Infernal Blow

Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Fire, Duration

Level: (1–20)

Cost: 6 Mana

Effectiveness of Added Damage: (104–166)%

Radius: 15

Requires Level (12–70), (33–155) Str

Attacks with your weapon, applying a charged debuff to enemies hit by your strike, and an uncharged debuff to any other enemies hit. Upon reaching 6 charges, expiring, or the enemy's death, the charged debuff is removed to damage that and other surrounding enemies. Enemies with either debuff explode when they die, damaging other surrounding enemies. Damage from this explosion cannot be reflected. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Base duration is 0.8 seconds
(5–75) to (8–113) Added Fire Damage
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 6% of the corpse's Maximum Life
Base radius is 2.4 metres
Base explosion radius is 1.8 metres
Debuff deals 66% of Damage per Charge

Additional Effects From Quality:

Debuff deals +(0–10)% of Damage per Charge

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Quest /2

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
1	The Siren's Cadence	Quest Reward	Marauder
1	The Siren's Cadence	Nessa	Duelist · Marauder · Ranger · Scion · Templar

Genus

Infernal Blow

Infernal Blow of Immolation

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Cost: 6 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage Base duration is 0.8 seconds Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 6% of the corpse's Maximum Life Debuff deals 66% of Damage per Charge Base radius is 2.4 metres Base explosion radius is 1.8 metres

Level	Requires Level	Str	Base Damage	5 to 8 Added Fire Damage	Experience
1	12	33	104%	5, 8	15,249
2	15	39	107.3%	7, 10	41,517
3	19	48	110.5%	8, 13	81,983
4	23	56	113.8%	11, 16	147,968
5	27	64	117.1%	13, 19	250,557
6	31	73	120.3%	16, 24	405,086
7	35	81	123.6%	19, 28	447,718
8	38	88	126.8%	22, 32	615,318
9	41	94	130.1%	25, 37	834,639
10	44	100	133.4%	28, 42	1,570,760
11	47	106	136.6%	32, 47	1,633,987
12	50	113	139.9%	36, 54	2,151,030
13	53	119	143.2%	40, 60	2,812,189
14	56	125	146.4%	45, 68	5,099,360
15	59	132	149.7%	51, 76	9,400,731
16	62	138	152.9%	56, 85	15,273,366
17	64	142	156.2%	61, 91	26,286,582
18	66	146	159.5%	65, 98	62,890,590
19	68	151	162.7%	70, 105	212,046,017
20	70	155	166%	75, 113
21	72		169.3%	81, 122
22	74		172.5%	87, 130
23	76		175.8%	93, 140
24	78		179.1%	100, 150
25	80		182.3%	107, 160
26	82		185.6%	114, 172
27	84		188.8%	123, 184
28	86		192.1%	131, 197
29	88		195.4%	140, 210
30	90		198.6%	150, 224
31	91		200.3%	155, 232
32	92		201.9%	160, 240
33	93		203.5%	165, 248
34	94		205.2%	171, 256
35	95		206.8%	176, 265
36	96		208.4%	182, 273
37	97		210.1%	188, 282
38	98		211.7%	194, 292
39	99		213.3%	201, 301
40	100		214.9%	207, 311

Attribute /10

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Transmutation
DropLevel	12
BaseType	Infernal Blow
Class	Skill Gems
Weapon	One Hand Swords, Thrusting One Hand Swords, One Hand Axes, One Hand Maces, Staves, Two Hand Swords, Two Hand Axes, Two Hand Maces, Sceptres, , Warstaves
TargetTypes	Ground, Enemy
Type	Attack, Area, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Melee, Fire, Duration
BuffIcon
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemInfernalBlow
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Crucible Weapon /2

Weight	Desc
500 (T5)	Tectonic Slam and Infernal Blow deal 1% increased Attack Damage per 700 Armour
1000 (T5)	Tectonic Slam and Infernal Blow deal 1% increased Attack Damage per 450 Armour

Infernal Blow

You will explode if killed, dealing fire damage based on your maximum life. If this debuff has charges, it will deal attack damage in an area around you when it expires or has 6 charges.

base_monster_will_be_deleted_on_death

Attribute /5

Key	Value
Acronym	Ignite
BuffGroupsID	-1
MaxStacks	6
IsBuffDefinition	1
BuffMergeModesID	4

Code	base monster will be deleted on death
IsPublic	0
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	0
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	0
StatSemantics	Boolean

Infernal Blow Monster /2 ⍟

Name	Modifiers	Spectre
Haki Karukaru	monster base type attack cast speed +% and damage -% final [33] 40% Chance to Block Attack Damage You take 20% of Damage from Blocked Hits	Y
Redblade Skullbreaker	monster no map drops [1] 20% Chance to Block Attack Damage You take 10% of Damage from Blocked Hits cannot have affliction mods [1]	Y

Microtransactions /1 ⍟

Stygian Infernal Blow Effect

Your Infernal Blow becomes a Stygian Effect.

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /8 ⍟

Level	Name	Mod	Weight
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Damage 1	25% increased Infernal Blow Damage	75
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Damage 2	40% increased Infernal Blow Damage	75
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Physical Damage Percent To Add As Fire Damage 1	10% of Infernal Blow Physical Damage gained as Extra Fire Damage	75
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Physical Damage Percent To Add As Fire Damage 2	15% of Infernal Blow Physical Damage gained as Extra Fire Damage	75
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Area Of Effect 1	16% increased Infernal Blow Area of Effect	75
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Area Of Effect 2	24% increased Infernal Blow Area of Effect	75
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Increased Damage Per Stack 1	Infernal Blow Debuff deals an additional 3% of Damage per Charge	75
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Infernal Blow Increased Damage Per Stack 2	Infernal Blow Debuff deals an additional 5% of Damage per Charge	75

Supported By /109 ⍟

Active Type: Attack, Area, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Melee, Fire, Duration

Icon	Name
	Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Faster Attacks Support Supports attack skills.
	Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Additional Accuracy Support Supports attack skills.
	Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Critical Strikes Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Critical Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Knockback Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Life Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.
	Mana Leech Support Supports attack skills that hit enemies, causing those hits to leech mana based on damage dealt.
	Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Stun Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.
	Melee Physical Damage Support Supports melee attack skills.
	Item Rarity Support Supports any skill that can kill enemies.
	Concentrated Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect, regardless of whether that skill deals damage.
	Increased Duration Support Supports any skill with a duration.
	Cold to Fire Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Combustion Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Elemental Damage with Attacks Support Supports attack skills.
	Bloodlust Support Supports melee attack skills, causing them to deal more damage against bleeding enemies, but preventing those skills from inflicting bleeding on enemies in any way.
	Life Gain on Hit Support Supports attack skills.
	Elemental Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.
	Culling Strike Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. If enemies are left below 10% of maximum life after being hit by these skills, they will be killed.
	Damage on Full Life Support Supports attack skills, providing a bonus to all damage dealt by those skills while your life is full.
	Chance to Flee Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Blind Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
	Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
	Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
	Elemental Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy elemental resistances.
	Multistrike Support Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat twice when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills.
	Melee Splash Support Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.
	Power Charge On Critical Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Hextouch Support Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
	Cast On Critical Strike Support Must support both an attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it critically strikes an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Cast on Melee Kill Support Must support both a melee attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it kills an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Endurance Charge on Melee Stun Support Supports melee attack skills.
	Less Duration Support Supports any skill that has a duration.
	Block Chance Reduction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Physical to Lightning Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Fortify Support Supports melee attack skills that are not triggered.
	Ice Bite Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Innervate Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Critical Strike Affliction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
	Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
	Ignite Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Chance to Bleed Support Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills that create minions.
	Chance to Poison Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Decay Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
	Vile Toxins Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Maim Support Supports attack skills, or other skills that can maim enemies.
	Immolate Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
	Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Ruthless Support Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.
	Momentum Support Supports attack skills that aren't triggered.
	Ancestral Call Support Supports melee strike skills, causing them to also strike at extra targets simultaneously. The extra targets must be a minimum distance from the user. If supporting a minion attack skill, the minion's skills will not also strike extra targets. Cannot support Vaal skills or triggered skills.
	Summon Phantasm Support Supports skills that can hit enemies, or create minions. When those skills or minions kill enemies, or hit rare or unique enemies they will have a chance to summon a Phantasm minion, which uses a piercing projectile spell that deals physical damage.
	Withering Touch Support Supports attack skills.
	Bonechill Support Supports any skill that can chill enemies or create chilling areas.
	Energy Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
	Close Combat Support Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
	Shockwave Support Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support triggered attacks, attacks used by things other than you, or skills which create minions.
	Impale Support Supports attack skills.
	Pulverise Support Supports melee attack skills.
	Rage Support Supports melee attack skills. Minions cannot gain rage.
	Nightblade Support Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
	Awakened Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Ancestral Call Support Supports melee strike skills, causing them to also strike at extra targets simultaneously. The extra targets must be a minimum distance from the user. If supporting a minion attack skill, the minion's skills will not also strike extra targets. Cannot support Vaal skills or triggered skills.
	Awakened Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Awakened Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support Supports attack skills.
	Awakened Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
	Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support Supports melee attack skills.
	Awakened Melee Splash Support Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.
	Awakened Multistrike Support Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat three times when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills.
	Awakened Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Cast On Critical Strike Support Must support both an attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it critically strikes an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Awakened Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
	Awakened Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Awakened Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
	Awakened Hextouch Support Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
	Awakened Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
	Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Awakened Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
	Awakened Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
	Trinity Support Supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to gain bonuses while you have resonance of all three elements, and to grant resonance of elements other than the highest one in a hit. There is a maximum of 50 Resonance for each Element. Cannot support triggered skills, instant skills, orb skills, brands, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Bloodthirst Support Supports attack skills. Cannot support triggered skills, skills which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps or mines.
	Cruelty Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
	Behead Support Supports strike skills.
	Overcharge Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Prismatic Burst Support Supports attacks, causing them to trigger the Prismatic Burst spell. Cannot support triggered attacks or attacks used by things other than you. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Trauma Support Supports melee strike skills that do not inherently apply Trauma. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by things other than you. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Devour Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Sadism Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Controlled Blaze Support Supports melee attack skills.
	Volatility Support Supports attack skills.

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Infernal Blow

Infernal Blow is a melee attack skill that converts 60% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage, applying a special debuff to enemies. When the debuff reaches six charges, expires, or the enemy affected by the debuff dies, it releases an explosion that deals fire damage to nearby enemies. This skill requires a sword, axe, mace, staff or unarmed.

Skill functions and interactions

Damage conversion: Like all converted damage, the fire portion of Infernal Blow's damage will be modified by both fire damage increases and physical damage increases.

Duration: If the debuff caused by Infernal Blow is still active when the monster dies, it will explode even if Infernal Blow was not the killing blow. That makes this skill very effective with Melee Splash Support or Ancestral Cry.

Debuffs: When the attack made with Infernal Blow hits an enemy, it applies two debuffs: the first debuff can stack up to six times and creates an explosion that deals damage based on your weapon damage when it reaches full charges or when it expires. The second debuff causes the enemy to create an explosion that deals damage scaling with its maximum life when it dies.

Explosion: The corpse explosion deals fire secondary damage in an area and cannot be reflected. It is neither an attack nor a spell, so in particular it is not affected by modifiers to melee damage, weapon damage or spell damage, but is affected by Elemental Damage with Attack Skills. While in a party, the explosion ignores the increased life added for each player beyond the first and treats the monster's life as if you were solo.1(#1)

The charged debuff explosion deals the exact same damage types as the melee hit, plus area damage.2(#2) Ruthless blows (Ruthless Support) are calculated differently depending on how the charged debuff explosion was caused. If the debuff reaches 6 stacks, then the hit that applied the 6th stack determines whether or not the explosion is Ruthless. If the debuff expires for any other reason (such as the monster dying) then the hit that applied the 1st stack determines whether or not the explosion is Ruthless.3(#3)

Monster Types: Magic (blue named) and rare (yellow named) monsters, and unique monsters (orange named) can be exploded.

Area of effect modifiers will only apply to the explosion itself, not the melee attack.

References

↑ Mark_GGG (February 3, 2013 5:35 AM). "Devs and other GD people - Kripps Death a good thing". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved August 2, 2013.

↑ Mark_GGG (Jun 6, 2018, 6:22:38 PM). "So I still don't understand the new mechanics of Infernal Blow at all... (Page 1)". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved November 13, 2018.

↑ Mark_GGG (Jun 7, 2018, 5:47:47 PM). "So I still don't understand the new mechanics of Infernal Blow at all... (Page 2)". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved November 13, 2018.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.16.0	The following Strike\|Skills no longer have “+0-2 to Melee Strike Range”: Dominating Blow, Double Strike, Vaal Double Strike, Dual Strike, Elemental Hit, Frenzy, Infernal Blow, Pestilent Strike, Puncture, Riposte, Static Strike, Smite, Viper Strike, and Wild Strike.
3.15.0	Now deals 166% of Base Damage, and has 166% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 133%).
3.11.0	Now converts 60% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage (from 50%).
3.7.0	Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 104% at gem level 1 (from 100%), up to 133% at gem level 20 (from 123%). Now adds 5 to 8 fire damage to attacks at gem level 1, up to 75 to 113 at gem level 20.
3.3.0	Previously placed a debuff for 0.5 seconds on enemies hit by the skill. If the target died while the debuff was active, it exploded, dealing fire damage equal to 10% of its maximum life to other nearby enemies. Now places a debuff for 0.8 seconds. Repeated hits refresh the duration of the debuff and add another stack. If the target dies while debuffed, it explodes, dealing 6% of the monster's base maximum life to nearby enemies, plus 66% of base attack damage per debuff. At 6 stacks of the debuff, the target explodes for 66% of base attack damage per debuff and the debuffs are consumed. Monsters slain by this explosion will still explode, dealing damage based on its life. Now requires level 12. Now has an added damage effectiveness and base damage of 100% at gem level 1 (down from 130%), up to 123% at gem level 20 (down from 160%). Now grants additional melee range as it levels, up to +3 at gem level 20.
2.1.0	Attack skills that have their damage based on the wielded weapon have their mana costs fixed in place from level 1 onwards. Radius increased by 22%.
2.0.0	Base damage increased by 4% (from 125% to 130% of base damage). Now grants 0.5% increased area of effect radius per 1% of quality (was 1% per 1% quality). The explosion effect can no longer reflect damage to the player. The explosion damage has been reduced from 25% to 10% of monsters life.
1.3.0	The mana costs of Elemental Hit, Glacial Hammer, Infernal Blow and Lightning Strike have been reduced.
1.0.0	The effect for Infernal Blow has been improved.
0.11.4	Fixed a bug where Infernal Blow could still apply to targets if the attack missed.
0.10.2	Infernal Blow's physical damage now increases by 4% per level rather than 3%.
0.10.0	Now has +25% damage effectiveness rather than +12% attack damage.
0.9.12	Now works with unarmed attacks.
0.9.11i	Fixed Infernal Blow so that it benefits from increased Area of Effect\|area of effect.
0.9.4c	Set the default Critical Strike\|critical strike chances of Infernal Blow (7%)
0.9.3g	Changed Infernal Blow to not have the damage scaled by mods that affect Spell Damage.
0.9.3c	Fixed a bug that caused damage bonuses to not appear on many weapon skills. Increased damage by raising its flat damage bonus from 10% to 12%.
0.9.3	The stats which convert damage from one type to another now calculate the damage in a way that takes into account your physical damage bonuses. Fixed a bug where Infernal Blow was able to explode an enemy several times.
0.9.2	Infernal Blow does more damage at higher levels than before.
0.8.6	Added new skill prototype: "Infernal Blow"

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Quest /2

Genus

Level Effect /40

Attribute /10

Infernal Blow

Crucible Weapon /2

Attribute /5

infernal_blow_new_debuff

Infernal Blow Monster /2 ⍟

Microtransactions /1 ⍟

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /8 ⍟

Supported By /109 ⍟

Community Wiki

Infernal Blow

Skill functions and interactions

References

Version history