Herald of Ash

Spell, AoE, Fire, Herald, Duration

Level: (1–20)

Reservation: 25% Mana

Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec

Cast Time: Instant

Radius: 10

Requires Level (16–70), (26–98) Str, (18–68) Int

Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage. While you have this buff, if you kill an enemy, other enemies near them will be burned based on the overkill damage. The burn inflicted by this skill can only be affected by modifiers to damage over time (burning damage is damage over time).

Base duration is 4 seconds
Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage
(0–38)% more Burning Damage
Buff grants (15–20)% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage

Additional Effects From Quality:

Base burning damage is an additional (0–5)% of Overkill Damage

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
2	Intruders in Black	Quest Reward	All Classes
2	The Root of the Problem	Yeena	All Classes

Genus

Herald of Ash

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Reservation: 25% Base duration is 4 seconds Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage

Level	Requires Level	Str	Int	#% more Burning Damage	Buff grants 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	Experience
1	16	26	18		15	49,725
2	20	31	22	2	15	95,714
3	24	37	25	4	15	169,595
4	28	42	29	6	15	199,345
5	31	46	32	8	15	285,815
6	34	50	35	10	16	401,344
7	37	54	37	12	16	554,379
8	40	58	40	14	16	755,049
9	43	62	43	16	17	1,016,533
10	46	66	46	18	17	1,898,602
11	49	70	48	20	17	1,964,019
12	52	74	51	22	18	2,573,731
13	55	78	54	24	18	4,676,439
14	58	82	57	26	18	3,017,327
15	60	84	59	28	19	7,823,001
16	62	87	60	30	19	15,264,208
17	64	90	62	32	19	26,272,845
18	66	92	64	34	20	62,872,274
19	68	95	66	36	20	212,023,122
20	70	98	68	38	20
21	72			40	21
22	74			42	21
23	76			44	21
24	78			46	22
25	80			48	22
26	82			50	22
27	84			52	23
28	86			54	23
29	88			56	23
30	90			58	24
31	91			59	24
32	92			60	24
33	93			61	24
34	94			62	24
35	95			63	24
36	96			64	25
37	97			65	25
38	98			66	25
39	99			67	25
40	100			68	25

Attribute /10

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Alteration
Acronym	Burning, Buff
DropLevel	16
BaseType	Herald of Ash
Class	Skill Gems
TargetTypes	Any
Type	Spell, Buff, HasReservation, CausesBurning, Area, DamageOverTime, Fire, TotemCastsAlone, Herald, Duration, Instant, AreaSpell, InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld, InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse, Cooldown
BuffIcon
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemHeraldOfAsh
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Crucible Weapon /6

Weight	Desc
150 (T3, T4)	Herald of Ash has 25% increased Reservation Herald of Ash has 25% increased Buff Effect
150 (T3, T4)	Herald of Ash has 25% increased Reservation Herald of Ash has 35% increased Buff Effect
150 (T3, T4)	Herald of Ash has 25% increased Reservation Herald of Ash has 45% increased Buff Effect
150 (T3, T4)	Herald of Ash has 50% increased Reservation Herald of Ash has 50% increased Buff Effect
150 (T3, T4)	Herald of Ash has 50% increased Reservation Herald of Ash has 70% increased Buff Effect
150 (T3, T4)	Herald of Ash has 50% increased Reservation Herald of Ash has 90% increased Buff Effect

Microtransactions /21 ⍟

Invisible Buff Effect

Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.

Ghostflame Herald of Ash

Your Herald of Ash becomes infused with ghostly fire.

Gloom Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a dark effect.

Divine Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a divine effect.

Purple Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a purple effect.

Gore Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a gory effect.

Innocence Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an innocence effect.

Sin Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a sin effect.

Wasteland Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a Wasteland Effect.

Automaton Herald Effect

Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an Automaton Effect.

Celestial Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Celestial Effect.

Blood Guard Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Blood Guard Effect.

Faith Guard Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Faith Guard Effect.

Demonic Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Demonic Effect.

Sunprism Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Sunprism Effect.

White Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a White Effect.

Stygian Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Stygian Effect.

Dragon Hunter Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Dragon Hunter Effect.

Transcendence Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Transcendence Effect.

Darkwood Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Darkwood Effect.

Despair Herald Effect

Your Herald becomes a Despair Effect.

Supported By /20 ⍟

Active Type: Spell, Buff, HasReservation, CausesBurning, Area, DamageOverTime, Fire, TotemCastsAlone, Herald, Duration, Instant, AreaSpell, InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld, InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse, Cooldown

Icon	Name
	Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	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.
	More Duration Support Supports any skill with a duration.
	Arrogance Support Supports any non-blessing skill with a reservation.
	Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Less Duration Support Supports any skill that has a duration.
	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals 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.
	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
	Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	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 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 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.
	Second Wind Support Supports skills with cooldowns. Cannot support triggered skills.

Herald of Ash

Construct

Monsters grant 1000% increased Experience
1500% increased Quantity of Items Dropped
2000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped

Spectre	N
Tags	caster, construct, cursing_monster, fire_affinity, ghost_armour, has_claw, has_one_handed_melee, large_height, large_model, mud_blood, not_str, slow_movement

Life

144%

Energy Shield From Life

100%

Evasion

+10%

Ailment Threshold

144%

Resistance

Damage

180%

Accuracy

100%

Critical Strike Chance

+5%

Critical Strike Multiplier

+130%

Attack Distance

6 ~ 8

Attack Time

1.5 Second

Damage Spread

±20%

Experience

120%

Model Size

110%

Type

GuardianCasterBossDescent

Metadata

GuardianBossFireDescent

The following values do not include map affix bonuses, monster buff bonuses, altar bonuses, atlas skill bonuses.

Level

Life

9,264

Armour

28,790

Evasion

5,213

Energy Shield

6,127

Damage

672

Spell Damage

672

Accuracy

290

Attack Time

1.5

Experience

12,306

Ailment Threshold

9,264

Chill

Shock

Brittle

166

Scorch

Sap

The following values are skill base values and do not include map affix bonuses, monster buff bonuses, altar bonuses, atlas skill bonuses, monster base damage(ex: The Maven 150% multiplier), monster rarity bonuses (ex: unique 70% more, unique attack 33% less).

MonsterFireStormBossDescent

Spell, Damage, Area, Duration, Trappable, Totemable, Mineable, Multicastable, Triggerable, Fire, Cascadable, CanRapidFire, AreaSpell

Firestorm

Critical Strike Chance: 5%

Cast Time: 0.9 sec

Flaming bolts rain down over the targeted area. They explode when landing, dealing damage to nearby enemies.

Base duration is 1.5 seconds
Deals 121.7 to 182.6 Fire Damage
25% chance to Ignite enemies
One impact every 0.13 seconds
Base radius is 1 metre
firestorm base area of effect +% [-49]
is area damage [1]
spell maximum action distance +% [-50]

MonsterFlammability

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

Flammability

Cast Time: 0.5 sec

Cooldown Time: 10 sec

Curses all targets in an area, lowering their fire resistance and giving them a chance to be ignited when hit.

Base duration is 6 seconds
Cursed enemies have -30% to Fire Resistance
Hits against Cursed Enemies have +25% chance to Ignite
active skill area of effect radius +% final [9]

Object Type

version 2
extends "Metadata/Monsters/Monster"
Actor
{
	main_hand_unarmed_type = "Claw"
	off_hand_unarmed_type = "Shield"
}

Object Type Codes

version 2
extends "Metadata/Monsters/Monster"

Life
{
	on_death = "DetachAllContainingText( head ); RemoveEffects( );"
	on_spawned_dead = "DetachAllContainingText( head ); RemoveEffects( );"
}

-- src\Data\Spectres.lua
minions["Metadata/Monsters/Guardians/GuardianBossFireDescent"] = {
    name = "Herald of Ash",
    life = 1.44,
    energyShield = 1,
    fireResist = 0,
    coldResist = 0,
    lightningResist = 0,
    chaosResist = 0,
    damage = 1.8,
    damageSpread = 0.2,
    attackTime = 1.5,
    attackRange = 8,
    accuracy = 1,
    skillList = {
        "MonsterFireStormBossDescent",
        "MonsterFlammability",
    },
    modList = {
    },
}
-- src\Data\Skills\spectre.lua
skills["MonsterFireStormBossDescent"] = {
    name = "Firestorm",
    hidden = true,
    color = 4,
    baseEffectiveness = 0,
    incrementalEffectiveness = 0,
    description = "Flaming bolts rain down over the targeted area. They explode when landing, dealing damage to nearby enemies.",
    skillTypes = {
        [SkillType.Spell] = true,
        [SkillType.Damage] = true,
        [SkillType.Area] = true,
        [SkillType.Duration] = true,
        [SkillType.Trappable] = true,
        [SkillType.Totemable] = true,
        [SkillType.Mineable] = true,
        [SkillType.Multicastable] = true,
        [SkillType.Triggerable] = true,
        [SkillType.Fire] = true,
        [SkillType.Cascadable] = true,
        [SkillType.CanRapidFire] = true,
        [SkillType.AreaSpell] = true,
    },
    statDescriptionScope = "skill_stat_descriptions",
    castTime = 0.9,
    baseFlags = {
        area = true,
        spell = true,
        duration = true,
    },
    baseMods = {
    },
    qualityStats = {
    },
    stats = {
        "spell_minimum_base_fire_damage",
        "spell_maximum_base_fire_damage",
        "base_skill_effect_duration",
        "fire_storm_fireball_delay_ms",
        "base_chance_to_ignite_%",
        "spell_maximum_action_distance_+%",
        "firestorm_base_area_of_effect_+%",
        "active_skill_base_area_of_effect_radius",
        "is_area_damage",
    },
    levels = {
        [1] = {0.40000000596046, 0.60000002384186, 1500, 125, 25, -50, -49, 10, critChance = 5, levelRequirement = 21, statInterpolation = {3, 3},  cost = { }, },
    },
}
-- src\Data\Skills\spectre.lua
skills["MonsterFlammability"] = {
    name = "Flammability",
    hidden = true,
    color = "3",
    baseEffectiveness = 0,
    incrementalEffectiveness = 0,
    description = "Curses all targets in an area, lowering their fire resistance and giving them a chance to be ignited when hit.",
    skillTypes = {
        [SkillType.Spell] = true,
        [SkillType.Area] = true,
        [SkillType.Duration] = true,
        [SkillType.Trappable] = true,
        [SkillType.Totemable] = true,
        [SkillType.Mineable] = true,
        [SkillType.Multicastable] = true,
        [SkillType.Triggerable] = true,
        [SkillType.Fire] = true,
        [SkillType.Cascadable] = true,
        [SkillType.AppliesCurse] = true,
        [SkillType.CanRapidFire] = true,
        [SkillType.AreaSpell] = true,
        [SkillType.InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld] = true,
        [SkillType.InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse] = true,
        [SkillType.Hex] = true,
    },
    statDescriptionScope = "curse_skill_stat_descriptions",
    castTime = 0.5,
    baseFlags = {
        area = true,
        spell = true,
        duration = true,
    },
    baseMods = {
    },
    qualityStats = {
    },
    stats = {
        "base_fire_damage_resistance_%",
        "base_skill_effect_duration",
        "chance_to_be_ignited_%",
        "active_skill_area_of_effect_radius_+%_final",
    },
    levels = {
        [1] = {-20, 6000, 25, 9, levelRequirement = 10, statInterpolation = {1},  cost = { }, },
        [2] = {-25, 6000, 25, 9, levelRequirement = 41, statInterpolation = {1},  cost = { }, },
        [3] = {-30, 6000, 25, 9, levelRequirement = 58, statInterpolation = {1},  cost = { }, },
        [4] = {-40, 6000, 25, 9, levelRequirement = 71, statInterpolation = {1},  cost = { }, },
    },
}

Monsters grant 1000% increased Experience
1500% increased Quantity of Items Dropped
2000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped

Id	MonsterBossDescent
Family	MonsterDescentBoss
Domains	Monster (3)
GenerationType	Unique (3)
Req. level	1
Stats	monster slain experience +% Min: 1000 Max: 1000 Global monster dropped item rarity +% Min: 2000 Max: 2000 Global monster dropped item quantity +% Min: 1500 Max: 1500 Global

Community Wiki

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Herald of Ash

Herald of Ash is a Herald skill. It reserves mana to grant more fire damage to Spells and additional fire damage based on physical damage. Enemies you kill while Herald of Ash is active will explode and burn nearby enemies for a portion of the overkill damage.

Skill functions and interactions

Extra Fire Damage: This modifier adds fire damage to all hits, including those from Attacks, Spells, and secondary damage sources. The amount added is equal to 15% of the damage source's physical damage.
Burn on kill: While Herald of Ash is active, when an enemy is killed, enemies within a radius from the killed enemy receive a burning debuff based on the overkill damage. Overkill damage refers to total excess damage of the killing hit over the monster's remaing Life and Energy Shield, including non-fire damage. The burning damage is affected by increased/more Burning Damage and increased/more Damage Over Time, as well as damage over time multipliers that apply to all damage or Fire damage. The debuff is not an Ignite, and is not affected by modifiers to Ignite or Ailments.
Increased Fire Damage: The Buff grants 0.75% increased Fire Damage from quality applies globally to all fire damage, including the extra fire damage effect of Herald of Ash.
More Spell Fire Damage: The more Spell Fire Damage applies globally to all spells, including spells with Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect. It does not apply to damage over time from spells without this modifier, such as Righteous Fire.
More Burning Damage: Unlike the more Spell Fire Damage, the more Burning Damage is not global. It only affects the burning debuff created by Herald of Ash itself.
Support gems: Any support gems (with the exception of Enhance Support) linked to the Herald of Ash will only affect the burn damage caused by the debuff, not the global modifiers. For example, linking Item Rarity Support to Herald of Ash will only apply rarity bonus to the enemies who die from the burn damage caused by Herald of Ash ignition.
Area of Effect: Area of Effect modifiers from passives, items, and gems affect the radius of the on-kill effect.
Culling Strike: When using an attack with culling strike, the overkill effect will only apply if the damage from the killing hit would have taken the monster to less than 0 life.

Strategy

In the case where enemy death occurs uniformly at random with respect to damage dealt, the chance of an enemy dying from a particular hit is proportional to the damage the hit deals. The mean overkill damage for that hit is half the damage of the hit. This makes the mean overkill damage overall equal to

0.5*(mean damage²)/mean damage

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.1	Clarified that the "x% increased Fire Damage" from Herald of Ash's quality stat is dependent on having the Herald of Ash buff.
3.11.0	The visual effects have been improved.
3.4.0	Now instant by default and can therefore be used while moving. All instant skills now have cooldown 1 second or less. Instant skills cannot be supported by Spell Echo and will not be cast a second time by similar effects (such as from the Echoing Shrine).
3.2.0	Herald of Ash now also provides more Spell Fire Damage, and can trigger the overkill burn from spells.
3.0.0	Secondary effect no longer ignites. Instead, enemies near slain enemies are burned based on the overkill damage. Added Herald gem tag.
2.0.0	Radius reduced by 16.5% (from 12 to 10) and base overkill damage reduced to 80% (from 100%).
1.2.0	Herald of Ash has been added to the game.

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Quest /2

Genus

Level Effect /40

Attribute /10

Herald of Ash

Crucible Weapon /6

Microtransactions /21 ⍟

Supported By /20 ⍟

Object Type

Object Type Codes

Monsters grant 1000% increased Experience1500% increased Quantity of Items Dropped2000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped

Community Wiki

Herald of Ash

Skill functions and interactions

Strategy

Version history

Monsters grant 1000% increased Experience
1500% increased Quantity of Items Dropped
2000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped