Pestilent Strike

Attack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Chaos

Level: 1–20

Effectiveness of Added Damage: 125–160%

Requires Level 28

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
(20–113) to (30–169) Added Chaos Damage
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:

+(0–10)% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Poison

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Unusual Gems /4

Type	Stats	Weight
Superior	+(0–10)% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Poison	50
Anomalous	(0–20)% increased Area of Effect	100
Divergent	(0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration	100
Phantasmal	(0–20)% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage	100

Quest /2

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
3	Sever the Right Hand	Quest Reward	Shadow
3	Sever the Right Hand	Clarissa	Ranger · Scion · Shadow

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Cost: 6 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	Dexterity	Intelligence	Base Damage	20 to 30 Added Chaos Damage	Experience
1	28	42	29	125%	20, 30	199,345
2	31	46	32	126.8%	23, 35	285,815
3	34	50	35	128.7%	27, 40	401,344
4	37	54	37	130.5%	31, 46	554,379
5	40	58	40	132.4%	35, 53	477,437
6	42	60	42	134.2%	38, 58	583,786
7	44	63	44	136%	42, 63	710,359
8	46	66	46	137.9%	45, 68	1,355,511
9	48	68	48	139.7%	49, 74	1,138,877
10	50	71	49	141.6%	53, 80	1,368,233
11	52	74	51	143.4%	58, 86	1,638,338
12	54	76	53	145.2%	62, 93	1,956,648
13	56	79	55	147.1%	67, 101	3,655,184
14	58	82	57	148.9%	73, 109	3,017,327
15	60	84	59	150.8%	78, 117	7,759,995
16	62	87	60	152.6%	84, 126	15,138,193
17	64	90	62	154.4%	91, 136	26,083,825
18	66	92	64	156.3%	98, 146	62,620,247
19	68	95	66	158.1%	105, 157	211,708,088
20	70	98	68	160%	113, 169
21	72			161.8%	121, 181
22	74			163.7%	130, 195
23	76			165.5%	139, 209
24	78			167.3%	149, 224
25	80			169.2%	160, 239
26	82			171%	171, 256
27	84			172.9%	183, 274
28	86			174.7%	196, 293
29	88			176.5%	209, 314
30	90			178.4%	223, 335
31	91			178.4%	231, 346
32	92			180.2%	239, 358
33	93			182.1%	247, 370
34	94			183.9%	255, 382
35	95			185.7%	263, 395
36	96			187.6%	272, 408
37	97			189.4%	281, 421
38	98			191.3%	290, 435
39	99			193.1%	300, 449
40	100			194.9%	309, 464

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

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.

IsBuffDefinition	1
BuffMergeModesID	2
IsCharged	0
IsInvisible	0
IsRemovable	0
IsSkillBuff	0
BuffGroupsID	-1

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /6 ⍟

Level	Name	Mod	Weight
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Pestilent Strike Damage 1	Pestilent Strike deals 25% increased Damage	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Pestilent Strike Damage 2	Pestilent Strike deals 40% increased Damage	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Pestilent Strike Duration 1	Pestilent Strike has 25% increased Duration	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Pestilent Strike Duration 2	Pestilent Strike has 40% increased Duration	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Pestilent Strike Area Of Effect 1	Pestilent Strike has 16% increased Area of Effect	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Pestilent Strike Area Of Effect 2	Pestilent Strike has 24% increased Area of Effect	100

Supported By /103 ⍟

Icon	Name
	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.
	Increased 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 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. Cannot support skills that create minions.
	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.
	Onslaught Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	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 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 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 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
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	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.
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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.