Shock Nova

Shock Nova is a lightning spell with a high chance to shock that casts an initial ring of lightning followed by a larger circular area of lightning damage.

Skill functions and interactions

Shaded region indicates initial ring, outer circle indicates radius of second area damage. Red enemies are hit twice for 120% of base damage, orange enemies are hit once for 100% of base damage, white enemies are not hit.

Shock Nova has two damaging components: an initial ring of lightning, and then a larger, circular area of lightning damage. The initial ring has a fixed width such that monsters near the center 'dead zone' will not be hit. The subsequent lightning area damage has a larger radius than the initial ring, and all monsters up to that radius will be hit. Therefore it is possible for monsters to be hit by either both components, or just the larger area damage, or neither.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Lightning Damage	Shock Effect	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	12	34 to 101	N/A	0	0
2	31	73	13	42 to 126	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	79	14	52 to 156	N/A	285815	485160
4	37	85	15	64 to 193	N/A	401344	886504
5	40	92	15	79 to 237	N/A	554379	1440883
6	42	96	16	91 to 272	N/A	477437	1918320
7	44	100	16	103 to 310	N/A	583786	2502106
8	46	104	17	118 to 355	N/A	710359	3212465
9	48	109	17	135 to 404	N/A	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	18	154 to 461	N/A	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	18	175 to 524	N/A	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	19	199 to 596	N/A	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	19	226 to 677	N/A	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	20	256 to 768	N/A	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	20	290 to 870	N/A	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	21	328 to 985	N/A	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	21	372 to 1115	N/A	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	22	420 to 1261	N/A	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	22	475 to 1425	N/A	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	23	537 to 1610	N/A	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	24	606 to 1817	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	24	683 to 2049	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	25	770 to 2310	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	25	868 to 2603	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	26	977 to 2931	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	26	1100 to 3299	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	27	1237 to 3711	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27	1391 to 4173	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28	1564 to 4691	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	28	1757 to 5270	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	28	1862 to 5586	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	29	1973 to 5919	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	29	2091 to 6272	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	29	2215 to 6645	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	29	2347 to 7040	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	30	2486 to 7458	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	30	2633 to 7899	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	30	2789 to 8366	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	30	2953 to 8860	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	31	3127 to 9382	N/A	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effect

Name	Cost	Description
Rift Worm Shock Nova EffectRift Worm Shock Nova EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Shock Nova becomes a nova of purple rift worms.	100	Replaces the standard effect on a Shock NovaShock NovaSpell, AoE, Lightning, Nova Level: (1-20) Cost: (12-23) Mana Cast Time: 0.70 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 190% AoE Radius: 26 / 14Requires Level 28Casts a ring of Lightning around you, followed by a larger Lightning nova. Each effect hits enemies caught in their area with Lightning Damage.Deals (34-537) to (101-1610) Lightning Damage +10% to Maximum Effect of Shock Ring always Shocks Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.5-10)% to Maximum Effect of ShockPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. skill gem with rotating rift worms. Preview

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Shock Nova.

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 Shock Nova Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Shock Nova Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Shock Nova Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Shock Nova Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Shock Nova Larger Ring Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Shock Nova ring deals 40% increased Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Shock Nova Larger Ring Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Shock Nova ring deals 60% increased Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Shock Nova Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Shock Nova Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Shock Nova Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Shock Nova Area of Effect	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.6.0	Damage increased by 33% at level 1, scaling up to 49% increased damage by level 20. Additional damage dealt by the Shock Nova ring reduced to 20% of base damage (down from 50%).
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by 20% at level one, improving to a 35% increase in damage by level 20. Damage effectiveness increased from 50% to 60%.
1.0.0	Reduced mana cost.
0.10.0	Increased base critical strike chance from 3% to 4%. Mana cost has been reduced.
0.9.12s	Damage progression increased. By skill level 15, it's doing 14% more damage than before.
0.9.12	Damage increased by 14%.
0.9.9	Increased cast speed.
0.9.7	Improved the effects.
0.9.6	Shock Nova has been reimplemented so that it doesn't scale its damage with distance and doesn't hit monsters that are close to you.
0.9.5g	Increased the critical strike chance.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Shock Nova (2,6%).
0.9.3c	Now scales all damage from support gems in the same way as the main skill damage (based on distance). Shock Nova now deals its damage from outside (maximum damage) to inside (minimum/no damage). The outside damage is dealt first. It is a linear damage progression (not exponential) now.
0.9.2	Fixed a bug with Shock Nova's damage calculation if the Area of Effect was increased. Reduced upper Shock Nova damage by 30%.
0.9.1	Changed the damage equation for Shock Nova so that the deadzone immediately around the player works better. It's now much more important to have enemies at maximum range. Reduced damage and collision size.
0.8.7	Shock Nova added to the game.