Shock Nova

Shock Nova is a lightning area of effect spell that deals lightning damage in an area around the caster, conjuring an initial ring followed by a larger circular area. Both effects can overlap, to deal significantly more damage. Shock Nova also has a high chance to shock and provides increased effectiveness of this ailment with higher gem levels.

Skill functions and interactions

Shaded region indicates initial ring, outer circle indicates radius of secondary area damage. Red enemies are hit twice for 200% of base damage, orange enemies are hit once for 100% of base damage, white enemies are not hit.

Shock Nova has two damaging components: an initial ring, and then a larger, circular area - both dealing lightning damage. The initial ring has a fixed width, and only monsters located within its area get hit by it. The subsequent area effect has a larger radius than the initial ring, and all monsters located between the spell's center up to that radius get hit. Therefore it is possible for monsters to receive damage from either both components, or just the larger area effect (see the image below for reference).

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Lightning Damage	Shock Effect	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	12	34 to 102	20%	0	0
2	31	73	13	41 to 124	21%	199345	199345
3	34	79	14	50 to 150	22%	285815	485160
4	37	85	15	60 to 180	23%	401344	886504
5	40	92	15	72 to 215	24%	554379	1440883
6	42	96	16	81 to 242	25%	477437	1918320
7	44	100	16	91 to 272	26%	583786	2502106
8	46	104	17	102 to 305	27%	710359	3212465
9	48	109	17	114 to 341	28%	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	18	127 to 382	29%	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	18	142 to 427	30%	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	19	159 to 476	31%	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	19	177 to 531	32%	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	20	197 to 592	33%	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	20	220 to 659	34%	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	21	244 to 733	35%	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	21	272 to 815	36%	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	22	302 to 905	37%	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	22	335 to 1004	38%	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	23	371 to 1114	39%	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	24	412 to 1235	40%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	24	456 to 1368	41%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	25	505 to 1515	42%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	25	559 to 1676	43%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	26	618 to 1854	44%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	26	683 to 2050	45%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	27	755 to 2265	46%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27	834 to 2501	47%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28	921 to 2762	48%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	28	1016 to 3047	49%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	28	1067 to 3201	49%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	29	1120 to 3361	50%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	29	1177 to 3530	50%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	29	1236 to 3707	51%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	29	1297 to 3892	51%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	30	1362 to 4085	52%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	30	1430 to 4289	52%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	30	1500 to 4501	53%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	30	1575 to 4725	53%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	31	1653 to 4958	54%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Shock Nova.

Alternate skill effects

Shock Nova has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	No longer has “Ring deals 50% less Damage”.
3.7.0	The ring now deals 50% less damage (from 80%). The ring is now closer to the centre of the nova.
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 12 (was 13). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 23 (was 26). Now has a cast time of 0.7 seconds (from 0.75). Now deals 34 to 102 Lightning damage at gem level 1 (from 26 to 79) and 371 to 1114 Lightning damage at gem level 20 (from 275 to 825). Now has an added damage effectiveness of 120% (from 60%).
2.6.0	Damage increased by 33% at level 1, scaling up to 49% increased damage by level 20. Additional damage dealt by the Shock Nova ring reduced to 20% of base damage (down from 50%).
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by 20% at level one, improving to a 35% increase in damage by level 20. Damage effectiveness increased from 50% to 60%.
1.0.0	Reduced mana cost.
0.10.0	Increased base critical strike chance from 3% to 4%. Mana cost has been reduced.
0.9.12s	Damage progression increased. By skill level 15, it's doing 14% more damage than before.
0.9.12	Damage increased by 14%.
0.9.9	Increased cast speed.
0.9.7	Improved the effects.
0.9.6	Shock Nova has been reimplemented so that it doesn't scale its damage with distance and doesn't hit monsters that are close to you.
0.9.5g	Increased the critical strike chance.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Shock Nova (2,6%).
0.9.3c	Now scales all damage from support gems in the same way as the main skill damage (based on distance). Shock Nova now deals its damage from outside (maximum damage) to inside (minimum/no damage). The outside damage is dealt first. It is a linear damage progression (not exponential) now.
0.9.2	Fixed a bug with Shock Nova's damage calculation if the Area of Effect was increased. Reduced upper Shock Nova damage by 30%.
0.9.1	Changed the damage equation for Shock Nova so that the deadzone immediately around the player works better. It's now much more important to have enemies at maximum range. Reduced damage and collision size.
0.8.7	Shock Nova added to the game.