DesecrateSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos Level: (1-20) Cost: (11-26) Mana Cast Time: 0.60 secRequires Level 16Desecrates the ground, spawning corpses based on monsters in the current area and dealing chaos damage over time to enemies. If you are using the Raise Spectre skill there is a chance to spawn spectral corpses matching your most recently raised Spectres. Spectral corpses cannot be interacted with except by Minion skills.Deals (8.2-294) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 4.00 seconds Spawns 5 corpses Spawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level (20-80) Maximum of 10 corpses allowed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Cast SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
The level of the spawned corpses is determined by the lower value between area level and Desecrate's Spawns corpses up to Level # stat.[1] The corpse's level cannot exceed the area level or maximum corpse level based on Desecrate's level.
Desecrate's chaos damage over time is not affected by modifiers to spell damage. It is affected by area damage modifiers.
Modifiers to area of effect only affect the area of the Desecrated Ground's damaging area; it does not affect the spread distance of spawned corpses.
Spell Cascade SupportSpell Cascade SupportAoE, Spell, Support Icon: p Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 4Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Skills have (25-16)% less Area of Effect Supported Skills deal (40-31)% less Damage Supported Area of Effect Skills also affect areas in front of and behind the targeted area
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Area of EffectThis 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.: Spell Cascade spawns 5 corpses per cascaded area. Because of this, a single use will exceed the maximum limit of 10 corpses (or 12 with Undertaker allocated); newer corpses will replace older corpses.
The corpse generation is slightly delayed after the cast of the skill, so when triggered simultaneously alongside an Offering skill (e.g. with Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger Icon: ! Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 250% Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38-70) or lower Supported Skills deal (65-27)% less Damage Trigger Supported Spells when you take (528-3272) total Damage from Hits
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills require (0.5-10)% reduced amount of Damage taken to TriggerThis 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.), corpses will not be consumed on the first trigger if no other corpses are nearby, as the Offering will fail to recognize that the corpses have spawned.[2] This does not affect triggers where gems are triggered sequentially, such as Cast On Critical Strike SupportCast On Critical Strike SupportCritical, Support, Spell, Trigger Icon: & Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120% Cooldown Time: 0.15 sec Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Must support both an attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it critically strikes an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.Supported Attacks will Trigger a Supported Spell when you Crit an Enemy Supported Skills deal (19-10)% less Spell Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Attack Critical Strike Chance Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Spell Critical Strike ChanceThis 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..
Proxies share the maximum 10 active corpses with each other and the player.
On a PC, if Corpse Targeting is enabled within the Options menu (under "Game"), pressing the A key will show the name and inherent stats of the corpse when the player hovers their mouse over it. This can be changed to a different key or not requiring a key in the options.
Interactions with Raise Spectre
Desecrate's pool of corpses depends on whether the player has socketed and previously used Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., as well as the player's current area:
Corpse pool distribution
Conditions
Area monster corpse chance
Spectral Corpse chance
Chance for a specific spectre
Raise Spectre not socketed
100%
0%
0%
Raise Spectre socketed Raise Spectre never used before
85%
15%
0%
Raise Spectre socketed 1-9 monsters in spectre bank
85%
15%
(15-1.7)%
Raise Spectre socketed 10 monsters in spectre bank
85%
15%
1.5%
Raise Spectre socketed 1-9 monsters in spectre bank In hideout
0%
100%
(100-11)%
Raise Spectre socketed 10 monsters in spectre bank In hideout
0%
100%
10%
When Raise Spectre is socketed, and the skill has been used before, Desecrate has a 15% chance to spawn a Spectral Corpse instead (100% in hideout), which can only be interacted with using minion skills such as Bone OfferingBone OfferingMinion, Spell, Duration Level: (1-20) Cost: (16-33) Mana Cast Time: 1.00 secRequires Level 12Consumes a corpse, granting all of your minions the power to block both attacks and spells. The skill consumes other nearby corpses, increasing the duration for each corpse consumed.Base duration is 5.00 seconds Additional 1.00 seconds Base Duration per extra corpse Consumed Grants Minions +(25-35)% Chance to Block Attack Damage Grants Minions +(25-34)% Chance to Block Spell Damage Grants Minions 4% of Life Regenerated per Second if they have Blocked recently
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% increased Effect of OfferingPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. or Raise ZombieRaise ZombieSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (9-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRaises a zombie minion from a corpse, which will follow you and attack enemies with a melee strike.Maximum (3-6) Raised Zombies Minions have (0-38)% more Maximum Life
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.05-1) to Maximum Raised ZombiesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. They cannot be detonated, consumed, or otherwise affected by non-minion skills other than by overriding the corpse limit by using Desecrate or Death Walk.
Spectre bank
A "spectre bank" is an internal list of the 10 most recent monsters raised by a Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. gem. This number is independent of your maximum spectre limit. This list is retained even upon exiting the area, removing the Raise Spectre gem, after your Spectres die or are unsummoned, or logging out. There is currently no way to clear a spectre bank; it can only be ignored by removing the Raise Spectre gem.
Spectral Corpses will only be created if at least one monster is in your spectre bank. Before 10 or more different monsters are saved in the spectre bank, each additional spectre saved dilutes the chance for the Spectral Corpse to be a specific spectre. After 10 or more spectres are saved, the chance does not get further diluted, and the oldest monster saved will be removed from the spectre bank.
To share spectres between players, the players should join the same hideout area. After doing so, either player will be able to spawn spectral corpses of other players in the area.[3] In non-hideout areas, the player who owns the desired spectre must be the one to use Desecrate for other players.
Because Spectral Corpses replace detonatable corpses, it is not recommended to have Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. socketed if the player has ever raised a spectre on that character, and wants to detonate corpses for damage.
Note that Raise Spectre of TransienceRaise Spectre of TransienceSpell, Minion, Duration Level: (1-20) Cost: (12-23) Mana Cast Time: 0.70 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a temporary minion to fight for you in battle for a duration.Spectres have a Base Duration of 30 seconds Spectres do not travel between Areas Maximum (4-6) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Minions have 1000% increased Critical Strike Chance Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Maximum (0.05-1) Raised SpectresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., or the regular Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. while also equipping Soul's WickSoul's Wick Cobalt JewelLimited to: 1+2 to maximum number of Spectres (50-40)% reduced Mana Cost of Raise Spectre Spectres have (800-1000)% increased Critical Strike Chance Spectres have a Base Duration of 20 seconds Spectres do not travel between AreasCorruptedCandles with the brightest light Bring life to death and day to night. But lovely as the glow may seem, Their light is fleeting, as a dream...Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket., does not save spectres into the spectre bank.
Monsters from corpse items and certain other monsters such as Knitted Horrors cannot be added to the spectre bank.
Gem level progression
Level
Mana Cost
Chaos Damage per sec
Corpse Level
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
16
26
18
11
8.2
20
0
0
2
20
31
22
12
11.3
24
49725
49725
3
24
37
25
13
15.4
28
95714
145439
4
28
42
29
14
20.6
32
169595
315034
5
31
46
32
15
25.5
35
199345
514379
6
34
50
35
16
31.4
38
285815
800194
7
37
54
37
17
38.5
41
401344
1201538
8
40
58
40
18
46.9
44
554379
1755917
9
43
62
43
18
57
47
755049
2510966
10
46
66
46
19
69
50
1016533
3527499
11
49
70
48
20
83.4
53
1898602
5426101
12
52
74
51
21
100.5
56
1964019
7390120
13
55
78
54
22
120.7
59
2573731
9963851
14
58
82
57
23
144.8
62
4676439
14640290
15
60
84
59
23
163.2
65
3017327
17657617
16
62
87
60
24
183.9
69
7823001
25480618
17
64
90
62
25
207
73
15264208
40744826
18
66
92
64
25
232.8
77
26272845
67017671
19
68
95
66
26
261.7
81
62872274
129889945
20
70
98
68
26
294
100
212023122
341913067
21
72
100
70
27
330.1
100
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
27
370.3
100
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
28
415.2
100
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
29
465.3
100
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
29
521.2
100
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
30
583.5
100
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
30
653
100
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
31
730.4
100
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
32
816.6
100
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
32
912.6
100
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
32
964.6
100
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
33
1019.5
100
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
33
1077.3
100
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
33
1138.4
100
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
34
1202.8
100
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
34
1270.8
100
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
34
1342.4
100
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
34
1418
100
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
35
1497.7
100
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
35
1581.8
100
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Desecrate can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Desecrate can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
3
The Bitter BlossomThe Bitter Blossom3Level 21 Chaos Gem Quality:+23% CorruptedThe pain you feel is of no consequence, it is evolution, to be made whole within something greater.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality
A
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.
30% increased Damage if you have Consumed a corpse Recently Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you've Consumed a corpse Recently Desecrate and Unearth have +2 to Maximum number of corpses allowed [1]
The number of Spectre varieties saved to your character that can be Desecrated is now always 10, rather than being based on your Spectre limit.
Corpses spawned by the DesecrateDesecrateSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos Level: (1-20) Cost: (11-26) Mana Cast Time: 0.60 secRequires Level 16Desecrates the ground, summoning corpses and dealing chaos damage to all enemies in the area. The corpses will be chosen from the monsters in the current area and any Spectres that have existed in this instance.Deals (8.2-294) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 4.00 seconds Spawns 5 corpses Spawns corpses up to Level (20-100) Maximum of 10 corpses allowed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Cast SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. and Corpse Walk skills now have a flat 15% chance to match your spectres (or 100% in Hideout areas), rather than a 15% chance on top of being added to the main pool of corpse varieties that can be picked from. These Spectral Corpses are now unusable for most purposes, and can only be used by Minion Skills such as Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. or Bone OfferingBone OfferingMinion, Spell, Duration Level: (1-20) Cost: (16-33) Mana Cast Time: 1.00 secRequires Level 12Consumes a corpse, granting all of your minions the power to block both attacks and spells. The skill consumes other nearby corpses, increasing the duration for each corpse consumed.Base duration is 5.00 seconds Additional 1.00 seconds Base Duration per extra corpse Consumed Grants Minions +(25-35)% Chance to Block Attack Damage Grants Minions +(25-34)% Chance to Block Spell Damage Grants Minions 4% of Life Regenerated per Second if they have Blocked recently
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% increased Effect of OfferingPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
Spectral Corpses have a visual effect applied to them to help differentiate them from other corpses.
Spectral Corpses can only spawn if you have the Raise Spectre Skill.
The maximum level of Corpses spawned is now level 20 at gem level 1 (unchanged), scaling up to 80 at gem level 20 (previously level 100).
Alternate quality gems, labyrinth helmet enchantments and unique threshold jewels are all systems that were trying to subtly modify the behaviour of skills. With this expansion these have been combined into a new system called Transfigured Gems that allows us to fully achieve the goal of these three systems, and then some.
Anomalous, Divergent and Phantasmal Quality Gems have been removed from the game. Existing alternate Quality Gems now have the base Quality effect found on the respective Gem.
Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-28) Mana Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Maximum (1-2) Raised Spectres Minions have +30% to all Elemental Resistances 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Raised Spectres are Level (28-70)
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have +(1-20)% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.'s most recent monster types are now saved to your character and may be Desecrated. The size of this list is capped by your Spectre limit.
Desecrate and Corpse Walk now have a static 15% chance to spawn a Spectre Corpse, rather than a 2x relative weighting compared to all other possible corpse types.
Lower the life of Spectre versions of monsters that have very high life totals. Their life is being brought down to match Kitava's Herald monsters. This will affect their corpse when created with Desecrate.
Phantasmal Desecrate can now produce corpses of Scourge monsters. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
Reverted an unintended change where corpses of Spectre monsters were made to be just as likely as other corpses from Desecrate and other corpse generating skills. Spectre-based corpses are once again twice as likely as corpses from the area.[4]
The Labyrinth Helmet Enchantment for Desecrate which granted increased Cooldown Reduction now instead grants increased Duration at the same value. This affects existing items with this enchantment. This enchantment can no longer be obtained from the Labyrinth.
Now creates 5 corpses (up from 3). The cooldown has been reduced to 3 seconds per stack (down from 5), and the cast time has been reduced to 0.8 seconds (down from 1). Desecrate's maximum corpse level now grows more steadily as the skill gem levels up. It can now create higher level corpses at most levels, except level 19 of the gem, in which the maximum corpse level has been lowered from 100 to 81.
Desecrate can now only create monsters that are in the instance it is used in. In areas where no monsters have spawned, a specific desecrate table is used. This fixes a longstanding bug with the desecration list that had further problems introduced due to persistent spectres.
The maximum level of a created corpse has been changed to being higher than the required level of the skill. This scales up to a monster level cap of 100 by level 20 of the gem.
Desecrate also now enforces a limit of 15 corpses at a time.
Desecrated Ground's damaging area; it does not affect the spread distance of spawned corpses.
Spell Cascade SupportSpell Cascade SupportAoE, Spell, Support
: Spell Cascade spawns 5 corpses per cascaded area. Because of this, a single use will exceed the maximum limit of 10 corpses (or 12 with Undertaker allocated); newer corpses will replace older corpses.
Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger
), corpses will not be consumed on the first trigger if no other corpses are nearby, as the Offering will fail to recognize that the corpses have spawned.[2] This does not affect triggers where gems are triggered sequentially, such as 
Cast On Critical Strike SupportCast On Critical Strike SupportCritical, Support, Spell, Trigger
.
Raise SpectreRaise SpectreSpell, Minion
, as well as the player's current area:
Bone OfferingBone OfferingMinion, Spell, Duration
or 
Raise ZombieRaise ZombieSpell, Minion
. They cannot be detonated, consumed, or otherwise affected by non-minion skills other than by overriding the corpse limit by using Desecrate or Death Walk.
Raise Spectre of TransienceRaise Spectre of TransienceSpell, Minion, Duration
, or the regular 
Soul's WickSoul's Wick
, does not save spectres into the spectre bank.
The Bitter Blossom
The Bitter Blossom
3Level 21 Chaos Gem
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.
Stygian Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate becomes a Stygian Effect.
Tombstone Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate summons a cluster of necrotic tombstones
Void Desecrate EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Desecrate becomes a Void Effect.
