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Assassin's Mark, while not terribly strong on its own, gets incredibly effective in the hands of the right player. A character heavily invested in increased Critical Chance and Critical Damage will absolutely decimate their foes when they afflict them with this weakness. While it's not the most direct of curses, Assassin's Mark stands among the best when utilized correctly.

Description on the official Path of Exile website [1]

Assassin's Mark is a spell that curses all targets in an area, making them more vulnerable to critical strikes. When killed, affected enemies grant life and mana, as well as a chance to gain a power charge.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Increased Critical Chance: The modifier Cursed enemies have an additional x% chance to receive a Critical Strike listed on the gem is additive with player's current chance to get a critical strike. If a player has a 20% chance to critically strike with an attack or spell, and it hits a target inflicted with level 1 Assassin's Mark, a player will have an an additional 5% chance of the strike being a critical one, for a total of a 25% chance.
  • Cursed enemies take x% increased extra damage from Critical Strikes: As this modifies the damage the enemy takes, this modifier is effectively a multiplier to the player's critical damage. As an increased modifier, it stacks additively with like modifiers such as the of Toughness map suffix.
  • Assassin's Mark can be turned into an aura by linking it with the Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Blasphemy Support".
    Assassin's Mark aura screenshot

    The aura version of Assassin's Mark

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired DexterityRequired IntelligenceMana
Cost
DurationRadiusCrit
Chance
Life
per Kill
Mana
per Kill
Power
Charge
Chance
Exp.Total Exp.
1242537166sN/AN/A6525N/A00
2272841176.2sN/AN/A9928N/A118383118383
3303145186.4sN/AN/A13432N/A175816294199
4333449196.6sN/AN/A16935N/A254061548260
5363652216.8sN/AN/A20439N/A359090907350
6393956227sN/AN/A23942N/A4985081405858
7424260237.2sN/AN/A27446N/A6820572087915
8454564247.4sN/AN/A30950N/A9217773009692
9484868257.6sN/AN/A34453N/A17278794737571
10504971267.8sN/AN/A36756N/A11388775876448
11525174268sN/AN/A39058N/A13682337244681
12545376278.2sN/AN/A41360N/A16383388883019
13565579288.4sN/AN/A43763N/A195664810839667
14585782298.6sN/AN/A46065N/A365518414494851
15605984298.8sN/AN/A48368N/A301732717512178
16626087309sN/AN/A50670N/A779391425306092
17646290319.2sN/AN/A53072N/A1520603140512123
18666492319.4sN/AN/A55375N/A2618558266697705
19686695329.6sN/AN/A57677N/A62755923129453628
20706898339.8sN/AN/A60080N/A211877683341331311
2172701003410sN/AN/A62382N/AN/AN/A
2274N/AN/A3410.2sN/AN/A64684N/AN/AN/A
2376N/AN/A3510.4sN/AN/A66987N/AN/AN/A
2478N/AN/A3610.6sN/AN/A69389N/AN/AN/A
2580N/AN/A3610.8sN/AN/A71691N/AN/AN/A
2682N/AN/A3711sN/AN/A73994N/AN/AN/A
2784N/AN/A3811.2sN/AN/A76296N/AN/AN/A
2886N/AN/A3911.4sN/AN/A78699N/AN/AN/A
2988N/AN/A3911.6sN/AN/A809101N/AN/AN/A
3090N/AN/A4011.8sN/AN/A832103N/AN/AN/A
3191N/AN/A4011.9sN/AN/A844105N/AN/AN/A
3292N/AN/A4112sN/AN/A855106N/AN/AN/A
3393N/AN/A4112.1sN/AN/A867107N/AN/AN/A
3494N/AN/A4212.2sN/AN/A879108N/AN/AN/A
3595N/AN/A4212.3sN/AN/A890109N/AN/AN/A
3696N/AN/A4212.4sN/AN/A902111N/AN/AN/A
3797N/AN/A4312.5sN/AN/A914112N/AN/AN/A
3898N/AN/A4312.6sN/AN/A925113N/AN/AN/A
3999N/AN/A4312.7sN/AN/A937114N/AN/AN/A
40100N/AN/A4412.8sN/AN/A948115N/AN/AN/A

Quest reward

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Vendor reward

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Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Assassin's Mark.

NameFor generated item/monster modifiers the minimum item/monster level respectively. Some generation types may not require this condition to be met, however item level restrictions may be raised to 80% of this value.StatsSpawn Weighting
Enchantment Assassins Mark Curse Effect 16620% increased Assassin's Mark Curse Effecthelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Assassins Mark Curse Effect 27530% increased Assassin's Mark Curse Effecthelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Assassins Mark Duration 16630% increased Assassin's Mark Durationhelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Assassins Mark Duration 27545% increased Assassin's Mark Durationhelmet 100
default 0

Version history

Version Changes
2.0.0
  • Mana cost reduced at all levels. Area of effect increases per gem level reduced, but the base area of effect has been increased by 37.5% (from 16 to 22). Normalised the increased duration per gem level.
1.2.0
  • Renamed to Assassin's Mark, previously Critical Weakness.
  • The 'More critical damage' has been heavily reduced
  • Now grant's a chance to gain a power charge on kill
1.0.0
  • The bonus to Critical Multiplier has been reduced by a flat 20% at all levels.
0.10.7
  • Fixed a bug where the additional critical damage applied by Critical Weakness didn't work correctly.
0.9.2c
  • Fixed a bug where Critical Weakness would prevent critical strikes from doing damage.
0.9.2
  • Critical Weakness has been added to the game.

References

  1. "Intelligence skills". Official Path of Exile website.


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