Pestilent Strike
Attack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Chaos
Level: (1–20)
Cost: (7–10) Mana
Attack Damage: (257–473)% of base
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
(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)

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
ActQuestNPCCharacter
3Sever the Right HandQuest RewardShadow
3Sever the Right HandClarissaRanger · Scion · Shadow
Genus
Level Effect /40
LevelRequires LevelIntDexCostBase DamageExperience
12829427257.3%199,345
23132468266.1%285,815
33435508275.1%401,344
43737548284.5%554,379
54040588294.2%477,437
64242608303.6%583,786
74444638313.4%710,359
84646668323.5%1,355,511
94848689333.9%1,138,877
105049719344.6%1,368,233
115251749355.8%1,638,338
125453769367.2%1,956,648
135655799379%3,655,184
145857829391.1%3,017,327
156059849403.6%7,759,995
1662608710416.7%15,138,193
1764629010430%26,083,825
1866649210443.7%62,620,247
1968669510458%211,708,088
2070689810472.6%
217210487.8%
227410503.4%
237610519.5%
247811536.2%
258011553.2%
268211571%
278411589.2%
288611608%
298811627.5%
309011647.5%
319111676.7%
329211687.5%
339312698.4%
349412709.6%
359512720.8%
369612732.3%
379712744%
389812755.8%
399912767.8%
4010012780.1%
Attribute /12

Pestilent Strike

KeyValue
CostiLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Chance
AcronymHit, Duration, Poison
DropLevel 28
BaseType Pestilent Strike
Class Skill Gems
WeaponClaws, Daggers, Rune Daggers
TargetTypesGround, Enemy
TypeAttack, Melee, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Area, Duration, Chaos
BuffIcon
ItemTypeMetadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemPestilentStrike
ActiveSkillsCodepestilent_strike
Referencepoe.ninja, Community Wiki
Crucible Weapon /2
WeightDesc
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
Attack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Chaos
Level: (1–20)
Cost: (7–10) Mana
Attack Damage: (257–473)% of base
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
visual hit effect chaos is green [1]
(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)

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.
Supported By /111
  • Active Type: Attack, Melee, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Area, Duration, Chaos
    • 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.
    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

    mamba_strike_initial_debuff

    KeyValue
    AcronymIgnite
    BuffGroupsID30
    IsBuffDefinition1
    BuffMergeModesID2

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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

    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.
    • 3.13.0
  • 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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