Righteous Fire

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Righteous Fire.

Righteous Fire is a spell that applies a buff on the player, rapidly burning themself and nearby enemies. It also increases the player's spell damage.

Skill functions and interactions

• Life Degeneration Effect: While this skill is active, the player and surrounding enemies will take fire degeneration damage (damage over time). This damage can be mitigated with fire resistance for both the player and surrounding enemies. Righteous Fire will damage energy shield and keep it from recharging while the skill is active, but it can still regenerate if the player has life regeneration and the Zealot's Oath keystone or any other sources of energy shield regeneration.

• Spell block and spell dodge: Keystones, passives, and item mods meant to avoid or block spell damage will not work on Righteous Fire's degeneration damage.

• Chaos Inoculation: Characters with only 1 life due to Chaos Inoculation cannot inflict damage with Righteous Fire's degeneration because Righteous Fire will stop instantly upon activation.

• The effect can be ended prematurely by any effect which removes burning, such as flasks with the "dousing" suffix.

• Spell Damage: Righteous Fire provides a large bonus to spell damage during its effect. Note that this is more damage stat, meaning it is a multiplier to overall damage.

• Damage stats: The following stats apply to the damage Righteous Fire deals to enemies: Fire damage, burning damage, damage over time, area damage, and generic damage. These stats do not apply to the self-inflicted damage from Righteous Fire.

• Spell Totem: When linked with the support gem , burning damage is based off of the totem's life/energy shield pool rather than the caster. Burning Damage is inflicted instead upon the totem as well. Spell totem also allows use of Swift Affliction and Efficacy Support, which are not supported when self-cast due to the lack of a duration tag.

• Emberwake: The less Burning Damage stat on Emberwake will not reduce the self-inflicted burning damage.

• Ancestral Bond: It is possible to use Righteous Fire with Ancestral Bond keystone. Both player and nearby monters will burn but only player will take damage, monters will burn for 0 damage.
• Vaal Discipline: Righteous Fire interacts with Vaal Discipline the same way as any other damage source.
• Conditional Modifiers: Damage Over Time does not interact with modifiers that rely on the status of an enemy. Two notable examples of this are Singularity's "hindered enemies" and the Chieftain node Ngamahu Flame's Advance "burning enemies".

Sustaining Righteous Fire

To sustain the degeneration damage Fire Resistance and Life Regeneration are needed. Depending on the player's resistance, less regeneration is needed to break even. The base formula is:

burnDegen = (life*burnLife + ES*BurnES) * (1 - fireRes) * (1 + dmgTaken)

where life, ES and fireRes is the characters maximum life, maximum energy shield and fire resistance. burnLife and burnES is the percent of life and energy shield that Righteous fire burns for and dmgTaken is the sum of all Damage taken stats, for example , Fragile BloomFragile Bloom
Crimson JewelLimited to: 1Maximum 10 Fragile Regrowth
0.7% of Life Regenerated per second per Fragile Regrowth
Lose all Fragile Regrowth when Hit
Gain 1 Fragile Regrowth each secondThe first green shoots of Spring are the most resilient,
and the most vulnerable.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket., Leo's #% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time craft, or the Assassin's Toxic Delivery node which grants 10% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time.

Damage taken per Second

Fire Resistance	Life per Second	ES per Second
75%	22.5%	17.5%
76%	21.6%	16.8%
77%	20.7%	16.1%
78%	19.8%	15.4%
79%	18.9%	14.7%
80%	18.0%	14.0%
81%	17.1%	13.3%
82%	16.2%	12.6%
83%	15.3%	11.9%
84%	14.4%	11.2%
85%	13.5%	10.5%
86%	12.6%	9.8%
87%	11.7%	9.1%
88%	10.8%	8.4%
89%	9.9%	7.7%
90%	9.0%	7.0%
91%	8.1%	6.3%
92%	7.2%	5.6%
93%	6.3%	4.9%
94%	5.4%	4.2%
95%	4.5%	3.5%
96%	3.6%	2.8%
97%	2.7%	2.1%
98%	1.8%	1.4%
99%	0.9%	0.7%

The maximum Fire resistance can be increased by allocating passive skills such as Barbarism, using a Ruby Flask, Purity of Fire and unique items such as Rise of the PhoenixRise of the Phoenix
Mosaic Kite ShieldChance to Block: 24%
Armour: (499-676)
Energy Shield: (102-136)
Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 65, 85 Str, 85 Int+8% to all Elemental Resistances(240-300)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
Regenerate (100-200) Life per second
+5% to maximum Fire Resistance
+(20-25)% to Fire Resistance
+25% to Fire Resistance while on Low Life
10% increased Movement Speed when on Low Life
100% chance to Avoid being Ignited while on Low LifeMy bearer shall be guarded by flame,
for I am the phoenix, forever radiant in glory..

Gem level progression

Level				more Spell Damage	Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	18	26	20%	N/A	0	0
2	20	22	31	21%	N/A	49725	49725
3	24	25	37	22%	N/A	95714	145439
4	28	29	42	23%	N/A	169595	315034
5	31	32	46	24%	N/A	199345	514379
6	34	35	50	25%	N/A	285815	800194
7	37	37	54	26%	N/A	401344	1201538
8	40	40	58	27%	N/A	554379	1755917
9	43	43	62	28%	N/A	755049	2510966
10	46	46	66	29%	N/A	1016533	3527499
11	49	48	70	30%	N/A	1898602	5426101
12	52	51	74	31%	N/A	1964019	7390120
13	55	54	78	32%	N/A	2573731	9963851
14	58	57	82	33%	N/A	4676439	14640290
15	60	59	84	34%	N/A	3017327	17657617
16	62	60	87	35%	N/A	7823001	25480618
17	64	62	90	36%	N/A	15264208	40744826
18	66	64	92	37%	N/A	26272845	67017671
19	68	66	95	38%	N/A	62872274	129889945
20	70	68	98	39%	N/A	212023122	341913067
21	72	70	100	40%	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	41%	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	42%	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	43%	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	44%	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	45%	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	46%	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	47%	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	48%	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	49%	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	49%	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	50%	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	50%	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	51%	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	51%	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	52%	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	52%	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	53%	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	53%	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	54%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Divine Righteous Fire EffectDivine Righteous Fire EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Righteous Fire becomes divine white flames.	100	Replaces the standard effect on a skill gem with divine white flames. Preview

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Righteous Fire.

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 Righteous Fire Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Righteous Fire Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Righteous Fire Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Righteous Fire Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Righteous Fire Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Righteous Fire Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Righteous Fire Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Righteous Fire Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Righteous Fire Spell Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Righteous Fire grants 20% increased Spell Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Righteous Fire Spell Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Righteous Fire grants 30% increased Spell Damage	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.6.0	Righteous Fire's radius has increased from 14 to 18 units. Righteous Fire gains 1 additional unit of radius every 4 levels. No longer gain increased area of effect radius.
2.1.0	Radius has been increased by 40%.
2.0.0	Now grants 1% increased spell damage per 1% quality (was 0.75% per 1%).
1.3.0	Righteous Fire can now damage totems.
1.2.1	Fixed a bug where Righteous Fire could continue to burn enemies after death.
1.1.0b	Fixed a bug where monsters' Righteous Fire was affected by player PvP scaling.
1.1.0	Adjusted the PVP scaling of and Searing Bond. These have only been conservatively adjusted. A more thorough adjustment to PVP scaling of skills will be ongoing throughout 1.1.x.
1.0.6	Fixed a bug where Righteous Fire was not correctly supported by the or support gems.
1.0.3	Righteous Fire Totems will damage enemies based on their own life and ES, not their caster's life and ES.
1.0.2b	The aura is now correctly tagged as area damage.
1.0.2	Righteous fire no longer deals extra damage to players when using x% increased Burning Damage and x% increased Fire Damage, but does increase damage to monsters.
1.0.0	The damage bonus now starts at 40% instead of 30%, but only increases by 1% per level, instead of 3%. Righteous Fire now burns nearby monsters and the character based on a percentage of life and a percentage of energy shield of the caster.
0.10.1c	Quality on Righteous Fire now works properly.
0.10.0g	Fixed a common client and instance crash related to the Righteous Fire skill.
0.9.9d	Fixed a bug where Righteous Fire's spell damage increase didn't work.
0.9.9	Righteous Fire has been added to the game.