Game Rating

At release: 2/10

Currently: 8/10

Compliments and Complaints

This game suffered HEAVILY from a bad launch (including a couple of major bugs), and it's image never recovered from it. However, the game actually improved tremendously, including fixing all of the major bugs, adding tons of quality of life (like item filters and sorting buttons), and adding an end-game system.

Here are my compliments:

• I absolutely LOVE that they use a classless system, so any character can use any skill in the game. Skills are instead tied to weapons, so a simple weapon swap allows you to try out any skill or build without needing to make a new character and run through the entire story again.

• Their end-game system allows for a lot of player choice, like:

  • what activity you want to do (3 options with a variety of completion objectives)

  • what level/difficulty to run missions at (including a true end-game push system with a slide-scale for difficulty and rewards)

  • whether or not to face lieutenants, and which lieutenant you face (which can affect either the boss fight mechanics or rewards)

• It is fun and feels good to play. The gameplay flow of movement and kill speed, plus the visual feedback for responding to enemies or map affixes is excellent.

Here are my complaints:

• Once you complete a mission, you should be able to teleport back to town from anywhere on the map, and not have to rely on going back to the purple portal. It isn't a big deal in the small arena maps, but if you do a Wrath of Sarisel (where you are racing to the end) or a Cursebreaker map (where you might go back for wealth omens), it can be annoying.

• The pop-up window for rewards from missions (including the map reward from the City of Stormfall) can be a bit annoying, particularly when there isn't a choice in a reward, but you still have to click on the reward and the okay button anyway. Even simply making it so that clicking on the reward itself closes the window would be a nice change.

  • Similarly, when leaving a mission, you click on the portal and have to click okay, then it tells you you are leaving and you have to click okay again for no reason.

• I feel like it could use another balance pass on the skills. They have worked on this a lot, but I still feel like some skills just have no use, either because of low damage or general clunkiness of use.

Bugs

• In the Graphics Settings menu, the scroll bar doesn't go all the way down, so the bottom of the window gets cut off.

• When I open my inventory, there is usually a white outline around the location of the last item I clicked on.

• Tooltip damage doesn’t change when I take “Frenzied Blows” (double damage and double cost for skills while over 750 rage). The tooltip cost does change, and the damage multiplier IS working based on testing though!

• There used to be a bug (which affected online characters) with bruiser (and possibly other) armors that caused them to gain way too much health and all resistance when you increased their quality. It is fixed in patch 1.1.7.16 (or likely at some point before), but if you have items from that time, they will still be bugged.

• Sometimes my map and minimap completely disappear,  usually when leaving a sublevel of a map. Opening up the inventory, then closing it again causes the map to refresh and temporarily fixes the issue.

• Sometimes the consumable maps snapshot the level for future consumable maps, and you aren't able to increase the level with the slider or benefit from Infinity (though it will let you select and Accept as if it works).

• There is a bug with the Sacred version of the Solarfall skill that sometimes happens, which I am pretty sure is related to Dawn's Pious Striker. I think what it does is while channeling Solarfall, if you kill an enemy with a proc of Dawn's Pious Striker, it will then transfer that killing blow to every other enemy you hit afterwards during that channel (even full health enemies that have just spawned).

• The "Blades of Pestilence" modifier for Plagueburst doesn't appear to be working.

• The minor passive node “Dominator” in the ring 2 Warlock tree is supposed to give 20 willpower on hit, but it doesn't work (with the possible exception of Infinity Blades, which already has this ability, and thus the number might be increasing).

• Probably a bug: The "Fervour’s Smoke" modifier is supposed to cost resource to trigger the explosion, but the coding appears to have a positive number of "umbra" and the positive numbers generate willpower.

Tips

• Pressing the Left Shift when comparing rings and weapons allows you to switch between left & right.

• Right-clicking on an item in your inventory swaps it onto what the character is wearing. Pressing Left Shift while Right-clicking will equip the item in the other slot of that type (shoulders, gloves, rings, or one-handed weapons).

• During each mission, along the right side of the screen is a tooltip that lists the magic find for the mission. This tooltip increases for each mission you run, until you logout (when it resets).

Screenshots

• Hitting F12 takes the screenshot (as it seems to use the Steam settings), but this information isn’t found anywhere. Additionally, the screenshot appears in the Wolcen screenshot folder not somewhere sensible like your pictures folder. The location of the Wolcen screenshot folder is: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Wolcen\wolcen\screenshots”.

Settings

• The “Profiles” folder in the “user” folder of the Wolcen game folder was meant to save online settings, so it can be deleted or emptied.

• Graphics Settings:

  • There is an option called "Motion blur" (which is checked by default). For me, Motion Blur broke how all of the characters and summons looked until I turned it off.

• Gameplay Settings:

  • "Enemy blink" means that enemies that get hit flash white for a split second.

  • "Allies' Health bars" and "Summons Health bars" actually show as red (which regularly makes me try to attack them like enemies), so I turn them off.

  • "Usable Silhouette" causes your mouse to highlight items that you can click on (like chests or destructible items).

  • "Friendly Silhouette" often causes minions to get in the way of clicking on things like portals, but unchecking the boxes seems to reduce the problem (though it still happens sometimes).

  • Contextual Text means combat messages like “Dodged” or “Blocked”.

  • Basic Attack: “With this enabled you can just hold down the left mouse button to move and if you hover a mob you will attack. Without this Option you have to release the button and press again to attack.”. If you turn it off, you can use it to run around without accidentally stopping to attack enemies, since clicking on a blank spot, then holding down on the button won’t acquire new targets.

• Controls:

  • Default Key Binding List

  • Spacebar + Left click drops the item your mouse on from your bag onto the ground.

Mods

• First, it should be noted that no mods are up to date with the most recent patch, so using them might not work, and if they do work, they might cause other problems. I am linking two that were updated the most recently (since the last major patch of 1.1.7.0), and are the most likely to work.

• Free Left Click -

  • This mod allows you to bind any active skill to your left-mouse button, as long as there is an active effect it causes on triggering (so summons in that slot don’t automatically summon).

• Various Mods -

  • This includes 6 “mods” that can be helpful in single player.

  • For Steam Version 1.1.7.2 OFFLINE MODE ONLY.

    • Unlock All Pets (no longer works)

    • Loot Mod

    • Unlock All Cosmetics Mod (unlocks everything but the Kickstarter cosmetics)

    • Camera Mod

    • Apocalyptic Form Mods

    • Item Size Mod

• If you want to create something for the game or get access to the game files, the Github Wolcen unpacker can be used (or so it says, as I haven't tried it).

Account Editing

Files can be edited by opening the listed files using the Notepad program on Windows. If you plan to edit any files, always make sure you back them up first. I like to put a copy of the file I plan to edit on my desktop (for easy access), then edit the one in the folder.

Character files:

• In each character file, at the very top, there is a section for character customization that you can play with in case you decide you want to change how your character looks after making them (there is no option in game).

• To get the hardcore achievements, there is a setting in each character file called "DeathCount". Just change that (and possibly the "DeathCountPerBossrank") numbers to 0.

  • In the “Stats” section near the top of the character file, you might need to add levels ("Level") and experience ("CurrentXP") to just below the amount needed for the unlock required first, so that when you level, it triggers the achievement.

• To get the pick up gold achievements, there is a setting in each character file called "GoldPicked", and you can simply change the number to gain each tier of gold picked up.

• In each character file, there is a section about half way down called "InventoryEquipped" and all of the items your character is wearing and carrying in the inventory are shown there. Editing items to get the desired outcomes can be a slow process, but here are some tips that should make the process smoother:

  • Make sure you preserve spacing, and punctuation (including parentheses and brackets). If any of these things is off, when you load the game, the character will not be found, because the game cannot read the file properly.

  • Simply changing the numbers of the rolls on affixes (to get the max roll) is easy, but keep in mind that there are roll ranges for each tier of affix, so you likely will need to increase the tier as well.

    • This information can be found using the Erossen website that datamined all of the information and listed it in a helpful fashion.

      1. Click on the item type you are editing (Weapons, Shields, Armors, Accessories, Gems, Reagents) under "Loot" (for normal) or "Uniques" (for uniques).

      2. Then click on the specific item type you want (Bow, Brawler Shoulder, et cetera), and scroll down to select what tier item you want (as they have 16 tiers of quality). You also can choose between different base types for accessories (amulets, belts and rings).

      3. Once you have the exact item, it shows you a list of all possible affixes. By clicking on an affix, it will show you the different affix tiers that can roll, and what level item they can appear on.

    • Unfortunately, it only shows the affix ranges for the first 12 tiers, as the 13th tier (which rolls 50% higher multiplicatively) was added after this site was last updated. The good news is that you can simply change the tier to 13 and multiply by the 50% and it still works. An exception to this rule are the Ahriman affixes, for which you need to ad a "_t13" instead (because the normal Ahriman affix doesn't have a tier listed at all).

  • To edit the type of affix on an item, you use the same process for changing the numbers, but you will need to add a few more steps:

    • 1. When viewing the affix tiers, on the rightmost side of the box, there is a blue "s" that you need to click on.

      2. You will need to copy the new Effect ID (just the part in parentheses) from the line "<MagicEffect EffectId="elemental_resistance">" into the top line of the item affix.

      3. The next line requires the Affix ID (just the part in parentheses) from the line "AffixId="ar_elemental_resistance_12"".

      4. Skip the "MaxStack" and "Parameters" lines which can be left the same.

      5. The last two lines require information found in the line "<HiRoll CharacteristicScoreInt="200" />". The "CharacteristicScoreInt" gpes into the "semantic" line, and the "200" goes into the "value" line.

      6. Make sure you save.

  • If you wish to add special affixes to the item you are working on, there a some special considerations:

    • If you wish to add an Ahriman affix, you will need to copy the affix from another item (since Erossen doesn't have that information). I recommend putting the items you wish to copy from in your inventory so everything is on the same document.

• • • • Note: The website was not updated with any or the Ahriman affixes (Yellow Horns), and likely isn’t quite up to date with some of the other patch changes since that patch dropped. Luckily, they can be found in these patch notes.

• • • If you wish to add or modify Sarisel affixes, keep in mind that there is a prefix and a suffix version on weapons, and one of them drops normally (the prefix), while the other is from crafting (the suffix).

    • If you with to add a Hunt affix, keep in mind that Hunt affixes are technically supposed to be part of a pair (a master and slave set), but the good affix (master) can be on an item by itself if it is edited that way. To get the slave affix, you can either copy it from another item like is mentioned with Ahriman affixes, or you can add another affix chunk (make sure you preserve spacing and punctuation, as this is where you are the most likely to mess them up).

    • Also, make sure that if you are copying an affix from a different item type, that you know they can actually appear on that item type (for instance some affixes are restricted to certain slots, or brawler items, but not bruiser items). If it should appear on an item, but after you copied it and opened the game, it isn't there, it might be because the source affix was on a heavy item (and the affix ID contains the word "heavy"), but you added it to a brawler item (so the affix ID needs the word "warrior" substituted in that spot).

    • The penalty cannot be the same as one of the other affixes already on the item (asnd the game will instead just combine them if you try to do it). This helps you know what other affixes can and cannot be added when upgrading a rare Hunt item into a legendary.

  • Simply changing the inherent item properties like level, quality, and either damage or defenses (health, force shield and all resistance), is the easiest.

    • The maximum level for at item is 219 (reached from items at the end of expeditions), or 217 (for everything else).

    • The maximum quality is 5.

    • The all resistance, health or force shield numbers should include the normal number multiplied by the quality (1.5 for 5 stars). The game won't do this multiplication for you, so you have to enter it manually.

  • If you are looking to simply min/max your items, keep in mind that at item can only have 6 affixes (7 if you include the negative hunt affix), 3 of which are prefixes, 3 of which are suffixes.

    • You don't have to follow these rules though, so if you are simply trying to break the game with crazy items, you are able to have more affixes. Additionally, the inherent damage or defenses on items can be changed to ridiculous proportions (which I discovered from some items that I accidentally bugged in a previous live version of the game using the improve quality project in the City of Stormfall).

  • Some values need to have decimal places, and those also often need to have a 0 before the decimal for the game to read it correctly.

  • If you get stuck, a lot of the affixes can likely be found on other items on your character, their inventory, or in the stash.

Account files:

• There are a few files that to the best of my knowledge provide no reason to edit:

  • steam_autocloud only lists the account ID.

  • LeagueRetrieval doesn't really have anything to edit.

  • lootfilter could technically be edited, but I can't imagine doing so would be less effort than simply adjusting the loot filter using the in game menu.

  • pets theoretically would be a good file to edit (or replace with this pets file, as it is supposed to unlock all of the pets, but it no longer works in patch 1.1.7.16 (which seemed to link the pets to Steam somehow). What is weird is that if you edit a character file and put a kickstarter pet as the pet name, it appears next to the character in the main menu, but then disappears when you log into the game (and then that pet name is wiped from the character save file upon exit).

• In “C:\Users\[user]\Saved Games\wolcen\savegames”, there is a file named “playerchest", you can unlock all stash tabs by changing every case of “Locked”: true to false. You might need to repeat this process with "playerchest_1_2" (which actually contains all of the information about what items are there), and "playerchest_1_3". Here is a copy of my "playerchest_1_2.json" file, which contains:

  • at least one of every map

  • a stack of 100 of every crafting consumable

  • a stack of 100 of every gem

  • one of every dye (which can be consumed to unlock all of the colors),

  • every single unique, with a maximum roll on every single affix

  • some random legendaries (which are likely only useful if you are editing items)

• In “C:\Users\[user]\Saved Games\wolcen\savegames”, there is a file named “playerdata”. If you open this, then go to the "AccountCosmeticInventory" section, it lists cosmetic lists that you have unlocked. Simply changing all of the characters in the “bitmask” line to “f” unlocks everything (except the Kickstarter rewards which seem linked to your Steam account). To make things easier I am copying the section here so you can just paste it to your file and not worry about counting. It should preserve the correct spacing (starting at the quotes and ending the line before both kinds of closed brackets):

  • "CosmeticColorsUnlocked": {

  • "version": 0,

  • "bitmask": "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff"

  • },

  • "CosmeticWeaponsUnlocked": {

  • "version": 0,

  • "bitmask": "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff"

  • },

  • "CosmeticArmorsUnlocked": {

  • "version": 0,

  • "bitmask": "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff"

• If you want all of the City of Stormfall upgrades unlocked, copy this chunk into the “FinishedProjects” section (starting at the quotes and ending before both kinds of closed brackets):

  • "FinishedProjects": [{

  • "Name": "expert_forge_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "expert_forge_project_0"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "expert_forge_project_1"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "expert_forge_project_2"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "expert_forge_project_3"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "expert_forge_project_4"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_training_equipment"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_batch_one_dependency"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_roadworks"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_aqueduct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_sewers"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "bank_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_batch_two_dependency"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_irrigation"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_crop_rotation"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_windmill"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "seekers_garrison_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_batch_three_dependency"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_trauma_center"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "buy_stash_1"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "wonder_2_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_working_conditions"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_education"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "buy_stash_2"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_sawmill"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "enneract_lab_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "injector_seat_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "siphon_chamber_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "transmutation_forge_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "enneract_lab_skillcopy_1"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "trade_assembly_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "wonder_6_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "shipyard_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "anankis_artifact_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "expert_forge_project_5"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "transmutation_forge_upgrade"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "dark_market_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_iron_mines"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_quarry"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "wonder_1_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "dark_market_item_quality_upgrade"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_housing"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_lighthouse"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "wonder_4_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "dark_market_item_rarity_upgrade"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "dark_market_leg_reagent_upgrade"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "wonder_3_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "wonder_5_construct"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_theater"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_rift_initiative"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_supply_stockpiles"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_checkpoints"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "city_hall_crystal_excavation"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "hunt_merchant_upgarde1"

  • }, {

  • "Name": "hunt_merchant_upgarde2"

• In the "SoftcoreStandard" section, in the “ExpeditionMap” subsection:

  • there is a line called "lvl": x, where x is the level for missions you have unlocked.

  • there is a line called "cur": "x", where x is the amount of skulls you have earned.

• In the "SoftcoreStandard" section, in the “ExpeditionMap” subsection, then the "ins" sub-subsection, it will have 3 chunks of data separated by double brackets. Each of these is a mission on your war table.

  • The "flo" section indicates the level, so if there are 3 parts to it, it is an expedition.

  • I think the "uaf" line indicates what category of item the reward will be (1 is armor, 2 is weapon, 3 is accessory). The "ari" line is probably also related, but I am not sure how.

  • The "fir" line seems related to the reward (rare, legendary or unique), but I am not sure how to edit it to get a desired effect.

  • The "fig" and "lan" lines tell you the position (1, 2, or 3) of the mission (from left to right).

  • I think the "bio" line indicates the monster type, but that probably isn’t something worth changing.

  • The "dif" lines say “easy” (1 red dot), “medium” (2 red dots), or “hard” (3 dots).

  • If the "rar" line seems to be used along with the “fir” line to determine the reward. I think if “rar” = true, then it provides a unique item as a reward (meaning if you are trying to farm uniques, you can use this to speed the process along).

Reference

• Wolcen news and patch notes

• Wolcen Achievements Guide

• 100% [Achievements] the cheesy way - This method uses the account editing strategy mentioned in the section above this one.

Kickstarter Rewards

• Original rewards page and the fully released details about rewards.

Aspects of Apocalypse

• In the introduction of the story, your character goes into a special mode that makes it giant and immortal, plus (at the time) it deals a lot more damage. While the form is an intriguing plot point that drives the main story, it also becomes a usable fighting mechanic in the game from that point on.

• To trigger the form, there is a button that can be pressed to engage it, but only if you have a full primordial essence meter (seen in the middle of the interface bar at the bottom of the screen). The essence meter will be black when empty, and fill up with yellow from left to right (upon reaching the right it becomes full).

• As you kill enemies, you earn primordial essence. Champion enemies sometimes also drop a white globe or two which fills the primordial essence meter much faster. Occasionally, you can find a shrine filled with white light that (once clicked) throws out tons of white globes. I believe enough to fill the meter several times over.

•  Once you have filled the bar and triggered the form, there are two choices:

  • Let the bar continue draining (which happens both over time, and per skill cast) as you fight, until it is empty and you change back to normal.

  • Hit the button again to leave the form (and preserve your essence).

• Unfortunately in the endgame system, the forms are not particularly useful as you actually tend to lose a ton of damage-per-second (because it doesn't seem to benefit from damage bonuses). They can still be good for becoming immortal at a key moment (or key moments) during certain fights in order to stay alive though (which is why leaving the form early can be helpful).

• There are four apocalypse forms that you can unlock, but only one can be selected at a time. You unlock the first form after you use it initially. As you progress through the story you get two tokens to choose what other forms you want to unlock. The final unlock token can be earned in the City of Stormfall through the "Anankis Artefact" project.

• Each form as a different playstyle, and five different skills that can be used.

Curses and Blessings at Endgame

End Game Loop

• The end game loop is essentially running missions until you fill the Ahriman progress bar to trigger the Ahriman fight (the same fight you ended the campaign with). Once you kill him, the bar resets and the loop starts over. What you choose to do for fights leading up to Ahriman in each loop is up to you.

  • The Ahriman fight progress bar is separate for each character.

• As you are running missions, you have the option of completing projects at the Regent Assembly (from the Champion of Stormfall interface) that will make the Ahriman fight easier.

  • These projects will only last for the current loop though, so I don’t usually bother with them. However, when you are really pushing the hardest difficulties, they might be necessary for you to beat Ahriman.

• After completing 3 missions, the “Fight Lieutenant” bar will become filled and a button will appear. You can launch the lieutenant fight then, or keep running missions until Ahriman arrives.

• Every time you fight a lieutenant, you will have the option of fighting one of three skills that Ahriman possesses. The skill you choose will be used against you by a shade of Ahriman that appears periodically, but the shade can’t be harmed. You just need to kill all of the spawns and survive to win. If you die, you get nothing and the opportunity is lost. If you survive during the Chapter 4 version, the skill will be disabled in the final Ahriman fight. If you survive in the Champion of Stormfall mode version, you can choose to disable the skill, or gain extra rewards.

• The Ahriman fight, and his Lieutenant fights don't provide productivity for the City of Stormfall projects, nor do they progress the Ahriman bar (but killing Ahriman does reset it).

• If you successfully complete all missions and fight all Lieutenants at the first opportunity, you can unlock all 8 lieutenant fights, then still have one mission left over before fighting Ahriman.

  • This means that if there is a mission that you want to do instead somewhere along the way (with a unique reward for example), you can without messing up your progress.

• During each mission, along the right side of the screen is a tooltip that lists the magic find for the mission. This tooltip increases for each mission you run, until you logout (when it resets).

  • I think the magic find goes up by 80 times the number of red dots for each mission.

  • It is strange that it doesn't reset upon killing Ahriman, but resets upon logging out. Theoretically that should mean that if you just stayed logged into the game forever, you will get a near infinite magic find boost.

• Since magic find increases with each mission and lieutenant fight, you have the best chance of getting good legendaries and uniques in the last Lieutenant fight.

• • Some very rare unique items can be target-farmed from these lieutenant fights. Nemorga made this wonderful visual guide for it:

• As long as you aren't getting progress on your Ahriman bar, the level modifiers will not change (so you can run all of your maps on modifiers you like).

• The fastest way to increase the levels of the war table is to run “Headhunt” missions, with “Onslaught” and “Sabotage” being the second fastest. This is even true if these three mission types only provide 3 skulls (but is especially true if they give more).

  • Since the best way to gain experience is to run the highest level mission you can still do fast, this is also the fastest way to level your character (to a point).

• In mandates (and only in mandates), you can actually teleport back to town to sell. This is a holdover from the original structure of the endgame activities where mandates came from a mandate board and usually were closer to your level, while every other activity was separate.

• If you are looking to optimize your gear, running “Sarisel” missions for Sarisel affix items, or “Expedition” missions for the hunt affix items can be useful.

Difficulties

• There is a long progression of running missions to earn skulls, and unlock higher levels, then eventually turn into tier unlocks. The tier and level unlocks are shared by characters on the same account. The tiers and associated levels are:

• When you run in a group, you get credit for all of the skulls earned (regardless of the leader) and it adds to your unlock total (though it starts from whatever level mission you left off at).

• After accumulating 1114 skulls, you unlock Infinity, the final tier. To engage it, you need to spend 1000 skulls (which unlocks it for all characters on the account). The mode then allows you to spend additional skulls to further increase the difficulty, which is the real way to push your build (and possibly a deeper version of the end game).

  • For each skull you spent:

    • enemy health increases by .1x2+1.9x, where x is the number of skulls spent

    • enemy damage increases by .025x2+.475x, where x is the number of skulls spent

    • magic find increases by .01 per skull spent (which is added onto the base 4)

    • item quantity increases by .01 per skull spent (which is added onto the base 3.32)

  • Successfully completing the mission will return the spent skulls to your character.

  • Successful Operations below 100 skulls will award one-time bonuses of 5 Attribute points for every Skull spent, and 1 Gate of Fates point for every 5 skulls (per the 1.1.7.8 patch notes).

  • After the first 100 skulls, successful Operations will grant 1 Attribute point for every 2 Skulls spent, and 1 Gate of Fates point for every 50 Skulls spent (per the 1.1.7.8 patch notes).

  • These rewards are capped at 1000 Attribute points and 40 Gate of Fates points (per the 1.1.7.8 patch notes).

  • All of the attribute and Gate of Fate points unlocked apply to all characters on the account.

Fate-Adjucatrix Zeitgeist

• This is a glowing purple vendor that sometimes appears in a random location during missions and sells a variety of rare items, one unique item, and gems (based on the level of the mission).

• Fate-Adjucatrix can be found on the main level, on a sub-level, or both within the same mission.

• When with a party, different players will likely get different uniques from her (but it is possible they get the same unique).

Chests

• Chests and Cursed Chests: the loot amount and quality seems to reflect the color of the chest (which matches the item quality system). The better the cursed chest color, the harder the enemies. A purple cursed chest spawns 3-4 blue enemies.

• Per the version 1.0.0 Patch Notes: “The Altar of Greed spawns 6 cursed chests. You have a limited time to open them and kill the monsters they spawn. Each chest open gives a bonus of rarity to the other ones.” *Note: due to shrine location and obstacles, it seems like it sometimes only spawns 5 chests.

Stats

Attributes

• You get 1 point for every attribute per character level for a total of 90 at level 90.

• You can get 1890 freely spendable attribute points total:

  • You get 10 freely spendable attribute points per level up. At level 90, this means 890 points (because you start at level 1 and level up 89 times).

  • You can get 1000 from completing Infinity tiers (from the 1.1.7.8 patch notes):

    • Successful Operations below 100 skulls will award one-time bonuses of 5 Attribute points for every Skull spent, and 1 Gate of Fates point for every 5 skulls. After the first 100 skulls, successful Operations will grant 1 Attribute point for every 2 Skulls spent, and 1 Gate of Fates point for every 50 Skulls spent. These rewards are capped at 1000 Attribute points and 40 Gate of Fates points.

• You can also find attribute points in the Gate of Fates passive tree, and on equipment.

• To spend points, you click on the "+" icon to the right of the attribute you want to spend the points on. Holding shift will spend 5 points at a time, holding control will spend 50 points at a time, and holding both will spend 250 points at time.

• When spending points, the attribute you put them in will turn green showing you what is going to change. You can actually go to the other tabs (like skills and defense) to see how much of a difference those points will make, before locking in the spending of the points (which is done by clicking on the "Confirm" button in the bottom left corner. Closing out the window will not spend the points.

• You can pay gold to reset your attribute points, and it costs about 500 gold per attribute point (though you can only reset all of them at once).

• While all attributes increase damage (as there is a damage increase for total attributes shown near the bottom of the window), only toughness provides a defensive bonus, and that defensive bonus coupled with the offensive bonus is usually larger than any other attribute (even at 920 toughness, since it doesn’t receive score scaling diminishing returns like the other three attributes).

  • This is especially true if your gear provides you with additional ferocity, critical chance score, agility, attack speed score, spell casting speed score, wisdom, or ailment chance score.

Active Skills

General Info

• When leveling, enneracts will drop that teach you the skill named on the enneract. If you already have the skill learned, right-clicking on the enneract will instead convert it into primordial affinity.

• To purchase additional skills, you can visit Demetra, who is to the bottom right of the city's center. The 2nd through 4th tabs have a variety of skill enneracts.

• The skills equipped on your skill bar when you are killing enemies gain experience and can level up. Just like your character, a skill can reach level 90 (but the experience required for a skill to reach level 90 is much lower than it is for the character).

• As a skill levels up, skills get skill modifier points which allow you to change either the function of the skill, or some of the numbers related to it (like damage, critical chance, critical damage, cooldown, resource cost, ailment chance, et cetera).

  • Skills gain 1 skill modifier point every 6 levels up to a maximum of 10 points (at level 60).

• There is an active skill feature in the game called “Duplicate Skill”. To duplicate a skill, go to Demetra who is in the bottom right of the city's center. In the left window, click on the skill you wish to duplicate, then on the right side, make sure the "Original Skill" button is selected, then click on the "Duplicate:" button.

  • To duplicate a skill the first time, the skill needs to be AT LEAST level 10, and it will cost 2000 primordial affinity.

  • To duplicate a skill a second time, the duplicated skill needs to be selected, it needs to be at least level 40, and it will cost 20000 primordial affinity.

• Duplicate versions of a skill share the same cooldown, so duplicating most skills seems useless. These are the exceptions I have found:

  • You can raise the amount of summons you can have out at once.

  • You can raise the amount of turrets you can have out at once.

  • You can use a buffing skill (like “Consuming Embers”) with different elements.

  • You can use a buffing skill with different modifiers.

  • You could also have a skill with several different modifier combinations equipped, with each one being useful in a certain situation.

Skill List with Details

• Aether Jump - 10/10

  • This is the best movement skill, as it can travel through objects, across long distances (with certain modifiers), can be held down to continuously jump (with a modifier), and it can provide buffs.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 5, 10, 11, 16, Any

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 125.0%.

  • The skill is normally aether, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Spirits of the Void" modifier causes the skill to deal 125% damage, and guarantees one stack of the corresponding ailment type.

  • The "Void Paralysis" modifier causes the the skill to apply the corresponding ailment type to enemies in a 3 meter radius at the beginning and end of the jump.

  • The "Veil of Illusion" modifier creates a decoy that lasts 5 seconds.

  • The"March of the Time Devourers" modifier causes successive jumps to cost 50% more each time.

  • The "Aethereal Bounce" modifier provides a 5% attack and cast speed bonus for 5 seconds (but this duration is additive with the "Interstitial Boost" modifier).

  • The "Interstitial Boost" modifier gives a 20% movement speed bonus for 10 seconds (but this duration is additive with the "Aethereal Bounce" modifier).

• Annihilation - 8/10

  • It can deal very high damage with 3 beams, especially when channeled for over 2 seconds (with a specific modifier). It doesn't have  cooldown and it isn't too resource intensive either, so you can get the benefit most of the time.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 4, 6, 13, 15, Sacred

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally aether, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The closer the mouse is to the caster, the wider the spread between the beams (up to a 75 degree spread).

  • It does not count as a projectile, and therefore isn't blocked by domes.

  • It has a .1 second warm-up time, then hits every .3 seconds.

  • This base tick rate is 3 attacks per second, but max tick rate is 5 attacks per second.

  • The "Swing of the Pendulum" modifier increases the turn rate by 110% (from 120 to 230).

  • The "Breadth of Infinity" modifier increases the beam width by .35 (from .4 to .75).

  • The "Toxic Entropy" modifier gives a 20% damage bonus, but the bonus is additive with a few other bonuses, so it might only show as an ~14.8% increase. This effect falls off after 10 seconds.

• Anomaly - 7/10

  • It provides another convenient way of triggering the "Dawn's Pious Striker" node from the Eos tree to a huge area, and it gather enemies in a huge area (which is great for pairing with death explosion skills when you deal damage to a single target or small area). The problem is the long cooldown.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, Sacred

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 100.0%.

  • The skill is normally aether, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The skill "fires" after .66 seconds and can hit a maximum of 20 enemies.

  • The "Dislocating Threads" modifier increases the radius by 1 meter.

  • The "Event Horizon" modifier deals 50% damage every pull.

  • The "Critical Point" modifier causes new casts to explode previous vortexes for 500% damage.

  • The "Echoes of Infinity" modifier allows the vortex to "pulse" multiple times, which happens every .8 seconds (and likely still hits a maximum of 20 enemies). Normally this means 6 pulses (initial pulse, plus 4 seconds/.8 seconds = 5 pulses), but with the "Temporal Dilation" modifier, this means 8 pulses (initial pulse, plus 6 seconds/.8 seconds = 7.5 pulses).

  • The "Erratic Progression" modifier gives a 20% movement speed bonus for 8 seconds if you step inside the area of effect.

  • The "Confluence of All Things" modifier causes health globes in the area to explode for 500% damage.

• Anvil’s Woe - 5/10

  • The skill is very spammable, but the damage is low, plus the attack speed is a bit slow, making it difficult to stay alive while using it.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 5, 7, 9, 10, 16, Physical

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 400.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Warlike Inspiration" modifier reduces cost by 25%.

  • The "Remnants of Shock" modifier gives a 20% chance for a ghost to hit enemies again for 150% damage.

  • The "Bonebreaker" modifier gives +50% critical chance against stunned enemies.

  • The "Striking Flint" modifier changes the skill into a 60 degree cone attack that probably reaches about 8 meters. It also reduces the damage by 15%.

  • The "Balanced Handle" modifier increases attack speed by 120%, but decreases ailment chance by 20%.

  • The "Radical Shake" modifier causes critical hits to stun, and deal double damage, but it adds a 4 seconds cooldown to the skill.

• Arctic Spear - 10/10

  • Being able to move while firing is cool, but it can be rather hard to aim effectively, especially with the delay (though this is remedied with the "Sublime Fracture" modifier). Also, it fires crazy fast, so it really burns through resource.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 6, 11, 12, 13, 16, Any

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 150.0%.

  • The skill is normally frost, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • This is the ONLY skill in the game that can be cast while moving (though some others can move while attacking after the initial warm-up cast).

  • The "Prolonged Deceit" modifier doesn't show any buff icons, so it is really difficult to tell if the stacks refresh when hits continue occurring, but I don't think so. I also have no idea how hits and misses from the "Sublime Fracture" modifier interact with it, for the same reason. I do see the damage increasing after hits though, so I am confident that the modifier is working.

  • The "Sublime Fracture" modifier appears to fire off 8 smaller shards, but it is hard to count even in slow motion. This modifier is one of the most fun in the game for me.

  • The "Hiemal Ambush" modifier deals 33% damage per lance held, and holds up 3 lances.

• “Avenger” Autoturret - 9/10

  • Overall, this is an excellent skill for damage, and if placed on the ground, it will continue to deal damage while the character can move, attack, or place even more turrets.

    • If you enjoy placing auto-turrets on the ground, I recommend avoiding the “Ballistic Reinforcements” modifier and instead duplicating the skill once or twice to get the same effect without the damage loss.

    • There is a bit of a delay with placing the turrets, and if you try to cast and move quickly, sometimes the delay will cause it to place the turret facing the wrong direction. Increased attack speed reduces having this problem, though it won’t change the actual DPS of the skill.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 15, 16, Lightning

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 120.0% (which is per shot).

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • It only has 50% of the chance to apply ailments of normal attacks and skills (which is multiplicative with the “Wild Splinters” active skill modifier.

  • Additional projectiles don’t affect this skill at all, so a “Targeting Ring”actually hurts this skill due to the damage multiplier reduction.

  • It fires the same number of shots regardless of attack speed or type of weapon (bow or pistol). Despite saying that the base tick rate should be 3 (according to WolcenDB), it actually shoots 4 shots per second (minus 1 shot for deploying, and the final number of shots is rounded). 

    • “Flak Launcher” multiplies the tick rate by .66, which reduces the overall rate by 41.7%.

    • “Twin Repeater” multiplies the tick rate by 1.33 (so 4*1.33 = 5.32), which would be an overall increase of 33%, but there is a max skill tickrate of 5, so some of this active skill modifier bonus is wasted (8%) if you don’t take “Flak Launcher”.

    • Using “Twin Repeater”, and “Flak Launcher” together multiplies the base tick rate of 4 by both  and 4*1.33*.66 = 3.5112, so there is still a net loss in tick rate.

  • The number of shots with modifiers are:

    • 19 shots over 5 seconds

    • 24 shots over 5 seconds with “Twin Repeater”

    • 14 shots over 5 seconds with “Flak Launcher”

    • 17 shots over 5 seconds with “Twin Repeater”, and “Flak Launcher”

    • 26 shots over 5.5 seconds with “Sleepless Sentry”, “Twin Repeater”, and “Unstable Engine of Destruction

    • 19 shots over 5.5 seconds with “Sleepless Sentry”, “Flak Launcher”, “Twin Repeater”, and “Unstable Engine of Destruction”

    • 27 shots over 7 seconds with “Sleepless Sentry”

    • 34 shots over 7 seconds with “Sleepless Sentry”, and “Twin Repeater”

    • 20 shots over 7 seconds with “Sleepless Sentry”, and “Flak Launcher”

    • 24 shots over 7 seconds with “Sleepless Sentry”, “Flak Launcher”, and “Twin Repeater”

  • Holding it in your hands causes it to fire twice as many shots (and thus doubles the DPS), but you cannot move while holding it (though you can rotate).

  • The “Flak Launcher” modifier does a large cone of damage (~100 degrees), and seems to shoot about 7 - 8 m deep.

    • Benefits:

      • increases the damage by 50%

      • gives it a very powerful AoE

      • 100% pierce chance, which negates the need for Come What May (which causes all projectiles within 6m to pierce)

    • Drawbacks:

      • reduces the overall fire rate by 41.7% (or 36.8% with Twin Repeater)

      • costs 2 points (providing a 6.6% increase per point when you factor in the fire rate)

      • shorter projectile distance 

      • weaker against bosses

  • As of patch 1.1.7.0, it gained the ability to auto-target enemies with a 60 degree radius and 15 yards of where it was first pointed towards.

    • This makes the 3 point auto-targeting active skill “Autonomous Sensors” modifier less necessary.

  • With the “Twin Repeater” modifier, this is the most expensive ranged skill (but the damage it does is worth it).

• Bladestorm - 7/10

  • While the ability to channel an attack and quickly move (to enemies or away from danger) are amazing, the damage is lacking.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 6, 11, 12, 15, Toxic

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 240.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Bladestorm ignores attack speed, and instead relies on tick rate for how often it deals damage.

  • Bladestorm ignores movement speed, and has its own movement speed while channeling (which is noticeably faster than normal movement speed with +40 movement speed on boots).

  • Bladestorm does not count as movement for the passive node “Disallowing Vessel” in the Siegebreaker tree, which means if you can keep channeling, you can move around the map with a permanent 30% multiplicative damage increase!

  • The "Lethal Momentum" modifier gives 20 rage per kill.

  • The "Ceaseless Current" modifier reduces cost by 15%.

  • The "Unrelenting Strikes" modifier deals triple damage when the skill channel ends.

  • The "Long Pommel" modifier reduces the tick rate by 25%.

  • The "Unfettered Determination" modifier allows the skill to become a channeled skill (with an unlimited duration as long as you have resource). It also reduces the damage by 15%, and ailment chance by 50%.

  • The "Wheel of Pain" modifier increases damage by 1% per ailment stack, up to 30%.

  • The "Chaining Wrath" modifier gives a 25% chance to cast chain lighting which deals 100% weapon damage.

  • The "Cascading Rhythms" modifier increases the tick rate by 50%.

  • The "Cleaving Gyration" modifier increases critical chance score by 25%.

• Bleeding Edge - 9/10

  • A solid skill and probably the best option in the melee category.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 3, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, Physical (red)

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill has a small casting delay before the axe appears, and you cannot move until the axes returns to the characters hand.

  • The skill is normally rend, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Self-adjusting Principle" modifier increases the projectile speed by 30%, but reduces the damage dealt by 20%, and reduces ailment chance by 25%. Theoretically, it still increases the DPS of the skill by 4% (1.3 x .8), since there is a limit to the number of axes that can be out at once.

  • The "Wicked Swing" modifier increases the area of effect for the skill, but it is hard to tell by how much. It looks like double the radius to me.

  • The "Delayed Bladespin" modifier allows the skill to cast at the cursor (making it ranged).

  • The "Unstoppable Momentum" modifier gives the skill a 6 second cooldown, but allows the axes to keep spinning in the cast location for 4 seconds (during which you can move around). It also reduces the damage by 30%, and increases the cost by double.

  • The "Despotic Perseverance" modifier increases damage by 1% per ailment stack, up to 30%.

  • The "Astral Orbit" modifier causes the axe to follow you, and rotate for another second at the cost of 15% damage.

• Blood for Blood - 6/10

  • The buff is cheap and lasts longer than the cooldown allowing it to be up all the time, but the bonuses aren't the most useful.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, Physical (red)

  • The skill is normally rend, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Blood for Blood seems to increase damage by about 15%.

  • The "Reaching Claws" modifier increases the area of effect by 20% per ally.

  • The "Secret Move" modifier allows the skill to be moved after .5 seconds, but it costs 20 rage.

  • The "Unrelenting Attrition" modifier allows the skill to follow the target it was cast on (your character if you don't have "Directed Bloodletting"). This modifier is amazing if you are solo and are not using the skill on summons.

  • The "Directed Bloodletting" modifier allows the skill to cast at the cursor.

  • The "Unstable Flesh" modifier gives a 30% chance for enemies below 30% health to die instantly.

  • The "Spontaneous Brio" modifier gives 25% resource generation.

  • The "Pervasive Attrition" modifier gives 35% increased ailment chance.

• Bulwark of Dawn - 6/10

  • It provides another convenient way of triggering the "Dawn's Pious Striker" node from the Eos tree, or it can be used to keep a couple of defensive bonuses up (buffs, health or force shield). The damage is too low to to be good as DPS.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 14, Sacred

  • The skill is normally sacred, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Sacred Grounds" modifier deals 130% damage and ticks every 1 second.

  • The "Haven of Men" modifier gives 5% force shield per tick.

  • The "Blade of Truth" modifier gives a 15% damage bonus, but the bonus is additive with a few other bonuses, so it might only show as an ~11.1% increase. This effect falls off after 10 seconds.

  • The "Boundless Cornucopia" modifier decreases the tick rate from 1 second to .9 seconds (so by .1).

  • The "Rejuvenating Light" modifier increases stamina regeneration by 20%.

  • The "Embracing Conviction" modifier consumes resource again when you move the area of effect.

  • The "Burning Balm" modifier increases ailment chance by 30%.

  • The "Aegis of Hope" modifier gives a 20% all resistances increase while the skill is active, but the bonus is additive with all other bonuses, so it might only show as an ~4.9% increase.

  • The "House of Rest" modifier decreases the tick rate from 1 second to .8 seconds (so by .2).

• Consuming Embers - 10/10

  • With the "Fervour’s Smoke" modifier, this is probably the best skill there is. Without it, this is still a solid skill, as it can deal decent DPS and doesn't have a cooldown, or it can be used as a buff.

  • My preferred skill modifiers:

    • For DPS: 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 16, Any

    • For Buffing: 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, Any

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 170.0%.

  • The skill is normally fire, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • With the additional projectiles modifiers "Meteor Shower" and "Gift of Flame", the distance of the cursor from the caster dictates the angle of the spread of projectiles (the farther the cursor, the smaller the spread).

  • The "Catching Spark" modifier increases the skills spell casting speed by 20%.

  • The "Heartpiercer" modifier changes the area of effect explosion into a piercing attack (which technically pierces 999 targets). The size of the projectile increases by 50%, and apparently turns the damage into a moving zone that ticks every .5 seconds.

  • The "Fervour’s Smoke" modifier allows the fireballs to explode upon recasting, dealing 100% damage in a 2 meter radius (but timing it to hit enemies that aren't right in front of you is difficult).

    • It is supposed to cost resource to trigger the explosion, but the coding appears to have a positive number of "umbra" and the positive numbers generate willpower. Also, the willpower generated ignores the rage and willpower reduction costs. That makes this a uniquely amazing skill for generating willpower, which allows you to use the skill indefinitely (even without enemies), or replace the normal options.

  • The “Object of Desire” modifier gives a 35% multiplicative damage bonus that falls off after 10 seconds.

    • You can actually duplicate this skill, and pick different elements for each duplicate to get the buff more than once.

• “Deathgazer” Railgun - 3/10

  • The skill damage is laughably weak, and even with the full charge-up it doesn’t hit all that hard unless you take “Inflexible Blast”. Even then, you are exposed during the entire charge time (and you are really unlikely to get the skill off without dying).

    • If you are going for the full charge to deal extra damage, “Protean Aim” is great since it makes the late charges hit a large area. Similarly, “Slow Learner” gives 20% crit chance per charge (for a total of 100%, which brought my 56% crit to about 70-75%). “A Promised Bullet” would also be required in that case to get an extra charge level and maximize the damage.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 14, 16, Lightning

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 170.0%.

  • The skill is normally lightning, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • It fires 1 fully charged shot every 4.5 seconds.

  • It fires 9 shots in 10 seconds (without charging).

  • Additional projectiles don’t affect this skill at all.

  • This skill doesn’t get blocked by enemy domes.

  • The damage percentage increase per stage is 100 / 200 / 350 / 500 / 900 (per 1.1.7.0 patch notes).

  • The “Inflexible Blast” modifier makes it so that releasing the skill before having full charges deals no damage (and basically cancels out the projectile).

  • The “One Simply Shot” modifier is a HUGE damage increase if you have a reasonable amount of crit chance. At 56% crit chance, it was a 34% damage increase (44% - 10%).

  • The “Reckless Gunner” modifier is helpful, because it generates either 350 (according to WolcenDB), or 250 (according to the patch notes) rage, which is more than it costs. This makes the skill useful for generating rage, as long as you don’t hold the button to charge it. This modifier is the best use for the skill in my mind, but it still has the drawback that consumed rage still doesn’t replenish right away, so you will slowly build a brown bar between you purple (willpower) and yellow (rage) bars.

  • The “Judicious Trigger” modifier gives a 50% damage increase, and you have .25 seconds after hitting a tier to gain the bonus. It can be a bit tricky to get the timing though.

• Duskshroud - 8/10

  • This skill is excellent for survival, because it has threat reduction, which will make enemies stop chasing you and either stand there looking confused (in solo) or go towards other players (in multiplayer).

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, Default

  • This skill also will cause bosses to cancel their channeled skills including:

    • Demon of Souls lightning beam

    • Justicar reflect shield

  • The base skill decreases threat by 80 (% maybe?) which is usually enough to drop enemies off of you, but sometimes enemies that you have already hit a lot will stay with you (something like a boss probably is the most likely to stay with you after you have damaged it a bunch and caused a bunch of threat to it).

  • The “Unseen Thrills” modifier adds 15% damage as shadow (per the in-game damage calculation) to your skills for 5 seconds (per WolcenDB).

  • The “Soothing Night” modifier can be helpful for removing ailments (especially DoTs).

  • The “Lapse in Focus” modifier can be helpful for removing crowd control.

• Eclipse - 4/10

  • It hits pretty hard, but the 5 second cooldown (which can't be removed), prevents it from being a main damage dealer. It can be a good "OH CRAP" button due to the knockback and stun, but I find the knockback to spread enemies out too much to be good for any other purpose.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, Any

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 1000.0%.

  • The skill is normally shadow, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The skills damage hits an ~100 degree cone.

  • The "Cover of Darkness" modifier regenerates 5% force shield per enemy hit.

  • The "Rushing for Curfew" modifier does generate 30% willpower on hit.

  • The "Entwining Volutes" modifier just changes the cone from 100 to 360 degrees.

• Evasion - 7/10

  • Good for survival, but awkward to use since you fly backwards (sometimes REALLY far). Best used to keep enemies at a distance, then hit them with your main attack.

    • It seems less effective when playing in co-op, because the decoys don’t end up in the way as often.

    • I couldn't seem to get the decoys to aggro the bosses in co-op either.

  • If they added a skill modifier that removed the jump backwards, I would love this skill.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 16, Toxic or Rend

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally shadow, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • A “Targeting Ring” does not give extra projectiles/decoys/areas of effect for this skill.

  • It fires 1 shot in 6 seconds (because of a 6 second cooldown).

    • The “Second Wind” and “Effortless” modifiers each reduce this by 2 seconds (down to 2 seconds total).

  • The “Weightless Sprint” modifier increases the distance traveled from 8 to 10 meters, but I usually end up needing to move forward again to see what I am shooting at if I use it.

  • The “Enshrouded Distance” modifier is supposed to knock back enemies 2 m, but the effect wasn’t noticeable.

  • The “Parting Gift” modifier turns the skill into a mine that explodes when enemies get close.

    • I wouldn’t pair it with “Shadow Cast”, as the decoy doesn’t spawn until after the mine goes off.

  • The “Boiling Ink” modifier gives 20 rage per hit (but only for the initial impact, so the “Primis Tenebris” modifier doesn’t increase the amount of rage generated).

  • The “Barrage” modifier adds a projectile, but with a 90 degree split between projectiles.

    • “Barrage” with “Shadow Cast” spawns two decoys (and presumably other additional projectiles do the same)!

  • The “Shadow Cast” modifier makes a decoy clone that lasts for 5 seconds which aggros nearby enemies and is GREAT!

  • The “Primis Tenebris” modifier adds an area of effect around the impact point that deals skill damage every .66 seconds for 5 seconds.

    • This pairs PERFECTLY with “Shadow Cast”, as it ensures that the melee enemies will stay in the area of effect.

  • If you have “Barrage”, “Shadow Cast”, and “Primis Tenebris” together, along with either enough cooldown (or “Second Wind” and/or “Effortless”), you can have multiple pairs of areas/decoys (I have had 3 pairs or 6 areas/decoys total).

    • Normally, the projectiles don’t travel very far, so the 90 degree split between projectiles doesn’t matter that much. However, if you take “Stunning Reach”, casting the skill causes the areas of effect (and decoys) to have a gap between them. 

      • Shooting the skill really close to your character causes the areas to become close enough to close the gap, or for them to overlap (when thrown at your feet). This brings the width back to normal.

  • The “Immobilizing Smoke” modifier adds a 1.5 second stun and a 3 second cooldown (which is 50% more than the base cooldown).

  • The “Stunning Reach” modifier adds some more range which can be helpful (but not if you are using “Barrage”, and especially not if you are also using “Shadow Cast” or “Primis Tenebris”).

• Feeding Swarm - 8/10

  • One of the main summon skills, which pairs well with either Hunting Swarm or Livor Mortis. By itself it is rather weak, but if you duplicate it a couple of times, then pair it with other summons it is a great option.

    • While the damage listed in the tooltip is comparable or even a bit higher than the ranged summons, it doesn't benefit from a lot of the good damage multipliers (which are exclusive to projectiles), they don't have area of effect or pierce, and they have to spend time moving to each enemy they want to fight. At least they thank for you a bit more than the other summons.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, Toxic

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The summon automatically respawns ~.75 seconds after death.

  • The modifiers that increase minion damage provide a smaller increase than expected, suggesting the damage increase is additive with other sources. This includes: “Wretched Elects” (3.7%), “Evangelists of Death” (3.7%), “Decay’s Bannermen” (3.7%), “Splintering Hands” (23.8%) and “Mortuary Brawl” (3.7%).

  • The “Cadaverine” modifier causes the swarm to explode at the end of their charge, consuming the swarm.

  • The “Putrescine” modifier doubles the health of the swarm, increases their damage by 94.7%, and increases their size.

  • The “Saturated Tissue” modifier claims it provides a temporary damage buff, but that increase isn’t shown in the tooltip, nor is there any buff icon, so I don’t think it is working.

• Flight of Gaavanir - 2/10

  • The long cooldown on a skill with mediocre damage and no versatility make it mostly useless in my mind. Personally, I also hate having to recall the skill to trigger almost all of the bonuses.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, Physical

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 360.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Casting the skill throws a spinning hammer, and hitting the button again calls the hammer back. The hammer does damage again on the way back.

  • The "Howl of Battle" modifier gives 15% rage per enemy hit.

  • The "Ram Hammer & Bludgeon" modifier regenerates 10% force shield per enemy hit.

  • The "Mountainous Impact" modifier causes an explosion that deals 150% damage in area of 5 meters.

  • The "Pounding Shakes" modifier gives a 40% damage increase to the return hit.

  • The "Sister Hammer" modifier adds a projectile. Both projectiles are launch at the same time in a V pattern with about a 60% degree split.

  • The "Tectonic" modifier causes the return to deal 50% damage to areas 2.5 meters wide.

  • The "Standing Boulder" modifier gives a critical chance bonus based on 50% of the character's block chance.

  • The "Shockwave" modifier gives a 20% chance to stun for 2 seconds.

  • The "Heavyweight Precision" modifier gives 40% critical chance score.

• Gunslinger’s Brand - 7/10

  • Base skill is VERY weak and weird to use (but you can get used to it). You have to mouse over 5 enemies in order to target them and cause it to release the shots. I usually do this by just waving around my mouse quickly, and if I don’t get 5 enemies, I release the button anyway (and fire at however many I targeted).

    • There are several options for making targeting enemies faster and easier, but I prefer to skip targeting all together and just use the “Wild Gunman” modifier which causes it to unload all bullets toward your cursor.

    • A weird thing about this skill is that it has 20% increased base damage per bullet NOT fired (per WolcenDB), so it actually hits harder with less targets (like when there is only a boss left).

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 14, Lightning

    • If you shoot a Justicar with his reflect shield up using this setup, you are almost definitely dead.

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 250.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • It fires 6 shots in 10 seconds.

  • According to the 1.1.7.0 patch notes, the “Scattering Blast” modifier was supposed to no longer reduce the damage to 90%, but it still does (per the tooltip and in-game calculation).

  • Gunslinger’s Brand - Order Through Chaos rune is currently bugged. It applies the entire damage buff if you only shoot once. The damage is multiplicative and has some of the highest critical hits in the game. While it isn’t listed, “Order Through Chaos” also increases the damage of the skill by 50% (per the 1.1.7.0 patch notes [but not the in-game calculation]).

  • The “Flak Handcannon” modifier also increases the damage of the skill by 30% (per the in-game calculation and the 1.1.7.0 patch notes).

    • With this huge damage boost, plus the AoE effect, this modifier seems mandatory.

  • The “Leave No Witnesses” modifier not only increases the amount of shots to 10, but decreases the maximum time to 1 second.

    • If you are going to take “Leave No Witnesses”, I would take “Wild Gunman” with it, to make sure you get all of the shots off easily (though you don’t have to).

• Havoc Orb - 8/10

  • I love the damage of this skill, but despite having the highest damage burst, it has a medium cooldown (and thus lower DPS). Without the cooldown it costs a TON of rage. It also doesn't always hit groups in front of you ir you try to just spam it (because the missile itself is small).

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 5, 12, 13, 14, Lightning

    • Without the cooldown: 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 14, 16, Lightning

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 350.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • It fires 5 shots in 3.5 seconds.

  • There is a 25 degree angle between additional projectiles (per Wolcen DB).

  • The “Glory to Mankind” modifier 

    • It cannot be used with the “Disintegrating Payload” modifier.

    • It will fire two grenades or rockets at the same time in a spread (think Stings of Krearion).

  • The “Disintegrating Payload” modifier increases the area of effect, but actually decreases the damage of the skill, because each shot breaks into 6 projectiles that each deal 15% of regular damage (and 6 ∙ 15 = 90%).

    • It cannot be used with the “Glory to Mankind” or “Mine Launcher” modifiers.

  • The “Contained Destruction” modifier reduces the minimum arming distance from 7 to 5 meters. The maximum arming distance is still 15 meters.

  • The “Baptism by Hail” modifier fires 5 shots. 

    • This changes “Glory to Mankind” to fire six missiles in quick succession with no spread.

    • You can now have rockets and mines equipped and it actually gets both projectiles (so 10 total)! SELF-TESTED.

    • Adding more projectiles no longer shoots 6 shots.

    • A “Targeting Ring” does not give extra projectiles for this modifier.

  • The “Mine Launcher” modifier creates mines that explode when enemies step on them. If no enemies trigger the mine, it will still EVENTUALLY blow up, but it takes 60 seconds.

    • It cannot be used with the “Disintegrating Payload” modifier.

• Hunting Swarm - 9/10

  • One of the main summon skills, which pairs well with either Feeding Swarm or Livor Mortis. By itself it is rather weak, but if you duplicate it a couple of times, then pair it with other summons it is a great option.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 14, 16, Toxic

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The summon automatically respawns ~.75 seconds after death.

  • Hunting Swarm has a default +10% attack speed increase.

  • When trying to get them to hit enemies inside of a dome shield, you have to actually put your mouse past where you want them to hit by about 3 inches to get them to land inside the dome shield.

  • The modifiers that increase minion damage provide a smaller increase than expected, suggesting the damage increase is additive with other sources. This includes: “Venomous Points” (4.8%), “Chosen Undead” (23.8%), “Chestsplitter” (4.8%), “Lethal Effort” (23.8%), “Dead Marksman” (9.5%), and “Unfeeling Exertion” (4.8%).

  • The “Rotburst Arrow” modifier does just what it says, and functions just like the “Liquid Smooth” (rend) damage variant of Livor Mortis. It is amazing against densely packed groups, but does nothing against a single target.

  • The “Tactical Manoeuvre” modifier claims it provides a temporary attack speed buff, but that increase isn’t shown in the tooltip, nor is there any buff icon, so I don’t think it is working.

• Inescapable Skirmish - 9/10

  • This is basically the skill "Hunting Swarm", but for someone holding a melee weapon. By itself it is rather weak, but if you duplicate it a couple of times, then pair it with other summons it is a great option.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 3, 5, 11, 13, 14, 16, Toxic or Rend

  • If you want to do a summon build with a two-handed melee weapon, you can use this skill plus either Livor Mortis, Hunting Swarm, or Feeding Swarm as a Sarisel affix.

  • The skill is normally lightning, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The summon automatically respawns .7 seconds after death.

  • The “Explosive Ammunition” modifier does just what it says, and functions just like the “Liquid Smooth” (rend) damage variant of Livor Mortis. It is amazing against densely packed groups, but does nothing against a single target.

  • The “Focus Fire” modifier claims it provides a temporary attack speed buff, but that increase isn’t shown in the tooltip, nor is there any buff icon, so I don’t think it is working.

• Infinity Blades - 10/10

  • With the "Warriors of Aeons Past" modifier, this is one of the best skills in the game due to the flexibility with resources it provides. Without it, it is still a very good option, as it: is spammable, has built in willpower generation options, hits a large area, and deals good damage.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 16, Any

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 250.0%.

  • The skill is normally aether, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The skill inherently generates 10 willpower on hit, making this skill much easier to sustain than most.

  • The skill is a 4 step combo (up to 6 with modifiers) that travels forward, where each step hits a 180 degree cone, but each step hits further (reaching a larger area). The pattern is:

    • swipe from right to left (this takes twice as long as the other steps)

    • swipe from left to right

    • swipe from right to left

    • swipe from both sides, crossing in the middle

    • two large fast swipes from left to right, then right to left (but they are twice as fast as the others, so it still takes the same amount of time)

    • a backhanded slash, then a kick (but they are twice as fast as the others, so it still takes the same amount of time)s

  • Holding shift while casting keeps the skill from stepping and moving.

  • With the "Sublime Cut" and "Critical Momentum" modifiers, plus a ton of rage and willpower cost reduction, you can just use this one button infinitely as long as there are enemies.

  • The "Three-Dimensional Scoring" modifier actually adds two attacks in quick succession.

  • The "Printed Record" modifier gives an 8% chance to deal 100% damage. I think you can have a maximum of 3 ghosts hitting at a time.

  • The "Rehearsal for Armageddon" modifier gives a 30% damage bonus, but the bonus is additive with a few other bonuses, so it might only show as an ~22.2% increase. This effect falls off after 60 seconds.

  • The "Cruel Persistence" modifiers 1% damage increase per ailment stack doesn't have damage cap that similar modifiers usually have.

  • The "Warriors of Aeons Past" modifiers allows you to use any of the skills with the "Warrior" skill tag.

    • This is one of the strongest and most creative modifiers in the game, as it allows you to access a bunch of skills that you otherwise would need a 1-handed pistol or melee weapon with a catalyst, one of several uniques like Veiled Eclipse unique pants, or a Sarisel affix to use. Additionally, since it costs willpower and almost all of the warrior skills cost rage, you automatically get a build in way to generate willpower while dealing reasonable damage (instead of relying on auto-attacks that deal almost no damage and don't generate that much willpower).

  • The "Quantic Charge Distribution" modifier gives a 20% damage bonus, but the bonus is additive with a few other bonuses, so it might only show as an ~14.8% increase. This effect falls off after 10 seconds.

  • The  "Spherical Repulsion" modifier is great if you are trying to keep the "Beacon for the Lost" Gate of Fates node active, and good if you want to use the "Force Field Condensator" modifier.

  • The "Static Environment" modifier increases your block chance by 17% while using the skill.

  • The "Cosmic Recursion" modifier actually adds two attacks in quick succession.

  • The "Wounds Bled Eternal" modifier increases critical damage by 25%.

• Iosonic Rain - 9/10

  • It has a bit of a delay before firing, but once it starts, it can be channeled for a long time (due to a low rage cost) and decent DPS (which becomes amazing with a Targeting Ring).

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 16, Toxic

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 25.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Holding the button down causes the skill to channel, locking you in place, but allowing you to rotate towards enemies.

    • Channeling Iosonic Rain only counts as one point of Anointed Ammunition from the passive node “Blessed Silver”.

  • A “Targeting Ring” gives extra projectiles for this skill, and feels mandatory if you are planning on using this skill in the end-game.

  • The "Solar Magnetism" modifier provides a 25% increase in fire rate and thus a 25% increase in DPS, plus a larger collision area to hit enemies with.

  • The "Spear versus Shield" modifier increases the rage cost (reduced by rage cost reduction), and increases damage, but removes projectile pierce. I wouldn’t recommend it since a lot of the damage dealt to the tougher enemies is done with pierce because the weaker enemies are always in the way.

  • The "Angel of Death" modifier causes the two beams to sweep outwards and inwards, which makes it easy to stand in one place and not have to aim, but also means you can’t focus on specific enemies, and you miss most of your shots.

  • The "Embraced by Rage" modifier provides up to a 50% increase in damage (after 2 seconds).

  • The "Panoptic Shot" modifier causes the character to fire while spinning in a circle. Each shot seems to be about 50 degrees rotation from the last, meaning 7 shots per rotation, but also meaning that the shots don’t fly in the same direction each pass. In practice, you only hit where your cursor is with every 8th bullet in that direction (which is insanely inefficient). To me this skill modifier must be avoided.

• Juggernaut - 1/10

  • At high levels, the damage absorption is so low that it isn't even worth the time to cast the skill.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, Toxic

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 700.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Grudges Collected" modifier gives 10 rage on hit (which is supposed to be when the shield is hit).

  • The "Crushing Wall" modifier deals 40% damage to enemies that hit the shield.

  • The "Halted Momentum" modifier gives a 10% chance for enemies that hit the shield to be stunned for 2 seconds.

  • The "Brace for Impact" modifier converts 60% of your force shield to the shield's damage absorption.

  • The "Banners Held High" modifier gives the shield damage absorption based on 100% of your block chance.

• Light-bringer - 5/10

  • The 8 second cooldown prevents it from being anything other than a utility skill. With a couple of modifiers, it is excellent for stunning and weakening enemies, plus you can heal and generate willpower with it.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 5, 7, 12, 14, 15, 16, Sacred or Aether

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 100.0%.

  • The skill is normally sacred, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The skill mentions having stages, and that each increases the damage, but does not mention that there are 3 stages.

  • The "Insuppressible Rhapsody" modifier regenerates 5% force shield per enemy hit.

  • The "Proud Rider" modifier gives me ~12% total to all resistances for 1 second, which based on my bonuses means it should be about 35% to all resistances in the additive category.

  • The "Plasmic Discharge: modifier causes an explosion at start with +.8 meter radius that deals 50% damage.

  • The "Holy Ground" modifier leaves an area of effect that deals 50% weapon damage over second.

  • The "Sudden Dehydration" modifier gives a 100% chance to apply weakness stacks. This node works with "Sunstruck", as both ailments will be applied even without the "Grievous Afflictions" Gate of Fates node which normally allows for it.

  • The "Hope’s Arrival" modifier heals 25% upon landing.

  • The "Sheen of Hope" modifier gives 30 willpower per hit.

  • The "Noble Rider" modifier gives all resistance per enemy hit, and lasts for 10 seconds.

  • The "Sunstruck" modifier gives a 100% chance to stun enemies in a 3 meter radius for 1.5 seconds. This node works with "Sudden Dehydration", as both ailments will be applied even without the "Grievous Afflictions" Gate of Fates node which normally allows for it.

  • The "Solar Logos" modifier adds a 4th charging stage.

  • The "Blinding Ray" modifier increases the critical damage amount by 25%.

  • The "Pious Supremacy" modifier converts the element to physical, though it isn't listed.

• Livor Mortis - 10/10

  • This skill is absolutely amazing, as it provides summons that passively deal damage, tank, and can provide damage reduction (with a modifier). The different elemental forms also greatly change how the summon behaves giving it a lot of flexibility both with its passive and active abilities.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 5, 7, 14, 15, 16, Rend

  • The skill is normally toxic, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Differences between the different elemental versions:

    • The toxic version has the most health, but the least damage. The active skill (pressing the button) taunts enemies at the cursor.

    • Compared to toxic, the shadow version has ~38% health, but ~50% increased damage. The active skill (pressing the button) causes a leap attack at the cursor.

    • Compared to toxic, the lightning version has ~25% health, but ~210% increased damage. The active skill (pressing the button) creates a dome at the cursor that blocks incoming projectiles.

    • Compared to toxic, the rend version has ~25% health, but ~210% increased damage. The active skill (pressing the button) causes a grenade attack at the cursor.

  • The summon automatically respawns ~2 seconds after death.

  • It always has a +20% damage bonus listed on the skill details (which is multiplicative damage, but is additive with the other skill nodes).

• Mark of Impurity - 10/10

  • A universally amazing skill for increasing damage dealt, and it can be autocast by "The Trial" belt.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 7, 10, 14, 16, Default

  • If you are wearing “The Trial” belt, it will automatically use the active skill modifiers with the skill, even if the skill isn’t on your bar.

  • Mark of Impurity causes marked enemies to take 25% (according to WolcenDB) more multiplicative damage.

  • The “Big Game Hunting” modifier (which seems to last 5 seconds per WolcenDB) and “A Sentence Accepted” modifier (which seems to last 8 seconds per WolcenDB) each increase the damage taken amount by 10%.

    • The “Weight of Culpability” modifier (which seems to last 8 seconds per WolcenDB) presumably would as well, but it used to be bugged (and might still be): https://youtu.be/2l1ngGXZzrw?t=122

  • The Mark of Impurity skill modifier "Strange Mercy" functions exactly like the passive node “Dawn’s Pious Striker”, except that it procs at 10% instead of 15%. The problem is that it doesn’t work on champion monsters (including all bosses). SELF-TESTED.

  • The “Fate of the Unholy” modifier is one of the best ways to generate area damage from builds that normally don’t have area of effect skills (like single-target, piercing, thin path skills, etc.).

• Parasite (though this page has no information about the modifiers) - 6/10

  • It is kind of a weird skill, because it is great for leeching health, force shield, or willpower while other things (like summons) deal damage, or it is great for acquiring summons that you choose, but it isn't great for doing both, because you don't want to leech once you have the summons you like.

    • Unfortunately, the summons don't last long if you haven't specifically built for them, and they don't automatically respawn, so you are almost always better off using other summon skills if that is your playstyle.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 5, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, Shadow

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 150.0%.

  • The skill is normally toxic, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • This skill requires a target to cast.

  • There is an unlisted delay of about 1 second before the skill starts dealing damage.

  • This channeled skill has a tick rate of 3 attacks per second, with a maximum of 5 attacks per second. Unlike most skills with a tick rate, attack speed affects the tick rate.

  • Parasite summons seem to last forever (at least 10+ minutes), but can be killed. They do follow you between zones/maps (including town).

  • The "Gift Not Given" modifier

  • The "Rust Drinker" modifier says it reduces the tick rate, but the tick rate tooltip doesn't change with the modifier selected.

  • The "On Shoulders of Giants" modifier gives possessed summons increased resistances, but there is no information on how much.

  • The "Morale Drinker" modifier allows you to cast the skill basically without cost, because as the willpower starts to drain, the damage dealt restores the full amount drained.

• Phantom Blades - 8/10

  • This skill is decent as part of a rotation, but the damage is a bit low, and there is a short cooldown. If you duplicate it and use it in 3 slots, you can spam it though (without any rage cost). It also can give AMAZING crowd control.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, Lightning

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • It fires one attack in 1 second.

  • The projectile automatically pierces everything.

  • With additional projectiles, the closer the mouse is to the character, the wider the angle between the blade.

  • It normally can store up to 2 charges, but the “Bladeslinger” modifier raises the amount to 3.

  • The “Loyalty of the Blades” modifier changes the change time from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.

    • The charging time isn’t affected by cooldown reduction.

  • The “Immobilizing Bola” modifier is extremely effective crowd control, since it has a 100% chance to slow enemies by 100%.

  • The “Windforged” modifier is really awkward to use, so I avoid it.

  • The “Gliding Friction” modifier leaves a trail for 3 seconds that ticks every .66 seconds for 1/3 of the base damage of the skill. It also has 1/3 of the ailment chance.

  • The “Death’s Last Decay” modifier removes the automatic piercing, and instead causes the projectile to stick to an enemy, then explode in a HUGE area.

    • It states that the projectile will go off after a few seconds, but it is actually .5 seconds, plus the modifier causes the skill to deal 3.5 times more damage (making up for the lack of pierce if you want a harder hitting skill in a single spot).

• Plagueburst - 7/10

  • By itself, the skill is pure garbage due to a long cooldown and very low damage. However, if you treat the skill like Mark of Impurity, and use it to trigger enemy death explosions, it becomes a good skill to have in the rotation (particularly on caster builds where Mark of Impurity cannot be used without a 1-handed pistol or melee weapon with a catalyst, one of several uniques like Veiled Eclipse unique pants, or a Sarisel affix). You can cast it right after Anomaly, then kill something in the closely packed group to maximize this effect.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16, Aether

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 170.0%.

  • The skill is normally toxic, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Plagueburst corpse explosion damage seems to be a percentage of the max health of the enemy (but I am not sure what percentage).

  • The "Foul Guardian" modifier states that killed enemies leave behind an area that deals Toxic damage, but this damage will change to whatever element the skill is using.

  • The "Metempsychosis" modifier has a 10% chance to spawn a health globe. Ignore the negative damage numbers above the skill weapon damage: -25% , as they just reflect the same information.

  • The "Blades of Pestilence" modifier doesn't appear to be working.

  • The "Vitiation" modifier increases damage by 1% per ailment stack, for up to 30 stacks.

  • The "Mortiferous Guest" modifier has a 10% chance to summon a rat that [I think] lasts 40 seconds, for up to 10 rats. However, when I tried this modifier in a mission, I never actually saw any rats, so it might be bugged.

  • The "Corruption’s Bloat" modifier increases the summon explosion damage by 50%.

• Slayers Flurry - 7/10

  • The damage seems decent, particularly for the inexpensive cost, and it is excellent at chasing wealth omens.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, Toxic

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 250.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Despite being a melee skill, it is usable with a bow or pistols.

  • The "Crashing Moons" modifier makes the area wider (I think twice as wide), but it doesn’t change the shape of attack (still a path).

  • The "Trail of Dust" modifier has a width of 2.2 meters.

  • The "Kindly Stopped for Me" modifier has a 20% chance to trigger the ghost who hits and additional time for full damage (so essentially a 20% damage increase).

  • The "Fullered Blades" modifier increases the dash speed by 30%, but not the actual attack speed.

  • The "Cosmis Ambush" modifier:

    • The 50% damage increase alone makes this choice worth it, but being able to hold the button down and still jump around to enemies is also nice.

    • When it does dash, you start channeling the attack in the wrong direction (which is kind of annoying).

    • This skill only dashes if you aren’t already in melee range (and thus won’t even dash behind the target).

  • The "Astral Escalation" modifier increases the range of the skill, and if you hit an enemy with it, it fires off two projectiles with a 20 degree spread, which have +1 pierce strength. Unfortunately, the increased range seems to change the targeting behavior as well, so instead of jumping to the enemy, then getting additional hits behind the enemy, you still hit the same number of enemies, but from farther away.

  • The "Zealous Blades" modifier increases the damage by 5% if used again on the target within 5 seconds (stacking up to 20 times). There is no buff icon to show this working, but the damage jumps up per skill usage indicating that it is working.

• Solarfall - 10/10 with the bug, 8/10 without the bug

  • There is a bug with the Sacred version of the Solarfall skill that sometimes happens, which I am pretty sure is related to the "Dawn's Pious Striker" node from the Eos tree. I think what it does is while channeling Solarfall, if you kill an enemy with a proc of Dawn's Pious Striker, it will then transfer that killing blow to every other enemy you hit afterwards during that channel (even full health enemies that have just spawned).

  • With the above bug, the skill is excellent. Without the bug, it is still a solid choice since it provides another convenient way of triggering the "Dawn's Pious Striker" node from the Eos tree, and if you use the "Golden Hour" modifier (which allows you to cast other skills in the meantime) you gain this benefit while fighting normally. Even without both of those it is still a good choice as a primary skill due to the ability to move the beam, decent area of effect, and decent damage.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 16, Sacred

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally sacred, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The channeled skill will follow the cursor around, allowing you to target any enemies you want.

  • There is a .8 second delay that isn't mentioned before the channeled beam actually creates a damage area on the ground.

  • The base tick rate is 2 attacks per second, with a maximum of 5 ticks per second.

  • The radius is 3 meters, but it isn't mentioned.

  • It does not count as a projectile, and therefore isn't blocked by domes.

  • The "Punishing Brilliance" modifier starts the damage multiplier at 0% damage, and goes up to 300%.

  • The "Glare of Judgment" modifier increases the tick rate by 15%.

  • The "Scorching Salvation" modifier causes the beam to start at 3 meters, and slowly increase to 4 meters (but it doesn't seem to go further).

  • The "Plasmic Eruption" modifier causes an explosion dealing 120% damage to 1 meter on critical hits. This effect has a 1 second cooldown.

  • The "Devastation" modifier adds a damage trail to the skill that deals 40% damage to a 3 meters radius every .5 seconds for 5 seconds.

  • The "Golden Hour" modifier is amazing, but has a misleading description. The "static" description it refers to not only means that the area of effect doesn't move, but that just tapping the skill actually continues dealing damage as if it was channeled for 5.5 seconds.

    • Since it has a 5.5 second cooldown, you can actually cast it right after the previous cast ends to keep it up continuously (minus the .8 second warm-up time).

    • What is weird is that you can still treat the skill as a channeled skill by holding the button down, and that while holding the button, the skill can be moved around. It also causes the cost to increase by 150%.

    • The main reason this is amazing is that it allows you to deal damage to an area without continually costing resources, and while allowing you to cast other skills!

  • The "Solar Animus" modifier gives me ~10% total to all resistances for the duration the beam is there, which based on my bonuses means it should be about 30% to all resistances in the additive category.

  • The "Dawn Abridged" modifier reduces the .8 second warm-up time by .7 seconds to .1 second.

  • The "Grit and Mettle" modifier has a 1 second internal cooldown.

  • The "Stellar Swiftness" modifier increases the travel speed of the beam from 8 to 11 (I think it is meters per second).

• Sovereign Shout - 9/10

  • A great buffing skill with some nice variety in options for things to buff.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, Default

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • Sovereign Shout works on summons.

  • The buff from Sovereign Shout lasts for 5 seconds (though it isn't indicated anywhere).

  • The "Cry of the Fearless" modifier generates 250 threat.

  • I think the "Hold The Line" modifier gives +5% all resistance score per enemy hit.

  • The "Blood Drunk" modifier deals double your weapon damage with 100% life leech.

  • The "Marble House" modifier grants 12% block chance.

  • The "Infectious Determination" modifier makes Sovereign Shout last 8 seconds.

  • The "To Rise Again" modifier regenerates 2 stamina points.

  • The "Hostile Inspiration" modifier increases the attack and spell casting speeds by 5%, plus the buffs by ~20%.

  • The "Belligerent Promises" modifier generates 250 threat.

• Stings of Krearion - 4/10

  • The base skill seems too sluggish with the cast delay and small movement backwards upon firing (which isn’t listed).

  • It costs very little rage, so it is fairly spammable (especially if you are charging up each time which doesn’t cost additional rage). Additionally, there are tons of good options for skill modifiers that adjust how the skill functions.

  • My preferred skill modifiers (better for killing close enemies): 2, 5, 6, 12, 15, 16, Toxic

    • Other good ones: 2, 4, 5, 6, 12 (more arrows in a wider path might do more damage to bosses, but only if you are in melee range)

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The “Pride of The Deerstalker” modifier increases the damage percentage per stage to 140 / 160 / 180 / 200 / 250 (per 1.1.7.0 patch notes).

    • It fires 1 shot every 1 second.

    • It fires 1 fully charged shot of 5 volleys (verified with slow-motion in a video) every 5.5 seconds.

    • It is a great pick both if you are charging the skill up, and if you only fire a quick burst (since it cuts the cast time down a bunch in the first stage and removes the step back).

    • Charging the skill up to fire several volleys doesn’t seem worth it though, as you will likely get attacked a lot first and die (though at least you can release the skill whenever you want and still do damage).

  • The distance your mouse is from the character determines the angle between the projectiles (the closer to the character, the more spread out). However, if you take Phantom Volley, the arrows turn into a path skill (which is really good for hitting a boss enemy with lots of arrows at a far distance).

  • After testing, and taking screenshots, it looks like only 5/7 of the arrows from Phantom Volley will hit a large enemy/boss at a time (tested on a hulking fatty summoner). You might be able to hit enemies with more arrows without Phantom Volley, but they would have to be in melee range.

  • The “Perfect Aim” modifier increases the damage per remaining pierce strength by 20% (per WolcenDB).

  • The “Explosive Barrage” modifier is the best option for keeping enemies at a distance, but seems to limit the overall area damage.

  • The “Ardent Nock” modifier increases the animation speed by 15%, which is like a 15% damage boost that also has utility.

  • The “Focused Shot” modifier increases the damage by 50%, but losing 2 arrows means a 67% overall damage decrease (or 40% if you take the “Pincushion” modifier for 2 more projectiles). This means at best a 10% damage increase for 2 skill points (which is not worth it).

• Talon Shot - 2/10

  • One big problem with this skill is how long it takes to be able to release a single projectile (it feels close to a second). With the delay, it functions like a charge up skill (but the indicator that it is ready is the projectile itself).

    • The other big problem is that you can interrupt the attack by moving. While getting to safety sounds good in theory, it leads to a lot of unfired shots due to missing the timing.

  • This is the most inexpensive ranged attack skill in the game, so it is easily spammable, plus it can be channeled for forever (for free, since the channeling doesn’t cost additional rage).

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, Lightning

    • With Archion’s Teachings: 1, 2, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally frost, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • If you can get some additional projectiles, it can continuously cover most of the screen in projectiles.

  • It fires 6 shots in 5 seconds (when channeled).

  • Additional projectiles are 20 degrees apart.

  • The "Blizzard’s Call" modifier works well when you have the passive tree node “Archion’s Teachings”. Otherwise, the even number of projectiles means you miss enemies at your cursor (unless they are in melee range).

  • The" Impaling Perch" modifier causes projectiles automatically explode after 5 stacks accumulate on the target, or 5 seconds pass (whichever happens first). The explosions deal double damage.

  • The "Calculated Strike" modifier causes holding the button down to charge the skill cancels out the natural channeling effect that the skill has. The damage percentage increase per stage is 100 / 200 / 350 / 550 / 800 (per WolcenDB).

  • The "Wingblast" modifier causes the cone effect occurs at the end of the travel distance (not at the release point), or when it is triggered.

• Tear of Etheliel - 5/10

  • Without a bunch of cooldown reduction on your gear and both cooldown reduction modifiers, this skill just doesn't hit hard or often enough to do much. Even with all of those, the damage pers second still isn't great.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, Any

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 600.0%.

  • The skill is normally frost, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • There is a one second cast delay before the strike hits,. You can move or cast other skills during this time.

  • The "Stalactite Rain" modifier removes the cast delay, and causes the skill to deal area damage over 3 seconds (hitting every .5 seconds), but reduces the damage by 60% and increases the cost by 100%.

  • The "Glass Firmament" modifier removes the cast delay, and allows you to charge the skills damage up to 3 tiers. While you are charging, you can reposition the skill by moving your cursor. The cooldown timer on the skill starts when you begin charging.

• Thunderstrike - 8/10

  • This is a great skill with tons of damage modifiers. It has a really short animation which can burn through resource fast, but it feels good to use due to easy aiming for the first target, and auto-targeting of all additional targets.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, Shadow

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 130.0%.

  • The skill is normally lightning, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The skill description says the bounces increase the damage dealt with each bounce, but it actually decreases with each bounce.

  • The skill damage bounces from the first enemy hit to another close by enemy, and so on, up to 4 bounces total (6 with a specific modifier). The bounces work as follows (and assumes the original damage was 240%):

    • Bounces up to 8 meters, dealing 220% damage

    • Bounces up to 6 meters, dealing 200% damage

    • Bounces up to 5 meters, dealing 180% damage

    • Bounces up to 5 meters, dealing 160% damage

    • Bounces up to 5 meters, dealing 140% damage

    • Bounces up to 5 meters, dealing 120% damage

  • The "Law Manifest in Lightning" modifier gives a 25% chance to trigger a lightning strike from the sky to damage enemies hit by Thunderstrike.

  • The "Path of Woe" modifier increase the number of bounces by 2 (which finishes the bounce pattern listed above). Even with the damage decrease for each bounce, this equals a 26% damage increase, or a 40% damage increase with the "Unwavering Conviction" modifier.

  • The "Rippling Currents" modifier makes critical hits cause the lightning to fork to enemies within 8 meters.

  • The "Unwavering Conviction" modifier should cancel the damage loss for each bounce. This equals a 20% damage increase normally, or a 33.3% damage increase with the "Path of Woe" modifier.

  • The "Rebuilding the Trinity" modifier modifier gives a 30% damage bonus, but the bonus is additive with a few other bonuses, so it will only show as an ~22.2% increase. This effect falls off after 10 seconds.

• Tracker’s Reach - 5/10

  • This skill is great for grouping up enemies and for generating rage (with Unrelenting Hunt and Chain-slinger taken together). It can also be used as a movement skill to jump between packs if you hit an enemy with it (which is my preference).

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 15, Rend

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 150.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The chain travels about 10 meters.

  • The "Feeding the Spirit" modifier has a 10% chance to drop 1 health globe. It can't drop more than one.

  • The "Chain-slinger" modifier generates 30 rage per enemy hit, up to 210 rage total.

  • The "Unrelenting Hunt" modifier launches 8 hooks in different directions with a 45 degree angle between each chain. The chains have a 5 meter range, which is much shorter than the regular hook.

  • The "Sudden Embrace" modifier increases the skills attack speed by 25%.

• Wailing Arrows - 7/10

  • With the larger area, the single hit dealing all damage at once, and all of the damage runes, this skill hits a large area for a lot of damage.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 14, 16, Rend

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 900.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • There is a short delay while the skill draws and fires the arrows during which you cannot move or cancel the attack (which can lead to taking some hits). There can also be a short cooldown (but it can be negated with certain skill modifiers).

    • With the “Fluid Movement” modifier, the cooldown is over before the skill even fires though.

  • It fires 8 shots in 10 seconds.

  • This skill does damage 9 times over 3 seconds or 3 times per second (per the in-game skill math and WolcenDB).

  • Additional projectiles don’t affect this skill at all.

  • This skill doesn’t get blocked by enemy domes.

  • The “Aching Accuray” modifier increases the damage percentage per stage to 100 / 200 / 450 (per 1.1.7.0 patch notes).

  • The “Black Cloud” modifier makes the skill deal all damage at once (instead of being an area of effect damage over time).

  • The “Spirited Advance” modifier makes the skill slowly move away from the caster and deal damage across a very large area.

    • When taken with the “Black Cloud” modifier, it hits the extra large area for damage all at once.

  • The “Vanquisher’s Overlook” modifier removes the damage calculation, and does 10% damage per enemy, so if you hit more than 10 enemies, you deal extra damage, but hitting less than 10 enemies reduces the damage.

  • The “Reemergence” modifier reduces the cooldown by .5 seconds per kill (which can be good, but costly at 3 skill points).

• Warpath - 4/10

  • This skill moves too fast to be able to use it continuously, and it has too long a cooldown to be able to rely on it as a main attack, so it's only real use is as a movement skill.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16, Lightning

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 110.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Sprinting Strides" modifier doubles the moment speed and increases the animation speed by 20%. It also reduces the turn rate by 20%.

  • The "Inflexible Stance" modifier gives a damage bonus equal to 50% of your block chance.

  • The "Overwhelming Impact" modifier causes 100% damage.

  • The "Lingering Vision" modifier has a 10% chance to summon a ghost to make an additional hit that deals 100% damage.

  • The "Forge a Path" modifier changes the skill to be a channeled skill. It claims that it extends the duration, but there is no time limit as long as you have enough resource (and more importantly don't run into a wall, which is the real limiter).

  • The "Burning Lifeblood" modifier leaves a trail of circles 4.5 meters wide on the ground that deal damage.

  • The "Vexilloid" modifier seems to provide about 35% all resistance, but this is additive with other sources of all resistance.

  • The "Mania" modifier gives 20% rage per enemy hit.

  • The "Gold Tooth Scavenger" modifier increases block chance by 20%.

  • The "Unstoppable Charge" modifier causes the skill to reduce the damage of projectiles coming from all directions.

  • The "Bull of the Battlefield" modifier increases critical damage by 25%.

• Wings of Ishmir - 8/10

  • It is a fun skill to use, but you spend a long time floating through the air in animations, which hurts its usefulness.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, Rend

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 110.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The movement from the skill does not remove stacks from the "Disallowing Vessel" Gate of Fates node.

  • The "Lightspeed" modifier increases the leap speed by 60%.

  • The "Noble Bearing" modifier removes .5 seconds of cooldown per enemy hit (so with enough enemies, you could potentially spam the skill).

  • The "Berserker’s Onslaught" modifier is a great way to generate rage while moving to the next group.

  • The "Strength of the Hated" modifier regenerates 5% force shield per enemy hit.

  • The "Relentless Pursuit" modifier removes the cooldown to cause the skill to consume stamina points instead.

    • I consider this the most important skill modifier, as it allows you to use the skill more than once in a short time. In fact, with enough stamina regeneration (I had 1.4 s), you can just hold the button down and jump forever. Unfortunately, the damage is rather low, so you can't really use it as the main skill in your build.

  • The "Meritorious Crew" modifier gives about a 15% damage bonus (which is additive with most damage).

  • The "Rippling Impact" modifier creates a circular wave on impact that moves outwards, but can only hit 20 times.

• Winter’s Grasp - 4/10

  • This skill is great for applying ailments, but mostly useless otherwise.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 2, 4, 9, 12, 15, Shadow

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally frost, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • The "Long Range Thermal Drain" modifier increases the radius by 2 meters (from 3 to 5).

  • The "Glacial Blast" modifier causes kill to have a 50% chance to trigger another nova. I am not sure if this skill works, because I can't tell if additional novas are going off.

  • The "Admire from a Distance" modifier allows you to cast the skill on the cursor up to 12 meters away.

  • The "PermaFrost" modifier causes a persistent damage patch on the ground lasting 7 seconds.

  • The "Hail the Ice Queen" modifier gives a 30% damage bonus, but the bonus is additive with a few other bonuses, so it might only show as an ~22.2% increase. This effect falls off after 10 seconds.

• Wrath of Baapheth - 5/10

  • It has great area of effect and it is easy to move around to enemies while using it, but the damage is a low and the cost is a bit high if you want to spam it.

  • My preferred skill modifiers: 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 15, 16, Rend

  • Level 90 skill weapon damage is 300.0%.

  • The skill is normally physical, but it isn't indicated in the tooltip.

  • This skill has a lot going on that isn't indicated in the description:

    • Each time you cast the skill, your character steps in the directions of the cursor.

    • If you hit the skill once, then use other skills, or wait for a second between casts, you will see one cast animation.

    • If you continually hit the skill, it will actually use a series of cast animations (in this order):

      1. Swing two chains from right to left in a sweeping motion (hitting a wide cone about 5 meters deep)

      2. Swing two chains from right to left in a sweeping motion again (hitting a wide cone about 5 meters deep)

      3. Swing two chains from left to right in a sweeping motion (hitting a wide cone about 5 meters deep)

      4. Overhead swing the chains in front of the character (hitting in a line about 5 meters deep)

      5. Put chains out to the side and spin in a circle (hitting in a full circle of about 8 meters) with "Taste for Vengeance" modifier

  • The movement from the skill does not remove stacks from the "Disallowing Vessel" Gate of Fates node.

  • The "Primal Rush" modifier gives 20 rage on kill.

  • The "Rapid Swings" modifier adds 20% attack speed.

  • The "Whirlwind of War" modifier increases the area of effect, but the difference is probably only 1 meter (so it is wider, but not much deeper).

  • The "Final Moments" modifier increases the damage based on missing health, up to 3.5 times damage at no health.

  • The "Blood Brothers" modifier gives 1% attack life leech and spell life leech for 10 seconds.

  • The "Taste for Vengeance" modifier adds step #5 in the series of cast animations, plus 25% damage.

  • The "Draining Life Force" modifier adds life leech, but the amount is zero at full health and increases the lower your health is up to 5%.

Gate of Fates

• The Gate of Fates is the passive skill tree in Wolcen.

• You can earn a total of 131 Gate of Fate points:

  • 89 from leveling up (one per level and you start at level 1 with no points)

  • 2 from the “Primordial Institute East” City of Stormfall upgrade

  • 40 from completing Infinity tiers (from the 1.1.7.8 patch notes):

    • Successful Operations below 100 skulls will award one-time bonuses of 5 Attribute points for every Skull spent, and 1 Gate of Fates point for every 5 skulls. After the first 100 skulls, successful Operations will grant 1 Attribute point for every 2 Skulls spent, and 1 Gate of Fates point for every 50 Skulls spent. These rewards are capped at 1000 Attribute points and 40 Gate of Fates points.

• To spend Gate of Fate points, open the Gate of Fates window, then click on the nodes you want to put points into. There are some rules you need to follow though:

  • You have to start in the center, and can only add points to nodes connected to places you have already spent points into.

  • There are three concentric rings for the points, and each ring can be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise to get the desired alignment.

• You can reset passives in the Gate of Fates tree by clicking on the "Reassign" button along the left side of the Gate of Fates window. When you click the button, it will pop-out a small window on the right that includes a "Remove all" button, and a "Confirm" button. If you don't want to remove all of your points, you can instead left-click on all of the points you want to remove, then click the "Confirm" button.

  • To reassign points at level 90, the primordial affinity cost is 1000 per point.

  • You cannot reassign nodes that would break access to following nodes, unless you first rotate the rings to break the access (noted by the nodes going dark, but the bright outline staying), then refund the points.

    • For instance: if you want to keep the points in the third ring, but refund the second ring, rotate the third ring so the nodes go dark, then refund the second ring, redo the points the way you want, and move the third ring back to the desired position.

How the bonuses work as of patch 1.1.7.16:

• When a Gate of Fates node or item says it has an effect, it is for all basic attacks and skills (attacks and spells).

• When checking things on Erosson: "DamagePercentFloat" is multiplicative damage, and "DamagePercentInt" (or any Int) is additive damage. All of the "DamagePercentFloat" nodes that I have tested (and could test easily) have confirmed this.

• The major passive node “Second Wind” in the ring 1 Soldier tree multiplies your current Health regeneration amount by 1000%.

• The major passive node “The Heat of Battle” in the ring 1 Soldier tree gives rage when hit. This works even when you block the attack.

• The major passive node “Kingless Aegis” in the ring 2 Praetorian tree gives a -10% multiplicative damage bonus.

• The major passive node “Selfless Courage” in the ring 2 Praetorian tree gives an additive all resistances bonus.

• The major passive node “Retaliator” in the ring 2 Praetorian tree gives a -50% multiplicative critical damage bonus. The damage increase per physical resistance is additive.

  • Unless you are relying on summons, or are intentionally building for this node (and likely take the Legacy of the Willbreaker unique shield with the similar affix), this will almost always end in a loss of damage.

• The major passive node “Manic Slaughter” in the ring 2 Warmonger tree gives an additive damage bonus.

• The major passive node “Blood Reaper” in the ring 2 Warmonger tree gives a -10% multiplicative damage bonus with a Bow, but all the other weapon bonuses are additive.

• The major passive node “Gods Among Men” in the ring 2 Warmonger tree gives a 20% multiplicative damage bonus, at the cost of dealing other types of damage.

• The major passive node “Bestial Frenzy” in the ring 2 Warmonger tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

• The major passive node “Dawn's Pious Striker” in the ring 3 Eos tree causes underling and specialist enemies below 10% health to die instantly upon taking ANY sacred damage. The node "Sudden Death" that hangs off of it, causes this to also apply to champion enemies and bosses.

  • Champions are the enemies that appear at the end of mandate and expedition missions, or can be found in various arena type missions. They are usually magic, rare, or legendary difficulty.

• The major passive node “Beacon for the Lost” in the ring 3 Eos tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

  • Regardless of the damage type, this node actually adds +25% damage as Sacred damage. This pairs particularly well with Dawn's Pious Striker.

• The major passive node “Unflagging Prayer” in the ring 3 Eos tree is partially useless now that we only have single player (as it can't resurrect allies), but the additive all resistance bonus might still save your character's life.

• The minor passive node “Brutal Imposition” in the ring 3 Siegebreaker tree only counts the shield block chance listed on the shield.

• The major passive node "Salvatory Anchor" in the ring 3 Siegebreaker tree and the "Elevated Gain" node hanging off of it have tooltips that are misleading. The decimal listed is actually the percentage it will add, so 0.5 is actually a 50% multiplicative bonus.

• The major passive node “Disallowing Vessel” in the ring 3 Siegebreaker tree gives a 3% multiplicative damage bonus per point (up to 30% multiplicative damage total).

  • Clicking the mouse to move on the location you are already standing (but not actually moving) still causes stacks to fall off.

  • The Active Dodge skill also doesn’t count as movement for this passive node.

  • Bladestorm does not count as movement for this passive node.

  • Wings of Ishmir does not count as movement for this passive node.

  • The steps from Wrath of Baapheth do not count as movement for this passive node.

• The minor passive node “Flurrying Flames” in the ring 3 Child of Fury tree gives an additive attack speed bonus (but it isn't based on attack speed score), and an additive all resistances score bonus.

• The minor passive node “Frenzied Blows” in the ring 3 Child of Fury tree (hanging off the major node "Furious Appetite") is supposed to give double damage (multiplicative), but this damage is not reflected in the skill tooltips. The tooltip cost does change, and the damage multiplier IS working though!

  • Additionally, the bonus comes when the skill is cast, so channeled skills receive this bonus for their entire duration.

• The major passive node “Virtuose Stance" gives two stances that can be swapped between using active dodge, but it can be difficult to make use of them because of their downsides. The -20% attack speed is a multiplicative bonus, and the -20% all resistances score is an additive bonus.

  • Typically only one of the can be useful for a build, and you sometimes need to use your dodge to save yourself, so you either get stuck in the wrong stance, or double roll to stay in the correct stance, but waste some charges and end up in a possible worse spot.

  • One exception to this is a build like Bladestorm that isn't affected by attack speed, and can move freely while attacking (and thus doesn't rely on an active dodge).

• The major passive node “Covert Operative” in the ring 1 Sentinel tree gives a passive dodge chance score that is additive with all other sources.

• The major passive node “Safe From Afar” in the ring 2 Ranger tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

  • This bonus starts at 6 meters and reaches maximum at 15 meters.

• The medium passive node “Meditative Focus” in the ring 2 Ranger tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

• The major passive node “Archion's Teachings” in the ring 2 Ranger tree gives a -20% multiplicative damage bonus, but adds a projectile.

  • The extra projectile does not apply to “Avenger” Autoturret or Tear of Etheliel.

• The medium passive node “Persistence Hunting” in the ring 2 Ranger tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

• The major passive node “Come What May” in the ring 2 Ranger tree increases pierce, but the pierce on basic attacks does NOT increase resource generation.

• The major passive node “Merciless Lethality” in the ring 2 Assassin tree gives a 20% multiplicative critical damage bonus.

• The major passive node “Clandestine Execution” in the ring 2 Assassin tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

• The major passive node “Deadly Weaving” in the ring 2 Assassin tree doubles the dual-wielding damage bonus effects. These are the inherent bonuses on weapons like +15% critical damage on pistols, or +5% Block Efficiency on swords.

• The major passive node “Blessed Silver” in the ring 3 Exorcist tree gives a 5% multiplicative damage increase per point (up to 25% multiplicative damage total).

• The major passive node  “Academic Fieldwork” in the ring 3 Exorcist tree gives a 15% multiplicative bonus, and stacks multiple times, plus there is no listed limit to the number of stacks (though the time will likely run out before you get that many).

  • It doesn’t show the same counter of stacks as with Tenet and Overload points, but it DOES appear as a small icon with a number just above the potions.

  • Picking up new stacks does not refresh the duration of the others.

  • If you deal no material damage (like when converting physical damage to something else), it does nothing.

  • Champions are the enemies that appear at the end of mandate and expedition missions, or can be found in various arena type missions. They are usually magic, rare, or legendary difficulty.

• The major passive node “Branded Burst” in the ring 3 Exorcist tree is multiplicative with other sources of damage reduction, but the stacks are additive with each other (so one point is 10%, 5 points is 50%). This becomes a whopping 75% damage reduction if you are at max stacks and also have the node "Indifference" hanging off of it.

• The major passive node “Intravenous Neural Cord” in the ring 3 Alastor tree gives a 20% multiplicative attack speed bonus.

• The major passive node “Sparkling Dart” in the ring 3 Alastor tree gives a multiplicative damage bonus based on the number of Power Charge points. It is .5% times the number of points, up to 100 points (up to 50% multiplicative damage total).

  • Additionally, the damage provided is based on the number of points when you start the cast, then it subtracts the points.

• The major passive node “Static Transferral” in the ring 3 Alastor tree says you gain a 20% damage bonus per point, but each point actually gives a 26.7% multiplicative bonus, so all 6 points equals a 160% multiplicative damage bonus.

  • The node hanging “Protracted Effort” that hangs off of it rounds down when cutting the points in half.

• The major passive node “Life's First Movement” in the ring 3 Duskglaive tree should multiply the bonus damage of the opposite damage type by .5, then add it onto the used damage type. The overall numerical damage bonus depends on the difference between the damage bonus pools. 

  • If they are equal, then it should be a 50% multiplicative damage bonus all the time.

  • If one is 10 times more than the other, then you get a 5% multiplicative damage bonus in one direction, and a 500% multiplicative damage bonus in the other direction.

• The major passive node “Waltzing Smoke” in the ring 3 Duskglaive tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

  • Regardless of the damage type, this node actually adds +60% damage as Shadow damage to the skill used.

• The major passive node “Wintry Hail” in the ring 3 White Arrow tree causes basic attack projectiles to bounce to additional enemies.

  • The additional hits don’t increase the amount of resource gained.

  • The additional hits don’t increase the amount of stacks from “Static Transferral” in the Alastor tree.

• The major passive node “Acute Tracking” in the ring 3 White Arrow tree gives a 4% multiplicative damage bonus per point (up to 40% multiplicative damage total).

• The major passive node “Hungry Stalactite” in the ring 3 White Arrow tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson), but the bonus won't show on the stat sheet due to the conditional nature of pierce strength.

• The minor passive node “Increased Awareness” in the ring 1 Scholar tree increases pick up of all globes (including undertaken toxic globes) by 10 meters, which is basically to the top of the screen.

• The major passive node “Purifier's Will” in the ring 1 Scholar tree gives multiplicative bonus damage reduction, but it only works if your force shield is greater than half of your maximum health.

• The major passive node “Attrition Strategist” in the ring 1 Scholar tree gives an ailment chance score that is additive with all other sources.

• The minor passive node “Dominator” in the ring 2 Warlock tree is supposed to give 20 willpower on hit, but it doesn't work (with the possible exception of Infinity Blades, which already has this ability, and thus the number might be increasing).

• The major passive node “Reining In The Darkness” in the ring 2 Warlock tree gives a spell critical chance score that is additive with all other sources.

• The major passive node “Residual Energy” in the ring 2 Warlock tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

  • Regardless of the damage type, this node actually adds +25% damage.

• The major passive node "Immortal Offering" in the ring 2 Cabalist tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

• The major passive node “Captured Velocity” in the ring 3 Time Weaver tree uses points that either give 5% additive attack speed (but not attack speed score) or 5% additive spell casting speed (but not spell casting speed score), up to 5 points for 25% total speed.

• The major passive node “Dire Juncture” in the ring 3 Time Weaver tree gives health and force shield a -15% multiplicative bonus.

  • The main point of this node is to reduce the chances of getting one-shotted by spreading out the damage, but if you are taking damage fairly continuously (as you will in Infinity mode), and you can't life leech fast enough to fully recover, it will likely hurt you.

• The major passive node “Which Time Cannot Heal” in the ring 3 Time Weaver tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

  • It does 25% multiplicative damage, and the"Deferential Wounds" node hanging off of it does 15% (they were upgraded from 10 and 5 respectively in patch 1.1.7.5).

  • This extra hit cannot crit.

• The major passive node “Elementary Destabilization” in the ring 3 Oracle of the Trinity tree generates 25% willpower.

• The major passive node “Ancient Fervour” in the ring 3 Oracle of the Trinity tree requires you to deal damage with a skill that has physical damage converted to fire, frost, or lightning. Simply having more lightning damage than any other type does not proc the accord.

  • The fire damage bonus is additive.

  • The lightning crit bonus is additive.

  • The frost ailment bonus is additive.

• The minor passive node “Dual Allegiance” in the ring 3 Oracle of the Trinity tree (hanging off the major node "Ancient Fervour") allows for two accords, but requires a skill with each elemental type converted from physical damage. Simply having fire damage on a skill converting physical damage to lightning will not cause both accords to proc (even if there is more fire damage than lightning damage).

• The major passive node “Sacrifice of Flesh” in the ring 3 Plaguebringer tree, and the “Endless Litany” nodes that hang off of it are:

  • Health - additive with each other

  • Force Shield - should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

  • Damage Reduction - should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamagePercentFloat” on Erosson).

• The major passive node "Undertaker" in the ring 3 Plaguebringer tree, and the "Horde's Vitality" node that hangs off of give a 20% multiplicative bonus, and stacks multiple times, plus there is no listed limit to the number of stacks (though the time will likely run out before you get that many).

  • Picking up new globes does not refresh the duration of the others.

  • I have reached over 6-7 times normal damage from these green globes.

• The major passive node “Fatal Pact” in the ring 3 Abyssal Shaper tree gives an additive movement speed bonus for removing stasis stacks, an additive all resistance score bonus for removing curse stacks, an additive damage bonus for removing weakness stacks, and a heal for removing damage over time stacks.

• The major passive node “Occult Affliction” in the ring 3 Abyssal Shaper tree should give a multiplicative damage bonus (since it is listed as “DamageIncreasePercentFloat” on Erosson), but I am not sure.

Mechanics

• You must be in range to receive the following:

  • experience

  • shrine buffs

  • loot (but the distance is much farther than the other two)

• Basic attacks with combinations of weapons and off-hands have normal average damage, attack damage, and spell damage except for:

• Dual-wielding pistols, which reduces the average damage by 1/3 (but increases attack speed).

• • A pistol with a shield, which reduces attack damage by 3/4 (but causes the attack to spray in a short cone like a shotgun).

• Buffs from active skills are unaffected by Gate of Fates nodes and item affixes (except for First Men’s Legacy).

• Several of the character stat numbers shown in town are don't reflect what you would see in a level. Basically, the ones that differ are all of the numbers that rely on scores, which includes: critical chance, ailment chance, dodge chance, and all resistance.

  • According to Racthoh, they are "reduced depending on the level difference between you and the zone you're in".

• Below is a diagram of distance that should be fairly accurate:

Status Ailments

• Ailments are conditions applied to enemies that persist over time. What ailments do can be broken into three categories:

  • Damage Dealing Ailments:

    • Bleed (from rend damage)

    • Poison (from toxic damage)

    • Burn (from fire damage)

    • Shock (from lightning damage)

  • Damage Modifying Ailments:

    • Weakness (from sacred damage), it decreases the damage dealt by the target

    • Curse (from shadow damage), it increases the damage received by the target

  • Crowd Control Ailments:

    • Stun (from physical damage), though it seems to be broken at the moment, it prevents the target from acting or moving

    • Freeze (from frost damage), it prevents the target from acting or moving

    • Stasis (from aether damage), basically a slow that affects move, attack speed and spell casting speed

• The ailment applied is always whatever damage type is the highest from the attack. If you want multiple ailments up at once, you need to take the major passive node "Grievous Afflictions" in the ring 2 Cabalist tree (which allows for two at once), or hit with skills that use two different elements.

• Ailment damage is actually derived from your overall damage, and it is affected by increases to all damage and material, elemental, or occult damage.

• Ailments ignore force shield, unless you take the medium passive node "Resilience to Corruption" in the ring 2 Warlock tree.

• For Stasis, Weakness, and Curse stacks: the first number listed on the Ailments tab is how much one stack does, and the second number is how much max stacks do, This means that:

  1. The first stack of stasis does 10%, then each one after it does 1%.

  2. The first stack of weakness does 5%, then each one after it does 1%.

  3. The first stack of curse does 5%, then each one after it does 1%.

Formulas

• The average damage amount listed in a skill’s tooltip is not affected by attack speed, critical chance, or critical damage.

• Quality improves the intrinsic base stats (damage, health, all resistances, etc.) by 10% times the number of stars (.1x, where x is the number of stars).

  • Any other affixes on the item like damage percentage or health percentage are applied afterwards as a separate multiplier.

• Damage calculation on weapons:

  • Base physical damage of the weapon is multiplied by (1+.1x), where x is the number of stars (quality).

  • This new number of base damage, plus all other added damage (from affixes) is multiplied by the intrinsic weapon multiplier (like 1.5 when it says “50% All Damage on Attacks and Spells with this weapon”).

• The following stats are calculated as a percentage derived from a raw score. The numerical bonuses to the score are added to the BASE score, while percentile bonuses to the score are a percentage of the BASE score (and these bonuses are additive with each other). 

  • Critical Chance

  • Attack Speed

  • Ailment Chance

  • Dodge Chance

  • All Resistances

• Several of the character stat numbers shown in town are completely wrong, but if you go into a level, it will show you the correct information. It is all of the numbers that rely on scores, which includes: critical chance, ailment chance, dodge chance, and all resistance.

• shef_roxy on YouTube created this text file, which I converted into a Google Doc for easier viewing score scaling for the options above.

• The Ahriman affixes for Attack Critical Chance and Spell Critical Chance are both additive with the total crit chance.

• Attack Speed:

  • Weapon speed only affects basic attacks, not skills (as skills have their own internal speeds). On Erosson, two-handed melee weapons are listed as slow, and all other weapons are listed as fast.

  • Increased attack speed affects basic attacks and skills.

• Anything with a tick rate like Bladestorm or "Avenger" Autoturret doesn't get more ticks from more attack speed. Most channeled skills call into this category.

• The following skills benefit from attack speed in the listed way according to this video by shef_roxy:

  • Anvil’s Woe: fast attacks, charge speed

  • “Avenger” Autoturret: damage per second isn’t affected, but can rotate to new targets faster

  • Bleeding Edge: cast animation is fast, but not blade rotation

  • Consuming Embers: faster animation

  • Havob Orb: faster animation

  • Phantom Blades: faster animation, but not charge replenish speed

  • Slayer’s Flurry: faster start up and higher damage ticks

  • Stings of Krearion: faster animation

  • Thunderstrike: faster animation

  • Tracker’s Reach: faster animation

  • Wings of Ishmir: faster flight animation

  • Wrath of Baapheth: faster animation

• • One of the best things about attack speed score/spell cast speed score is that it takes you out of animation lock sooner, allowing you to move if necessary.

• All Resistance (including "Secure Parry")::

  • All resistance percentages on armor items (which state "score on this item") are not in the same category as all resistance percentages from the tree or jewelery (which are overall all resistance score). Basically the armor item affixes only affect that local all resistance score, which tells the game how much all resistance the item has overall, but the tree and jewelry affixes, take all of the items score added together, and multiply that (effectively making the two scores multiplicative with each other).

• The following stats are calculated as a percentage. These stats do not have scores and thus, percentile bonuses are simply a percentage of the BASE score (and these bonuses are additive with each other). Sometimes an item or skill will state that x% block chance is ADDED, in which case that number is simply added onto the base (which makes these items or skills more powerful than the normal percentile bonuses).

  • Block Chance (with a cap of 100%)

  • Block Efficiency (with a cap of 75%)

• Health and Force Shield (which take damage after damage reductions from all resistance and block have occurred):

  • Force Shield takes damage before health.

    • The exception is ailments (damage over time), which go straight to health you don't take the "Resilience to Corruption" node in the ring 2 Warlock tree.

  • All sources or +# health on this item, and +% health on this item only affect the amount of health on the item.

  • All sources of % maximum health (like the +% maximum health Ahriman affix) are additive with each other, AND are additive with the toughness health percentage (so % max health is crappy with tons of toughness, but great with almost no toughness).

  • The total health formula is base health (character's levels, plus all health from items, and Gate of Fates) then multiplies it by the % health total (from items, attributes and Gate of Fates).

  • The Force Shield math works the same way as health.

• Skill Cooldown Reduction:

  • Skill Cooldown Reduction listed on the utility tab of the game treats the sources as additive, but for some reason, the percentage applied to skills equals half of what it should.

    • I think this is why the cooldown reduction cap was increased to 200% in patch 1.1.7.5.

  • You cannot have negative cooldown reduction, so if you don’t have any sources of cooldown reduction and get the hunt affix that gives -% cooldown reduction, it actually doesn’t do anything.