Scourge Arrow

Scourge ArrowAttack, Projectile, Channelling, Chaos, Bow
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (4-5) Mana
Attack Speed: 190% of base
Attack Damage: (39-52)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (39-52)%Requires Level 28Channel to infuse an arrow with chaos, gaining stages while it is held. Release to fire it, leaving spore pods in its wake. Each spore pod blooms, firing thorn arrows, which travel for a short time before dissipating. Modifiers that cause additional projectiles to be fired will only apply to the initial arrows, and the spore pods will be divided between those arrows.Arrows Pierce all Targets
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
150% more Damage with Hits and Ailments per Stage
Maximum 5 Stages
Leaves 1 Spore Pod per Stage
Each Spore Pod fires 9 Thorn Arrows
Thorn Arrows deal 50% less Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Each Spore Pod fires +(0.1-2) Thorn ArrowsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 28Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemScourgeArrow

Scourge Arrow is a channelling bow attack skill. Channelling the skill charges up an arrow that creates spore pods as the arrow travels when released. The pods explode to fire thorn arrows around them. The arrow and pods deal physical damage converted to chaos damage.

Skill functions and interactions

Additional arrows (from support gems and items like Death's HarpDeath's Harp
Death BowBow
Physical Damage: (53.2-57.4) to (138.7-149.65)
Critical Strike Chance: (6.50-7.50)%
Attacks per Second: 1.32Requires Level 32, 107 Dex(30-50)% increased Critical Strike Chance(90-105)% increased Physical Damage
10% increased Attack Speed
+50% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier
Bow Attacks fire 2 additional ArrowsThe mournful music of the strings,
The creaking arch, the arrow sings.
A choking cry, a rattled breath,
The Reaper's Song, the Harp of Death.) apply to the primary arrow, instead of the thorn arrows. Additional arrows cause spore pods to distribute evenly among each primary arrow, rather than in a line from player. Having more arrows than pods will not cause additional pods to spawn. Therefore at 5 stages Scourge Arrow will spawn 5 pods — if the player has 6 total arrows (5 additional) one of the arrows will not spawn a pod.

The distance between each spore pod can be increased by releasing the channel while mouse cursor is near the edge of your screen. With 4 additional arrows, the spore pods spawn in a cluster near your mouse cursor.

When used with Ballista Totem SupportBallista Totem SupportBow, Projectile, Support, Totem
Icon: R
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 8Supports any bow or wand attack skill, causing it to summon a ballista totem that uses the skill for you.Supported Attack Skills cannot be used with Melee Weapons
Supported Skills deal (32-24)% less Damage
Supported Skills will summon a Ballista Totem which uses that Skill
Totem lasts 8 seconds
Supported Skills have +2 to maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems
Supported Skills have 50% less Attack Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Totem Placement speedThis 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., the totem will always fully charge and then shoot.

Primary arrow collision: If a primary arrow disappears (e.g. because of collision with wall/obstacle) before all pods for that primary arrow are spawned, the rest of the pods will not spawn.

Point Blank interaction: The thorn arrows are all continuations of the original arrow from the character to the point the pods were placed. Therefore the distance travelled used for Point BlankPoint Blank SupportProjectile, Attack, Support
Icon: b
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Requires Level 18Supports projectile skills.Supported Skills' Projectile Attack Hits deal up to 30% more Damage to targets at the start of their movement, dealing less Damage to targets as the projectile travels farther
Supported Skills deal (0-38)% increased Projectile Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile 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 Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.'s calculation is the total of how far the original arrow travelled to place the pod, plus how far the thorn arrow travelled after being fired from the pod.

Shotgunning: From a single attack, multiple thorn arrows from different pods can hit the same target, but multiple thorn arrows from the same pod cannot hit the same target.

Pierce: All parts of Scourge Arrow pierce everything by default, this includes both primary arrow and thorn arrows.

Return: By default with for example Returning Projectiles only primary arrow will return. In order to also make thorn arrows return, at least 55% total projectile speed is required.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	4	39%	39%	0	0
2	31	73	4	39.6%	39.6%	199345	199345
3	34	79	4	40.4%	40.4%	285815	485160
4	37	85	4	41.1%	41.1%	401344	886504
5	40	92	4	41.7%	41.7%	554379	1440883
6	42	96	4	42.4%	42.4%	477437	1918320
7	44	100	4	43.2%	43.2%	583786	2502106
8	46	104	4	43.8%	43.8%	710359	3212465
9	48	109	5	44.5%	44.5%	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	5	45.1%	45.1%	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	5	45.9%	45.9%	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	5	46.5%	46.5%	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	5	47.2%	47.2%	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	5	47.8%	47.8%	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	5	48.6%	48.6%	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	5	49.3%	49.3%	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	5	49.9%	49.9%	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	5	50.6%	50.6%	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	5	51.3%	51.3%	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	5	52%	52%	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	5	52.6%	52.6%	—	—
22	74	—	5	53.4%	53.4%	—	—
23	76	—	5	54.1%	54.1%	—	—
24	78	—	6	54.7%	54.7%	—	—
25	80	—	6	55.4%	55.4%	—	—
26	82	—	6	56.2%	56.2%	—	—
27	84	—	6	56.8%	56.8%	—	—
28	86	—	6	57.5%	57.5%	—	—
29	88	—	6	58.1%	58.1%	—	—
30	90	—	6	58.9%	58.9%	—	—
31	91	—	6	59.1%	59.1%	—	—
32	92	—	6	59.5%	59.5%	—	—
33	93	—	6	59.9%	59.9%	—	—
34	94	—	6	60.2%	60.2%	—	—
35	95	—	6	60.6%	60.6%	—	—
36	96	—	6	60.8%	60.8%	—	—
37	97	—	6	61.2%	61.2%	—	—
38	98	—	6	61.6%	61.6%	—	—
39	99	—	6	61.9%	61.9%	—	—
40	100	—	6	62.3%	62.3%	—	—

Item acquisition

Scourge Arrow can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Scourge Arrow 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 corrupted level 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality	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 ↓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3

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 ↓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Scourge Arrow.

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 Scourge Arrow Additional Spore 1	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Scourge Arrow creates +1 Spore Pod	helmet 100
Enchantment Scourge Arrow Chance To Poison 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Scourge Arrow has 6% chance to Poison per Stage	helmet 100
Enchantment Scourge Arrow Chance To Poison 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Scourge Arrow has 8% chance to Poison per Stage	helmet 100
Enchantment Scourge Arrow Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Scourge Arrow deals 25% increased Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Scourge Arrow Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Scourge Arrow deals 40% increased Damage	helmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Scourge Arrow has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description
Celestial Scourge Arrow EffectCelestial Scourge Arrow EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Scourge Arrow becomes a Celestial Effect.	Your Scourge Arrow becomes a Celestial Effect.
Night Lotus Scourge Arrow effectNight Lotus Scourge Arrow effectSkill Gem EffectYour Scourge Arrow becomes a Night Lotus Effect.	Your Scourge Arrow becomes a Night Lotus Effect.
Stygian Scourge Arrow EffectStygian Scourge Arrow EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Scourge Arrow becomes a Stygian Effect.	Your Scourge Arrow becomes a Stygian Effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	No longer has Added Chaos Damage at all gem levels. It now has 117% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 90%), scaling up to 162% at gem level 20 (previously 125%).
3.23.0	Quality now causes Each Spore Pod to fire +0-1 Thorn Arrow, instead of providing 0-20% increased Projectile Speed.
3.19.0	Scourge Arrow now has 30% Damage Effectiveness at gem level 1 (previously 28%), up to 40% at gem level 20 (previously 35%).
3.13.0	Anomalous Scourge Arrow now causes each Spore Pod to fire 0.05 additional Thorn Arrows per 1% gem quality (from 0.1 per 1% quality).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality
3.9.0	Now deals 28% of base damage at gem level 1 (from 40%), up to 35% at gem level 20 (from 49%). Now adds 20 to 30 Chaos Damage at gem level 1, up to 113 to 169 at gem level 20.
3.8.0	Clarified the Piercing behaviour on the gem.
3.6.0	Now has the "Chaos" gem type.
3.5.1b	Reduced the mana cost of Scourge Arrow to be more in line with other channelled attack skills.
3.4.2	Additional Projectiles now apply to the primary arrow instead of the thorn arrows. The number of thorn arrows at lower levels has been increased to compensate. Pods are now distributed evenly among all primary projectiles.
3.4.0	Scourge Arrow has been added to the game.