Description
Enchants an arrow or bolt that explodes on contact, damaging all nearby enemies.
Key details
- Enchants an arrow or bolt by adding explosive fire damage to it and increasing its Attack Rating.
- Fire damage is added to the projectile's damage.
- Upon impact with any target or surface, the projectile explodes across 3.3 yard radius - enough to strike several monsters in a tight cluster - dealing the total fire damage the Arrow would deal to every foe in the area.
- Consistent with the description above, Arrows and Bolts that benefit from other sources of fire damage - be it from a Ruby, Ral, Enchant, or Holy Fire - will pass that damage along to the explosion caused by this skill.
- The "Fires Explosive Arrows or Bolts" weapon attribute converts basic Attacks into castings of this skill - complete with synergy eligibility - at a slvl set by that weapon's effect.
- The Pierce skill and Piercing Attack attribute can allow this skill to generate multiple explosions with a single arrow.
- This can be devastating to tightly-packed groups of targets.
- While the skill's initial explosion does not call for this skill to pass the projectile's To-Hit check, a projectile can only Pierce if the To-Hit check is successful.
- When the To-Hit check is unsuccessful, the projectile will appear to continue travelling and causing additional explosions, but these "phantom" explosions, and the projectile itself, will deal no damage.
D2Emu Tips
- Patch 2.4: Exploding Arrow Damage scaling increased by about 50% for higher skill levels Fire Arrow synergy increased from +12% to +14% Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25.
- If you are playing in Resurrected mode, this ability's projectiles provide a small radius of light, illuminating the dark slightly.
- Weapons that fire Exploding Arrow as a normal attack: Raven Claw (level 3) Hellcast (level 5) Demon Machine (level 6) Kuko Shakaku (level 7) Blood Raven's Charge (level 13) Brand (level 15).
- In v1.09, Raven Claw fired level 30 Exploding Arrow, while the other weapons (except Blood Raven's Charge and Brand, which did not exist pre-v1.10) fired level 1.
Facts
- Class
- Amazon
- Tree
- Bow and Crossbow
- Required Level
- 12
- Maximum Level
- 20
- Base Mana Cost
- 20
Prerequisites
Stats by Skill Level
Values use the listed effective skill level; synergies are not included.
| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
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| Mana Cost | 5 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 6 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 7 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 8 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 9 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 10 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 11 | 11.2 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 12 | 12.2 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 13 | 13.2 | 13.5 | 13.8 | 14 | 14.2 | 14.5 | 14.8 |
| Fire Damage | 5-13 | 11-20 | 17-27 | 23-34 | 29-41 | 35-48 | 41-55 | 47-62 | 59-75 | 71-88 | 83-101 | 95-114 | 107-127 | 119-140 | 131-153 | 143-166 | 157-181 | 171-196 | 185-211 | 199-226 | 213-241 | 227-256 | 243-274 | 259-292 | 275-310 | 291-328 | 307-346 | 323-364 | 343-387 | 363-410 | 383-433 | 403-456 | 423-479 | 443-502 | 463-525 | 483-548 | 503-571 | 523-594 | 543-617 | 563-640 |
| Attack Bonus | 20% | 29% | 38% | 47% | 56% | 65% | 74% | 83% | 92% | 101% | 110% | 119% | 128% | 137% | 146% | 155% | 164% | 173% | 182% | 191% | 200% | 209% | 218% | 227% | 236% | 245% | 254% | 263% | 272% | 281% | 290% | 299% | 308% | 317% | 326% | 335% | 344% | 353% | 362% | 371% |
Synergies
- Fire Arrow +14% Fire Damage per Level