Scorching Ray

Scorching Ray is a channelling fire spell skill that fires a beam that inflicts burning damage to targets in front of the caster and applies fire resistance exposure at maximum stages.

Skill functions and interactions

• Applies the fire exposure debuff at max stacks, which lowers the target's fire resistance by 25%.
• Touching an unaffected target by the beam at any point during a cast interval will apply the first stage of the debuff. If the target remains in the beam, the spell will apply the next stage of the debuff the instant it consumes mana from the player again. As a result, It is possible to inflict multiple debuff stacks in quick succession to targets with only brief contact such as when sweeping the beam across the screen.
• Damage over time: Modifiers to Spell, Fire, Elemental, Burning Damage, Damage Over Time, and duration affect the damage over time component of this spell.
• Scorching Ray does not hit and therefore cannot be supported by added damage supports such as and cannot confer the effects of supports such as or .
• While channeling Scorching Ray, the player has a reduced turning rate. Increasing scorching ray's cast speed will increase the rate at which the player can rotate while channeling it, up to a maximum +150% increased cast speed modifier.
• Scorching Ray has a delay, equal to the cast time, between the pressing of the skill and the appearance of the beam.
• Scorching Ray is not a projectile or an area of effect skill and therefore is not affected by modifiers to projectile damage, area damage, projectile speed, or area of effect.
• Scorching Ray has the channelling tag and therefore cannot be supported by .
• See Channelling for more information.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Fire Damage per sec	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	2	11.7	0	0
2	15	39	2	15	15249	15249
3	19	48	2	20.4	41517	56766
4	23	56	3	27.3	81983	138749
5	27	64	3	36	147968	286717
6	31	73	3	46.9	250557	537274
7	35	81	3	60.4	405086	942360
8	38	88	3	72.7	447718	1390078
9	41	94	4	87.2	615318	2005396
10	44	100	4	104.2	834639	2840035
11	47	106	4	124.1	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	4	147.4	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	4	174.6	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	5	206.4	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	5	243.5	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	5	286.6	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	5	319.3	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	5	355.4	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	5	395.3	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	5	439.4	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	5	488.1	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	6	541.8	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	6	601.2	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	6	666.7	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	6	738.9	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	6	818.6	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	6	906.4	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	6	1003.2	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	6	1109.9	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	7	1227.4	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	7	1290.5	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	7	1356.7	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	7	1426.2	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	7	1499.2	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	7	1575.7	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	7	1655.9	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	7	1740.1	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	7	1828.4	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	7	1921	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	7	2018.2	N/A	N/A

Unique items

The following unique items are related to Scorching Ray:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Scorching Ray.

Alternate skill effects

Scorching Ray has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.1e	PvP Changes: now has an attack time override of 3 seconds.
3.13.0	Now has a base cast time of 0.25 seconds (from 0.5). Now has a mana cost of 2 at gem level 1 (from 4), up to 5 at gem level 20 (from 11). PvP Changes: Now has an attack time override of 0.5 seconds (from 0.2 seconds).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 11 (was 10). Now deals 13 base Fire damage per second at gem level 1 (up from 8.2) and 488.2 base Fire damage per second at gem level 20 (up from 388.3). No longer lowers enemy resistance with a stacking debuff. Now applies Fire Exposure at maximum stacks.
2.4.2	Scorching Ray has been added to the game.