 |- ! 6 | 38 || 55 || 38 || 115 || 388,734 |- ! 7 | 40 || 58 || 40 || 118 || 755,049 |- ! 8 | 43 || 62 || 43 || 121 || 1,016,533 |- ! 9 | 46 || 66 || 46 || 124 || 860,401 |- ! 10 | 48 || 69 || 48 || 127 || 1,038,201 |- ! 11 | 50 || 71 || 49 || 130 || 1,248,678 |- ! 12 | 52 || 74 || 51 || 133 || 1,498,138 |- ! 13 | 54 || 76 || 53 || 136 || 1,790,934 |- ! 14 | 56 || 79 || 55 || 139 || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 58 || 82 || 57 || 142 || 9,900,250 |- ! 16 | 60 || 84 || 59 || 145 || 21,274,363 |- ! 17 | 62 || 87 || 60 || 148 || 50,550,118 |- ! 18 | 64 || 90 || 62 || 151 || 89,834,713 |- ! 19 | 66 || 92 || 64 || 154 || 146,782,704 |- ! 20 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 157 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 21 | || || || 160 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | || || || 163 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | || || || 166 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | || || || 169 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | || || || 172 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | || || || 175 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | || || || 178 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | || || || 181 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | || || || 184 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | || || || 187 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- |}

Strategy

In the case where enemy death occurs uniformly at random with respect to damage dealt, the chance of an enemy dying from a particular hit is proportional to the damage the hit deals. The mean overkill damage for that hit is half the damage of the hit. This makes the mean overkill damage overall equal to

 0.5 * mean (damage2) / mean damage

Version history

Version	Changes
1.2.0	Herald of Ash has been added to the game.