Penance Brand

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.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent0.5% increased Area of Effect1% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage1% chance to Shock enemiesCan be Attached for a total Duration of 2.5 seconds
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 100% 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 BrandPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.Acquisition
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Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemPenanceBrand

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.

Skill functions and interactions

• 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 mana cost to cause it to activate.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2AnomalousBrands gain 1% increased Attachment Range1% increased Cooldown Recovery RateBrands gain (25-45)% increased Attachment Range
    Spends 20% of Brand's Mana Cost
    (0-40)% 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 a cluster jewel notable "Holy Conquest".
  • 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: 110%Requires Level 31Supports skills which create brands.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills have 0.25% increased Activation frequencySupported Skills have -1% less Attached Duration
    Supported Skills have 1% less Detached DurationSupported Skills have 1% more Activation Frequency if 75% of Attached Duration expiredSupported Skills have (30-44)% more Activation frequency
    Supported Skills have 65% less Attached Duration
    Supported Skills have 65% less Detached DurationThis 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. 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 SupportSupport
    Icon: +
    Level: (1-3)
    Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%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.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2AnomalousThis Gem gains 5% increased Experience3% reduced Strength Requirement+(0-2) to Level of Supported Active Skill GemsThis 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., 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: 130%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits enemies.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills deal 0.5% increased Physical Damage
    Supported Skills deal 0.5% increased Lightning DamageSupported Skills have 0.5% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning DamageEnemies Shocked by Supported Skills take 0.5% increased Physical DamageSupported Skills have 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage
    Supported Skills gain (10-29)% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning 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. allows easy conversion of the damage type entirely into lightning. Penance Brand is a popular skill choice in multi-conversion builds, utilizing two and either or .

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	Physical Damage	Spread Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	0	29	42	0%	0%	15	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	18 to 27	N/A	0	0
2	31	0	32	46	0%	0%	15	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	22 to 33	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	0	35	50	0%	0%	16	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	26 to 39	1	285815	485160
4	37	0	37	54	0%	0%	17	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	31 to 46	1	401344	886504
5	40	0	40	58	0%	0%	18	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	37 to 55	2	554379	1440883
6	42	0	42	60	0%	0%	19	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	41 to 61	2	477437	1918320
7	44	0	44	63	0%	0%	19	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	45 to 68	3	583786	2502106
8	46	0	46	66	0%	0%	20	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	51 to 76	3	710359	3212465
9	48	0	48	68	0%	0%	21	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	56 to 84	4	1355511	4567976
10	50	0	49	71	0%	0%	21	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	63 to 94	4	1138877	5706853
11	52	0	51	74	0%	0%	22	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	69 to 104	5	1368233	7075086
12	54	0	53	76	0%	0%	22	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	77 to 115	5	1638338	8713424
13	56	0	55	79	0%	0%	23	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	85 to 128	6	1956648	10670072
14	58	0	57	82	0%	0%	24	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	94 to 141	6	3655184	14325256
15	60	0	59	84	0%	0%	24	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	104 to 156	7	3017327	17342583
16	62	0	60	87	0%	0%	25	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	115 to 172	7	7759995	25102578
17	64	0	62	90	0%	0%	25	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	127 to 190	8	15138193	40240771
18	66	0	64	92	0%	0%	26	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	140 to 210	8	26083825	66324596
19	68	0	66	95	0%	0%	27	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	154 to 231	9	62620247	128944843
20	70	0	68	98	0%	0%	27	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	170 to 254	9	211708088	340652931
21	72	0	70	100	0%	0%	28	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	187 to 280	10	-340652931	0
22	74	0	0	0	0%	0%	28	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	205 to 308	10	0	0
23	76	0	0	0	0%	0%	29	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	226 to 338	11	0	0
24	78	0	0	0	0%	0%	30	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	248 to 372	11	0	0
25	80	0	0	0	0%	0%	30	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	272 to 408	12	0	0
26	82	0	0	0	0%	0%	31	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	299 to 448	12	0	0
27	84	0	0	0	0%	0%	31	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	327 to 491	13	0	0
28	86	0	0	0	0%	0%	32	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	359 to 539	13	0	0
29	88	0	0	0	0%	0%	32	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	393 to 590	14	0	0
30	90	0	0	0	0%	0%	33	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	431 to 647	14	0	0
31	91	0	0	0	0%	0%	33	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	451 to 677	15	0	0
32	92	0	0	0	0%	0%	34	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	472 to 708	15	0	0
33	93	0	0	0	0%	0%	34	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	494 to 741	15	0	0
34	94	0	0	0	0%	0%	34	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	517 to 775	15	0	0
35	95	0	0	0	0%	0%	35	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	540 to 811	16	0	0
36	96	0	0	0	0%	0%	35	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	565 to 848	16	0	0
37	97	0	0	0	0%	0%	35	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	591 to 887	16	0	0
38	98	0	0	0	0%	0%	35	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	618 to 928	16	0	0
39	99	0	0	0	0%	0%	36	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	647 to 970	17	0	0
40	100	0	0	0	0%	0%	36	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	676 to 1014	17	0	0

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Penance Brand:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Penance Brand. No results found

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.0	Penance Brand has been added to the game.