Blight

Blight is a channelling spell that deals chaos damage over time to all enemies in the area in front of the caster.

Skill functions and interactions

 * Damage over time: Modifiers to spell, chaos damage, and damage over time affect the damage over time component of this spell.
 * Area of effect: Increasing or decreasing the area works as expected, but area damage (from e.g. ) does not apply.
 * Blight does not hit and therefore cannot be supported by added damage supports such as and cannot confer the effects of supports such as  or . Additionally, on hit effects such as Leech, poison, or life gain on hit will not occur while using Blight. Despite not hitting, Blight will break pots, baskets, cairns, etc. within its area of effect.
 * See Channelling for more information.
 * Blight and Vaal blight both count towards the maximum limit of 20 debuffs per monsters.

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

Version history

 * Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 5 (was 4).
 * Now deals 3.1 base Chaos damage per second at gem level 1 (from 1.7) and 257.4 base Chaos damage per second at gem level 20 (from 209.9).
 * Now gains additional radius as the gem levels up, up to +6 at gem level 20 (from +4 at gem level 20).


 * Blight deals 25% more damage at gem level 20.


 * Blight gains 1 additional unit of radius every 5 levels.


 * Blight's damage has been increased by 5% damage at level 1 of the gem, up to 35% more damage at level 20 of the gem.


 * Added new Intelligence skill - Blight: Apply a debuff to enemies in front of you which deals chaos damage over time. Enemies who aren't already debuffed by Blight are also hindered for a shorter secondary duration, slowing their movement. Continued channelling adds layers of damage to the debuff, each with their own duration.
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