Pestilent Strike

Pestilent StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Chaos
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 6 Mana
Attack Damage: (125-160)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (125-160)%Requires Level 28Attacks with your weapon, inflicting a debuff on enemies hit by the strike. If a debuffed enemy dies while poisoned, Pestilent Strike inflicts a secondary chaos damage over time debuff on enemies around them, based on the poisons on the slain enemy. This damage is not affected by your damage modifiers. Requires a Claw or Dagger.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal+0.5% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Poison1% increased Area of Effect1% increased Skill Effect Duration1% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos DamageDeals (125-160)% of Base Attack Damage
Base duration is 1 seconds
Secondary Debuff deals 50% of the total remaining Expected Poison Damage of all Poisons on the dying Enemy per second as Chaos Damage
Base secondary duration is 1 seconds
60% chance to Poison on Hit
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
30% more Poison Duration
(20-113) to (30-169) Added Chaos Damage
+(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.Acquisition
Area level: 28Vendor Prices

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Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemPestilentStrike

Pestilent Strike is a melee strike skill that deals chaos damage and applies poison. If the poisoned enemy dies while poisoned it will inflict other nearby enemies with another chaos damage over time debuff.

Skill functions and interactions

The base debuff radius is 27.

Enemies killed while under the effect of Pestilent Strike’s signature debuff will leave no corpse. This can be useful for bypassing some monsters’ on-death effects.

Multiple debuffs can be on the same monster, but only the highest damage debuff will cause damage at any given time.

The debuff requires an enemy to die with poison on it near the enemy you want the debuff on. For solo enemy fights, Vaal BreachVaal BreachVaal, Spell
Level: 1
Souls Per Use: 100
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: 2.50 secRequires Level 10Creates a breach, making you vulnerable to its powerful inhabitants.Per 1% Quality:1Superior3% increased Cast SpeedMonsters from the Breach do not grant Experience or drop Items
CorruptedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. can spawn enemies to spread the debuff.

The debuff takes half of the poison damage left on the monster when it died and deals it incrementally over 1 second.

• Example - A 6 second poison does 3 seconds worth of debuff damage in 1 second. In this example the debuff does 3 times the damage (200% more damage) per second than the poison damage.

Damage Calculations

Scaling

Pestilent Strikes debuff can scale poison damage in unique ways that would not be beneficial to most other poison attacks. Some examples:

• Because all sources of poisons transfer on the debuff, spells, minions and even other players with poison, can help scale the damage.
• Poison duration will increase the damage per second of the debuff. The assassin ascendancy passive Noxious Strike with many poisons landed per second is the largest source of poison duration.

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	Chaos Damage	Melee Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	42	0	29	0%	0%	0	125%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	125%	0.00 sec	0%	20 to 30	N/A	0	0
2	31	46	0	32	0%	0%	0	127%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	126.8%	0.00 sec	0%	23 to 35	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	50	0	35	0%	0%	0	129%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	128.7%	0.00 sec	0%	27 to 40	N/A	285815	485160
4	37	54	0	37	0%	0%	0	131%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	130.5%	0.00 sec	0%	31 to 46	N/A	401344	886504
5	40	58	0	40	0%	0%	0	132%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	132.4%	0.00 sec	0%	35 to 53	N/A	554379	1440883
6	42	60	0	42	0%	0%	0	134%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	134.2%	0.00 sec	0%	38 to 58	N/A	477437	1918320
7	44	63	0	44	0%	0%	0	136%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	136%	0.00 sec	0%	42 to 63	+1	583786	2502106
8	46	66	0	46	0%	0%	0	138%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	137.9%	0.00 sec	0%	45 to 68	+1	710359	3212465
9	48	68	0	48	0%	0%	0	140%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	139.7%	0.00 sec	0%	49 to 74	+1	1355511	4567976
10	50	71	0	49	0%	0%	0	142%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	141.6%	0.00 sec	0%	53 to 80	+1	1138877	5706853
11	52	74	0	51	0%	0%	0	143%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	143.4%	0.00 sec	0%	58 to 86	+1	1368233	7075086
12	54	76	0	53	0%	0%	0	145%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	145.2%	0.00 sec	0%	62 to 93	+1	1638338	8713424
13	56	79	0	55	0%	0%	0	147%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	147.1%	0.00 sec	0%	67 to 101	+1	1956648	10670072
14	58	82	0	57	0%	0%	0	149%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	148.9%	0.00 sec	0%	73 to 109	+2	3655184	14325256
15	60	84	0	59	0%	0%	0	151%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	150.8%	0.00 sec	0%	78 to 117	+2	3017327	17342583
16	62	87	0	60	0%	0%	0	153%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	152.6%	0.00 sec	0%	84 to 126	+2	7759995	25102578
17	64	90	0	62	0%	0%	0	154%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	154.4%	0.00 sec	0%	91 to 136	+2	15138193	40240771
18	66	92	0	64	0%	0%	0	156%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	156.3%	0.00 sec	0%	98 to 146	+2	26083825	66324596
19	68	95	0	66	0%	0%	0	158%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	158.1%	0.00 sec	0%	105 to 157	+2	62620247	128944843
20	70	98	0	68	0%	0%	0	160%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	160%	0.00 sec	0%	113 to 169	+2	211708088	340652931
21	72	100	0	70	0%	0%	0	162%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	161.8%	0.00 sec	0%	121 to 181	+3	-340652931	0
22	74	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	164%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	163.7%	0.00 sec	0%	130 to 195	+3	0	0
23	76	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	166%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	165.5%	0.00 sec	0%	139 to 209	+3	0	0
24	78	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	167%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	167.3%	0.00 sec	0%	149 to 224	+3	0	0
25	80	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	169%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	169.2%	0.00 sec	0%	160 to 239	+3	0	0
26	82	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	171%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	171%	0.00 sec	0%	171 to 256	+3	0	0
27	84	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	173%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	172.9%	0.00 sec	0%	183 to 274	+3	0	0
28	86	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	175%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	174.7%	0.00 sec	0%	196 to 293	+4	0	0
29	88	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	177%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	176.5%	0.00 sec	0%	209 to 314	+4	0	0
30	90	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	178%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	178.4%	0.00 sec	0%	223 to 335	+4	0	0
31	91	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	178%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	178.4%	0.00 sec	0%	231 to 346	+4	0	0
32	92	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	180%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	180.2%	0.00 sec	0%	239 to 358	+4	0	0
33	93	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	182%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	182.1%	0.00 sec	0%	247 to 370	+4	0	0
34	94	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	184%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	183.9%	0.00 sec	0%	255 to 382	+4	0	0
35	95	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	186%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	185.7%	0.00 sec	0%	263 to 395	+5	0	0
36	96	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	188%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	187.6%	0.00 sec	0%	272 to 408	+5	0	0
37	97	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	189%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	189.4%	0.00 sec	0%	281 to 421	+5	0	0
38	98	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	191%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	191.3%	0.00 sec	0%	290 to 435	+5	0	0
39	99	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	193%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	193.1%	0.00 sec	0%	300 to 449	+5	0	0
40	100	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	195%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	194.9%	0.00 sec	0%	309 to 464	+5	0	0

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Pestilent Strike:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Pestilent Strike. No results found

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Now converts 60% of physical damage to chaos damage (from 50%).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.9.0	Now gains additional Melee range as the gem levels, up to +2 at gem level 20.
3.8.0	Pestilent Strike has been added to the game.