Herald of Ash

Not to be confused with Herald of Ashes.

Herald of Ash is a self buff that reserves mana to increase damage output. See also Herald of Ice and Herald of Thunder.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Extra Fire Damage: This modifier adds fire damage to all non-damage-over-time sources, including those from spells, attacks, and traps. The amount added is equal to 15% of the damage source's physical damage.

Ignite on kill: While Herald of Ash is active, when an enemy is killed by an attack (but not a spell), enemies within a radius from the killed enemy are ignited based on the overkill damage. Overkill damage refers to total excess damage of the killing hit, including non-fire damage. The ignite damage is affected by increased Burning Damage and increased Damage Over Time. This damage cannot be reflected.

Fire Damage: The increased Fire Damage from quality applies globally to all fire damage, including the extra fire damage and ignite on kill effects of Herald of Ash. Furthermore, any modifiers to fire and elemental damage from other sources will also affect both components of Herald of Ash.

Support gems: Any support gems (with the exception of ) linked to the Herald of Ash will only affect the burn damage caused by ignition from overkill damage, not the extra fire damage from physical. For example, linking to Herald of Ash will only apply rarity bonus to the enemies who die from the burn damage caused by Herald of Ash ignition.

Area of Effect: Area of Effect modifiers from passives, items and gems affect the radius of the on-kill effect. The damage modifier from will affect the damage of the ignite.

Elemental Proliferation: Herald of Ash can be supported with , so enemies ignited by the overkill effect will spread their ignite status effect to nearby enemies. As is always the case with the ignite status effect, only the ignite with the largest damage will be in effect if there are multiple enemies that proliferate their ignite.

Culling Strike: When using an attack with Culling Strike, the overkill effect will only apply if the damage from the killing hit would have taken the monster to less than 0 life.

Skill Video

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

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- !1 | 16 || 26 || 18 || 80% || 49,725 |- !2 | 20 || 31 || 22 || 83% || 95,714 |- !3 | 24 || 37 || 25 || 86% || 169,595 |- !4 | 28 || 42 || 29 || 89% || 199,345 |- !5 | 31 || 46 || 32 || 92% || 285,815 |- !6 | 34 || 50 || 35 || 95% || 401,344 |- !7 | 37 || 54 || 37 || 98% || 554,379 |- !8 | 40 || 58 || 40 || 101% || 755,049 |- !9 | 43 || 62 || 43 || 104% || 1,016,533 |- !10 | 46 || 66 || 46 || 107% || 1,898,602 |- !11 | 49 || 70 || 48 || 110% || 1,964,019 |- !12 | 52 || 74 || 51 || 113% || 2,573,731 |- !13 | 55 || 78 || 54 || 116% || 4,676,439 |- !14 | 58 || 82 || 57 || 119% || 3,017,327 |- !15 | 60 || 84 || 59 || 122% || 7,823,001 |- !16 | 62 || 87 || 60 || 125% || 15,264,208 |- !17 | 64 || 90 || 62 || 128% || 26,272,845 |- !18 | 66 || 92 || 64 || 131% || 62,872,274 |- !19 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 134% || 212,023,122 |- !20 | 70 || 98 || 68 || 137% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !21 | 72 || || || 140% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !22 | 74 || || || 143% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !23 | 76 || || || 146% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !24 | 78 || || || 149% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !25 | 80 || || || 152% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !26 | 82 || || || 155% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !27 | 84 || || || 158% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !28 | 86 || || || 161% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !29 | 88 || || || 164% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- !30 | 90 || || || 167% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	Radius reduced by 16.5% (from 12 to 10) and base overkill damage reduced to 80% (from 100%).
1.2.0	Herald of Ash has been added to the game.