Penance BrandSpell, AoE, Physical, Lightning, Duration, Brand Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-27) Mana Cast Time: 0.75 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 40%Requires Level 28Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, adding energy to the branded enemy. Each activation, energy spreads from each energised enemy to an enemy in range which is not energised by the brand. If the branded enemy has 20 energy, each activation will instead deal a pulse of area damage. Energy explodes when the energised enemy dies or the brand is removed, dealing damage in an area.Can be Attached for a total Duration of 2.5 seconds Your Skills can have an additional Brand Attached to an Enemy Activates every 0.5 seconds while Attached Can be Detached for a total Duration of 6 seconds Deals (18-170) to (27-254) Physical Damage Explosions deal 90% more Damage with Ailments per Energy after the first Explosions deal 150% more Damage with Hits per Energy after the first 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed also apply to this Skill's Activation frequency +1 to Explosion Radius per Energy Pulse deals 50% more Damage with Hits and Ailments Up to +(0-9) to Energy spread radius, scaled by distance from Brand
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: 0.5% increased Area of Effect1% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage1% chance to Shock enemiesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Penance Brand is a spell that creates a brand at the target location. While attached to an enemy, the brand adds "energy" stacks onto the target, which can also spread to a nearby enemy that hasn't been yet energized. When released, the stored energy detonates and deals area of effect damage. When energy stacks reach their cap on the primary target, the brand releases damaging pulses around it instead.
Damage conversion: Penance Brand's base damage type is physical, but it also has innate 50% conversion to lightning, thus by default it deals half of its damage in physical, and half in lightning.
Energy: Energy stacks have a cap of 20, and for each stack past the first one, the brand will deal significantly more damage in an increasingly larger area upon release. If an enemy has been energized to the maximum amount of stacks, the brand will instead release damaging pulses in an area around it (at the same frequency). Energy stacks are released in three circumstances:
An enemy with any Penance Brand attached to it dies.
Any Penance Brand gets removed from an enemy via the usage of Brand RecallBrand RecallBrand, Spell Level: (1-6) Cost: (7-16) Mana Cooldown Time: 4.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Recall your brands to you, detaching them from enemies and increasing attachment range until they next attach to an enemy. Spends a portion of each recalled brand's cost to cause it to activate.(0-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate Spends 20% of Brand's Cost Brands gain (25-45)% increased Attachment Range
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., or utilizing the Brand Passive Mastery "Brands Attach to a new Enemy each time they Activate, no more than once every 0.3 seconds"
The duration of any attached Penance Brand ends.
Multiple brands: If multiple Penance Brands are attached to an enemy simultaneously, they will all add energy stacks at a rate equal to their individual activation frequency. Energy stacks are accumulated per enemy and not per brand. In other words; if only one Penance Brand gets removed from an enemy, it will release all the currently stored energy, and the second brand will continue to generate energy stacks back from zero, if it still remains attached to that enemy.
Limited duration and damage scaling: Penance Brand has a very low base duration of 2.5 seconds, and by default activates every half a second.
Swiftbrand SupportSwiftbrand SupportBrand, Support Icon: t Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports skills which create brands.Supported Skills have 65% less Attached Duration Supported Skills have 65% less Detached Duration Supported Skills have (30-44)% more Activation frequency
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills have (0.25-5)% more Activation frequencyThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. is a good support gem choice for general mapping, where the long delay between casting a skill and actually killing enemies may lead into dangerous situations. However, depending on the build setup, it might not be the optimal choice when fighting tough bosses, for which stacking high amount of energy often outweighs more frequent but smaller explosions. This matters even more when elemental ailments are taken into account.
Casting speed of the brand itself, as well as its activation frequency, can be increased by cast speed modifiers. Getting a hefty amount of cast speed is recommended in order to maximize the amount of energy stacks generation before the brand expires. This improves its overall "damage per cast" efficacy.
Due to relatively low effectiveness of flat added damage at 40%, Penance Brand's damage is best scaled via modifiers that add damage based on another damage type (non-chaos added as extra chaos, physical added as extra lightning, etc.) and modifiers to skill levels (like Empower SupportEmpower SupportExceptional, Support Icon: + Level: (1-3) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Supports any skill gem. Once this gem reaches level 2 or above, will raise the level of supported gems. Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.+(0-2) to Level of Supported Skill Gems
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: This Gem gains (5-100)% increased ExperienceThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., various weapon prefixes, or corrupted body armour implicits).
Physical to Lightning SupportPhysical to Lightning SupportLightning, Physical, Support Icon: x Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits enemies.Supported Skills gain (10-29)% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage Supported Skills have 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Physical DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. allows easy conversion of the damage type entirely into lightning. Penance Brand is a popular skill choice in multi-conversion builds, utilizing two Call of the BrotherhoodCall of the Brotherhood Two-Stone RingRequires Level 20+(12-16)% to Cold and Lightning Resistances+(15-25) to Intelligence (15-25)% increased Lightning Damage (30-40)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate 40% of Lightning Damage Converted to Cold Damage Your spells have 100% chance to Shock against Frozen EnemiesForged by three brothers so that they may recognize each other across any distance of time or travel. and either The Eternity ShroudThe Eternity Shroud Blood RaimentEvasion: (872-1252) Energy Shield: (146-210) Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 65, 107 Dex, 90 IntTrigger Level 20 Glimpse of Eternity when Hit (100-150)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield +(70-100) to maximum Life +(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance Gain (3-5)% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage per Shaper Item Equipped Hits ignore Enemy Monster Chaos Resistance if all Equipped Items are Shaper ItemsThere can be no defence against the celestial siblings entropy and time. or Incandescent HeartIncandescent Heart Saintly ChainmailArmour: (1283-1567) Energy Shield: (307-374) Movement Speed: -5%Requires Level 70, 99 Str, 115 Int(220-240)% increased Armour and Energy Shield +(80-90) to maximum Life (0.8-1)% of Attack Damage Leeched as Life Gain (10-20)% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage 25% of Elemental Damage from Hits taken as Chaos Damage (20-30)% increased Light Radius Light Radius is based on Energy Shield instead of LifeOnly light may banish the shadows from this land And the black lies wrapped around your heart.
Gem level progression
Level
Mana Cost
Physical Damage
Spread Radius
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
28
29
42
15
177 to 265
N/A
0
0
2
31
32
46
15
219 to 328
N/A
199345
199345
3
34
35
50
16
269 to 404
N/A
285815
485160
4
37
37
54
17
330 to 495
N/A
401344
886504
5
40
40
58
18
403 to 604
N/A
554379
1440883
6
42
42
60
19
459 to 689
N/A
477437
1918320
7
44
44
63
19
523 to 784
N/A
583786
2502106
8
46
46
66
20
594 to 891
N/A
710359
3212465
9
48
48
68
21
674 to 1011
N/A
1355511
4567976
10
50
49
71
21
764 to 1146
N/A
1138877
5706853
11
52
51
74
22
865 to 1297
N/A
1368233
7075086
12
54
53
76
22
978 to 1467
N/A
1638338
8713424
13
56
55
79
23
1105 to 1658
N/A
1956648
10670072
14
58
57
82
24
1248 to 1872
N/A
3655184
14325256
15
60
59
84
24
1408 to 2111
N/A
3017327
17342583
16
62
60
87
25
1586 to 2380
N/A
7759995
25102578
17
64
62
90
25
1787 to 2680
N/A
15138193
40240771
18
66
64
92
26
2010 to 3016
N/A
26083825
66324596
19
68
66
95
27
2261 to 3391
N/A
62620247
128944843
20
70
68
98
27
2541 to 3811
N/A
211708088
340652931
21
72
70
100
28
2853 to 4280
N/A
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
28
3203 to 4804
N/A
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
29
3593 to 5389
N/A
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
30
4028 to 6042
N/A
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
30
4514 to 6771
N/A
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
31
5056 to 7583
N/A
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
31
5660 to 8490
N/A
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
32
6333 to 9500
N/A
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
32
7084 to 10626
N/A
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
33
7920 to 11880
N/A
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
33
8373 to 12559
N/A
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
34
8851 to 13277
N/A
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
34
9356 to 14033
N/A
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
34
9888 to 14832
N/A
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
35
10450 to 15674
N/A
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
35
11042 to 16563
N/A
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
35
11667 to 17501
N/A
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
35
12327 to 18490
N/A
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
36
13022 to 19534
N/A
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
36
13756 to 20634
N/A
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Penance Brand can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Penance Brand can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
13
The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Spell gem
A
6
The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gem
A
3
Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality:+20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% quality
A
1
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Random divination card set exchange
A
Quest reward
This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:
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.
Brand RecallBrand RecallBrand, Spell
, or utilizing the Brand Passive Mastery "Brands Attach to a new Enemy each time they Activate, no more than once every 0.3 seconds"
Swiftbrand SupportSwiftbrand SupportBrand, Support
is a good support gem choice for general mapping, where the long delay between casting a skill and actually killing enemies may lead into dangerous situations. However, depending on the build setup, it might not be the optimal choice when fighting tough bosses, for which stacking high amount of energy often outweighs more frequent but smaller explosions. This matters even more when elemental ailments are taken into account.
Empower SupportEmpower SupportExceptional, Support
, various weapon prefixes, or corrupted body armour implicits).
Physical to Lightning SupportPhysical to Lightning SupportLightning, Physical, Support
allows easy conversion of the damage type entirely into lightning. Penance Brand is a popular skill choice in multi-conversion builds, utilizing two 
Call of the BrotherhoodCall of the Brotherhood
and either 
The Eternity ShroudThe Eternity Shroud
or 
Incandescent HeartIncandescent Heart
.
The Cataclysm
The Cataclysm
13Level 21 Spell Gem
The Fox
6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
Gemcutter's Promise
3Gem
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
The Void
1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Celestial Brand EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Brand becomes a Celestial Effect.