Summon Raging Spirit

Summon Raging Spirit (commonly referred to as SRS) is a minion spell that temporarily summons a flaming skull that charges at enemies and attacks them.

Skill functions and interactions

• Flying monsters: The Raging Spirits are flying monsters, meaning they can fly over small obstacles much like projectiles do. However, they cannot fly over larger obstacles such as . They also can't be damaged by ground effects (such as burning ground, chilled ground and so on). Flying monsters will not block the pathing of non-flying ones – they can walk under the fliers.

• Attack Modifier: There is a hidden attack modifier that is applied. It is currently unknown whether it is a Local Modifier or a Global (more? increase?) Modifier. If Local, then it only applies to the base damage. If Global, that applies to all added and converted damage as well.

• Added Damage Modifier: There is a 30% penalty to added damage on the Raging Spirits. It does not apply to damage that are added as (unconfirmed). In practical terms, gems like Anger or are affected by this penalty, while Hatred is not.

• Damage conversion: 50% of their Physical Damage is converted into Fire Damage, similar to the bonus on Infernal Blow. Raging Spirits have no weapon, and thus do not benefit from .

• Targeting: Raging Spirits cannot be targeted directly by enemies. However, they may be damaged by stray projectiles and area of effect skills.

• Minion Instability: Raging Spirits are affected by the Minion Instability keystone. They do not explode if their duration expires; only when reduced to low life.

• Beacon of Corruption: The Necromancer's Beacon of Corruption passive will cause Raging Spirits to spread a caustic cloud when they expire or are killed by damage.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	4	16	4	0	0
2	6	20	5	841	841
3	9	27	5	3099	3940
4	12	33	6	7433	11373
5	16	41	7	22895	34268
6	20	50	7	49725	83993
7	24	58	8	95714	179707
8	28	67	8	169595	349302
9	32	75	9	283759	633061
10	36	83	10	453996	1087057
11	40	92	10	703128	1790185
12	44	100	11	1061223	2851408
13	48	109	12	2065870	4917278
14	52	117	12	2507110	7424388
15	55	123	13	2573731	9998119
16	58	130	13	7611351	17609470
17	61	136	14	13437908	31047378
18	64	142	15	25052147	56099525
19	67	148	15	43869436	99968961
20	70	155	16	242081178	342050139
21	72	159	17	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	17	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	18	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	19	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	19	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	20	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	20	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	21	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	22	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	22	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	23	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	23	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	23	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	24	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	24	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	24	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	25	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	25	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	25	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	25	N/A	N/A

Unique items

AshcallerAshcaller
Carved WandWand
Physical Damage: 9-17
Elemental Damage: (20-24) to (38-46)
Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.50Requires Level 12, 47 Int(11-15)% increased Spell Damage25% chance to Trigger Level 10 Summon Raging Spirit on Kill
Adds (20-24) to (38-46) Fire Damage
Adds (20-24) to (38-46) Fire Damage to Spells
10% chance to Cover Enemies in Ash on Hit"We do not command fire.
Ngamahu lends it, and Hinekora returns it."
- Lavianga, advisor to Kaom grants a chance to summon level 8 Raging Spirit on kill.

Divination card

• A set of 6 Grave KnowledgeGrave Knowledge6Summon Raging Spirit
  Quality: +20%The dead tell me great insights. They've had nothing but time to sit and think. can be exchanged for a Summon Raging Spirit gem with 20% quality.

Strategy

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Damage Auras

• A level 20 Anger grants 110.5 additional average fire damage to Raging Spirits.
• A level 20 Hatred grants 36% of physical damage as added cold damage.
• A level 20 Wrath grants 132 additional average lightning damage to Raging Spirits.

Assuming similar resistances, Hatred will provide more damage than Wrath provided that the Raging Spirits do more than 367 damage on average. Since a level 20 Raging Spirit does significantly more than that, Hatred will be significantly better.

Support gems

(all calculations below assuming level 20 gems) From Modifiers, the multiples come after damage conversion, so for a Raging Spirit in a Hatred aura, it is doing 50% Physical, 50% Fire, and 36% Cold (percentages are off of the base Spirit) Assuming you have all Minion Damage nodes, you have 105% increased minion damage, for a basic damage of 278% of base roll.

• gives 94% more attack speed for 30% less damage, which is all multiplicative, for roughly a 36% damage increase, (1+0.94)*0.7 for a damage factor of 377% of base roll.
• gives 31% less damage to nearby targets.
• gives 49% more physical damage. Since SRS damage is 100% Physical converted to 50% Physical and 50% Fire this bonus applies according to Damage conversion rules.
• gives the same bonus as Melee Physical damage, and is normally safe as mobs do not attack spirits, unless you are against a mob that does AOE damage.
• gives 49% more damage (no type limitations) and so would result in a damage of 415% of base. (Pre 2.0, Minion Damage gave increased damage, which is added to the 105% for a damage of 345%.)
• gives +40 base damage at level 20 and 21, +50 at level 22 and 23, etc, which translates to a ~10% exponential base damage per level of empower. Level 2 Empower is weaker than Melee Splash and Melee Physical Damage. Level 3 Empower is weaker than Added Fire Damage. Level 4+ Empower is better than everything.
• occurs during type conversion, and adds 44% of the base roll as extra Fire damage, which turns out to be 369% of base roll.
• has become more beneficial to make up for the clear speed reduction of only having 20 spirits (down from 50, as of Patch 2.5.0).
• boosts the base fire damage of the spirits as well as damage from the Hatred aura and Added Fire Damage Support (this is particularly good for bosses who are often immune to chill, freeze, and ignite, anyways; see Status Ailments for more info).
• , , and are additive, before multiplication and conversion. Of these, Added Chaos Damage is the best, at ~400% base roll on average (the added rolls are actually separate from the base rolls, so they have more variability, this is just an average.)

Synergies - Since Melee Splash and Melee Physical Damage all operate on Physical damage, they do multiply rather well. Comparing those two to Added Chaos Damage - Added Fire Damage still loses out, to the tune of ~20%, the advantage being that Physical Damage typically is mitigated less than elemental damage. (Especially since modifiers like added Fire Penetration or increased Elemental Damage from passives do not apply to minions.) An alternative may be Melee Splash and Added Chaos Damage. The loss here is only about 10%, in return for splashing and better chances of getting through against higher level mobs.

+2 Minions, +2 Melee, or +2 Fire (for item mods?) - The three Melee skills are, of course Melee, but the Raging Spirit itself is not. +2 Minions vs +2 Fire comes down to Added Fire Damage vs Minion Damage. Since Minion Damage appies to all converted damage, +2 Minions is better.

In order of preference:

• is still good for early levels, but not needed at the end game due to the new cap of 20 spirits.
• depending on level, but since it takes so long to level, it's probably the last one on your 6 link anyways.
• for bosses, for clearing.
• for bosses, for clearing.
• is slightly weaker now for leveling/mapping since minions do more damage and there are fewer of them (Patch 2.5.0 reduced minion cap from 50 to 20).
• less important now since the base damage per minion is higher (to make up for the minion cap being decreased to 20).

AI

Raging Spirits don't behave like zombies or spectres, but they pick their targets independently of your actions (attacking usually the nearest targets while zombies focus their attack where you attack). It can be useful to help other minions focus their attacks on enemies near you instead of enemies somewhere far away because they'll prefer attacking enemies that the spirits are attacking.

As of Patch 2.1.0, Raging Spirits tend to concentrate less on one target, except in cases where there is only one target or for targets close to the caster (see Version History at the bottom of the page).

Maximum Spirits

The attributes that will improve max spirit count are Cast Speed and Skill Duration.

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$\color [rgb]{0.6392156862745098,0.5529411764705883,0.42745098039215684}(5.0*(1+Dover100))over((0.5over(1+Cover100))over1+Eover100)$

which simplifies to:

10 * (1+D/100) * (1+C/100) * (1+E/100)

and round up to get the maximum number of spirits reached.

Example calculation: If you have 45% increased skill duration, 76% increased cast speed, and 70% more cast speed, you would use:

10 * 1.45 * 1.76 * 1.70 = 43.384 -> Max spirits is 43 (old example when cap was 50 spirits, now the max is 20)

Formula for (30% reduced cast speed, spell echo doesn't work):

7 * (1+D/100) * (1+C/100)

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
	80	Replaces the standard effect on an skill gem with a skulls infused with a ghostly green fire. Preview

Monster stats

Raging Spirit

Attack Speed: 0.61 Mods:

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• {{#show: Modifier:MonsterSummonedElementalFire |?Has stat text}}
• {{#show: Modifier:RagingSpiritAddedPhys |?Has stat text}};

Resistances:

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• Cruel: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has cold resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has fire resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in cruel difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}
• Merciless: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has cold resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has fire resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in merciless difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}

Level	Life	Attack Speed	Damage	Multiplicative Raging Spirit Attack Modifier
1	27	1.6	6–9	76%
2	30	1.6	6–10	75%
3	41	1.6	7–11	74%
4	59	1.6	8–13	73%
5	90	1.6	10–15	72%
6	138	1.6	13–20	71%
7	189	1.6	16–25	70%
8	252	1.6	20–31	69%
9	329	1.6	25–38	68%
10	424	1.6	31–47	67%
11	540	1.6	39–59	66%
12	682	1.6	48–72	65%
13	853	1.6	59–89	64%
14	1062	1.6	73–110	63%
15	1314	1.6	90–135	62%
16	1618	1.6	110–165	61%
17	1983	1.6	135–202	60%
18	2422	1.6	165–247	59%
19	2809	1.6	191–287	58%
20	3252	1.6	222–333	57%
21	3583	1.6	245–367	56%
22	3945	1.6	270–405	55%
23	4339	1.6	297–446	54%
24	4771	1.6	328–492	53%
25	5243	1.6	361–542	52%
26	5758	1.6	398–597	51%
27	6319	1.6	438–657	50%
28	6935	1.6	482–723	49%
29	7605	1.6	530–795	48%
30	8335	1.6	583–874	47%

Version history

Version	Changes
2.5.0	Reduced the maximum number of Summoned Raging Spirits to 20, but we have also increased damage as the gem levels up to compensate. It's intended to be a similar damage output but with less casting needed and less effective area of effect.
2.1.0	Summon Raging Spirit's duration has been increased from 3.5 seconds to 5 seconds. The mana cost has been reduced from 6 to 5 at level one and reduced from 15 to 12 at level 20. The cast speed has been reduced to 500ms from 800ms. The damage dealt by Raging Spirits has been substantially reworked and is lower at high levels. Raging Spirits are now more likely to target enemies who are attacked by fewer Raging Spirits, except when enemies are close to the caster.
1.3.0	Raging Spirits have had their damage reduced at higher levels. There's no change at gem level 9, scaling to 8% less damage at level 20 of the gem.
1.2.0	The damage done by the summoned Raging Spirits has been reduced at higher levels, up to a 20% reduction in damage at level 20.
1.1.5	The damage has been increased at higher levels up to 66% more damage at gem level 20.
1.0.6	Summon Raging Spirit has been added to the game.