Despair

Despair is a spell that curses all targets in an area, making them take increased chaos damage, damage over time, and chaos damage on hit.

Skill functions and interactions

 * Cursed enemies take increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects: Because these stats are an increase to the target's damage taken, they are multiplicative with attacker's damage dealt and additive with any other effects to damage taken on the defender.
 * Adds Chaos Damage to Hits against Cursed Enemies: Skills, passives, and items that grant will increase the added chaos damage granted by this curse (Note: These increases are not reflected in the tooltip, they only display base values). This added damage is identical in function to other sources of added damage, such as, and thus can be further increased by any of the applicable increases to the attacker's damage.
 * Cursed enemies have -x% to Chaos Resistance: The reduction to Chaos Resistance granted by this curse (after modifiers) stacks additively with the Occultist's Void Beacon Ascendancy passive and other similar effects.
 * Despair can be turned into an aura by linking it with either or.



Related unique items
The following unique items are related to Despair:

Cluster Jewel passive skills
The following Cluster Jewel passives are related to Despair:

Delve Fossil Mods
Note that since version 3.10.0, most fossil-only mods are disabled to spawn, including the mods below:

Legacy variants
Despair gem dropped before version 3.1, use the inv art of Vulnerability. That patch Vulnerability was split into Vulnerability and Despair, while the existing item became Despair gem , but retaining the old art.

Version history

 * Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 16 (was 24).
 * Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 33 (was 50).
 * Cursed enemies now take 35% increased damage from damage over time effects at gem level 20.


 * Added new helmet enchantments for Bodyswap and Despair. These are available from the Divine Font in the Merciless and Eternal Labyrinths.


 * Existing Skill gems are now Despair gems. Despair curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage, and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit. There is a new red skill gem called.
 * Vulnerability has been split into two skill gems - Vulnerability and Despair.
 * Despair, an Intelligence Skill Gem, curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit. Existing Vulnerability skill gems have become Despair.
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