Lightning Warp

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Lightning Warp.

They had the Witch pinned up against the cliffs, soaking in the waterfall, yet the Bandit leader somehow sensed a trap. Wary, he muttered a command that only half his men move forward to finish things. Those appointed advanced slowly, blades drawn, cautious. They encircled the Witch for one brief moment, now only an arm's length away. Then, in a flash of light, the frail woman vanished, and in her place crackled a ring of deadly lightning!

The surrounding enemies fell as one, burning, twitching, thrashing in the freezing water. The remaining bandits paused for a second, scarcely believing their eyes, and then the Witch reappeared among them. With her arrival came another shocking blast, and the remaining bandits fell at her feet, scorched and dead. On Wraeclast, even teleportation is a weapon.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Lightning Warp is a movement spell that causes the player to teleport to a location after a delay. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt in a small area around both the previous location and the new location.

Skill functions and interactions

• Description: When the skill is cast, the exit point is set. The caster can then attack, cast, or move until the teleport executes. The AoE lightning damage will occur wherever the player was standing when the teleport resolves and wherever the caster teleports to.
• Usage time and stats: Total usage time consists of casting time and delay time. Casting time is standard casting with base time of 1 second. It can be modified by cast speed stats. Delay time is skill effect duration and is affected by skill effect duration stats including skill gem's one. Base time for delay is calculated as a time needed for character to nomally run the cartesian distance between position where the spell was cast and exit position with character's current movement speed. Because of that movement speed stats (including conditional ones, auras, etc) also affects delay time. It is not possible to completely eliminate this delay because there is a hidden 0.1 second delay added to it.
• Sequence of operations: The lightning explosion occurs before the caster leaves and after the caster arrives. This will, for example, cause the caster to take damage from monsters that explode on death that are killed by Lightning Warp.
• Death: If the caster dies before the teleport executes, the teleport will still execute, transporting the caster's corpse to the targeted location.
• Minimum Range: Lightning Warp has a minimum range, inside which a teleport won't occur unless it is blocked by a terrain obstacle. An attempt to teleport within the minimum range will default to the nearest allowable teleport distance.
• Repeat: Lightning Warp cannot be Repeated and thus cannot be supported by .

Strategy

Movement

Lightning Warp is primarily used as a movement skill. To improve Lightning Warp's effectiveness as a movement skill, one should support it with , , and . If only one support gem can be used, will generally result in faster travel. Taking increased Skill Effect Duration passives will render Lightning Warp much less useful as a movement skill, in which case you may want to consider alternatives such as , , .

Compared with Leap Slam, Lightning Warp has the advantages of not requiring any particular weapon, potentially higher speed, and slightly longer range. However, it costs more mana and requires two support gems to be fully effective. Compared with Flame Dash, Lightning Warp has the advantage of being able to be cast as many times as possible, but costs slightly more mana and has a noticeable delay.

With Arctic Armour

Lightning Warp can be used as a method of travel when using Arctic Armour, since this will allow the player to always remain stationary and thus always receive Arctic Armour's less Damage taken while stationary bonus.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Lightning Damage	reduced Duration	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	9	1–19	30%	0	0
2	13	35	10	1–25	31%	9569	9569
3	17	43	11	2–34	32%	28189	37758
4	21	52	12	2–47	33%	59146	96904
5	25	60	13	3–62	34%	111192	208096
6	29	69	14	4–82	35%	193800	401896
7	33	77	16	6–108	36%	320280	722176
8	36	83	16	7–131	37%	359090	1081266
9	39	90	17	8–159	38%	498508	1579774
10	42	96	18	10–191	39%	682057	2261831
11	45	102	19	12–230	40%	921777	3183608
12	48	109	20	14–275	41%	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	21	17–329	42%	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	22	21–391	43%	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	23	24–465	44%	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	23	29–552	45%	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	24	34–654	46%	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	25	41–774	47%	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	26	45–864	48%	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	26	51–965	49%	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	27	57–1077	50%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	27	63–1200	51%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	28	70–1338	52%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	29	78–1490	53%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	29	87–1659	54%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	30	97–1846	55%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	30	108–2053	56%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	31	120–2282	57%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	32	133–2536	58%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	32	148–2817	59%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	32	156–2968	60%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	33	165–3128	60%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	33	173–3295	61%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	33	183–3471	61%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	34	192–3656	62%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	34	203–3851	62%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	34	213–4056	63%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	34	225–4271	63%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	35	237–4497	64%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	35	249–4735	64%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Lightning Warp.

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 Lightning Warp Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	8% increased Lightning Warp Cast Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Lightning Warp Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	12% increased Lightning Warp Cast Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Lightning Warp Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Lightning Warp Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Lightning Warp Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Lightning Warp Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Lightning Warp Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	20% reduced Lightning Warp Duration	helmet 100
Enchantment Lightning Warp Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	30% reduced Lightning Warp Duration	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.2.1d	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp would often not show its effects when being cast in quick succession while using Lockstep networking mode.
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by around 20% at all levels. Damage effectiveness increased from 50% to 60%.
2.0.0	Reduced the mana cost slightly at all levels. Now grants 1% increased cast speed per 1% quality (down from 1.5% per 1% quality).
1.1.5b	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp would not trigger with Trigger Gems.
1.0.2	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp cast at the caster's feet would always default to casting in the same direction.
0.11.5	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp was not affected by .
0.11.2	Added a very short delay to Lightning Warp, to prevent a situation where rapidly casting Lightning Warp could play its visual effect without actually casting.
0.10.8	Lightning Warp now has increased damage at high levels and it now has a 3% reduced skill effect duration per level after the first.
0.10.0	Fixed a client crash related to Lightning Warp.
0.9.11l	Fixed problems with targeting of Lightning Warp.
0.9.11j	Fixed bugs with Lightning Warp's ability to target certain locations.
0.9.3d	Lightning Warp now lets you travel up and down cliffs or across chasms. Fixed a bug that would make it easy to get out of sync with Lightning Warp.
0.9.3	Lightning Warp has been added to the game.