Herald of Ash

Herald of AshSpell, AoE, Fire, Herald, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: 25% Mana
Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: Instant
AoE Radius: 10Requires Level 16Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage. While you have this buff, if you kill an enemy, other enemies near them will be burned based on the overkill damage. The burn inflicted by this skill can only be affected by modifiers to damage over time (burning damage is damage over time).Base duration is 4.00 seconds
(0-38)% more Burning Damage
Buff grants (15-20)% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Base burning damage is an additional (0.25-5)% of Overkill DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 16Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemHeraldOfAsh

Not to be confused with the unique monster, Herald of Ashes.

Herald of Ash is a Herald skill. It reserves mana to grant extra fire damage based on physical damage. Enemies you kill while Herald of Ash is active will apply a burn to nearby enemies, based on overkill damage.

Skill functions and interactions

• Extra Fire Damage: This modifier adds fire damage to all hits, including those from attacks, spells, and secondary damage sources.

• Burn on kill: While Herald of Ash is active, when you kill with a hit, enemies near the kill receive a burning debuff based on the overkill damage. Overkill damage refers to total excess damage of the killing hit over the monster's remaining Life and Energy shield, including non-fire damage. The burning damage is affected by increased/more Burning Damage and increased/more Damage Over Time, as well as damage over time multipliers that apply to all damage or Fire damage. The debuff is not an Ignite, and is not affected by modifiers to Ignite or Ailments.

• More Burning Damage: The more Burning Damage is not global. It only affects the burning debuff created by Herald of Ash itself.

• Area of Effect: Area of Effect modifiers from passives, items, and gems affect the radius of the on-kill effect.

• Culling Strike: Hits that leave enemies with less than 10% of their life and then kill through culling strike have no overkill damage. (Though the culling strike modifier does not prevent overkilling in general.)

Strategy

• In the case where enemy death occurs uniformly at random with respect to damage dealt, the chance of an enemy dying from a particular hit is proportional to the damage the hit deals. The mean overkill damage for that hit is half the damage of the hit. This makes the mean overkill damage overall equal to

 0.5 * (mean damage2) / mean damage

Gem level progression

Level				Phys as Fire Buff	More Burning Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	26	18	15%	—	0	0
2	20	31	22	15%	2%	49725	49725
3	24	37	25	15%	4%	95714	145439
4	28	42	29	15%	6%	169595	315034
5	31	46	32	15%	8%	199345	514379
6	34	50	35	16%	10%	285815	800194
7	37	54	37	16%	12%	401344	1201538
8	40	58	40	16%	14%	554379	1755917
9	43	62	43	17%	16%	755049	2510966
10	46	66	46	17%	18%	1016533	3527499
11	49	70	48	17%	20%	1898602	5426101
12	52	74	51	18%	22%	1964019	7390120
13	55	78	54	18%	24%	2573731	9963851
14	58	82	57	18%	26%	4676439	14640290
15	60	84	59	19%	28%	3017327	17657617
16	62	87	60	19%	30%	7823001	25480618
17	64	90	62	19%	32%	15264208	40744826
18	66	92	64	20%	34%	26272845	67017671
19	68	95	66	20%	36%	62872274	129889945
20	70	98	68	20%	38%	212023122	341913067
21	72	100	70	21%	40%	—	—
22	74	—	—	21%	42%	—	—
23	76	—	—	21%	44%	—	—
24	78	—	—	22%	46%	—	—
25	80	—	—	22%	48%	—	—
26	82	—	—	22%	50%	—	—
27	84	—	—	23%	52%	—	—
28	86	—	—	23%	54%	—	—
29	88	—	—	23%	56%	—	—
30	90	—	—	24%	58%	—	—
31	91	—	—	24%	59%	—	—
32	92	—	—	24%	60%	—	—
33	93	—	—	24%	61%	—	—
34	94	—	—	24%	62%	—	—
35	95	—	—	24%	63%	—	—
36	96	—	—	25%	64%	—	—
37	97	—	—	25%	65%	—	—
38	98	—	—	25%	66%	—	—
39	99	—	—	25%	67%	—	—
40	100	—	—	25%	68%	—	—

Item acquisition

Herald of Ash can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Herald of Ash 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 ↓
Intruders in Black Act 2

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 ↓
Intruders in Black Act 2 Yeena
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth

Ruthless mode

Herald of Ash cannot be obtained from quests or traded for using an Uncarved GemstoneUncarved GemstoneTrade this in to Siosa inside the Library for a Skill Gem through Siosa in Ruthless mode.

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Herald of Ash.

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
Enchantment Herald Of Ash Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Herald of Ash Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Herald Of Ash Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Herald of Ash Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Herald Of Ash Mana Reservation 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Herald of Ash has 40% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 0
Enchantment Herald Of Ash Mana Reservation 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Herald of Ash has 60% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 0
Enchantment Herald Of Ash Mana Reservation 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Herald of Ash has 50% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 100
Enchantment Herald Of Ash Mana Reservation 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Herald of Ash has 75% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 100

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Herald of Ash:

Item	Base item		Stats
Circle of AnguishCircle of Anguish Ruby RingRequires Level 52<One to three random Synthesis implicit modifiers>+(20-30) to Strength Adds (20-25) to (26-35) Fire Damage +(20-30)% to Fire Resistance <Two Random Herald of Ash modifier>I condemned an innocent man to the pyres, but to admit this mistake is to condemn myself. My only choice is to strive harder.	Ruby Ring	52	<One to three random Synthesis implicit modifiers>+(20-30) to Strength Adds (20-25) to (26-35) Fire Damage +(20-30)% to Fire Resistance <Two Random Herald of Ash modifier> Herald of Ash has (40-60)% increased Buff Effect (40-60)% increased Fire Damage while affected by Herald of Ash +1% to maximum Fire Resistance while affected by Herald of Ash Herald of Ash has (30-40)% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency +(50-60)% to Fire Resistance while affected by Herald of Ash
Circle of AmbitionCircle of Ambition Prismatic RingRequires Level 64<Three random Synthesis implicit modifiers>+(10-20) to all Attributes +(10-20)% to all Elemental Resistances 10% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Herald Skills <Three Random Herald modifiers>I will build the wall that stands against the tide. The day is coming... I have seen it.	Prismatic Ring	64	<Three random Synthesis implicit modifiers>+(10-20) to all Attributes +(10-20)% to all Elemental Resistances 10% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Herald Skills <Three Random Herald modifiers> (40-60)% increased Chaos Damage while affected by Herald of Agony +(31-43)% to Chaos Resistance while affected by Herald of Agony Herald of Agony has (40-60)% increased Buff Effect Agony Crawler deals (70-100)% increased Damage Herald of Agony has (30-40)% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency Herald of Ash has (40-60)% increased Buff Effect (40-60)% increased Fire Damage while affected by Herald of Ash +1% to maximum Fire Resistance while affected by Herald of Ash Herald of Ash has (30-40)% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency +(50-60)% to Cold Resistance while affected by Herald of Ice +(50-60)% to Fire Resistance while affected by Herald of Ash (40-60)% increased Cold Damage while affected by Herald of Ice Herald of Ice has (40-60)% increased Buff Effect Herald of Ice has (30-40)% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency +1% to maximum Cold Resistance while affected by Herald of Ice Herald of Purity has (40-60)% increased Buff Effect Sentinels of Purity deal (70-100)% increased Damage (40-60)% increased Physical Damage while affected by Herald of Purity 4% additional Physical Damage Reduction while affected by Herald of Purity Herald of Purity has (30-40)% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency Herald of Thunder has (40-60)% increased Buff Effect (40-60)% increased Lightning Damage while affected by Herald of Thunder +(50-60)% to Lightning Resistance while affected by Herald of Thunder +1% to maximum Lightning Resistance while affected by Herald of Thunder Herald of Thunder has (30-40)% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency

Related passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Herald of Ash (These passives may granted from Blight anointment only, or Timeless JewelTimeless JewelPlace into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. or Cluster Jewel):

Name	Stats
Heraldry	Nearby Enemies have Fire Exposure while you are affected by Herald of Ash Nearby Enemies have Cold Exposure while you are affected by Herald of Ice Nearby Enemies have Lightning Exposure while you are affected by Herald of Thunder [1]

Related modifiers

These Searing Exarch implicits can be found on some items dropped by the Searing Exarch or Exarch-influenced monsters, and can also be crafted via Searing Exarch currencies. Some high tier mods require Orb of ConflictOrb of ConflictStack Size: 10Unpredictably raise the strength of one Searing Exarch or Eater of Worlds modifier on an item and lower the strength of another
Lesser modifiers that have their strength lowered will be removedRight click this item then left click a non-unique item to apply it. Can only be used on items that have both a Searing Exarch and an Eater of Worlds implicit modifier. The chance of raising or lowering a modifier depends on its relative strength. to craft (These datamined tiers are counted from the bottom. Ie, T6 is the highest tier):

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicit1	75	Herald of Ash has (15-17)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_6_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 300
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicit2	75	Herald of Ash has (18-20)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_5_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 300
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicit3	75	Herald of Ash has (21-23)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_4_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 300
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicit4	75	Herald of Ash has (24-26)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_3_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 300
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicit5	75	Herald of Ash has (27-28)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_2_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 300
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicit6	75	Herald of Ash has (29-30)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_1_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 300
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitPinnaclePresence1	75	While a Pinnacle Atlas Boss is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (33-35)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_6_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 0
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitPinnaclePresence2	75	While a Pinnacle Atlas Boss is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (36-38)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_5_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 0
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitPinnaclePresence3	75	While a Pinnacle Atlas Boss is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (39-41)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_4_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 60
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitPinnaclePresence4	75	While a Pinnacle Atlas Boss is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (42-44)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_3_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 60
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitPinnaclePresence5	75	While a Pinnacle Atlas Boss is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (45-46)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_2_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 60
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitPinnaclePresence6	75	While a Pinnacle Atlas Boss is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (47-48)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_1_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 60
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitUniquePresence1	75	While a Unique Enemy is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (24-26)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_6_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 0
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitUniquePresence2	75	While a Unique Enemy is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (27-29)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_5_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 150
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitUniquePresence3	75	While a Unique Enemy is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (30-32)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_4_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 150
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitUniquePresence4	75	While a Unique Enemy is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (33-35)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_3_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 150
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitUniquePresence5	75	While a Unique Enemy is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (36-37)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_2_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 150
HeraldBonusAshEffectEldritchImplicitUniquePresence6	75	While a Unique Enemy is in your Presence, Herald of Ash has (38-39)% increased Buff Effect	no_tier_1_eldritch_implicit 0 gloves 150

Alternate skill effects

Herald of Ash has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description
Automaton Herald EffectAutomaton Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an Automaton Effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an Automaton Effect.
Blood Guard Herald EffectBlood Guard Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Blood Guard Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Blood Guard Effect.
Celestial Herald EffectCelestial Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Celestial Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Celestial Effect.
Demonic Herald EffectDemonic Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Demonic Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Demonic Effect.
Despair Herald EffectDespair Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Despair Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Despair Effect.
Divine Herald EffectDivine Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a divine effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a divine effect.
Dragon Hunter Herald EffectDragon Hunter Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Dragon Hunter Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Dragon Hunter Effect.
Faith Guard Herald EffectFaith Guard Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Faith Guard Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Faith Guard Effect.
Ghostflame Herald of AshGhostflame Herald of AshSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash becomes infused with ghostly fire.	Your Herald of Ash becomes infused with ghostly fire.
Gloom Herald EffectGloom Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a dark effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a dark effect.
Gore Herald EffectGore Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a gory effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a gory effect.
Innocence Herald EffectInnocence Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an innocence effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an innocence effect.
Invisible Buff EffectInvisible Buff EffectSkill Gem EffectRemoves the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.	Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.
Purple Herald EffectPurple Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a purple effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a purple effect.
Sin Herald EffectSin Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a sin effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a sin effect.
Stygian Herald EffectStygian Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Stygian Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Stygian Effect.
Sunprism Herald EffectSunprism Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Sunprism Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Sunprism Effect.
Transcendence Herald EffectTranscendence Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a Transcendence Effect.	Your Herald becomes a Transcendence Effect.
Wasteland Herald EffectWasteland Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a Wasteland Effect.	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a Wasteland Effect.
White Herald EffectWhite Herald EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Herald becomes a White Effect.	Your Herald becomes a White Effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	Buff no longer grants more Spell Fire Damage. The buff now grants 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage at gem level 1, scaling up to 20% at gem level 20 (previously 15% at all gem levels).
3.23.0	Quality now provides "Base Burning Damage is an additional 0-5% of Overkill Damage", instead of causing the Buff to grant 0-15% increased Fire Damage.
3.11.1	Clarified that the "x% increased Fire Damage" from Herald of Ash's quality stat is dependent on having the Herald of Ash buff.
3.11.0	The visual effects have been improved.
3.4.0	Now instant by default and can therefore be used while moving. All instant skills now have cooldown 1 second or less. Instant skills cannot be supported by Spell Echo and will not be cast a second time by similar effects (such as from the Echoing Shrine).
3.2.0	Herald of Ash now also provides more Spell Fire Damage, and can trigger the overkill burn from spells.
3.0.0	Secondary effect no longer ignites. Instead, enemies near slain enemies are burned based on the overkill damage. Added Herald gem tag.
2.0.0	Radius reduced by 16.5% (from 12 to 10) and base overkill damage reduced to 80% (from 100%).
1.2.0	Herald of Ash has been added to the game.