Pestilent Strike

Attack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Chaos

Level: (1–20)

Cost: (7–10) Mana

Effectiveness of Added Damage: (257–473)%

Requires Level (28–70), (42–98) Dex, (29–68) Int

Requires Claws, Daggers, Rune Daggers

Attacks with your weapon, inflicting a debuff on enemies hit by the strike. If a debuffed enemy dies while poisoned, Pestilent Strike inflicts a secondary chaos damage over time debuff on enemies around them, based on the poisons on the slain enemy. This damage is not affected by your damage modifiers. Requires a Claw or Dagger.

Base duration is 1 seconds
Base secondary duration is 1 seconds
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
60% chance to Poison on Hit
30% more Poison Duration
Secondary Debuff deals 50% of the total remaining Expected Poison Damage of all Poisons on the dying Enemy per second as Chaos Damage

Additional Effects From Quality:

(0–20)% more Poison Duration

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	Shadow
3	Sever the Right Hand	Clarissa	Ranger · Scion · Shadow

Genus

Pestilent Strike

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Secondary Debuff deals 50% of the total remaining Expected Poison Damage of all Poisons on the dying Enemy per second as Chaos Damage Base secondary duration is 1 seconds 60% chance to Poison on Hit 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage 30% more Poison Duration Base duration is 1 seconds (The Expected Damage of Poison is its Damage per second multiplied by its Duration) (Poison deals Chaos Damage over time, based on the base Physical and Chaos Damage of the Skill. Multiple instances of Poison stack)

Level	Requires Level	Int	Dex	Cost	Base Damage	Experience
1	28	29	42	7	257.3%	199,345
2	31	32	46	8	266.1%	285,815
3	34	35	50	8	275.1%	401,344
4	37	37	54	8	284.5%	554,379
5	40	40	58	8	294.2%	477,437
6	42	42	60	8	303.6%	583,786
7	44	44	63	8	313.4%	710,359
8	46	46	66	8	323.5%	1,355,511
9	48	48	68	9	333.9%	1,138,877
10	50	49	71	9	344.6%	1,368,233
11	52	51	74	9	355.8%	1,638,338
12	54	53	76	9	367.2%	1,956,648
13	56	55	79	9	379%	3,655,184
14	58	57	82	9	391.1%	3,017,327
15	60	59	84	9	403.6%	7,759,995
16	62	60	87	10	416.7%	15,138,193
17	64	62	90	10	430%	26,083,825
18	66	64	92	10	443.7%	62,620,247
19	68	66	95	10	458%	211,708,088
20	70	68	98	10	472.6%
21	72			10	487.8%
22	74			10	503.4%
23	76			10	519.5%
24	78			11	536.2%
25	80			11	553.2%
26	82			11	571%
27	84			11	589.2%
28	86			11	608%
29	88			11	627.5%
30	90			11	647.5%
31	91			11	676.7%
32	92			11	687.5%
33	93			12	698.4%
34	94			12	709.6%
35	95			12	720.8%
36	96			12	732.3%
37	97			12	744%
38	98			12	755.8%
39	99			12	767.8%
40	100			12	780.1%

Attribute /11

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Chance
Acronym	Hit, Duration, Poison
DropLevel	28
BaseType	Pestilent Strike
Class	Skill Gems
Weapon	Claws, Daggers, Rune Daggers
TargetTypes	Ground, Enemy
Type	Attack, Melee, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Area, Duration, Chaos
BuffIcon
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemPestilentStrike
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Crucible Weapon /2

Weight	Desc
1000 (T5)	Viper Strike and Pestilent Strike deal 25% increased Attack Damage per Frenzy Charge
1000 (T5)	Viper Strike and Pestilent Strike deal 40% increased Attack Damage per Frenzy Charge

Pestilent Strike

If you die under the effect of this buff, surrounding targets will take chaos damage over time based on the Poisons on you.

Attribute /4

Key	Value
Acronym	Ignite
BuffGroupsID	-1
IsBuffDefinition	1
BuffMergeModesID	2

Supported By /111 ⍟

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

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.
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.
Melee Physical Damage Support	Melee Physical Damage Support Supports melee attack 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.
More Duration Support	More Duration Support Supports any skill with a duration.
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.
Bloodlust Support	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	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.
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.
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.
Multistrike Support	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	Melee Splash Support Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.
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.
Hextouch Support	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	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	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	Endurance Charge on Melee Stun Support Supports melee attack skills.
Less Duration Support	Less Duration Support Supports any skill that has a duration.
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.
Fortify Support	Fortify Support Supports melee attack skills that are not triggered.
Ice Bite Support	Ice Bite Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
Hypothermia Support	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Innervate Support	Innervate Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
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.
Ruthless Support	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	Momentum Support Supports attack skills that aren't triggered.
Ancestral Call Support	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	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.
Energy Leech Support	Energy Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
Close Combat Support	Close Combat Support Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
Shockwave Support	Shockwave Support Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support triggered attacks, attacks used by things other than you, or skills which create minions.
Impale Support	Impale Support Supports attack skills.
Pulverise Support	Pulverise Support Supports melee attack skills.
Rage Support	Rage Support Supports melee attack skills. Minions cannot gain rage.
Nightblade Support	Nightblade Support Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
Awakened Added Fire Damage Support	Awakened Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Ancestral Call Support	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	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 Melee Physical Damage Support	Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support Supports melee attack skills.
Awakened Melee Splash Support	Awakened Melee Splash Support Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.
Awakened Multistrike Support	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	Awakened Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Cast On Critical Strike Support	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	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 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 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 Hextouch Support	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	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
Trinity Support	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	Bloodthirst Support Supports attack skills. Cannot support triggered skills, skills which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps or mines.
Cruelty Support	Cruelty Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
Behead Support	Behead Support Supports strike skills.
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.
Trauma Support	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	Devour Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Sadism Support	Sadism Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Controlled Blaze Support	Controlled Blaze Support Supports melee attack skills.
Volatility Support	Volatility Support Supports attack skills.
Overexertion Support	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	Rupture Support Supports attack skills.

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Pestilent Strike

**Pestilent Strike** is a melee strike skill that deals chaos damage and applies poison. If the poisoned enemy dies while poisoned it will inflict other nearby enemies with another chaos damage over time debuff.

Skill functions and interactions

The base debuff radius is 27.

Enemies killed while under the effect of Pestilent Strike’s signature debuff will leave no corpse. This can be useful for bypassing some monsters’ on-death effects.

Multiple debuffs can be on the same monster, but only the highest damage debuff will cause damage at any given time.

The debuff requires an enemy to die with poison on it near the enemy you want the debuff on. For solo enemy fights, Vaal Breach can spawn enemies to spread the debuff.

The debuff takes half of the poison damage left on the monster when it died and deals it incrementally over 1 second.

Example - A 6 second poison does 3 seconds worth of debuff damage in 1 second. In this example the debuff does 3 times the damage (200% more damage) per second than the poison damage.

Damage Calculations

Scaling

Pestilent Strikes debuff can scale poison damage in unique ways that would not be beneficial to most other poison attacks. Some examples:

Because all sources of poisons transfer on the debuff, spells, minions and even other players with poison, can help scale the damage.
Poison duration will increase the damage per second of the debuff. The assassin ascendancy passive Noxious Strike with many poisons landed per second is the largest source of poison duration.

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.
3.13.0	Now converts 60% of physical damage to chaos damage (from 50%).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.9.0	Now gains additional Melee range as the gem levels, up to +2 at gem level 20.
3.8.0	Pestilent Strike has been added to the game.

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