PoE Ref
Gem
Skill

Active

Desecrate

Overview

Desecrates the ground, spawning corpses based on monsters in the current area and dealing chaos damage over time to enemies. If you are using the Raise Spectre skill there is a chance to spawn spectral corpses matching your most recently raised Spectres. Spectral corpses cannot be interacted with except by Minion skills.

Properties

Gem type
Active
Colour
Green
Attribute
Dexterity
Drop level
16
Cast time
0.6 sec

Quest reward sources

These are reward options. Availability can depend on your class and quest choices. A blank class restriction remains unspecified.

QuestClassesAmountReward item level
Intruders in BlackWitch11

Compare gem levels and variants

Choose levels and quality to see which recorded properties and effects change. Additional skill effects remain in their separate progression tables.

Mechanics at a glance

  • Spawns 5 corpses
  • Maximum of 10 corpses allowed
  • Base duration is 4 seconds
  • Spawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 20
  • Deals 8.17 Base Chaos Damage per second
At 20% quality

20% increased Cast Speed

Acquisition

Compatibility inputs

Skill types
Spell, Area, Duration, Trappable, Totemable, Mineable, Triggerable, Damage Over Time, Multicastable, Chaos, Cascadable, Area Spell, Creates Corpse
Granted minion skill types
None recorded
Can be supported
Yes

Support compatibility is evaluated against these recorded types. A support is omitted when its allowed expression does not match, its excluded expression matches, or this skill is marked as unable to be supported.

Compatible support gems 32

Compatibility is derived from the game skill-type constraints.

Gem progression 20 standard levels

Gem levelRequired levelCostEffectsExp. to nextTotal exp.
11611 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 20 Deals 8.17 Base Chaos Damage per second49,7250
22012 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 24 Deals 11.32 Base Chaos Damage per second95,71449,725
32413 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 28 Deals 15.38 Base Chaos Damage per second169,595145,439
42814 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 32 Deals 20.63 Base Chaos Damage per second199,345315,034
53115 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 35 Deals 25.53 Base Chaos Damage per second285,815514,379
63416 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 38 Deals 31.42 Base Chaos Damage per second401,344800,194
73717 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 41 Deals 38.47 Base Chaos Damage per second554,3791,201,538
84018 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 44 Deals 46.92 Base Chaos Damage per second755,0491,755,917
94318 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 47 Deals 57.02 Base Chaos Damage per second1,016,5332,510,966
104619 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 50 Deals 69.05 Base Chaos Damage per second1,898,6023,527,499
114920 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 53 Deals 83.4 Base Chaos Damage per second1,964,0195,426,101
125221 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 56 Deals 100.47 Base Chaos Damage per second2,573,7317,390,120
135522 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 59 Deals 120.73 Base Chaos Damage per second4,676,4399,963,851
145823 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 62 Deals 144.77 Base Chaos Damage per second3,017,32714,640,290
156023 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 65 Deals 163.23 Base Chaos Damage per second7,823,00117,657,617
166224 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 68 Deals 183.88 Base Chaos Damage per second15,264,20825,480,618
176425 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 71 Deals 207 Base Chaos Damage per second26,272,84540,744,826
186625 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 74 Deals 232.83 Base Chaos Damage per second62,872,27467,017,671
196826 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 77 Deals 261.72 Base Chaos Damage per second212,023,122129,889,945
207026 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 80 Deals 294 Base Chaos Damage per second—341,913,067
Show extended levels 21–40
Gem levelRequired levelCostEffectsExp. to nextTotal exp.
217227 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 81 Deals 330.05 Base Chaos Damage per second——
227427 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 82 Deals 370.3 Base Chaos Damage per second——
237628 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 83 Deals 415.22 Base Chaos Damage per second——
247829 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 84 Deals 465.33 Base Chaos Damage per second——
258029 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 85 Deals 521.22 Base Chaos Damage per second——
268230 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 86 Deals 583.53 Base Chaos Damage per second——
278430 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 87 Deals 652.98 Base Chaos Damage per second——
288631 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 88 Deals 730.38 Base Chaos Damage per second——
298832 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 89 Deals 816.58 Base Chaos Damage per second——
309032 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 90 Deals 912.58 Base Chaos Damage per second——
319132 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 91 Deals 964.58 Base Chaos Damage per second——
329233 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 92 Deals 1019.47 Base Chaos Damage per second——
339333 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 93 Deals 1077.35 Base Chaos Damage per second——
349433 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 94 Deals 1138.42 Base Chaos Damage per second——
359534 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 95 Deals 1202.83 Base Chaos Damage per second——
369634 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 96 Deals 1270.77 Base Chaos Damage per second——
379734 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 97 Deals 1342.43 Base Chaos Damage per second——
389834 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 98 Deals 1418.02 Base Chaos Damage per second——
399935 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 99 Deals 1497.72 Base Chaos Damage per second——
4010035 ManaSpawned corpses' level matches the area level, up to a maximum of Level 100 Deals 1581.77 Base Chaos Damage per second——

Quality progression

Quality bonuses are separate from level progression. Values above 20 require a way to reach that quality.

QualityEffects
0%No quality bonus
5%5% increased Cast Speed
10%10% increased Cast Speed
15%15% increased Cast Speed
20%20% increased Cast Speed
23%23% increased Cast Speed
30%30% increased Cast Speed

Alternate effects 3

Tombstone Desecrate Effect

Your Desecrate summons a cluster of necrotic tombstones

Stygian Desecrate Effect

Your Desecrate becomes a Stygian Effect.

Void Desecrate Effect

Your Desecrate becomes a Void Effect.

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