Flesh and Stone

Flesh and Stone is an aura that activates Blood and Sand Stance. In Blood Stance (Flesh), the aura maims nearby enemies while increasing the physical damage they take. In Sand Stance (Stone), the aura blinds enemies in radius and grants the user damage reduction against enemies outside the aura. Activating the skill while it's toggled on will alternate between stances. Certain skills also behave differently based on the stance you are currently in.

Skill functions and interactions

Flesh

Buff

You are in Blood Stance, nearby enemies are maimed and take increased physical damage.

Stone

Buff

You are in Sand Stance, nearby enemies are blinded and you take less damage from enemies which are not nearby.

Stance setting is shared with and toggling one will toggle both.

Flesh and Stone can be linked with to increase the effect of Enemies Maimed by Supported Skills take X% increased Physical Damage but will increased the Reservation.

The blind from the Sand Stance has its own blind visual effect on enemies.

Flesh and Stone's Sand Stance blind effect, comparing to the normal blind visual effect

Gem level progression

Level				Less Damage Taken	Physical Damage	Cooldown Recovery Rate	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	18	26	9%	13%	N/A	0	0
2	20	22	31	9%	13%	2%	49725	49725
3	24	25	37	9%	13%	5%	95714	145439
4	28	29	42	9%	13%	7%	169595	315034
5	31	32	46	9%	13%	10%	199345	514379
6	34	35	50	9%	13%	13%	285815	800194
7	37	37	54	9%	14%	15%	401344	1201538
8	40	40	58	10%	14%	18%	554379	1755917
9	43	43	62	10%	14%	21%	755049	2510966
10	46	46	66	10%	14%	23%	1016533	3527499
11	49	48	70	10%	14%	26%	1898602	5426101
12	52	51	74	10%	14%	29%	1964019	7390120
13	55	54	78	10%	15%	31%	2573731	9963851
14	58	57	82	10%	15%	34%	4676439	14640290
15	60	59	84	11%	15%	37%	3017327	17657617
16	62	60	87	11%	15%	39%	7823001	25480618
17	64	62	90	11%	15%	42%	15264208	40744826
18	66	64	92	11%	15%	45%	26272845	67017671
19	68	66	95	11%	16%	47%	62872274	129889945
20	70	68	98	11%	16%	50%	212023122	341913067
21	72	70	100	11%	16%	53%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	12%	16%	56%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	12%	16%	59%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	12%	16%	62%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	12%	17%	65%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	12%	17%	68%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	12%	17%	71%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	12%	17%	74%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	13%	17%	77%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	13%	17%	80%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	82%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	84%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	86%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	88%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	90%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	92%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	94%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	96%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	98%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	13%	18%	100%	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Flesh and Stone:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Flesh and Stone.

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Flesh and Stone:

Related passives skills

Passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Blood Stance and Sand Stance:

Ascendancy passive skills

The following Ascendancy passive skills are related to Blood Stance and Sand Stance:

Alternate skill effects

Flesh and Stone has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.14.0	Now requires 35% Mana reservation (previously 25%).
3.11.0	Gained the Stance gem tag.
3.8.0	Now has 20 gem levels (from 6). No longer reduces all Damage from non-Blind enemies, and instead reduces Damage from Attacks from non-Blind enemies. You now take 9% less Damage from Attacks from non-Blind enemies at gem level 1 (from 10%), up to 11% at gem level 20 (same as previous maximum gem level). Enemies Maimed by this skill now take 13% increased Physical Damage at gem level 1 (from 14%), up to 16% at gem level 20 (same as previous maximum gem level). Now gains more cooldown recovery speed as the gem levels up, up to 50% at gem level 20 (previously 13% at the maximum gem level). The radius of Flesh and Stone now has a base radius of 28 (from 24) to compensate for changes to Aura Radius on the Passive Skill Tree. And all Aura gem qualities that increased the Aura's radius now increase it by twice the amount (from 2% to 4% per 1% quality).
3.7.4	Added Labyrinth Enchantments
3.7.0	Flesh and Stone has been added to the game.