Pestilent Strike

Pestilent Strike is a melee strike skill that deals chaos damage and applies poison. If the poisoned enemy dies while poisoned it will inflict other nearby enemies with another chaos damage over time debuff.

Skill functions and interactions

The base debuff radius is 27.

Enemies killed while under the effect of Pestilent Strike’s signature debuff will leave no corpse. This can be useful for bypassing some monsters’ on-death effects.

Multiple debuffs can be on the same monster, but only the highest damage debuff will cause damage at any given time.

The debuff requires an enemy to die with poison on it near the enemy you want the debuff on. For solo enemy fights, can spawn enemies to spread the debuff.

The debuff takes half of the poison damage left on the monster when it died and deals it incrementally over 1 second.

• Example - A 6 second poison does 3 seconds worth of debuff damage in 1 second. In this example the debuff does 3 times the damage (200% more damage) per second than the poison damage.

Damage Calculations

Scaling

Pestilent Strikes debuff can scale poison damage in unique ways that would not be beneficial to most other poison attacks. Some examples:

• Because all sources of poisons transfer on the debuff, spells, minions and even other players with poison, can help scale the damage.
• Poison duration will increase the damage per second of the debuff. The assassin ascendancy passive Noxious Strike with many poisons landed per second is the largest source of poison duration.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Chaos Damage	Melee Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	42	29	125%	125%	20 to 30	N/A	0	0
2	31	46	32	127%	126.8%	23 to 35	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	50	35	129%	128.7%	27 to 40	N/A	285815	485160
4	37	54	37	131%	130.5%	31 to 46	N/A	401344	886504
5	40	58	40	132%	132.4%	35 to 53	N/A	554379	1440883
6	42	60	42	134%	134.2%	38 to 58	N/A	477437	1918320
7	44	63	44	136%	136%	42 to 63	+1	583786	2502106
8	46	66	46	138%	137.9%	45 to 68	+1	710359	3212465
9	48	68	48	140%	139.7%	49 to 74	+1	1355511	4567976
10	50	71	49	142%	141.6%	53 to 80	+1	1138877	5706853
11	52	74	51	143%	143.4%	58 to 86	+1	1368233	7075086
12	54	76	53	145%	145.2%	62 to 93	+1	1638338	8713424
13	56	79	55	147%	147.1%	67 to 101	+1	1956648	10670072
14	58	82	57	149%	148.9%	73 to 109	+2	3655184	14325256
15	60	84	59	151%	150.8%	78 to 117	+2	3017327	17342583
16	62	87	60	153%	152.6%	84 to 126	+2	7759995	25102578
17	64	90	62	154%	154.4%	91 to 136	+2	15138193	40240771
18	66	92	64	156%	156.3%	98 to 146	+2	26083825	66324596
19	68	95	66	158%	158.1%	105 to 157	+2	62620247	128944843
20	70	98	68	160%	160%	113 to 169	+2	211708088	340652931
21	72	100	70	162%	161.8%	121 to 181	+3	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	164%	163.7%	130 to 195	+3	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	166%	165.5%	139 to 209	+3	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	167%	167.3%	149 to 224	+3	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	169%	169.2%	160 to 239	+3	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	171%	171%	171 to 256	+3	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	173%	172.9%	183 to 274	+3	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	175%	174.7%	196 to 293	+4	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	177%	176.5%	209 to 314	+4	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	178%	178.4%	223 to 335	+4	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	178%	178.4%	231 to 346	+4	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	180%	180.2%	239 to 358	+4	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	182%	182.1%	247 to 370	+4	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	184%	183.9%	255 to 382	+4	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	186%	185.7%	263 to 395	+5	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	188%	187.6%	272 to 408	+5	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	189%	189.4%	281 to 421	+5	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	191%	191.3%	290 to 435	+5	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	193%	193.1%	300 to 449	+5	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	195%	194.9%	309 to 464	+5	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Pestilent Strike:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Pestilent Strike.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Now converts 60% of physical damage to chaos damage (from 50%).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.9.0	Now gains additional Melee range as the gem levels, up to +2 at gem level 20.
3.8.0	Pestilent Strike has been added to the game.