Herald of Ash
Level: (1-20)
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).Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
Base duration is 4 seconds
Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage
(9-12)% more Spell Fire Damage
(0-38)% more Burning DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Drop level: 16Vendor Prices
Normal | 1x Orb of Alteration |
1x Scroll FragmentMetadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemHeraldOfAsh
Herald of Ash is Herald skill. It reserves mana to grant additional fire damage based on physical damage to attacks and more fire damage to spells. Enemies you kill while Herald of Ash is active will explode and burn nearby enemies for overkill damage.
Skill functions and interactions
- Extra Fire Damage: This modifier adds fire damage to all non-damage-over-time sources, including those from spells, attacks, and traps. The amount added is equal to 15% of the damage source's physical damage.
- Burn on kill: While Herald of Ash is active, when an enemy is killed, enemies within a radius from the killed enemy are burned based on the overkill damage. Overkill damage refers to total excess damage of the killing hit, including non-fire damage.[1] The burning damage is affected by increased Burning Damage and increased Damage Over Time. This damage cannot be reflected.
- Fire Damage: The increased Fire Damage from quality applies globally to all fire damage, including the extra fire damage effect of Herald of Ash.
- More Burning Damage: Despite the more Spell Fire Damage the more Burning Damage is not global. It only affects the burn created by itself.
- Support gems: Any support gems (with the exception of Enhance SupportEnhance SupportExceptional, Support
Icon: +
Level: (1-3)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Supports any skill gem. Once this gem reaches level 2 or above, will raise the quality of supported gems. Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.+(0-16)% to Quality of Supported Skill Gems
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
This Gem gains (5-100)% increased ExperienceThis 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.) linked to the Herald of Ash will only affect the burn damage caused by overkill damage, not the extra fire damage from physical. For example, linking Item Rarity SupportItem Rarity SupportSupport
Icon: R
Level: (1-20)Requires Level 31Supports any skill that can kill enemies.(40-59)% increased Rarity of Items Dropped by Enemies Slain from Supported Skills
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.5-10)% increased Rarity of Items Dropped by Enemies Slain from Supported SkillsThis 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. to Herald of Ash will only apply rarity bonus to the enemies who die from the burn damage caused by Herald of Ash ignition.
- Area of Effect: Area of Effect modifiers from passives, items and gems affect the radius of the on-kill effect.
- Culling Strike: When using an attack with culling strike, the overkill effect will only apply if the damage from the killing hit would have taken the monster to less than 0 life.
- Brutality SupportBrutality SupportPhysical, Support
Icon: U
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 38Supports any skill that deals damage.Supported Skills deal (25-39)% more Physical Damage
Supported Skills deal no Chaos Damage
Supported Skills deal no Elemental Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Physical 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.: When linked to a skill affected by Herald of Ash, the extra fire damage will not apply, but the secondary overkill effect will.
Gem level progression
Level | more Burn Damage | more Spell Fire Damage | Exp. | Total Exp. | |||
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1 | 16 | 26 | 18 | N/A | 9% | 0 | 0 |
2 | 20 | 31 | 22 | 2% | 9% | 49725 | 49725 |
3 | 24 | 37 | 25 | 4% | 9% | 95714 | 145439 |
4 | 28 | 42 | 29 | 6% | 9% | 169595 | 315034 |
5 | 31 | 46 | 32 | 8% | 9% | 199345 | 514379 |
6 | 34 | 50 | 35 | 10% | 10% | 285815 | 800194 |
7 | 37 | 54 | 37 | 12% | 10% | 401344 | 1201538 |
8 | 40 | 58 | 40 | 14% | 10% | 554379 | 1755917 |
9 | 43 | 62 | 43 | 16% | 10% | 755049 | 2510966 |
10 | 46 | 66 | 46 | 18% | 10% | 1016533 | 3527499 |
11 | 49 | 70 | 48 | 20% | 11% | 1898602 | 5426101 |
12 | 52 | 74 | 51 | 22% | 11% | 1964019 | 7390120 |
13 | 55 | 78 | 54 | 24% | 11% | 2573731 | 9963851 |
14 | 58 | 82 | 57 | 26% | 11% | 4676439 | 14640290 |
15 | 60 | 84 | 59 | 28% | 11% | 3017327 | 17657617 |
16 | 62 | 87 | 60 | 30% | 12% | 7823001 | 25480618 |
17 | 64 | 90 | 62 | 32% | 12% | 15264208 | 40744826 |
18 | 66 | 92 | 64 | 34% | 12% | 26272845 | 67017671 |
19 | 68 | 95 | 66 | 36% | 12% | 62872274 | 129889945 |
20 | 70 | 98 | 68 | 38% | 12% | 212023122 | 341913067 |
21 | 72 | 100 | 70 | 40% | 13% | N/A | N/A |
22 | 74 | N/A | N/A | 42% | 13% | N/A | N/A |
23 | 76 | N/A | N/A | 44% | 13% | N/A | N/A |
24 | 78 | N/A | N/A | 46% | 13% | N/A | N/A |
25 | 80 | N/A | N/A | 48% | 13% | N/A | N/A |
26 | 82 | N/A | N/A | 50% | 14% | N/A | N/A |
27 | 84 | N/A | N/A | 52% | 14% | N/A | N/A |
28 | 86 | N/A | N/A | 54% | 14% | N/A | N/A |
29 | 88 | N/A | N/A | 56% | 14% | N/A | N/A |
30 | 90 | N/A | N/A | 58% | 14% | N/A | N/A |
31 | 91 | N/A | N/A | 59% | 14% | N/A | N/A |
32 | 92 | N/A | N/A | 60% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
33 | 93 | N/A | N/A | 61% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
34 | 94 | N/A | N/A | 62% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
35 | 95 | N/A | N/A | 63% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
36 | 96 | N/A | N/A | 64% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
37 | 97 | N/A | N/A | 65% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
38 | 98 | N/A | N/A | 66% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
39 | 99 | N/A | N/A | 67% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
40 | 100 | N/A | N/A | 68% | 15% | N/A | N/A |
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
Item acquisition
Herald of Ash can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Herald of Ash can be created from the following recipes:
Amount | Part | Description | Meta |
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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 |
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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 |
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Quest ↓ | |||||||
Intruders in Black Act 2 Yeena | ✓ | ||||||
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa | ✓ | ||||||
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth | ✓ |
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 | |
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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 |
Alternate skill effects
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Version history
Version | Changes |
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3.4.0 |
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3.2.0 |
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3.0.0 |
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2.0.0 |
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1.2.0 |
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References
- ↑ Mark_GGG (August 21, 2014). "Herald of Ash". Official Path of Exile Forums.