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For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Lightning Warp.

They had the Witch pinned up against the cliffs, soaking in the waterfall, yet the Bandit leader somehow sensed a trap. Wary, he muttered a command that only half his men move forward to finish things. Those appointed advanced slowly, blades drawn, cautious. They encircled the Witch for one brief moment, now only an arm's length away. Then, in a flash of light, the frail woman vanished, and in her place crackled a ring of deadly lightning!

The surrounding enemies fell as one, burning, twitching, thrashing in the freezing water. The remaining bandits paused for a second, scarcely believing their eyes, and then the Witch reappeared among them. With her arrival came another shocking blast, and the remaining bandits fell at her feet, scorched and dead. On Wraeclast, even teleportation is a weapon.

Description on the official Path of Exile website [1]

Lightning Warp is a movement spell that causes the player to teleport to a location after a delay. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt in a small area around both the previous location and the new location.

Skill Functions and Interactions

  • Delayed teleport: When the skill is cast, the exit point is set. The caster can then attack, cast, or move until the teleport executes. The AoE lightning damage will occur wherever the player was standing when the teleport resolves and wherever the caster teleports to. The base time between the cast and resolution depends on the straight-line distance between the two points and caster movement speed. If it would have taken 3 seconds to move straight from the position where the spell was cast to the teleport location, the teleport will take place after a base of 3 seconds. x% increased Movement Speed will decrease this base time. The Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Less Duration" gem will also reduce the time between the cast and the actual teleportation. It is not possible to completely eliminate this duration because there is a hidden 0.1 second delay added to it.[2]
  • Sequence of operations: The lightning explosion occurs before the caster leaves and after the caster arrives. This will, for example, cause the caster to take damage from monsters that explode on death that are killed by Lightning Warp.
  • Death: If the caster dies before the teleport executes, the teleport will still execute, transporting the caster's corpse to the targeted location.
  • Minimum Range: Lightning Warp has a minimum range, inside which a teleport won't occur unless it is blocked by a terrain obstacle. An attempt to teleport within the minimum range will default to the nearest allowable teleport distance.
  • Repeat: Lightning Warp cannot be Repeated and thus cannot be supported by Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Spell Echo". [3]

Strategy

Movement

Lightning Warp is primarily used as a movement skill. To improve Lightning Warp's effectiveness as a movement skill, one should support it with Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Less Duration", Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Faster Casting", and Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Rapid Decay". If only one support gem can be used, Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Less Duration" will generally result in faster travel. Taking increased Skill Effect Duration passives will render Lightning Warp much less useful as a movement skill, in which case you may want to consider alternatives such as Flame Dash skill iconFlame Dash, Leap Slam skill iconLeap Slam, Whirling Blades skill iconWhirling Blades.

Compared with Leap Slam, Lightning Warp has the advantages of not requiring any particular weapon, potentially higher speed, and slightly longer range. However, it costs more mana and requires two support gems to be fully effective. Compared with Flame Dash, Lightning Warp has the advantage of being able to be cast as many times as possible, but costs slightly more mana and has a noticeable delay.

With Arctic Armour

Lightning Warp can be used as a method of travel when using Arctic Armour skill iconArctic Armour, since this will allow the player to always remain stationary and thus always receive Arctic Armour's less Damage taken while stationary bonus.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired IntelligenceMana
Cost
Lightning
Damage
reduced
Duration
Exp.Total Exp.
1102991–1930%00
21335101–2431%95699569
31743112–3332%2818937758
42152122–4433%5914696904
52560133–5834%111192208096
62969144–7535%193800401896
73377165–9636%320280722176
83683166–11537%3590901081266
93990177–13738%4985081579774
104296189–16239%6820572261831
11451021910–19240%9217773183608
12481092012–22641%17278794911487
13511152114–26642%17917696703256
14541212216–31243%23536799056935
15571272319–36544%307091212127847
16601342322–42645%909546621223313
17631402426–49746%1603989037263203
18661462530–57947%2981711767080320
19681512634–64048%62895056129975376
20701552637–70749%212051599342026975
21721592741–78050%N/AN/A
2274N/A2745–86151%N/AN/A
2376N/A2850–94952%N/AN/A
2478N/A2955–104653%N/AN/A
2580N/A2961–115254%N/AN/A
2682N/A3067–126955%N/AN/A
2784N/A3073–139656%N/AN/A
2886N/A3181–153657%N/AN/A
2988N/A3289–168958%N/AN/A
3090N/A3298–185659%N/AN/A
3191N/A32102–194560%N/AN/A
3292N/A33107–203960%N/AN/A
3393N/A33112–213761%N/AN/A
3494N/A33118–223961%N/AN/A
3595N/A34123–234662%N/AN/A
3696N/A34129–245862%N/AN/A
3797N/A34136–257563%N/AN/A
3898N/A34142–269763%N/AN/A
3999N/A35149–282564%N/AN/A
40100N/A35156–295964%N/AN/A

Quest reward

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Vendor reward

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Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Lightning Warp.

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 Lightning Warp Cast Speed 1668% increased Lightning Warp Cast Speedhelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Cast Speed 27512% increased Lightning Warp Cast Speedhelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Damage 16625% increased Lightning Warp Damagehelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Damage 27540% increased Lightning Warp Damagehelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Duration 16620% reduced Lightning Warp Durationhelmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Duration 27530% reduced Lightning Warp Durationhelmet 100
default 0

Version history

Version Changes
2.2.1d
  • Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp would often not show its effects when being cast in quick succession while using Lockstep networking mode.
2.1.0
  • Damage has been increased by around 20% at all levels.
  • Damage effectiveness increased from 50% to 60%.
2.0.0
  • Reduced the mana cost slightly at all levels.
  • Now grants 1% increased cast speed per 1% quality (down from 1.5% per 1% quality).
1.1.5b
  • Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp would not trigger with Trigger Gems.
1.0.2
  • Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp cast at the caster's feet would always default to casting in the same direction.
0.11.5
  • Fixed a bug where Lightning Warp was not affected by Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Increased Duration".
0.11.2
  • Added a very short delay to Lightning Warp, to prevent a situation where rapidly casting Lightning Warp could play its visual effect without actually casting.
0.10.8
  • Lightning Warp now has increased damage at high levels and it now has a 3% reduced skill effect duration per level after the first.
0.10.0
  • Fixed a client crash related to Lightning Warp.
0.9.11l
  • Fixed problems with targeting of Lightning Warp.
0.9.11j
  • Fixed bugs with Lightning Warp's ability to target certain locations.
0.9.3d
  • Lightning Warp now lets you travel up and down cliffs or across chasms.
  • Fixed a bug that would make it easy to get out of sync with Lightning Warp.
0.9.3
  • Lightning Warp has been added to the game.

References

  1. "Intelligence skills". Official Path of Exile website.
  2. Mark_GGG (July 15, 2013). "0.11.2 Patch Notes". Official Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  3. Daniel_GGG (July 3, 2014). "lightning warp doesnt work with echo". Official Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved August 24, 2014.


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