Herald of Purity

Herald of Purity is a herald skill gem. When activated, it reserves mana for a buff that grants more physical damage for attacks and spells. It also summons a Sentinel of Purity minion when the player kills an enemy or on hitting a rare or unique enemy while active.

Skill functions and interactions

 * Sentinels: Sentinels use regular melee attacks, as well as on a cooldown. They can also use Crusade Slam, which deals area of effect damage in a cone in front of them.


 * Support Gems: The Sentinels' attacks can be supported by gems such as or . This will result in a higher mana reservation. Sentinels cannot be supported by Curse on Hit (to for example apply an curse on enemies).


 * Sentinel stats scale heavily with the gem level of Herald of Purity. For example at gem level 20 they have a base physical damage of 729 to 1,094 (before the inherent "" modifier) with a total life of 10,119 per Sentinel (before the inherent "" modifier), while at gem level 15 their base physical damage is 438 to 657 with a total life of 6,171 per Sentinel.


 * Sentinels have 40% Elemental Resistances and 20% Chaos Resistance.


 * Sentinels have a base attack time of 1.20.

Related unique items
The following unique items are related to Herald of Purity:

Related passive skills
The following passive skills are related to Herald of Purity (this list does not included notables that affect all type of Herald):

Version history

 * No longer grants added Physical Damage with Spells and Attacks.
 * Now grants 9% more Physical Damage at gem level 1, up to 12% more Physical Damage at gem level 20.


 * Summoned Sentinels can now use Crusade Slam regardless of Ascendancy. Previously, this required a specific Guardian notable.


 * Minions summoned by this skill now deal more Physical Damage based on gem level, rather than more Damage.


 * Now has a chance to summon a Sentinel of Purity when you hit a Rare enemy.


 * Herald of Purity has been added to the game.
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