Caustic ground

Caustic Ground

Debuff

You are taking Chaos Damage from standing in Caustic Ground.

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.

Sources

Skill gems

Skill gem
Caustic ArrowCaustic ArrowAttack, Projectile, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Bow Radius: 20 Mana Cost: (6-10) Cast Time: 1.00 sec Effectiveness of Added Damage: (55%-64%) Projectile Speed: 3260Fires an arrow which deals chaos damage in an area on impact, and spreads caustic ground. Enemies standing on the caustic ground take chaos damage over time.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent0.5% increased Area of Effect1% chance to inflict Withered for 2 seconds on Hit1% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos DamageDeals (55-64.4)% of Base Attack Damage Base duration is 2 seconds Deals (8.8-1927.1) Base Chaos Damage per second 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage Modifiers to Projectile Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect +(0-6) to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	N/A		N/A	1

Unique items

Item	Base Item		Stats
SiegebreakerSiegebreaker Heavy BeltRequires Level 44+(25-35) to Strength(6-10)% increased maximum Energy Shield (6-10)% increased maximum Life +(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance Minions have 5% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks Your Minions spread Caustic Ground on Death, dealing 20% of their maximum Life as Chaos Damage per secondPoison the land and they'll have nothing to defend.	Heavy Belt	44	+(25-35) to Strength(6-10)% increased maximum Energy Shield (6-10)% increased maximum Life +(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance Minions have 5% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks Your Minions spread Caustic Ground on Death, dealing 20% of their maximum Life as Chaos Damage per second

Other

• Strongboxes with the ContaminatedContaminated
  Prefix
  Spreads Caustic Ground
  Chest plays warning sound (Hidden) 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

Version	Changes
3.10.0	Improved the appearance of shocked, burning, caustic and chilled ground.
3.9.2	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.
3.8.0d	The SiegebreakerSiegebreaker Heavy BeltRequires Level 44+(25-35) to Strength(6-10)% increased maximum Energy Shield (6-10)% increased maximum Life +(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance Minions have 5% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks Your Minions spread Caustic Ground on Death, dealing 20% of their maximum Life as Chaos Damage per secondPoison the land and they'll have nothing to defend. unique belt now correctly causes your Raised SpectresRaise SpectreSpell, Minion Mana Cost: (15-28) Cast Time: 0.85 secRequires Level 28Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal1% increased Minion Movement SpeedMinions deal 1% increased Melee Damage 1% increased Minion Maximum LifeMinions have 0.5% reduced Enemy Stun ThresholdMinions are Created with maximum Frenzy ChargesMaximum (1-2) Raised Spectres 55% more Minion Movement Speed Minion Movement Speed is Capped Raised Spectres are Level (28-72) Minions have (105-776) additional Accuracy Rating Minions have +30% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. to spread Caustic Ground on Death.
2.1.0	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.
0.10.7b	Poison ArrowCaustic ArrowAttack, Projectile, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Bow Radius: 20 Mana Cost: (6-10) Cast Time: 1.00 sec Effectiveness of Added Damage: (55%-64%) Projectile Speed: 3260Fires an arrow which deals chaos damage in an area on impact, and spreads caustic ground. Enemies standing on the caustic ground take chaos damage over time.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent0.5% increased Area of Effect1% chance to inflict Withered for 2 seconds on Hit1% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos DamageDeals (55-64.4)% of Base Attack Damage Base duration is 2 seconds Deals (8.8-1927.1) Base Chaos Damage per second 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage Modifiers to Projectile Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect +(0-6) to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. and Ground Fire should now cause fewer graphical performance issues.
Unknown	Introduced to the game