Infernal Blow
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Fire, Duration
Level: (1–20)
Cost: (6–10) Mana
Attack Damage: (164–377)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (164–377)%
Radius: 15
Requires Level (12–70), (33–155) Str
Requires One Hand Swords, Thrusting One Hand Swords, Two Hand Swords, One Hand Axes, Two Hand Axes, One Hand Maces, Sceptres, Two Hand Maces, Staves, Unarmed, Warstaves
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
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
ActQuestNPCCharacter
1The Siren's CadenceQuest RewardMarauder
1The Siren's CadenceNessaDuelist · Marauder · Ranger · Scion · Templar
Genus
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Level Effect /40
LevelRequires LevelStrCostBase DamageExperience
112336100%, 164.3%15,249
215396100%, 171.6%41,517
319487100%, 179.7%81,983
423567100%, 188.1%147,968
527647100%, 196.8%250,557
631738100%, 206%405,086
735818100%, 215.6%447,718
838888100%, 225.2%615,318
941948100%, 235.3%834,639
10441008100%, 245.8%1,570,760
11471069100%, 256.7%1,633,987
12501139100%, 268.2%2,151,030
13531199100%, 280.2%2,812,189
14561259100%, 292.6%5,099,360
15591329100%, 305.7%9,400,731
166213810100%, 319.3%15,273,366
176414210100%, 333%26,286,582
186614610100%, 347.2%62,890,590
196815110100%, 361.9%212,046,017
207015510100%, 377.4%
217210100%, 393.5%
227410100%, 410.3%
237610100%, 427.8%
247811100%, 446%
258011100%, 465.1%
268211100%, 484.9%
278411100%, 505.6%
288611100%, 527.1%
298811100%, 549.6%
309011100%, 572.9%
319111100%, 608.1%
329211100%, 621%
339312100%, 634.2%
349412100%, 647.7%
359512100%, 661.5%
369612100%, 675.5%
379712100%, 689.8%
389812100%, 704.5%
399912100%, 719.4%
4010012100%, 734.7%
Attribute /11

Infernal Blow

KeyValue
CostiLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Transmutation
DropLevel 12
BaseType Infernal Blow
Class Skill Gems
WeaponOne Hand Swords, Thrusting One Hand Swords, One Hand Axes, One Hand Maces, Staves, Two Hand Swords, Two Hand Axes, Two Hand Maces, Sceptres, Unarmed, Warstaves
TargetTypesGround, Enemy
TypeAttack, Area, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Melee, Fire, Duration
BuffIcon
ItemTypeMetadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemInfernalBlow
ActiveSkillsCodeinfernal_blow
Referencepoe.ninja, Community Wiki
Crucible Weapon /2
WeightDesc
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
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Fire, Duration
Level: (1–20)
Cost: (6–10) Mana
Attack Damage: (164–377)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (164–377)%
Radius: 15
Requires Level (12–70), (33–155) Str
Requires One Hand Swords, Thrusting One Hand Swords, Two Hand Swords, One Hand Axes, Two Hand Axes, One Hand Maces, Sceptres, Two Hand Maces, Staves, Unarmed, Warstaves
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
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.
Microtransactions /1
Stygian Infernal Blow Effect
Your Infernal Blow becomes a Stygian Effect.
Supported By /111
  • Active Type: Attack, Area, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Melee, Fire, Duration
    • 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.
    More 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, travel skills, retaliation 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.
    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, travel skills, retaliation 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.
    Overexertion Support
    Supports melee attack skills which can be exerted. Cannot modify the skills of minions. Vaal skills and channelling skills cannot be exerted.
    Rupture Support
    Supports attack skills.
    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.
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    Attribute /6

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    KeyValue
    CostiLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Transmutation · Magic: 1xOrb of Alteration · Rare: 3xOrb of Alchemy · Unique: 5xChaos Orb
    AcronymIgnite
    BuffGroupsID31
    MaxStacks6
    IsBuffDefinition1
    BuffMergeModesID4
    Codebase monster will be deleted on death
    IsPublic0
    IsLocal0
    IsWeaponLocal0
    IsProxied
    IsParty0
    IsVirtual0
    IsScalable0
    StatSemantics4
    Infernal Blow Monster /2
    NameModifiersSpectre
    Haki Karukarumonster 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 Skullbreakermonster no map drops [1]
    20% Chance to Block Attack Damage
    You take 10% of Damage from Blocked Hits
    cannot have affliction mods [1]    		Y

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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

    1. ↑ 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.
    1. ↑ 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.
    1. ↑ 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

    VersionChanges
    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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