Rain of Arrows

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Rain of Arrows.

Before they're given their first Long Bow, aspiring archers on Oriath are taught the art of the Arrow Rain. When the student is ready to be tested, he is taken out to the marshes, and commanded to fire a salvo at a flock of geese. The aspirant must bring down at least a dozen birds with one barrage, or it's back for another year of training and discipline.

Naturally, the Rain of Arrows technique is often used to devastating effect on the field of battle. A skilled archer fires a single enchanted missile aloft, and when it descends, it multiplies to carpet an entire area in a lethal shower. Be wary if you ever behold an enemy archer pointing their bow skyward.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Rain of Arrows is a ranged attack skill that fires a number of arrows in the air, dealing area of effect damage after a short delay.

Skill functions and interactions

• Delay: Rain of Arrows will impact after a delay equal to the attack time, so the first attack will land as the second is being launched. Projectile Speed modifiers affect the delay.

• Projectile damage: Although Rain of Arrows does not fire projectiles (and therefore cannot by modified by supports such as and ), like any Bow skill it does deal projectile damage and will be affected by any appropriate damage modifiers such as and the support gem/keystone passive. In the case of the latter, target location is irrelevant to damage scaling by distance; distant enemies hit by the same area of effect will take less damage than enemies near the location of the attacker.
• DrillneckDrillneck
  Penetrating Arrow QuiverRequires Level 36Arrows Pierce an additional Target(8-12)% increased Attack Speed
  +350 to Evasion Rating
  +(40-50) to maximum Life
  (10-14) to (19-24) Added Physical Damage with Bow Attacks
  Arrows deal 50% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments to Targets they Pierce"Why waste such a fine arrow on just one man?"
  - Kiravi, Vaal Archer: Rain of Arrows cannot be supported by , as it does not have the projectile tag. It can however recieve the benefit of the 50% increased projectile damage from drillneck, as it has the "Bow" tag, which implies projectile. The pierce to activate the Drillneck must be acquired from sources other than the support gem, such as the passive tree, or items such as VoidwalkerVoidwalker
  Murder BootsEvasion: (444-596)
  Energy Shield: (43-58)Requires Level 69, 82 Dex, 42 Int+(30-50) to Dexterity
  (140-180)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
  30% increased Movement Speed
  20% chance to Avoid Projectiles while Phasing
  You have Phasing if you've Killed Recently
  Projectiles Pierce 5 additional Targets while you have Phasing
  Celestial FootprintsStep into the void
  and experience true freedom..

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	7	48%	48%	N/A	0	0
2	15	39	7	49%	48.6%	N/A	15249	15249
3	19	48	7	49%	49.3%	N/A	41517	56766
4	23	56	8	50%	49.9%	N/A	81983	138749
5	27	64	8	51%	50.5%	N/A	147968	286717
6	31	73	8	51%	51.2%	N/A	250557	537274
7	35	81	8	52%	51.8%	N/A	405086	942360
8	38	88	8	52%	52.4%	N/A	447718	1390078
9	41	94	9	53%	53.1%	N/A	615318	2005396
10	44	100	9	54%	53.7%	N/A	834639	2840035
11	47	106	9	54%	54.3%	N/A	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	9	55%	54.9%	N/A	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	9	56%	55.6%	N/A	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	10	56%	56.2%	N/A	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	10	57%	56.8%	N/A	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	10	57%	57.5%	N/A	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	10	58%	58.1%	N/A	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	10	59%	58.7%	N/A	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	11	59%	59.4%	N/A	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	11	60%	60%	N/A	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	11	61%	60.6%	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	11	61%	61.3%	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	11	62%	61.9%	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	11	63%	62.5%	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	11	63%	63.2%	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	12	64%	63.8%	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	12	64%	64.4%	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	12	65%	65.1%	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	12	66%	65.7%	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	12	66%	66.3%	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	13	67%	66.6%	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	13	67%	66.9%	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	13	67%	67.3%	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	13	68%	67.6%	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	13	68%	67.9%	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	14	68%	68.2%	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	14	69%	68.5%	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	14	69%	68.8%	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	14	69%	69.2%	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	14	69%	69.5%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Emerald Rain of Arrows EffectEmerald Rain of Arrows EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Rain of Arrows glow a ghostly green	15	Replaces the standard effect on a gem with an emerald green version. Preview

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Rain of Arrows.

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 Rain Of Arrows Attack Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Rain of Arrows Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Attack Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Rain of Arrows Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Rain of Arrows Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Rain of Arrows Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Rain of Arrows Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Rain of Arrows Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Repeat Count 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Rain of Arrows has 10% chance to fire an additional sequence of arrows	helmet 100
Enchantment Rain Of Arrows Repeat Count 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Rain of Arrows has 15% chance to fire an additional sequence of arrows	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.6.0	Rain of Arrows gains 1 additional unit of radius every 5 levels. No longer gain increased area of effect radius.
2.3.0	If you use Rain of Arrows, and to target a blocked location then they will be now used on the nearest valid location.
2.1.0	Rain of Arrows has had its base damage increased by a flat 10% at every level. Its quality bonus has been changed back to Area of Effect radius, after being damage throughout 2.0.0. The mana cost has been reduced, from 9 to 7 at level one and from 12 to 11 at level 20.
2.0.0	Base damage increased from 75% to 100%. Area of effect increased by 33% (from 18 to 24) across all levels, but no longer grants increased area of effect per gem level. Now grants 1% increased damage per 1% quality instead of increased attack speed. Rain of Arrows mana costs have been reduced.
0.11.1b	Fixed Rain of Arrows not getting projectile damage bonuses.
0.11.0	Fixed a bug where Rain of Arrows would treat missed targets as though they had entered the area during the delay and hit them anyway.
0.10.0	Is now a level 4 Skill (from 10). Its area of effect has been increased by 20%. The delay between firing and arrows hitting the ground has been reduced by 20%. Its Area of Effect gain per level has been reduced. Quality bonus has been changed from Area of Effect to Attack Speed. Its damage effectiveness has been reduced slightly.
0.9.13e	Fixed a server crash related to using Rain of Arrows on Traps and Remote Mines.
0.9.12f	Fixed a newly introduced bug where Rain of Arrows would always get Critical Strikes.
0.9.7	Rain of Arrows is now affected by the Point Blank keystone passive.
0.9.5h	Fixed a bug where Rain of Arrows would deal damage twice when used by a Templar. Fixed the damage prediction that Rain of Arrows uses.
0.9.5g	Rain of Arrows is now affected by increased Projectile speed. This reduces the delay before the arrows land. Made the Faster Projectiles support gem work with Rain of Arrows.
0.9.4	Fixed rain of Arrows being incorrectly treated as a Projectile skill.
0.9.3b	Increased the rate that Rain of Arrows gains damage per level, but gave it a -20% damage penalty for being AoE.
0.9.3	Rain of Arrows has been added to the game.