Artillery Ballista

Attack, Totem, AoE, Fire, Projectile, Bow

Level: (1–20)

Cost: (9–13) Mana

Attack Speed: 50% of base

Attack Damage: (50–65)% of base

Effectiveness of Added Damage: (50–65)%

Requires Level (28–70), (67–155) Dex

Requires Bows

Summons a ballista totem that propels a sequence of fiery arrows into the air. The arrows impact the ground in a line, each dealing area damage to enemies around it. Requires a Bow.

Totem lasts 8 seconds
+(2–3) to maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems
Fires 6 Arrows
100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Summons a Ballista Totem which uses this Skill

Additional Effects From Quality:

Fires +(0–1) Arrow

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
3	Sever the Right Hand	Quest Reward	Ranger
3	Sever the Right Hand	Clarissa	Duelist · Marauder · Ranger · Scion · Shadow

Genus

Artillery Ballista

Artillery Ballista of Cross Strafe

Artillery Ballista of Focus Fire

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Totem lasts 8 seconds Fires 6 Arrows 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage Summons a Ballista Totem which uses this Skill

Level	Requires Level	Dex	Cost	Base Damage	+2 to maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems	Experience
1	28	67	9	50%	2	199,345
2	31	73	9	50.8%	2	285,815
3	34	79	10	51.6%	2	401,344
4	37	85	10	52.4%	2	554,379
5	40	92	10	53.2%	2	477,437
6	42	96	10	53.9%	2	583,786
7	44	100	10	54.7%	2	710,359
8	46	104	11	55.5%	2	1,355,511
9	48	109	11	56.3%	2	1,138,877
10	50	113	11	57.1%	2	1,368,233
11	52	117	11	57.9%	3	1,638,338
12	54	121	11	58.7%	3	1,956,648
13	56	125	11	59.5%	3	3,655,184
14	58	130	12	60.3%	3	3,017,327
15	60	134	12	61.1%	3	7,759,995
16	62	138	12	61.8%	3	15,138,193
17	64	142	12	62.6%	3	26,083,825
18	66	146	12	63.4%	3	62,620,247
19	68	151	12	64.2%	3	211,708,088
20	70	155	13	65%	3
21	72		13	65.8%	3
22	74		13	66.6%	4
23	76		13	67.4%	4
24	78		13	68.2%	4
25	80		13	68.9%	4
26	82		14	69.7%	4
27	84		14	70.5%	4
28	86		14	71.3%	4
29	88		14	72.1%	4
30	90		14	72.9%	4
31	91		14	73.3%	4
32	92		14	73.7%	4
33	93		14	74.1%	4
34	94		15	74.5%	4
35	95		15	74.9%	4
36	96		15	75.3%	4
37	97		15	75.7%	4
38	98		15	76.1%	4
39	99		15	76.4%	4
40	100		15	76.8%	4

Attribute /10

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Chance
Acronym	Totem
DropLevel	28
BaseType	Artillery Ballista
Class	Skill Gems
Weapon	Bows
TargetTypes	Ground, Enemy,
Type	Attack, RangedAttack, Trappable, Mineable, SummonsTotem, Area, Fire, ProjectileNumber, ProjectileSpeed, AttackInPlaceIsDefault, TotemsAreBallistae
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemArtilleryBallista
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Crucible Weapon /1

Weight	Desc
1000 (T5)	All Damage from Blast Rain and Artillery Ballista Hits can Poison 25% chance for Poisons inflicted with Blast Rain or Artillery Ballista to deal 100% more Damage

Microtransactions /16 ⍟

Tiki Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a coloured totem that has carved tiki designs.

Olmec Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a carved stone totem with two faces.

Eagle Guardian Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an eagle guardian.

Ziggurat Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an ancient ziggurat.

Dragon Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a golden dragon.

Arcane Tome Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an Arcane Tome.

Pylon of Pain Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Pylon of Pain.

Demonic Arctic Ballista Totem Skin

Replaces the default skin on your ballista totems with a Demonic Arctic version.

Twisted Skull Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a twisted skull totem.

Darkshard Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a darkshard totem.

Ghastly Mariner's Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Ghastly Mariner's totem.

Astral Artillery Ballista Skin

Your Artillery Ballista becomes an Astral Effect.

Void Emperor Artillery Ballista

Your Artillery Ballista becomes a Void Emperor Effect.

Margmatic Artillery Ballista

Your Artillery Ballista becomes a Magmatic Effect.

Challenger's Ancestral Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Challenger's Ancestral totem.

Defender's Ancestral Totem Skin

Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Defender's Ancestral totem.

Supported By /96 ⍟

Active Type: Attack, RangedAttack, Trappable, Mineable, SummonsTotem, Area, Fire, ProjectileNumber, ProjectileSpeed, AttackInPlaceIsDefault, TotemsAreBallistae

Icon	Name
Added Fire Damage Support	Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Faster Attacks Support	Faster Attacks Support Supports attack skills.
Greater Multiple Projectiles Support	Greater Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support	Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Faster Projectiles Support	Faster Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Added Cold Damage Support	Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Additional Accuracy Support	Additional Accuracy Support Supports attack skills.
Increased Area of Effect Support	Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
Added Lightning Damage Support	Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Increased Critical Strikes Support	Increased Critical Strikes Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Increased Critical Damage Support	Increased Critical Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Knockback Support	Knockback Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Life Leech Support	Life Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.
Mana Leech Support	Mana Leech Support Supports attack skills that hit enemies, causing those hits to leech mana based on damage dealt.
Added Chaos Damage Support	Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Stun Support	Stun Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.
Trap Support	Trap Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a trap that will use the skill for you when an enemy walks near it. Traps cannot use channelling skills.
Item Rarity Support	Item Rarity Support Supports any skill that can kill enemies.
Concentrated Effect Support	Concentrated Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect, regardless of whether that skill deals damage.
Cold to Fire Support	Cold to Fire Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Combustion Support	Combustion Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support	Elemental Damage with Attacks Support Supports attack skills.
Life Gain on Hit Support	Life Gain on Hit Support Supports attack skills.
Elemental Proliferation Support	Elemental Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.
Culling Strike Support	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.
Point Blank Support	Point Blank Support Supports projectile skills.
Iron Grip Support	Iron Grip Support Supports attack skills that fire projectiles, making the increase to physical melee damage from strength also increase their physical projectile damage.
Damage on Full Life Support	Damage on Full Life Support Supports attack skills, providing a bonus to all damage dealt by those skills while your life is full.
Blastchain Mine Support	Blastchain Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
Chance to Flee Support	Chance to Flee Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Blind Support	Blind Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Fire Penetration Support	Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
Cold Penetration Support	Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
Lightning Penetration Support	Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
Elemental Penetration Support	Elemental Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy elemental resistances.
Power Charge On Critical Support	Power Charge On Critical Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Burning Damage Support	Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
Slower Projectiles Support	Slower Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Vicious Projectiles Support	Vicious Projectiles Support Supports projectile attack skills.
Block Chance Reduction Support	Block Chance Reduction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Physical to Lightning Support	Physical to Lightning Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Hypothermia Support	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Critical Strike Affliction Support	Critical Strike Affliction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Void Manipulation Support	Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Controlled Destruction Support	Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
Swift Affliction Support	Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
Elemental Focus Support	Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
Ignite Proliferation Support	Ignite Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Chance to Bleed Support	Chance to Bleed Support Supports attack skills.
Chance to Poison Support	Chance to Poison Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Deadly Ailments Support	Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Decay Support	Decay Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Efficacy Support	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
Vile Toxins Support	Vile Toxins Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Maim Support	Maim Support Supports attack skills, or other skills that can maim enemies.
Immolate Support	Immolate Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Unbound Ailments Support	Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
Brutality Support	Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Momentum Support	Momentum Support Supports attack skills that aren't triggered.
Summon Phantasm Support	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	Withering Touch Support Supports attack skills.
Bonechill Support	Bonechill Support Supports any skill that can chill enemies or create chilling areas.
Multiple Totems Support	Multiple Totems Support Supports skills which summon totems.
Energy Leech Support	Energy Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
Impale Support	Impale Support Supports attack skills.
Nightblade Support	Nightblade Support Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
High-Impact Mine Support	High-Impact Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
Barrage Support	Barrage Support Supports projectile attack skills that use bows or wands. Cannot support triggered skills, channelled skills, or skills that create Minions.
Awakened Added Fire Damage Support	Awakened Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Brutality Support	Awakened Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Awakened Burning Damage Support	Awakened Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support	Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support Supports attack skills.
Awakened Fire Penetration Support	Awakened Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
Awakened Added Cold Damage Support	Awakened Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Cold Penetration Support	Awakened Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
Awakened Deadly Ailments Support	Awakened Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support	Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Awakened Swift Affliction Support	Awakened Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
Awakened Void Manipulation Support	Awakened Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Awakened Vicious Projectiles Support	Awakened Vicious Projectiles Support Supports projectile attack skills.
Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support	Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support	Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Controlled Destruction Support	Awakened Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
Awakened Elemental Focus Support	Awakened Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support	Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
Awakened Lightning Penetration Support	Awakened Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
Awakened Unbound Ailments Support	Awakened Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
Cruelty Support	Cruelty Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
Focused Ballista Support	Focused Ballista Support Supports skills that summon ballista totems. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Overcharge Support	Overcharge Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Prismatic Burst Support	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.
Devour Support	Devour Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Flamewood Support	Flamewood Support Supports skills which summon totems. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Sadism Support	Sadism Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Volatility Support	Volatility Support Supports attack skills.
Rupture Support	Rupture Support Supports attack skills.

Totem

Construct

Spectre	N
Tags	construct, immobile, is_unarmed, large_model, non_attacking, not_dex, not_int, small_height, stone_armour

Life

100%

Armour

+100%

Ailment Threshold

100%

Resistance

Damage

100%

Accuracy

100%

Critical Strike Chance

+5%

Critical Strike Multiplier

+130%

Attack Distance

6 ~ 6

Attack Time

1 Second

Damage Spread

±0%

Experience

100%

Model Size

100%

Type

Totem

Metadata

MortarTotem

IsSummoned

Object Type

version 2
extends "Metadata/Monsters/Totems/CrossbowTotem"

StateMachine
{
	define_shared_state = "hide_base"	
}


Life
{
	on_death = "SetStateTo( hide_base, 1 );"
}

Stats
{
	set_immune_to_curses = 0
}

Object Type Codes

version 2
extends "Metadata/Monsters/Totems/CrossbowTotem"

BaseEvents
{
	on_construction_complete =
	"
		IfState( hide_base, 0, { PlayAnimationAttachedByIndex( Metadata/Monsters/Totems/MortarTotem/mortarbowbase.ao, 4 ); } );
		IfState( hide_base, 1, { DisableRendering(); } );
	"
}

Life
{
	on_death = "PlayAnimationAttachedByIndex( Metadata/Monsters/Totems/MortarTotem/mortarbowbase.ao, 3 );"
}

-- src\Data\Spectres.lua
minions["Metadata/Monsters/Totems/MortarTotem"] = {
    name = "Totem",
    life = 1,
    fireResist = 40,
    coldResist = 40,
    lightningResist = 40,
    chaosResist = 20,
    damage = 1,
    damageSpread = 0,
    attackTime = 1,
    attackRange = 6,
    accuracy = 1,
    skillList = {
    },
    modList = {
    },
}

Community Wiki

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Artillery Ballista

Artillery Ballista summons a ballista totem that rains down arrows in a line, dealing area damage on landing. Its damage scales on the player's bow damage.

Skill functions and interactions

Ballista: Siege Ballista is part of the Ballista sub-class of totems. Ballista totems have inherent added totem limit. They have a much shorter summoning range, spawning much closer to the summoner.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.19.0	Artillery Ballista now has 50% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 44%), up to 65% at gem level 20 (previously 57%). It now has a base explosion radius of 20 (previously 18). Arrows now take 250 ms to fall (previously 330 ms) and the delay between arrows is now 100 ms (previously 150 ms).
3.15.0	Now deals 44% of base Attack Damage at gem level 1 (previously 40%), up to 57.3% of base Attack Damage at gem level 20 (previously 51%). Now has 44% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 40%), up to 57% at gem level 20 (previously 51%).
3.13.0	Now allows you to place an additional totem at gem level 11, and again at gem level 22.
3.12.0	Now has alternative quality.
3.10.0	Now deals base damage and has an added damage effectiveness of 40% at gem level 1 (from 33%), up to 51% at gem level 20 (from 42%).
3.9.0	Artillery Ballista has been added to the game.

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