Skill

Active

Herald of Ash

Overview

Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage. While you have this buff, if you kill an enemy, other enemies near them will be burned based on the overkill damage. The burn inflicted by this skill can only be affected by modifiers to damage over time (burning damage is damage over time).

Properties

Gem type: Active
Colour: Red
Attribute: Strength
Drop level: 16

Quest reward sources

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

Quest	Classes	Amount	Reward item level
Intruders in Black	Witch	1	1
Intruders in Black	Templar	1	1
Intruders in Black	Marauder	1	1
Intruders in Black	Duelist	1	1
Intruders in Black	Ranger	1	1
Intruders in Black	Shadow	1	1
Intruders in Black	Scion	1	1

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.

First levelCompare withSecond levelQuality for both

Mechanics at a glance

Base burning damage is an additional 25% of Overkill Damage
Base duration is 4 seconds
Base Burning Damage is 0% of Overkill Damage
Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage

At 20% quality

Base burning damage is an additional 5% of Overkill Damage

Acquisition

Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Witch Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Templar Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Marauder Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Duelist Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Ranger Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Shadow Intruders in BlackAct 2 quest reward · Scion

Compatibility inputs

Skill types: Spell, Buff, Has Reservation, Causes Burning, Area, Damage Over Time, Fire, Totem Casts Alone, Herald, Duration, Instant, Area Spell, Instant No Repeat When Held, Instant Shift Attack For Left Mouse, Cooldown
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.

Gem progression 20 standard levels

Gem level	Required level	Cooldown	Mana reservation	Effects	Exp. to next	Total exp.
1	16	1 sec	25%	Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	49,725	0
2	20	1 sec	25%	Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	95,714	49,725
3	24	1 sec	25%	Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	169,595	145,439
4	28	1 sec	25%	Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	199,345	315,034
5	31	1 sec	25%	Gain 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	285,815	514,379
6	34	1 sec	25%	Gain 16% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	401,344	800,194
7	37	1 sec	25%	Gain 16% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	554,379	1,201,538
8	40	1 sec	25%	Gain 16% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	755,049	1,755,917
9	43	1 sec	25%	Gain 17% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	1,016,533	2,510,966
10	46	1 sec	25%	Gain 17% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	1,898,602	3,527,499
11	49	1 sec	25%	Gain 17% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	1,964,019	5,426,101
12	52	1 sec	25%	Gain 18% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	2,573,731	7,390,120
13	55	1 sec	25%	Gain 18% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	4,676,439	9,963,851
14	58	1 sec	25%	Gain 18% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	3,017,327	14,640,290
15	60	1 sec	25%	Gain 19% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	7,823,001	17,657,617
16	62	1 sec	25%	Gain 19% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	15,264,208	25,480,618
17	64	1 sec	25%	Gain 19% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	26,272,845	40,744,826
18	66	1 sec	25%	Gain 20% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	62,872,274	67,017,671
19	68	1 sec	25%	Gain 20% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	212,023,122	129,889,945
20	70	1 sec	25%	Gain 20% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	341,913,067

Show extended levels 21–40

Gem level	Required level	Cooldown	Mana reservation	Effects	Exp. to next	Total exp.
21	72	1 sec	25%	Gain 21% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
22	74	1 sec	25%	Gain 21% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
23	76	1 sec	25%	Gain 21% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
24	78	1 sec	25%	Gain 22% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
25	80	1 sec	25%	Gain 22% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
26	82	1 sec	25%	Gain 22% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
27	84	1 sec	25%	Gain 23% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
28	86	1 sec	25%	Gain 23% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
29	88	1 sec	25%	Gain 23% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
30	90	1 sec	25%	Gain 24% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
31	91	1 sec	25%	Gain 24% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
32	92	1 sec	25%	Gain 24% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
33	93	1 sec	25%	Gain 24% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
34	94	1 sec	25%	Gain 24% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
35	95	1 sec	25%	Gain 24% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
36	96	1 sec	25%	Gain 25% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
37	97	1 sec	25%	Gain 25% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
38	98	1 sec	25%	Gain 25% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
39	99	1 sec	25%	Gain 25% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—
40	100	1 sec	25%	Gain 25% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage	—	—

Quality progression

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

Quality	Effects
0%	No quality bonus
5%	Base burning damage is an additional 1.25% of Overkill Damage
10%	Base burning damage is an additional 2.5% of Overkill Damage
15%	Base burning damage is an additional 3.75% of Overkill Damage
20%	Base burning damage is an additional 5% of Overkill Damage
23%	Base burning damage is an additional 5.75% of Overkill Damage
30%	Base burning damage is an additional 7.5% of Overkill Damage

Alternate effects 22

Invisible Buff Effect

Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.