Scorching Ray

Scorching Ray is a channelling fire spell that fires a beam that inflicts burning damage to targets in front of the caster.

Skill functions and interactions

• Scorching ray applies a stacking debuff on enemies which deals fire damage over time, causes enemies to lose 3% fire resist per stack, and causes Scorching Ray to deal an additional 60% damage per stack to the target for each stack past the first. This effect stacks up to a total of 8 times on an enemy for a total of 24% reduced fire resistance and a total damage multiplier of 420% more damage at maximum stacks. The damage portion of the debuff does not stack. The duration of any debuff stack applied by Scorching Ray on the target is refreshed upon applying a subsequent debuff stack. The rate at which the debuff is applied is determined by the base cast speed of the skill and can be modified by cast speed. The debuff is applied to an enemy monster and increases the damage they take from scorching Ray, it does not increase the damage it deals to other targets.
• Damage over time: Modifiers to Spell, Fire, Elemental, Burning Damage, Damage Over Time, and duration affect the damage over time component of this spell.
• Scorching Ray does not hit and therefore cannot be supported by added damage supports such as and cannot confer the effects of supports such as or .
• While channeling Scorching Ray, the player has a reduced turning rate which is modified by cast speed
• Scorching Ray is not a projectile or an area of effect skill and therefore is not affected by modifiers to projectile damage, area damage, projectile speed, or area of effect.
• Scorching Ray has the channeling tag and therefore cannot be supported by .
• While channeling Scorching Ray, the spell will function on a cycle: each elapsed casting period (equal to the cast time seen on the tooltip) enables the spell to apply a new layer of the debuff on a monster. Therefore, simply touching an unaffected monster at any point during a cast interval will apply the first stage of the debuff. If this monster remains in the beam, the spell will apply the next stage of the debuff the instant it consumes mana from the player again. Due to this function, moving the beam in a sweeping motion will sometimes apply two stages of the debuff on a target instead of one.
• For the above reason, there is a delay (again, equal to the cast time interval on the tooltip) between the pressing of the skill and the appearance of the beam. This is intended to prevent abuse of button spamming to reach maximum stages on the enemy too quickly.
• The line referring to 24% fire resistance reduction indicates that while multiple burning damage effects from Scorching Ray may be applied (either by multiple players or via multiple totems), the maximum total fire resistance reduction on a monster from all of them cannot exceed 24%.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Fire Damage per sec	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	2	N/A	0	0
2	15	39	2	N/A	15249	15249
3	19	48	2	N/A	41517	56766
4	23	56	3	N/A	81983	138749
5	27	64	3	N/A	147968	286717
6	31	73	3	N/A	250557	537274
7	35	81	3	N/A	405086	942360
8	38	88	3	N/A	447718	1390078
9	41	94	4	N/A	615318	2005396
10	44	100	4	N/A	834639	2840035
11	47	106	4	N/A	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	4	N/A	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	4	N/A	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	5	N/A	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	5	N/A	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	5	N/A	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	5	N/A	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	5	N/A	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	5	N/A	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	5	N/A	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	5	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Scorching Ray.

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 Fire Beam Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	8% increased Scorching Ray Cast Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Fire Beam Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	12% increased Scorching Ray Cast Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Scorching Ray Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Scorching Ray Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Scorching Ray Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Scorching Ray Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Fire Beam Length 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Scorching Ray beam length	helmet 100
Enchantment Fire Beam Length 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Scorching Ray beam length	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.2	Scorching Ray has been added to the game.