Armageddon Brand

Armageddon BrandSpell, AoE, Fire, Duration, Brand
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (15-27) Mana
Cast Time: 0.40 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (180-210)%Requires Level 28Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, causing a fiery meteor to fall from the sky. The brand will detach if the enemy dies.Activates every 1.5 seconds while Attached
Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed also apply to this Skill's Activation frequency
Deals (69-924) to (104-1386) Fire Damage
Base radius is 2.2 metres
Can be Detached for a total Duration of 6.00 seconds
Can be Attached for a total Duration of 5.00 seconds
Deals (10-29)% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Deals +(0.5-10)% more Damage with Hits against Branded EnemyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 28Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemArmageddonBrand

Armageddon Brand is a spell that creates a brand at the target position. While attached, the brands creates fiery meteors that land on the target's location and deal fire damage in an area.

Skill functions and interactions

Maximum Active Brands: All brands share a limit of three (3) active brand limit. This can be split between the two brand skills (2-1) or all of one type. Passive skills can increase the number of active brands that are allowed to be active at a time.

Maximum Brand Attachment: By default, you may only have one brand of any kind attached to a single target at any time. Taking the Keystone Runebinder allows you to place a second brand on a single target. Like the Active Brand limit these brands may either be split (1-1) or both the same type of brand.

Spell Echo: Armageddon Brand currently functions with Spell Echo SupportSpell Echo SupportSpell, Support
Icon: k
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, retaliation skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.Supported Skills deal 10% less Damage
Supported Skills Repeat an additional time
Supported Skills have (40-54)% more Cast Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell 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. so far as repeating the initial cast of the brand. The more casting speed multiplier on spell echo does NOT however affect the activation speed of the brand once attached to a target.

Meteor: When Armageddon Brand activates, it casts a meteor falling down on the attached enemy. However, this meteor has a slow travel time, so if the enemy is fast-moving, the meteor can miss the enemy entirely. This also affects the "smoothness" of the skill, as this meteor drop delay time cannot be overcome. The meteor deals damage in an area on impact, this area is affected by modifiers to AoE.

Ignite: When scaling Ignite, it is not recommended to take Runebinder unless player tries to maximize ignite uptime while using Sadism Support, since having multiple brands attached to an enemy does not increase the Ignite damage taken by the enemy (since there can only be one active Ignite instance on the enemy). The only benefit from the keystone would be higher hit frequency on the enemy which would potentially cause a bigger Ignite (from a bigger hit) to be applied.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Fire Damage	more Hit Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	29	42	15	180%	69 to 104	10%	0	0
2	31	32	46	15	190%	85 to 128	11%	199345	199345
3	34	35	50	16	190%	104 to 156	12%	285815	485160
4	37	37	54	17	190%	127 to 191	13%	401344	886504
5	40	40	58	18	190%	154 to 232	14%	554379	1440883
6	42	42	60	19	190%	175 to 263	15%	477437	1918320
7	44	44	63	19	190%	199 to 298	16%	583786	2502106
8	46	46	66	20	190%	225 to 338	17%	710359	3212465
9	48	48	68	21	190%	255 to 382	18%	1355511	4567976
10	50	49	71	21	200%	288 to 431	19%	1138877	5706853
11	52	51	74	22	200%	324 to 487	20%	1368233	7075086
12	54	53	76	22	200%	366 to 549	21%	1638338	8713424
13	56	55	79	23	200%	412 to 618	22%	1956648	10670072
14	58	57	82	24	200%	463 to 695	23%	3655184	14325256
15	60	59	84	24	200%	521 to 781	24%	3017327	17342583
16	62	60	87	25	200%	585 to 877	25%	7759995	25102578
17	64	62	90	25	200%	656 to 985	26%	15138193	40240771
18	66	64	92	26	200%	736 to 1104	27%	26083825	66324596
19	68	66	95	27	210%	825 to 1237	28%	62620247	128944843
20	70	68	98	27	210%	924 to 1386	29%	211708088	340652931
21	72	70	100	28	210%	1034 to 1551	30%	—	—
22	74	—	—	28	210%	1156 to 1735	31%	—	—
23	76	—	—	29	210%	1293 to 1939	32%	—	—
24	78	—	—	30	210%	1444 to 2166	33%	—	—
25	80	—	—	30	210%	1613 to 2419	34%	—	—
26	82	—	—	31	210%	1800 to 2700	35%	—	—
27	84	—	—	31	210%	2008 to 3012	36%	—	—
28	86	—	—	32	210%	2239 to 3359	37%	—	—
29	88	—	—	32	210%	2496 to 3744	38%	—	—
30	90	—	—	33	210%	2781 to 4172	39%	—	—
31	91	—	—	33	210%	2935 to 4403	39%	—	—
32	92	—	—	34	210%	3097 to 4646	40%	—	—
33	93	—	—	34	210%	3268 to 4902	40%	—	—
34	94	—	—	34	210%	3448 to 5172	41%	—	—
35	95	—	—	35	210%	3638 to 5456	41%	—	—
36	96	—	—	35	210%	3837 to 5756	42%	—	—
37	97	—	—	35	210%	4047 to 6071	42%	—	—
38	98	—	—	35	210%	4269 to 6403	43%	—	—
39	99	—	—	36	210%	4502 to 6753	43%	—	—
40	100	—	—	26	210%	4747 to 7121	44%	—	—

Item acquisition

Armageddon Brand can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Armageddon 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 corrupted level 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:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Armageddon Brand.

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
Armageddon Brand Attached Target Fire Penetration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Armageddon Brand Damage Penetrates 8% of Branded Enemy's Fire Resistance	helmet 100
Armageddon Brand Attached Target Fire Penetration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Armageddon Brand Damage Penetrates 12% of Branded Enemy's Fire Resistance	helmet 100
Armageddon Brand Repeat Frequency 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Armageddon Brand has 8% increased Activation Frequency	helmet 100
Armageddon Brand Repeat Frequency 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Armageddon Brand has 12% increased Activation Frequency	helmet 100
Enchantment Armageddon Brand Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Armageddon Brand deals 25% increased Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Armageddon Brand Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Armageddon Brand deals 40% increased Damage	helmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Armageddon Brand has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description
Celestial Brand EffectCelestial Brand EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Brand becomes a Celestial Effect.	Your Brand becomes a Celestial Effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	Now has 180% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 1, scaling up to 200% at gem level 20 (previously 200% at all gem levels).
3.23.0	Quality now causes the skill to Deal +0-10% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy, instead of providing 0-10% increased Cast Speed.
3.17.0	Armageddon Brand now deals 69 to 104 Fire Damage at gem level 1 (previously 46 to 69), up to 924 to 1386 at gem level 20 (previously 613 to 920). Now activates every 1.5 seconds while Attached (previously 1 second). Now has 200% Effectiveness of Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 135%).
3.16.0	Now deals 40 to 69 Fire Damage at gem level 1 (previously 34 to 51), up to 613 to 920 at gem level 20 (previously 398 to 597). It no longer has 120-250% more Damage with Ignite, or 25% chance to Ignite Enemies. It now activates every 1 second while Attached (previously 0.75 seconds), and has a base Critical Strike Chance of 5% (previously 6%). It now has “Deals 10% more hit Damage to Branded Enemy” at gem level 1, which scales up to 29% at gem level 20. It also now has 135% Effectiveness of Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 85%). Because of base Ignite damage changes, Ignite with the skill is now 10.1% higher.
3.11.0	The visual effects have been improved. Now activates every 0.75 seconds while attached (from 0.8 seconds). Now deals 34 to 51 Fire Damage at gem level 1 (from 29 to 43), up to 398 to 597 Fire Damage at gem level 20 (from 332 to 498). Now has an added Damage effectiveness of 85% (from 75%). Now deals 120% more Damage with Ignite at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 250% more at gem level 20 (from 180%). Now has a detached duration of 6 seconds (from 10). Now has a base area of effect radius of 22 units (from 18).
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 15 (was 14). Now deals 29 to 43 Fire damage at gem level 1 (from 29 to 44) and 332 to 498 Fire damage at gem level 20 (from 393 to 590). Now has an added damage effectiveness of 75% (from 90%). Now activates every 0.8 seconds while Attached (from 0.75)
3.5.0	Armageddon Brand has been added to the game.