Penance Brand

Penance Brand is a spell that creates a brand at the target location. While attached to an enemy, the brand adds "energy" stacks onto the target, which can also spread to a nearby enemy that hasn't been yet energized. When released, the stored energy detonates and deals area of effect damage. When energy stacks reach their cap on the primary target, the brand releases damaging pulses around it instead.

Skill functions and interactions

• Damage conversion: Penance Brand's base damage type is physical, but it also has innate 50% conversion to lightning, thus by default it deals half of its damage in physical, and half in lightning.
• Energy: Energy stacks have a cap of 20, and for each stack past the first one, the brand will deal significantly more damage in an increasingly larger area upon release. If an enemy has been energized to the maximum amount of stacks, the brand will instead release damaging pulses in an area around it (at the same frequency). Energy stacks are released in three circumstances:
  • An enemy with any Penance Brand attached to it dies.
  • Any Penance Brand gets removed from an enemy via the usage of , or utilizing a cluster jewel notable "Holy Conquest".
  • The duration of any attached Penance Brand ends.
• Multiple brands: If multiple Penance Brands are attached to an enemy simultaneously, they will all add energy stacks at a rate equal to their individual activation frequency. Energy stacks are accumulated per enemy and not per brand. In other words; if only one Penance Brand gets removed from an enemy, it will release all the currently stored energy, and the second brand will continue to generate energy stacks back from zero, if it still remains attached to that enemy.
• Limited duration and damage scaling: Penance Brand has a very low base duration of 2.5 seconds, and by default activates every half a second.
  • is a good support gem choice for general mapping, where the long delay between casting a skill and actually killing enemies may lead into dangerous situations. However, depending on the build setup, it might not be the optimal choice when fighting tough bosses, for which stacking high amount of energy often outweighs more frequent but smaller explosions. This matters even more when elemental ailments are taken into account.
  • Casting speed of the brand itself, as well as its activation frequency, can be increased by cast speed modifiers. Getting a hefty amount of cast speed is recommended in order to maximize the amount of energy stacks generation before the brand expires. This improves its overall "damage per cast" efficacy.
  • Due to relatively low effectiveness of flat added damage at 40%, Penance Brand's damage is best scaled via modifiers that add damage based on another damage type (non-chaos added as extra chaos, physical added as extra lightning, etc.) and modifiers to skill levels (like , various weapon prefixes, or corrupted body armour implicits).
  • allows easy conversion of the damage type entirely into lightning. Penance Brand is a popular skill choice in multi-conversion builds, utilizing two and either or .

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Physical Damage	Spread Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	29	42	15	18 to 27	N/A	0	0
2	31	32	46	15	22 to 33	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	35	50	16	26 to 39	1	285815	485160
4	37	37	54	17	31 to 46	1	401344	886504
5	40	40	58	18	37 to 55	2	554379	1440883
6	42	42	60	19	41 to 61	2	477437	1918320
7	44	44	63	19	45 to 68	3	583786	2502106
8	46	46	66	20	51 to 76	3	710359	3212465
9	48	48	68	21	56 to 84	4	1355511	4567976
10	50	49	71	21	63 to 94	4	1138877	5706853
11	52	51	74	22	69 to 104	5	1368233	7075086
12	54	53	76	22	77 to 115	5	1638338	8713424
13	56	55	79	23	85 to 128	6	1956648	10670072
14	58	57	82	24	94 to 141	6	3655184	14325256
15	60	59	84	24	104 to 156	7	3017327	17342583
16	62	60	87	25	115 to 172	7	7759995	25102578
17	64	62	90	25	127 to 190	8	15138193	40240771
18	66	64	92	26	140 to 210	8	26083825	66324596
19	68	66	95	27	154 to 231	9	62620247	128944843
20	70	68	98	27	170 to 254	9	211708088	340652931
21	72	70	100	28	187 to 280	10	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	28	205 to 308	10	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	29	226 to 338	11	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	30	248 to 372	11	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	30	272 to 408	12	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	31	299 to 448	12	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	31	327 to 491	13	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	32	359 to 539	13	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	32	393 to 590	14	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	33	431 to 647	14	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	33	451 to 677	15	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	34	472 to 708	15	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	34	494 to 741	15	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	34	517 to 775	15	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	35	540 to 811	16	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	35	565 to 848	16	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	35	591 to 887	16	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	35	618 to 928	16	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	36	647 to 970	17	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	36	676 to 1014	17	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Penance Brand:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Penance Brand.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.0	Penance Brand has been added to the game.