Lightning Warp

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Lightning Warp.

Lightning Warp is a movement / travel skill (and a spell) that causes the player character (or totem when supported by ) to teleport to a location after a delay. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt in a small area around both the previous location and the new location.

Skill functions and interactions

• Description: When the skill is cast, the exit point is set. The caster can then attack, cast, or move until the teleport executes. The AoE lightning damage will occur wherever the player was standing when the teleport resolves and wherever the caster teleports to.
• Usage time and stats: Total usage time consists of casting time and delay time. Casting time is standard casting with base time of 0.8 second. It can be modified by cast speed stats. Delay time is skill effect duration and is affected by skill effect duration stats including skill gem's one. Base time for delay is calculated as a time needed for character to normally run the euclidean distance between position where the spell was cast and exit position with character's current movement speed. Because of that movement speed stats (including conditional ones, auras, etc) also affects delay time. It is not possible to completely eliminate this delay because there is a hidden 0.1 second delay added to it.
• Sequence of operations: The lightning explosion occurs before the caster leaves and after the caster arrives. This will, for example, cause the caster to take damage from monsters that explode on death that are killed by Lightning Warp.
• Death: If the caster dies before the teleport executes, the teleport will still execute, transporting the caster's corpse to the targeted location.
• Can be used in left mouse button slot to cast and move.

Strategy

Movement

Lightning Warp is primarily used as a movement skill. To improve Lightning Warp's effectiveness as a movement skill, one should support it with , , and . If only one support gem can be used, will generally result in faster travel. Taking increased Skill Effect Duration passives will render Lightning Warp much less useful as a movement skill, in which case you may want to consider alternatives such as , , .

Compared with Leap Slam, Lightning Warp has the advantages of not requiring any particular weapon, potentially higher speed, and slightly longer range. However, it costs more mana and requires three support gems to be fully effective. Compared with Flame Dash, Lightning Warp has the advantage of being able to be cast as many times as possible, but costs slightly more mana and has a noticeable delay.

With Arctic Armour

Lightning Warp can be used as a method of travel when using , since this will allow the player to always remain stationary and thus always receive Arctic Armour's less Damage taken while stationary bonus.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Lightning Damage	reduced Duration	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	9	1–19	30%	0	0
2	13	35	10	1–24	31%	9569	9569
3	17	43	11	2–33	32%	28189	37758
4	21	52	12	2–44	33%	59146	96904
5	25	60	13	3–58	34%	111192	208096
6	29	69	14	4–75	35%	193800	401896
7	33	77	16	5–96	36%	320280	722176
8	36	83	16	6–115	37%	359090	1081266
9	39	90	17	7–137	38%	498508	1579774
10	42	96	18	9–162	39%	682057	2261831
11	45	102	19	10–192	40%	921777	3183608
12	48	109	20	12–226	41%	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	21	14–266	42%	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	22	16–312	43%	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	23	19–365	44%	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	23	22–426	45%	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	24	26–497	46%	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	25	30–579	47%	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	26	34–640	48%	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	26	37–707	49%	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	27	41–780	50%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	27	45–861	51%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	28	50–949	52%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	29	55–1046	53%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	29	61–1152	54%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	30	67–1269	55%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	30	73–1396	56%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	31	81–1536	57%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	32	89–1689	58%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	32	98–1856	59%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	32	102–1945	60%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	33	107–2039	60%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	33	112–2137	61%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	33	118–2239	61%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	34	123–2346	62%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	34	129–2458	62%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	34	136–2575	63%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	34	142–2697	63%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	35	149–2825	64%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	35	156–2959	64%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Lightning Warp.

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Lightning Warp:

Alternate skill effects

Lightning Warp has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Now gains additional radius as the gem levels, up to +4 at gem level 20.
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.11.0	The visual effects have been improved.
3.10.0	Now has a base cast time of 0.7 seconds (from 0.8). Now has 30% reduced duration at gem level 1 (from 20%), up to 49% at gem level 20 (from 39%).
3.9.0	If you now cast multiple Lighting Warps rapidly, you will travel between all of them as they trigger the warp. The timing for each subsequent warp is based on the distance from the previous warp.
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 9 (was 15). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 26 (was 33). Now has a cast time of 0.8 seconds (from 0.85).
3.4.0	Base cast time lowered to 0.85 seconds (from 1 second). Now has 20% reduced duration at gem level 1 (from 0%), up to 39% reduced duration at gem level 20 (up from 38%)
2.3.2	Fixed an issue where Lightning Warp could sometimes bypass projectile blocking walls.
2.2.1d	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp would often not show its effects when being cast in quick succession while using Lockstep networking mode.
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by around 20% at all levels. Damage effectiveness increased from 50% to 60%.
2.0.0	Reduced the mana cost slightly at all levels. Now grants 1% increased cast speed per 1% quality (down from 1.5% per 1% quality).
1.1.5b	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp would not trigger with Trigger Gems.
1.0.2	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp cast at the caster's feet would always default to casting in the same direction.
0.11.5	Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp was not affected by .
0.11.2	Added a very short delay to Lightning Warp, to prevent a situation where rapidly casting Lightning Warp could play its visual effect without actually casting.
0.10.8	Lightning Warp now has increased damage at high levels and it now has a 3% reduced skill effect duration per level after the first.
0.10.0	Fixed a client crash related to Lightning Warp.
0.9.11l	Fixed problems with targeting of Lightning Warp.
0.9.11j	Fixed bugs with Lightning Warp's ability to target certain locations.
0.9.3d	Lightning Warp now lets you travel up and down cliffs or across chasms. Fixed a bug that would make it easy to get out of sync with Lightning Warp.
0.9.3	Lightning Warp has been added to the game.