Act	Quest	NPC	Character
3	Lost in Love	Quest Reward	Witch · Ranger · Shadow
3	Lost in Love	Clarissa	Ranger · Scion · Shadow · Witch

Act

Quest

NPC

Character

Lost in Love

Quest Reward

Witch · Ranger · Shadow

Lost in Love

Clarissa

Ranger · Scion · Shadow · Witch

Level	Requires Level	Int	Dex	Cost	Base duration is 8 seconds	# metres to radius	Cursed enemies have -15% to Chaos Resistance	Experience
1	24	37	25	16	8	0	-15	118,383
2	27	41	28	17	8.2	0.1	-16	175,816
3	30	45	31	18	8.4	0.1	-17	254,061
4	33	49	34	19	8.6	0.2	-18	359,090
5	36	53	36	21	8.8	0.2	-18	498,508
6	39	56	39	22	9	0.3	-19	682,057
7	42	60	42	23	9.2	0.3	-20	921,777
8	45	64	45	24	9.4	0.4	-21	1,727,879
9	48	68	48	25	9.6	0.4	-21	1,138,877
10	50	71	49	26	9.8	0.5	-22	1,368,233
11	52	74	51	26	10	0.5	-23	1,638,338
12	54	76	53	27	10.2	0.6	-24	1,956,648
13	56	79	55	28	10.4	0.6	-24	3,655,184
14	58	82	57	29	10.6	0.7	-25	3,017,327
15	60	84	59	29	10.8	0.7	-26	7,793,914
16	62	87	60	30	11	0.8	-27	15,206,031
17	64	90	62	31	11.2	0.8	-27	26,185,582
18	66	92	64	31	11.4	0.9	-28	62,755,923
19	68	95	66	32	11.6	0.9	-29	211,877,683
20	70	98	68	33	11.8	1	-30
21	72			34	12	1	-30
22	74			34	12.2	1.1	-31
23	76			35	12.4	1.1	-32
24	78			36	12.6	1.2	-33
25	80			36	12.8	1.2	-33
26	82			37	13	1.3	-34
27	84			38	13.2	1.3	-35
28	86			39	13.4	1.4	-36
29	88			39	13.6	1.4	-36
30	90			40	13.8	1.5	-37
31	91			40	13.9	1.5	-37
32	92			41	14	1.5	-38
33	93			41	14.1	1.5	-38
34	94			42	14.2	1.6	-39
35	95			42	14.3	1.6	-39
36	96			42	14.4	1.6	-39
37	97			43	14.5	1.6	-40
38	98			43	14.6	1.7	-40
39	99			43	14.7	1.7	-40
40	100			44	14.8	1.7	-41

Level

Requires Level

Int

Dex

Cost

Base duration is 8 seconds

# metres to radius

Cursed enemies have -15% to Chaos Resistance

Experience

-15

118,383

8.2

0.1

-16

175,816

8.4

0.1

-17

254,061

8.6

0.2

-18

359,090

8.8

0.2

-18

498,508

0.3

-19

682,057

9.2

0.3

-20

921,777

9.4

0.4

-21

1,727,879

9.6

0.4

-21

1,138,877

9.8

0.5

-22

1,368,233

0.5

-23

1,638,338

10.2

0.6

-24

1,956,648

10.4

0.6

-24

3,655,184

10.6

0.7

-25

3,017,327

10.8

0.7

-26

7,793,914

0.8

-27

15,206,031

11.2

0.8

-27

26,185,582

11.4

0.9

-28

62,755,923

11.6

0.9

-29

211,877,683

11.8

-30

12.2

1.1

-31

12.4

1.1

-32

12.6

1.2

-33

12.8

1.2

-33

1.3

-34

13.2

1.3

-35

13.4

1.4

-36

13.6

1.4

-36

13.8

1.5

-37

13.9

1.5

-37

1.5

-38

14.1

1.5

-38

14.2

1.6

-39

14.3

1.6

-39

14.4

1.6

-39

14.5

1.6

-40

14.6

1.7

-40

14.7

1.7

-40

100

14.8

1.7

-41

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Alteration
Acronym	Resistance, Curse
DropLevel	24
BaseType	Despair
Class	Skill Gems
TargetTypes	Ground, Enemy,
Type	Spell, Area, Duration, Trappable, Totemable, Mineable, Multicastable, Triggerable, Cascadable, Chaos, AppliesCurse, CanRapidFire, AreaSpell, InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld, InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse, Hex
BuffIcon
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVulnerability
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Key

Value

Cost

iLvl 1: Normal: 1x

Orb of Alteration

Acronym

Resistance, Curse

DropLevel

BaseType

Despair

Class

Skill Gems

TargetTypes

Ground, Enemy,

Type

Spell, Area, Duration, Trappable, Totemable, Mineable, Multicastable, Triggerable, Cascadable, Chaos, AppliesCurse, CanRapidFire, AreaSpell, InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld, InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse, Hex

BuffIcon

ItemType

Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVulnerability

Reference

poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Key	Value
Acronym	Ignite
IsSkillBuff	1
BuffGroupsID	-1
IsBuffDefinition	1
BuffMergeModesID	6

Key

Value

Acronym

Ignite

IsSkillBuff

BuffGroupsID

-1

IsBuffDefinition

BuffMergeModesID

Code	base chaos damage resistance %
IsPublic	1
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	0
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	1
StatSemantics	Percentage

Code

base chaos damage resistance %

IsPublic

IsLocal

IsWeaponLocal

IsProxied

IsParty

IsVirtual

IsScalable

StatSemantics

Percentage

Code	degen effect +%
IsPublic	1
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	1
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	1
StatSemantics	Percentage

Code

degen effect +%

IsPublic

IsLocal

IsWeaponLocal

IsProxied

IsParty

IsVirtual

IsScalable

StatSemantics

Percentage

Code	minimum added chaos damage taken
IsPublic	1
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	0
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	1
StatSemantics	Discrete

Code

minimum added chaos damage taken

IsPublic

IsLocal

IsWeaponLocal

IsProxied

IsParty

IsVirtual

IsScalable

StatSemantics

Discrete

Code	maximum added chaos damage taken
IsPublic	1
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	0
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	1
StatSemantics	Discrete

Code

maximum added chaos damage taken

IsPublic

IsLocal

IsWeaponLocal

IsProxied

IsParty

IsVirtual

IsScalable

StatSemantics

Discrete

Code	chance to be hindered when hit by spells %
IsPublic	0
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	0
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	1
StatSemantics	Percentage

Code

chance to be hindered when hit by spells %

IsPublic

IsLocal

IsWeaponLocal

IsProxied

IsParty

IsVirtual

IsScalable

StatSemantics

Percentage

Name	Modifiers	Spectre
Rama, The Kinslayer	Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Kalria, The Risen	Traps from Skills are thrown randomly around targeted location	Y
Kalria, The Risen	Traps from Skills are thrown randomly around targeted location Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Ribrattle		Y
Tremorbones	corpse cannot be destroyed [1]	Y

Name

Modifiers

Spectre

Rama, The Kinslayer

Monsters grant 100% increased Experience
15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped
cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000]
cannot be stunned while stunned [1]

Kalria, The Risen

Traps from Skills are thrown randomly around targeted location

Kalria, The Risen

Traps from Skills are thrown randomly around targeted location
Monsters grant 100% increased Experience
15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped
cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000]
cannot be stunned while stunned [1]

Ribrattle

Tremorbones

corpse cannot be destroyed [1]

Level	Name	Mod	Weight
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Despair Duration 1	30% increased Despair Duration	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Despair Duration 2	45% increased Despair Duration	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Despair Effect 1	10% increased Despair Curse Effect	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Despair Effect 2	15% increased Despair Curse Effect	100

Level

Name

Mod

Weight

The Merciless Labyrinth

Enchantment Despair Duration 1

30% increased Despair Duration

100

The Eternal Labyrinth

Enchantment Despair Duration 2

45% increased Despair Duration

100

The Merciless Labyrinth

Enchantment Despair Effect 1

10% increased Despair Curse Effect

100

The Eternal Labyrinth

Enchantment Despair Effect 2

15% increased Despair Curse Effect

100

Icon	Name
	Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	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.
	Faster Casting Support Supports non-instant spell skills.
	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.
	Spell Totem Support Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.
	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.
	Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.
	Less Duration Support Supports any skill that has a duration.
	Cast on Death Support Each supported spell skill will be triggered when you die. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Cast when Damage Taken Support Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Cast when Stunned Support Each supported spell skill will have a chance to be triggered when you are stunned. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Blasphemy Support Supports hex curse skills, turning them into auras that will apply their effect to all enemies in an area around you.
	Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
	Arcane Surge Support Each supported spell will track how much mana you spend on it, granting a buff when the total mana spent reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, mines or skills with a reservation.
	Spell Cascade Support Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Intensify Support Supports spell skills that you cast yourself. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, instant skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation or which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Unleash Support Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	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.
	Awakened Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Awakened Blasphemy Support Supports hex curse skills, turning them into auras that will apply their effect to all enemies in an area around you.
	Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Awakened Spell Cascade Support Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Awakened Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.
	Awakened Unleash Support Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Impending Doom Support Supports hex curse skills, causing them to trigger Doom Blast when the hex ends. Cannot support curse skills which are triggered or applied as an aura.
	Cursed Ground Support Supports non-aura hex curse skills.
	Hex Bloom Support Supports hex curse skills. Hexes from auras or cursed ground cannot transfer.

Icon

Name

Increased Area of Effect Support

Supports any skill with an area of effect.

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.

Faster Casting Support

Supports non-instant spell skills.

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.

Spell Totem Support

Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.

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.

Spell Echo Support

Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.

Less Duration Support

Supports any skill that has a duration.

Cast on Death Support

Each supported spell skill will be triggered when you die. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.

Cast when Damage Taken Support

Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.

Cast when Stunned Support

Each supported spell skill will have a chance to be triggered when you are stunned. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.

Blasphemy Support

Supports hex curse skills, turning them into auras that will apply their effect to all enemies in an area around you.

Swift Affliction Support

Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.

Efficacy Support

Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.

Arcane Surge Support

Each supported spell will track how much mana you spend on it, granting a buff when the total mana spent reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, mines or skills with a reservation.

Spell Cascade Support

Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.

Intensify Support

Supports spell skills that you cast yourself. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, instant skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation or which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.

Unleash Support

Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.

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.

Awakened Swift Affliction Support

Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.

Awakened Blasphemy Support

Supports hex curse skills, turning them into auras that will apply their effect to all enemies in an area around you.

Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support

Supports any skill with an area of effect.

Awakened Spell Cascade Support

Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.

Awakened Spell Echo Support

Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.

Awakened Unleash Support

Impending Doom Support

Supports hex curse skills, causing them to trigger Doom Blast when the hex ends. Cannot support curse skills which are triggered or applied as an aura.

Cursed Ground Support

Supports non-aura hex curse skills.

Hex Bloom Support

Supports hex curse skills. Hexes from auras or cursed ground cannot transfer.

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Despair

Despair is a spell that curses all targets in an area, making them take increased chaos damage, damage over time, and chaos damage on hit.

Skill functions and interactions

Cursed enemies take increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects: Because these stats are an increase to the target's damage taken, they are multiplicative with attacker's damage dealt and additive with any other effects to damage taken on the defender.
Adds Chaos Damage to Hits against Cursed Enemies: Skills, passives, and items that grant Increased effect of your Curses will increase the added chaos damage granted by this curse (Note: These increases are not reflected in the tooltip, they only display base values). This added damage is identical in function to other sources of added damage, such as Added Chaos Damage Support, and thus can be further increased by any of the applicable increases to the attacker's damage.
Cursed enemies have -x% to Chaos Resistance: The reduction to Chaos Resistance granted by this curse (after modifiers) stacks additively with the Occultist's Void Beacon Ascendancy passive and other similar effects.
Despair can be turned into an aura by linking it with either Blasphemy Support or Awakened Blasphemy Support.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.20.0	Now has Base duration is ('''8-11.8''') seconds (previously (9-10.9) seconds). Now causes Cursed enemies have -('''15-30''')% to Chaos Resistance. (previously -(20-29)%). No longer causes Cursed enemies take (15-25)% increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects. No longer causes Adds (9-46) to (12-57) Chaos Damage to Hits against Cursed Enemies. Quality no longer grants Cursed Enemies to take (0-10)% increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects. Instead, it now grants (0-10)% increased Effect of Curse. Anomalous quality no longer grants (0-10)% increased Effect of Curse. Instead, it now grants Cursed Enemies to take (0-10)% increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects.
3.12.0	''All curse skills have been reworked and are now divided into two categories: Hexes and Marks.'' Hexes apply a curse in an area and, when manually cast, apply an amount of Doom per second to cursed enemies up to a maximum. Doom increases the effect of the afflicted curse and stacks additively with modifiers to increased Curse effect. Curses applied by casting this spell now gain 10 Doom per second. '''Despair''' is now offered to the Witch, Shadow and Ranger for completing Lost in Love, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Scion.
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 16 (was 24). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 33 (was 50). Cursed enemies now take 35% increased damage from damage over time effects at gem level 20.
3.1.2	Added new helmet enchantments for Bodyswap and '''Despair'''. These are available from the Divine Font in the Merciless and Eternal Labyrinths.
3.1.0	Vulnerability has been split into two skill gems - Vulnerability and '''Despair'''. Existing Vulnerability Skill gems are now '''Despair''' gems. There is a new red skill gem called Vulnerability. Despair curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage, and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit. Despair, an Intelligence Skill Gem, curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit.

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Quest /2

Genus

Level Effect /40

Attribute /10

Despair

Attribute /5

curse_chaos_weakness

Base Chaos Damage Resistance %

Despair Monster /5 ⍟

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /4 ⍟

Supported By /29 ⍟

Despair Unique /1 ⍟

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Despair

Skill functions and interactions

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