Elemental Hit

Elemental Hit is an attack skill that randomly deals fire, cold, or lightning damage in an area of effect around the target with each use. That use of Elemental Hit will only deal damage of the chosen element, and has more area of effect against enemies affected by the elemental ailments of that element. The skill deals more damage for each elemental ailment present on enemies.

Elemental Hit can be used with any weapon, or while unarmed.

Skill functions and interactions

• Prismatic: Elemental Hit will never pick the same element twice in a row.
• Random damage type: Elemental Hit chooses a random elements each time it is used. That use can deal only damage of the chosen element (meaning it can never deal physical or chaos damage). The unique threshold jewels Combat Focus can be used to exclude elements from being chosen.
• 80% more Area Radius against Enemies affected by an Ailment of the chosen Element The relevant elemental ailments are ignite, scorch (Fire), chill, freeze, brittle (Cold), shock, and sap (Lightning).
• Sequential Projectiles and Repeat: When linked to Elemental hit will pick one element per projectile shot; will pick a new element for each repeat.
• Damage conversion: Elemental Hit has added damage of each element present on the gem. This flat damage may be converted normally. The selection of an element happens afterwards and does not retroactively change the results of conversion.
  • Example: If the player allocates the keystone Avatar of Fire, 50% of all lightning damage and 50% of all cold damage are converted to fire. This includes the flat damage inherently present on the gem. When Elemental Hit chooses fire, it will then deal significantly more damage than if the player did not have Avatar of Fire.
• Dual Wielding: Elemental Hit will alternate weapons while dual wielding.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Fire Damage	Cold Damage	Lightning Damage	Status Chance	Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	7	22 to 40	18 to 33	4 to 67	30%	N/A	0	0
2	15	39	7	27 to 51	22 to 41	4 to 83	31%	N/A	15249	15249
3	19	48	7	36 to 66	29 to 54	6 to 109	32%	N/A	41517	56766
4	23	56	8	46 to 86	38 to 70	7 to 141	33%	N/A	81983	138749
5	27	64	8	59 to 109	48 to 89	9 to 179	34%	N/A	147968	286717
6	31	73	8	73 to 136	60 to 112	12 to 224	35%	N/A	250557	537274
7	35	81	8	91 to 169	75 to 139	15 to 279	36%	1	405086	942360
8	38	88	8	107 to 198	87 to 162	17 to 326	37%	1	447718	1390078
9	41	94	9	125 to 231	102 to 189	20 to 380	38%	1	615318	2005396
10	44	100	9	145 to 269	118 to 220	23 to 442	39%	1	834639	2840035
11	47	106	9	168 to 311	137 to 255	27 to 512	40%	1	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	9	194 to 360	158 to 294	31 to 591	41%	1	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	9	223 to 414	183 to 339	36 to 682	42%	1	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	10	257 to 476	210 to 390	41 to 783	43%	2	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	10	294 to 547	241 to 447	47 to 899	44%	2	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	10	337 to 626	276 to 512	54 to 1029	45%	2	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	10	369 to 684	302 to 560	59 to 1125	46%	2	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	10	403 to 748	329 to 612	65 to 1230	47%	2	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	11	440 to 816	360 to 668	71 to 1342	48%	2	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	11	480 to 891	392 to 729	77 to 1465	49%	2	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	11	523 to 971	428 to 795	84 to 1597	50%	3	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	11	570 to 1059	466 to 866	92 to 1741	51%	3	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	11	621 to 1153	508 to 943	100 to 1896	52%	3	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	11	676 to 1255	553 to 1027	109 to 2064	53%	3	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	11	735 to 1366	602 to 1117	118 to 2246	54%	3	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	12	800 to 1485	654 to 1215	129 to 2442	55%	3	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	12	869 to 1614	711 to 1321	140 to 2655	56%	3	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	12	944 to 1754	773 to 1435	152 to 2884	57%	4	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	12	1026 to 1905	839 to 1558	165 to 3132	58%	4	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	12	1113 to 2068	911 to 1692	179 to 3400	59%	4	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	13	1160 to 2154	949 to 1762	186 to 3542	59%	4	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	13	1208 to 2244	988 to 1836	194 to 3689	60%	4	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	13	1258 to 2337	1030 to 1912	202 to 3843	60%	4	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	13	1311 to 2434	1072 to 1991	211 to 4002	61%	4	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	13	1365 to 2534	1117 to 2074	219 to 4167	61%	5	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	14	1421 to 2639	1163 to 2159	228 to 4339	62%	5	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	14	1479 to 2748	1210 to 2248	238 to 4518	62%	5	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	14	1540 to 2860	1260 to 2340	248 to 4703	63%	5	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	14	1603 to 2978	1312 to 2436	258 to 4896	63%	5	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	14	1669 to 3099	1365 to 2536	268 to 5096	64%	5	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Elemental Hit:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Elemental Hit.

Alternate skill effects

Elemental Hit has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Received Prismatic gem tag.
3.11.0	Fixed a bug which caused to not increase its area of effect when hitting enemies afflicted by Scorch, Brittle or Sap (despite them being valid ailments). Fixed a bug where melee Elemental Hit attacks that would apply a relevant ailment to Elemental Hit's bonus would increase the area of effect for that hit, despite the ailment not yet being applied.
3.10.0	Modifiers to Melee Weapon and Unarmed Attack Range are now described as "+X to Melee Strike Range". The functionality hasn't changed. Weapons that describe their range still refer to "Weapon Range".
3.9.0	Now deals 22 to 40 added Fire Damage at gem level 1 (from 23 to 43), up to 480 to 891 at gem level 20 (from 590 to 1096). Now deals 18 to 33 added Cold Damage at gem level 1 (from 19 to 35), up to 392 to 729 at gem level 20 (from 483 to 896). Now deals 4 to 67 added Lightning Damage at gem level 1 (from 4 to 70), up to 77 to 1465 at gem level 20 (from 95 to 1802).
3.4.0	Now gain additional melee weapon range every 7 levels, up to +2 at level 20 (and +3 at level 21)
3.3.0	Previously added damage of a random element to an attack against a single target. Now adds damage of all three element to attacks, selects one at random, and deals no damage of any other type. It tries not to pick the same element twice in a row. If the skill hits an enemy, it also deals damage in a small area around it. If the enemy is suffering from that element's associated ailment (ie. if it hits an ignited enemy with fire damage), the area component of the attack gets 80% more radius. Now deals 10% more damage per elemental ailment on enemies. Now has 30% chance to freeze, shock and ignite (up from 10%), which grows as the gem levels, up to 49% at gem level 20. Now requires level 12. Now actually shows the correct DPS in the tooltip.
2.0.2	Damage increased by 10%.
2.0.0	Now has a base chance to inflict elemental status ailments.
1.3.0	The mana costs of , , and have been reduced.
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised.
1.0.0	Increased the mana cost. Damage progression past level 1 has been reduced.
0.10.0	Is now player level 19 (was 2) and has had its damage reduced, especially at high levels.
0.9.2	Reduced the mana cost.
0.9.1	Increased damage at higher levels.
0.7.2	Increased damage of Elemental Hit skill
0.6.9	Elemental hit skill now has correct gem hover
0.6.0	Added new skills: Ground Slam, Elemental Hit and Cleave