Barrage

This page is about the active skill gem. For the support gem, see Barrage Support.

BarrageAttack, Projectile, Bow
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (7-11) Mana
Attack Damage: (47-54)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (47-55)%Requires Level 12After a short preparation time, you attack repeatedly with a ranged weapon. These attacks have a small randomised spread. Only works with Bows and Wands.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal0.5% increased Projectile Damage1% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit0.5% increased Attack SpeedInflict non-Damaging Ailments as though dealing 5% more DamageDeals (47-55)% of Base Attack Damage
Fires 4 additional Projectiles
Fires Projectiles sequentiallyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.Acquisition
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Barrage is a ranged attack skill that fires all of your bow or wand projectiles rapidly in succession.

Skill functions and interactions

• Additional Projectiles: Linking Lesser Multiple Projectiles SupportLesser Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile
  Icon: l
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 8Supports projectile skills.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills have 0.5% increased Attack Speed
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Cast SpeedSupported Skills have 1% reduced Mana Cost
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Projectile SpeedProjectiles Fired by Supported Skills have 1% increased Projectile spreadSupported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (15-6)% less Projectile 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. or Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles SupportAwakened Greater Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile
  Icon: P
  Level: (1-5)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 165%Requires Level 72Supports projectile skills.Per 1% Quality:1SuperiorSupported Skills have 1% increased Attack Speed
  Supported Skills have 1% increased Cast SpeedSupported Skills fire 5 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (30-26)% less Projectile 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. (Greater Multiple Projectiles SupportGreater Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile
  Icon: P
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 165%Requires Level 38Supports projectile skills.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills have 0.5% increased Attack Speed
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Cast SpeedSupported Skills have 1% reduced Mana Cost
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Projectile SpeedProjectiles Fired by Supported Skills have 1% increased Projectile spreadSupported Skills fire 4 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (35-26)% less Projectile 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.) to Barrage will increase the total number of projectiles fired. For example, when using Lesser Multiple Projectiles, a total of 7 projectiles will be fired (1 base, +4 from Barrage gem, +2 from Lesser Multiple Projectiles Gem). Wearing a helmet enchanted with Barrage fires an additional Projectile will further increase this total. All projectiles fired can strike the same target, potentially dealing damage up to 13 times (1 base, +4 from Barrage gem, +2 from LMP, +5 from Awakened GMP, +1 from enchant) to a single target when using all three effects. However, the less damage multipliers from LMP and GMP also applies to the dps. Using as well as item mods such as Skills fire # additional Projectile(s), Bow Attacks fire # additional Arrow(s) are recommended instead. Barrage can be supported by Barrage SupportBarrage SupportBow, Attack, Support, Projectile
  Icon: N
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports projectile attack skills that use bows or wands. Cannot support triggered skills, channelled skills, or skills that create Minions.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills have 0.5% increased Attack SpeedProjectiles from Supported Skills Pierce 0.1 additional TargetsProjectiles Fired by Supported Skills have 5% increased Projectile spreadSupported Skills fire 3 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (68-62)% less Damage
  Supported Skills have 5% more Attack Time per Projectile
  Supported Skills have 5% more Trap and Mine Throwing Time per Projectile
  Supported Skills Fire Projectiles sequentially
  Supported Skills can only be used with Bows or WandsThis 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., but that support gem has less damage multiplier as well as more attack time per projectiles.

• Volley SupportVolley SupportSupport, Projectile
  Icon: =
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills deal 1% increased Projectile Damage1% increased distance between Firing PointsSupported Skills have 0.5% increased Area of EffectSupported Skills also fire Projectiles from up to 2 points on each side of you
  Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (12-3)% less Projectile 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.: Linking this gem will cause Barrage's projectiles to be fired in sequence in five parallel lines.

• : This jewel will fire an additional twelve projectiles per attack, six on the first and last attack, with the added projectiles spread to the sides. These additional projectiles cannot strike the same target as the main projectiles and will in fact pass through them harmlessly (though subsequent projectiles generated via effects such as chain could bounce to the primary target).

Example: A user wearing a helmet with +1 Additional Barrage Projectiles and with slotted will fire a total of 18 projectiles per attack. A maximum of 6 can strike the primary target; all other targets may be struck by a maximum of 1 projectile.

• Dual wielding: The total number of projectiles fired by Barrage does not change while wielding two weapons. An attack with Barrage uses both weapons, alternating between each weapon for each projectile fired.
• Ballista Totem Support: This one is not recommended. The firing rate slowdown of the totem also applies to the firing rate of each shot of the Barrage and it can't start another while one is going so the overall firing rate (and therefore DPS) will be VERY slow. Not only that, the totem cannot turn while in the middle of a particular Barrage; while the first shot might hit the target the rest will miss if it moves even a little (a very extreme weakness in PvP in particular).

• The small randomized spread covers a small angle of approximately 20 degrees.

Gem level progression

Level					Cost and Reservation Multiplier	Critical Strike Chance	Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Stored Uses	Cooldown	Vaal souls	Stored Uses	Soul Prevention Time	Attack Damage	Base duration	Attack Speed	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	0	0	0%	0%	7	47%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	47%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
2	15	39	0	0	0%	0%	7	47%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	47.4%	0.00 sec	0%	15249	15249
3	19	48	0	0	0%	0%	7	48%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	47.8%	0.00 sec	0%	41517	56766
4	23	56	0	0	0%	0%	8	48%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	48.2%	0.00 sec	0%	81983	138749
5	27	64	0	0	0%	0%	8	49%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	48.6%	0.00 sec	0%	147968	286717
6	31	73	0	0	0%	0%	8	49%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	49%	0.00 sec	0%	250557	537274
7	35	81	0	0	0%	0%	8	49%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	49.4%	0.00 sec	0%	405086	942360
8	38	88	0	0	0%	0%	8	50%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	49.8%	0.00 sec	0%	447718	1390078
9	41	94	0	0	0%	0%	9	50%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	50.2%	0.00 sec	0%	615318	2005396
10	44	100	0	0	0%	0%	9	51%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	50.6%	0.00 sec	0%	834639	2840035
11	47	106	0	0	0%	0%	9	51%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	51%	0.00 sec	0%	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	0	0	0%	0%	9	51%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	51.4%	0.00 sec	0%	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	0	0	0%	0%	9	52%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	51.8%	0.00 sec	0%	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	0	0	0%	0%	10	52%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	52.2%	0.00 sec	0%	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	0	0	0%	0%	10	53%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	52.6%	0.00 sec	0%	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	0	0	0%	0%	10	53%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	53%	0.00 sec	0%	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	0	0	0%	0%	10	53%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	53.4%	0.00 sec	0%	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	0	0	0%	0%	10	54%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	53.8%	0.00 sec	0%	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	0	0	0%	0%	11	54%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	54.2%	0.00 sec	0%	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	0	0	0%	0%	11	55%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	54.6%	0.00 sec	0%	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	0	0	0%	0%	11	55%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	55%	0.00 sec	0%	-342004647	0
22	74	0	0	0	0%	0%	11	55%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	55.4%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
23	76	0	0	0	0%	0%	11	56%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	55.8%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
24	78	0	0	0	0%	0%	11	56%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	56.2%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
25	80	0	0	0	0%	0%	11	57%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	56.6%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
26	82	0	0	0	0%	0%	12	57%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	57%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
27	84	0	0	0	0%	0%	12	57%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	57.4%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
28	86	0	0	0	0%	0%	12	58%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	57.8%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
29	88	0	0	0	0%	0%	12	58%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	58.2%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
30	90	0	0	0	0%	0%	12	59%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	58.6%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
31	91	0	0	0	0%	0%	13	59%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	58.8%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
32	92	0	0	0	0%	0%	13	59%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	59%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
33	93	0	0	0	0%	0%	13	59%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	59.2%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
34	94	0	0	0	0%	0%	13	59%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	59.4%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
35	95	0	0	0	0%	0%	13	60%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	59.6%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
36	96	0	0	0	0%	0%	14	60%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	59.8%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
37	97	0	0	0	0%	0%	14	60%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	60%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
38	98	0	0	0	0%	0%	14	60%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	60.2%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
39	99	0	0	0	0%	0%	14	60%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	60.4%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0
40	100	0	0	0	0%	0%	14	61%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	60.6%	0.00 sec	0%	0	0

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Barrage:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Barrage. No results found

Legacy enchantments

The following enchantments can only be found on legacy items in permanent leagues: No results found

Moreover, legacy items may have the enchantment and have a legacy value of 2 additional Projectiles, instead of current value of 1.

Alternate skill effects

Barrage has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Arcane Barrage EffectArcane Barrage EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Barrage becomes an Arcane version.	Your Barrage becomes an Arcane version.
Celestial Barrage EffectCelestial Barrage EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Celestial Barrage becomes a celestial effect.	Your Celestial Barrage becomes a celestial effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Now deals 47% of base Attack Damage at gem level 1 (previously 40%), up to 54.6% of base Attack Damage at gem level 20 (previously 47.6%). Now has 47% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 40%), up to 54.6% at gem level 20 (previously 48%).
3.11.0	Fixed a bug where the Barrage effect, when used by a mine, faced the wrong direction.
3.9.0	A lot of ranged attack skills have received major visual improvements, including the basic wand and bow attacks, Burning ArrowBurning ArrowAttack, Projectile, Fire, Duration, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: (5-8) Mana Attack Damage: (150-184)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (150-184)% Projectile Speed: 3260Fires a burning arrow that deals fire damage. If it ignites an enemy, it will also inflict an additional debuff for a duration, dealing burning damage based on the magnitude of the ignite. This damage is not affected by your damage modifiers. Up to five of these debuffs can apply simultaneously to an enemy.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent+0.5% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier3% increased Critical Strike ChanceProjectiles Pierce 0.1 additional TargetsDeals (150-184.2)% of Base Attack Damage Base duration is 4 seconds 50% chance to Ignite enemies (50-88)% more Damage with Ignite 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage If this Skill Ignites an Enemy, it also inflicts a Burning Debuff Debuff deals Fire Damage per second equal to (30-39)% of Ignite Damage per secondPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., Barrage and PuncturePunctureAttack, Projectile, Duration, Melee, Strike, Physical, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: 6 Mana Attack Speed: 70% of base Attack Damage: (134-164)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (135-165)%Punctures enemies, causing a bleeding debuff, which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. Puncture works with bows, daggers, claws or swords.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4PhantasmalBleeding inflicted by this Skill deals Damage 0.5% fasterProjectiles Pierce 0.1 additional TargetsMelee Strikes target 0.1 additional nearby Enemies0.5% chance to Maim on HitDeals (134.74-164.56)% of Base Attack Damage Base duration is 8 seconds (3-75) to (4-113) Added Attack Physical Damage (30-49)% more Damage with Bleeding Causes Bleeding +(0-2) to Melee Strike RangePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
3.3.0	Now has an added damage effectiveness and base damage of 40% at gem level 1 (down from 50%), up to 47.6% at gem level 20 (down from 61.4%). Now fires 4 additional projectiles (up from 3).
3.1.0	The helmet enchantment which grants additional projectiles for BarrageBarrageAttack, Projectile, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: (7-11) Mana Attack Damage: (47-54)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (47-55)%Requires Level 12After a short preparation time, you attack repeatedly with a ranged weapon. These attacks have a small randomised spread. Only works with Bows and Wands.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal0.5% increased Projectile Damage1% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit0.5% increased Attack SpeedInflict non-Damaging Ailments as though dealing 5% more DamageDeals (47-55)% of Base Attack Damage Fires 4 additional Projectiles Fires Projectiles sequentiallyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has been removed from the Merciless Labyrinth. The Eternal Labyrinth Barrage enchantment now grants one additional projectile (down from 2).
2.1.0	Barrage damage has been increased from 40% to 50% of base damage at level one. At level 20, it now has been increased from dealing 47.6% to 61.4% of base damage.
2.0.0	Instead of gaining 4% increased Physical Damage per level, Barrage now gains 0.4% Base Damage per level.
1.1.0	The 33% less attack speed penalty has been removed from Barrage.
1.0.4	The Barrage skill has been added for the Ranger in Descent Champions.
1.0.3	Barrage has been added to the game.