Elemental Weakness

Elemental Weakness is a Hex spell that curses all targets in an area, lowering their elemental Resistance. If the player character self casts this hex, it gains 10 Doom per second. Doom increases the effectiveness of this hex.

Skill Functions and Interactions

• Negative Resistances: This curse can cause resistance values to dip into the negatives, if the base values are low enough. This will have the affect of increasing the damage above values listed on the character screen. For example, if a monster has 0% elemental resistances by default (as well as 100% curse effectiveness) and is inflicted with level 1 Elemental Weakness, that monster now has -20% (negative 20%) elemental resistances. Consequently, the monster thus receives 20% more elemental damage than the spell or attack would normally cause. The curse gets even more effective against monsters with higher resistances. However, a boss such as The Shaper has 66% less curse effectiveness, thus for the overall calculation it is needed to take both monster resistances and curse effectiveness into account.
• The extra damage is multiplicative with other damage modifiers as it is considered to be the monsters damage mitigation, and not due to a buff on any players' elemental skills damage.
• Elemental Weakness can be turned into an aura by linking it with either or .

The aura version of Elemental Weakness

Elemental Weakness

Debuff

You are cursed. You take more Elemental damage.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Base Duration	Added Radius	reduced Elemental Resistance	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	24	58	16	9	N/A	-20%	0	0
2	27	64	17	9.1	1	-21%	118383	118383
3	30	71	18	9.2	1	-22%	175816	294199
4	33	77	19	9.3	2	-23%	254061	548260
5	36	83	21	9.4	2	-24%	359090	907350
6	39	90	22	9.5	3	-25%	498508	1405858
7	42	96	23	9.6	3	-26%	682057	2087915
8	45	102	24	9.7	4	-27%	921777	3009692
9	48	109	25	9.8	4	-28%	1727879	4737571
10	50	113	26	9.9	5	-29%	1138877	5876448
11	52	117	26	10	5	-30%	1368233	7244681
12	54	121	27	10.1	6	-31%	1638338	8883019
13	56	125	28	10.2	6	-32%	1956648	10839667
14	58	130	29	10.3	7	-33%	3655184	14494851
15	60	134	29	10.4	7	-34%	3017327	17512178
16	62	138	30	10.5	8	-35%	7793914	25306092
17	64	142	31	10.6	8	-36%	15206031	40512123
18	66	146	31	10.7	9	-37%	26185582	66697705
19	68	151	32	10.8	9	-38%	62755923	129453628
20	70	155	33	10.9	10	-39%	211877683	341331311
21	72	159	34	11	10	-40%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	34	11.1	11	-41%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	35	11.2	11	-42%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	36	11.3	12	-43%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	36	11.4	12	-44%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	37	11.5	13	-45%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	38	11.6	13	-46%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	39	11.7	14	-47%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	39	11.8	14	-48%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	40	11.9	15	-49%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	40	11.95	15	-49%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	41	12	15	-50%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	41	12.05	15	-50%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	42	12.1	16	-51%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	42	12.15	16	-51%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	42	12.2	16	-52%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	43	12.25	16	-52%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	43	12.3	17	-53%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	43	12.35	17	-53%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	44	12.4	17	-54%	N/A	N/A

Related modifiers

The following mods are related to Elemental Weakness:

These Synthesis implicit are able to find in pre-synthesised item or added via Harvest mechanics:

Legacy mods

The following mods can only be find in legacy item in permanent leagues:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Elemental Weakness.

Area mods

Main page: List of map suffix mods

Elemental Weakness is one of the curses that can be rolled on maps and vaal side area (known as "secret_area" in spawn weight table), the curses affect the entire area and cannot be removed. The level of the curses is fixed (level 1, -20% elemental resistance) and NOT affected by awakening bonus objectives. It can be reduced by upgraded Soul of Yugul or other item mod that offers reduced/less effect of curses on you

Heist and grand heist mod

Legacy map mods

The following map mods can only be find in legacy map item in permanent leagues:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0f	Map Curse modifiers no longer have increased effect. This was a restartless deploy of the patch so you will need to restart your client to receive the client changes, specifically the Map Curse modifier change requires a client restart to visually update descriptions.
3.12.0	All curse skills have been reworked and are now divided into two categories: Hexes and Marks. Hexes apply a curse in an area and, when manually cast, apply an amount of Doom per second to cursed enemies up to a maximum. Doom increases the effect of the afflicted curse and stacks additively with modifiers to increased Curse effect. Items which apply a Curse to an enemy (such as the curse-on-hit Ring modifiers) no longer specify a level, and instead have a set magnitude for their values with a fixed amount of Doom, which is overwritten when another source applies a more potent version (similar to Arcane Surge). Elemental Weakness: Curses applied by casting this spell now gain 10 Doom per second.
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 16 (was 24). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 33 (was 50).
2.6.0	Increased Area of Effect mod and its progression per level doubled.
2.0.0	Mana cost reduced at all levels. Area of effect increases per gem level reduced, but the base area of effect has been increased by 37.5% (from 16 to 22). It now grants 0.25% reduced elemental resistances on cursed enemies per 1% quality (was 0.4% per 1% quality).
1.2.0	Now gains -8% Enemy Resistances at 20% quality, instead of -10% at 20% quality.
0.9.4e	Fixed a bug where Chance to Ignite did not scale properly under Elemental Weakness.
0.9.2	Elemental Weakness has been added to the game.