Scourge Arrow

Scourge Arrow is a channelling bow attack skill. Channelling the skill charges up an arrow that creates spore pods as the arrow travels when released. The pods explode to fire thorn arrows around them. The arrow and pods deal physical damage converted to chaos damage.

Skill functions and interactions

Additional arrows (from support gems and items like ) apply to the primary arrow, instead of the thorn arrows. Additional arrows cause spore pods to distribute evenly among each primary arrow, rather than in a line from player. Having more arrows than pods will not cause additional pods to spawn. Therefore at 5 stages Scourge Arrow will spawn 5 pods — if the player has 6 total arrows (5 additional) one of the arrows will not spawn a pod.

The distance between each spore pod can be increased by releasing the channel while mouse cursor is near the edge of your screen. With 4 additional arrows, the spore pods spawn in a cluster near your mouse cursor.

When used with , the totem will fully charge then shoot once, then follow it up with a low or uncharged shot, before attempting a full charge again, possibly based on its total attack speed.

Primary arrow collision: If a primary arrow disappears (e.g. because of collision with wall/obstacle) before all pods for that primary arrow are spawned, the rest of the pods will not spawn.

Point Blank interaction: The thorn arrows are all continuations of the original arrow from the character to the point the pods were placed. Therefore the distance travelled used for 's calculation is the total of how far the original arrow travelled to place the pod, plus how far the thorn arrow travelled after being fired from the pod.

Shotgunning: From a single attack, multiple thorn arrows from different pods can hit the same target, but multiple thorn arrows from the same pod cannot hit the same target.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Chaos Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	4	28%	28%	20 to 30	0	0
2	31	73	4	28%	28.4%	23 to 35	199345	199345
3	34	79	4	29%	28.7%	27 to 40	285815	485160
4	37	85	4	29%	29.1%	31 to 46	401344	886504
5	40	92	4	29%	29.5%	35 to 53	554379	1440883
6	42	96	4	30%	29.8%	38 to 58	477437	1918320
7	44	100	4	30%	30.2%	42 to 63	583786	2502106
8	46	104	4	31%	30.6%	45 to 68	710359	3212465
9	48	109	4	31%	30.9%	49 to 74	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	4	31%	31.3%	53 to 80	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	4	32%	31.7%	58 to 86	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	5	32%	32.1%	62 to 93	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	5	32%	32.4%	67 to 101	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	5	33%	32.8%	73 to 109	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	5	33%	33.2%	78 to 117	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	5	34%	33.5%	84 to 126	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	5	34%	33.9%	91 to 136	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	5	34%	34.3%	98 to 146	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	5	35%	34.6%	105 to 157	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	5	35%	35%	113 to 169	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	5	35%	35.4%	121 to 181	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	5	36%	35.7%	130 to 195	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	5	36%	36.1%	139 to 209	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	5	36%	36.5%	149 to 224	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	5	37%	36.8%	160 to 239	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	5	37%	37.2%	171 to 256	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	5	38%	37.6%	183 to 274	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	6	38%	37.9%	196 to 293	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	6	38%	38.3%	209 to 314	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	6	39%	38.7%	223 to 335	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	6	39%	38.9%	231 to 346	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	6	39%	39.1%	239 to 358	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	6	39%	39.2%	247 to 370	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	6	39%	39.4%	255 to 382	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	6	40%	39.6%	263 to 395	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	6	40%	39.8%	272 to 408	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	6	40%	40%	281 to 421	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	6	40%	40.2%	290 to 435	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	6	40%	40.3%	300 to 449	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	6	41%	40.5%	309 to 464	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Scourge Arrow:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Scourge Arrow.

Alternate skill effects

Scourge Arrow has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Anomalous Scourge Arrow now causes each Spore Pod to fire 0.05 additional Thorn Arrows per 1% gem quality (from 0.1 per 1% quality).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality
3.9.0	Now deals 28% of base damage at gem level 1 (from 40%), up to 35% at gem level 20 (from 49%). Now adds 20 to 30 Chaos Damage at gem level 1, up to 113 to 169 at gem level 20.
3.8.0	Clarified the Piercing behaviour on the gem.
3.6.0	Now has the "Chaos" gem type.
3.5.1b	Reduced the mana cost of Scourge Arrow to be more in line with other channelled attack skills.
3.4.2	Additional Projectiles now apply to the primary arrow instead of the thorn arrows. The number of thorn arrows at lower levels has been increased to compensate. Pods are now distributed evenly among all primary projectiles.
3.4.0	Scourge Arrow has been added to the game.