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Caustic Ground
Debuff
Caustic Ground status icon.png
You are taking Chaos Damage from standing in Caustic Ground.
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[]

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Unique items[]

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Other[]

  • Strongboxes with the Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "mods.name"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. 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 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. unique belt now correctly causes your Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. 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
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. and Ground Fire should now cause fewer graphical performance issues.
Unknown
  • Introduced to the game