Detonate Dead

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Detonate Dead.

Detonate Dead is a spell that explodes a corpse, dealing secondary damage as fire in an area around it.

Skill functions and interactions

Detonate Dead deals damage in two hits that get calculated separately, the fixed fire damage component and the corpse maximum life % component.

• Secondary damage: Detonate Dead's explosion deals secondary damage, hence it cannot be affected by stats affecting spell damage, including ones such as x% increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells. However the corpse explosion component of the spell will receive bonuses from elemental, area, and fire related stats.

• Partying: While in a party, the explosion ignores the increased life added for each player beyond the first and treats the monster's life as if the player was solo.

• Damage reflection: The damage from the Detonate Dead explosion cannot be reflected.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Fire Damage	Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	4	0	0	5	160%	15 to 22	N/A	0	0
2	6	0	0	6	160%	21 to 32	N/A	841	841
3	9	17	0	6	160%	32 to 42	N/A	3099	3940
4	12	21	14	7	160%	36 to 53	N/A	7433	11373
5	16	26	18	8	160%	48 to 72	+1	22895	34268
6	20	31	22	9	160%	63 to 94	+1	49725	83993
7	24	37	25	10	160%	80 to 121	+1	95714	179707
8	28	42	29	11	160%	102 to 153	+1	169595	349302
9	32	47	33	11	160%	128 to 192	+1	283759	633061
10	36	52	36	12	160%	159 to 238	+2	453996	1087057
11	40	58	40	13	160%	195 to 293	+2	703128	1790185
12	44	63	44	14	160%	239 to 359	+2	1061223	2851408
13	48	68	48	15	160%	291 to 436	+2	2065870	4917278
14	52	74	51	16	160%	352 to 529	+2	2507110	7424388
15	55	78	54	16	160%	406 to 609	+3	2573731	9998119
16	58	82	57	17	160%	466 to 699	+3	7611351	17609470
17	61	86	60	18	160%	535 to 802	+3	13437908	31047378
18	64	90	62	18	160%	612 to 918	+3	25052147	56099525
19	67	94	65	19	160%	700 to 1049	+3	43869436	99968961
20	70	98	68	20	160%	798 to 1197	+4	242081178	342050139
21	72	100	70	20	160%	871 to 1306	+4	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	21	160%	950 to 1424	+4	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	21	160%	1035 to 1552	+4	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	21	160%	1127 to 1691	+4	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	22	160%	1227 to 1841	+5	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	22	160%	1335 to 2003	+5	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	23	160%	1452 to 2178	+5	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	23	160%	1579 to 2368	+5	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	24	160%	1716 to 2573	+5	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	24	160%	1863 to 2795	+6	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	24	160%	1942 to 2913	+6	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	25	160%	2023 to 3035	+6	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	25	160%	2108 to 3162	+6	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	25	160%	2196 to 3294	+6	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	25	160%	2287 to 3431	+7	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	25	160%	2382 to 3573	+7	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	26	160%	2481 to 3722	+7	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	26	160%	2584 to 3875	+7	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	26	160%	2690 to 4035	+7	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	26	100%	2801 to 4202	+8	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effects

Detonate Dead has the following alternate skill effects:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Detonate Dead.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 5 (was 7). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 20 (was 30). Now deals 15 to 22 Fire damage at gem level 1 (from 10 to 14) and 798 to 1197 Fire damage at gem level 20 (from 823 to 1235). Now has an added damage effectiveness of 160% (from 100%).
3.1.0	Detonate Dead now deals spell damage based on the level of the skill gem, in addition to damage based on the corpse's maximum life. The base fire damage dealt by the spell part of the explosion has been significantly increased. The skill now gains additional area of effect radius as it levels, and its base critical chance has been increased from 5% to 6%. The cast time has been lowered to 0.6 seconds (from 0.8).
2.1.0	Radius increased by 22%.
2.0.2	Increased Detonate Dead damage by 10% at all levels.
2.0.0	Radius of the explosion increased by 12.5% (from 16 to 18). Damage caused by the detonation of corpses can no longer be reflected.
1.2.1	We have corrected the cast time to 800ms, as originally stated in the 1.2.0 patch notes.
1.2.0	This now deals entirely fire damage. It deals 8% of corpse life as well as flat damage. The damage increase per level has been significantly increased. The base cast time has been decreased from 850ms to 800ms. Quality on this skill now offers substantially less cast speed, from 60% cast speed at 20 quality to 20% cast speed at 20 quality.
1.1.1b	Fixed a bug that caused the damage dealt by Detonate Dead to be delayed.
1.0.0	Mana cost reduced.
0.10.2	The mana cost of Detonate Dead has been reduced at early levels so that it's around 40% cheaper. It ramps up to the same mana cost as before for high levels.
0.9.7	Slightly increased the radius of Detonate Dead's explosion.
0.9.6b	Improved the effects for Detonate Dead.
0.9.5g	Reduced the critical strike chance on Detonate Dead.
0.9.3g	Changed Detonate Dead to not have the damage scaled by mods that affect Spell Damage.
0.9.1	Fixed a crash involving Detonate Dead.
0.7.1	Changed Detonate Dead to be 20% monster health in fire damage and then the rest is physical
0.6.13	Detonate Dead skill gem should now drop
0.6.11	Added skills: Raise Zombie, Detonate Dead, Cold Snap