Caustic ground



Caustic Ground is a detrimental ground effect that deals chaos damage over time. The amount of damage per second inflicted by caustic ground depends on its source.

Other

 * Strongboxes with the prefix
 * The caustic bomb thrown by Undying Alchemists
 * Certain zombies, which release caustic ground on death
 * Infested Ursa and Vivid Weta release caustic ground on death
 * Skill used by Ryslatha, the Puppet Mistress
 * The Temple of Atzoatl with "poison themed" rooms such as Toxic Grove. Clusters of plants are randomly spread throughout the whole area, which release a Caustic Ground once stepped on. The amount of plants is determined by the respective room level (with higher room levels adding more plants).

Trivia
The file name of the debuff icon of Caustic Ground, is "CausticCloud.dds".

Version history

 * Improved the appearance of shocked, burning, caustic and chilled ground.


 * Adjusted a number of Metamorph skills, including the Reliquarian's Firestorm, the Shavronne & Brutus Hover Slam, Tentacle Miscreation projectile skills, the tracking Mortar skills (including those used by Oriath zombies and Kitava's Heralds), Burning and Caustic Ground-creating skills and several others. In general, these will now either deal less damage or be easier to avoid.


 * The unique belt now correctly causes your  to spread Caustic Ground on Death.


 * We've made performance improvements to ground effects. They now use considerably less bandwidth and server resources. Disconnections or lockstep stuttering near ground effects should occur far less often.


 * and Ground Fire should now cause fewer graphical performance issues.


 * Introduced to the game
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