Penance Mark

Name	Penance Mark
Skill Id	PenanceMark
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Cast Time	0.50 sec
Level Req.	70
Cost	33 mana
Attack Speed	100% of base
Attack Damage	100% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage	100%
Base duration	3.00 sec
Curses a single enemy, causing them to spawn multiple phantasms when hit. The phantasms will be allies of the marked enemy with the same monster level. They cast a projectile spell which deals physical damage, and are immune to curses and knockback. You can only have one Mark at a time.
Can be Attached for a total Duration of 3.00 seconds Cursed Enemies spawn 3 Shackled Phantasms when Hit, no more than once per second.

Penance Mark is a mark curse skill that causes hits against the marked target to summon hostile phantasms. These phantasms can be killed by you.

This is one of the three mutually exclusive skills that can be acquired from selecting the Choir of the Damned skill on the Warlock of the Mists Wildwood ascendancy class in the Affliction league.

Mechanics

Penance Mark is a mark curse that targets a single enemy, causing them to spawn multiple enemy phantasms when hit with a cooldown of # seconds. Spawned phantasms match the marked enemy's monster level, cast a physical projectile spell, and are immune to curses. As the phantasms are considered enemies, they can be used to proc on-hit and on-kill effects in situations with few or no additional enemies, such as pinnacle boss encounters.

Penance Mark shares the limit of 1 mark with other mark skills.

Whenever the marked enemy is hit, it spawns 3 phantasms, no more than once per second. The phantasms are regular enemies and will fight you while they live, but expire after a few seconds if not already killed. They grant flask charges and vaal souls when slain (but do not drop loot or leave corpses).

Penance Mark scales with Mark Effect. Scaling Mark Effect increases the number of enemy Phantasms spawned at breakpoints of 33.3%, rounded up to the nearest integer.

A Phantasm's maximum life depends on the level of the Penance Marked monster. In a level 83 area, they will have about 20,000 life. It is possible for poisons to be proliferated from Phantasms to the marked target, as long as the Phantasm is close enough for the proliferation. However, Phantasms tend to spawn a minimum distance away from the marked target, making it difficult to reliably do so.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.23.0	Introduced to the game.