Barrage

This page is about the active skill gem. For the support gem, see Barrage Support.

BarrageAttack, Projectile, Bow
Mana Cost: (7-11)
Cast Time: 1.00 sec
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (40%-48%)Requires Level 12After a short preparation time, you attack repeatedly with a ranged weapon. These attacks have a small randomised spread. Only works with Bows and Wands.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal0.5% increased Projectile Damage1% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit0.5% increased Attack SpeedInflict non-Damaging Ailments as though dealing 5% more DamageDeals (40-47.6)% of Base Attack Damage
Fires 4 additional Projectiles
Fires Projectiles sequentiallyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.Acquisition
Level: 12Purchase Costs

Normal

1x Orb of Transmutation

Sell Price
1x Scroll FragmentMiscellaneous
Item class: Active Skill Gems
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemBarrage

Barrage is a ranged attack skill that fires all of your bow or wand projectiles rapidly in succession.

Skill functions and interactions

• Additional Projectiles: Linking Lesser Multiple Projectiles SupportLesser Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile
  Icon: l
  Mana Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 8Supports projectile skills.Per 1% Quality:123Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Attack Speed
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Cast SpeedSupported Skills have 1% reduced Mana Cost
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Projectile SpeedProjectiles Fired by Supported Skills have 1% increased Projectile spreadSupported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (15-6)% less Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. or Greater Multiple Projectiles SupportGreater Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile
  Icon: P
  Mana Multiplier: 165%Requires Level 38Supports projectile skills.Per 1% Quality:123Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Attack Speed
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Cast SpeedSupported Skills have 1% reduced Mana Cost
  Supported Skills have 0.5% increased Projectile SpeedProjectiles Fired by Supported Skills have 1% increased Projectile spreadSupported Skills fire 4 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (35-26)% less Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. to Barrage will increase the total number of projectiles fired. For example, when using Lesser Multiple Projectiles, a total of 7 projectiles will be fired (1 base, +4 from Barrage gem, +2 from Lesser Multiple Projectiles Gem). Wearing a helm enchanted with Additional Barrage Projectiles will further increase this total. All projectiles fired can strike the same target, potentially dealing damage up to 13 times to a single target when using all three effects.

• Volley SupportVolley SupportSupport, Projectile
  Mana Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 4Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills deal 1% increased Projectile Damage1% increased distance between Firing PointsSupported Skills have 0.5% increased Area of EffectSupported Skills also fire Projectiles from up to 2 points on each side of you
  Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
  Supported Skills deal (12-3)% less Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.: Linking this gem will cause Barrage's projectiles to be fired in sequence in five parallel lines.

• Volley FireVolley Fire
  Viridian JewelLimited to: 1
  Radius: Medium (1200)(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage
  With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Barrage fires an additional 6 projectiles simultaneously on the first and final attacksLioneye's men stood at the walls,
  eyeing the savages that walked the beach below.
  With a single word,
  a thousand bodies, and ten thousand arrows,
  would litter the sands.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.: This jewel will fire an additional twelve projectiles per attack, six on the first and last attack, with the added projectiles spread to the sides. These additional projectiles cannot strike the same target as the main projectiles and will in fact pass through them harmlessly (though subsequent projectiles generated via effects such as chain could bounce to the primary target).

Example: A user wearing a helmet with +1 Additional Barrage Projectiles and with Volley FireVolley Fire
Viridian JewelLimited to: 1
Radius: Medium (1200)(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage
With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Barrage fires an additional 6 projectiles simultaneously on the first and final attacksLioneye's men stood at the walls,
eyeing the savages that walked the beach below.
With a single word,
a thousand bodies, and ten thousand arrows,
would litter the sands.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. slotted will fire a total of 18 projectiles per attack in the game. A maximum of 6 can strike the primary target; all other targets may be struck by a maximum of 1 projectile.

• Dual wielding: The total number of projectiles fired by Barrage does not change while wielding two weapons. An attack with Barrage uses both weapons, alternating between each weapon for each projectile fired.
• Ballista Totem Support: This one is not recommended. The firing rate slowdown of the totem also applies to the firing rate of each shot of the Barrage and it can't start another while one is going so the overall firing rate (and therefore DPS) will be VERY slow. Not only that, the totem cannot turn while in the middle of a particular Barrage; while the first shot might hit the target the rest will miss if it moves even a little (a very extreme weakness in PvP in particular).

• The small randomized spread covers a small angle of approximately 20 degrees.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Damage Multiplier	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	7	40%	40%	0	0
2	15	39	7	40%	40.4%	15,249	15,249
3	19	48	7	41%	40.8%	41,517	56,766
4	23	56	8	41%	41.2%	81,983	138,749
5	27	64	8	42%	41.6%	147,968	286,717
6	31	73	8	42%	42%	250,557	537,274
7	35	81	8	42%	42.4%	405,086	942,360
8	38	88	8	43%	42.8%	447,718	1,390,078
9	41	94	9	43%	43.2%	615,318	2,005,396
10	44	100	9	44%	43.6%	834,639	2,840,035
11	47	106	9	44%	44%	1,570,760	4,410,795
12	50	113	9	44%	44.4%	1,633,987	6,044,782
13	53	119	9	45%	44.8%	2,151,030	8,195,812
14	56	125	10	45%	45.2%	2,812,189	11,008,001
15	59	132	10	46%	45.6%	5,099,360	16,107,361
16	62	138	10	46%	46%	9,400,731	25,508,092
17	64	142	10	46%	46.4%	15,273,366	40,781,458
18	66	146	10	47%	46.8%	26,286,582	67,068,040
19	68	151	11	47%	47.2%	62,890,590	129,958,630
20	70	155	11	48%	47.6%	212,046,017	342,004,647
21	72	159	11	48%	48%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	11	48%	48.4%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	11	49%	48.8%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	11	49%	49.2%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	11	50%	49.6%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	12	50%	50%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	12	50%	50.4%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	12	51%	50.8%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	12	51%	51.2%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	12	52%	51.6%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	13	52%	51.8%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	13	52%	52%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	13	52%	52.2%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	13	52%	52.4%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	13	53%	52.6%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	14	53%	52.8%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	14	53%	53%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	14	53%	53.2%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	14	53%	53.4%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	14	54%	53.6%	N/A	N/A

Item acquisition

Upgrade paths

This item can be acquired through the following upgrade paths or vendor recipes:

Amount	Ingredient	General Notes	Type
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	random level 20 gem	Automatic
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Superior Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	random superior gem (Q20)	Automatic

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 Nessa	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Barrage:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats
Volley FireVolley Fire Viridian JewelLimited to: 1 Radius: Medium (1200)(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Barrage fires an additional 6 projectiles simultaneously on the first and final attacksLioneye's men stood at the walls, eyeing the savages that walked the beach below. With a single word, a thousand bodies, and ten thousand arrows, would litter the sands.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.	1	Medium (1200)	(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Barrage fires an additional 6 projectiles simultaneously on the first and final attacks

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Barrage.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Barrage Attack Speed 1	66	10% increased Barrage Attack Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Barrage Attack Speed 2	75	15% increased Barrage Attack Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Barrage Damage 1	66	25% increased Barrage Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Barrage Damage 2	75	40% increased Barrage Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Barrage Num Of Additional Projectiles 1	75	Barrage fires an additional Projectile	helmet 100 default 0

Legacy enchantments

The following enchantments can only be found on legacy items in permanent leagues:

Name	Labyrinth	Stats
EnchantmentBarrageNumOfAdditionalProjectiles1	Merciless Labyrinth	Barrage fires an additional Projectile

Moreover, legacy items may have the Enchantment Barrage Num Of Additional Projectiles 1Enchantment Barrage Num Of Additional Projectiles 1
Enchantment
Barrage fires an additional Projectile enchantment and have a legacy value of 2 additional Projectiles, instead of current value of 1.

Alternate skill effects

Barrage has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Arcane Barrage EffectArcane Barrage EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Barrage becomes an Arcane version.	Your Barrage becomes an Arcane version.
Celestial Barrage EffectCelestial Barrage EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Celestial Barrage becomes a celestial effect.	Your Celestial Barrage becomes a celestial effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.0	Fixed a bug where the Barrage effect, when used by a mine, faced the wrong direction.
3.9.0	A lot of ranged attack skills have received major visual improvements, including the basic wand and bow attacks, Burning ArrowBurning ArrowAttack, Projectile, Fire, Duration, Bow Mana Cost: (5-8) Cast Time: 1.00 sec Effectiveness of Added Damage: (150%-184%) Projectile Speed: 3260Fires a burning arrow that deals fire damage. If it ignites an enemy, it will also inflict an additional debuff for a duration, dealing burning damage based on the magnitude of the ignite. This damage is not affected by your damage modifiers. Up to five of these debuffs can apply simultaneously to an enemy.Per 1% Quality:123+0.5% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier3% increased Critical Strike ChanceProjectiles Pierce 0.1 additional TargetsDeals (150-184.2)% of Base Attack Damage Base duration is 4 seconds 50% chance to Ignite enemies (50-88)% more Damage with Ignite 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage If this Skill Ignites an Enemy, it also inflicts a Burning Debuff Debuff deals Fire Damage per second equal to (30-39)% of Ignite Damage per secondPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., Barrage and PuncturePunctureAttack, Projectile, Duration, Melee, Strike, Physical, Bow Mana Cost: 6 Cast Time: 1.00 sec Attack Speed: 70% of Base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (135%-165%)Requires Level 4Punctures enemies, causing a bleeding debuff, which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. Puncture works with bows, daggers, claws or swords.Per 1% Quality:1234Bleeding inflicted by this Skill deals Damage 0.5% fasterProjectiles Pierce 0.1 additional TargetsTargets 0.1 additional nearby Enemies0.5% chance to Maim on HitDeals (134.74-164.56)% of Base Attack Damage Base duration is 8 seconds (3-75) to (4-113) Added Attack Physical Damage (30-49)% more Damage with Bleeding Causes Bleeding +(0-2) to Melee Strike RangePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
3.3.0	Now has an added damage effectiveness and base damage of 40% at gem level 1 (down from 50%), up to 47.6% at gem level 20 (down from 61.4%). Now fires 4 additional projectiles (up from 3).
3.1.0	The helmet enchantment which grants additional projectiles for BarrageBarrageAttack, Projectile, Bow Mana Cost: (7-11) Cast Time: 1.00 sec Effectiveness of Added Damage: (40%-48%)Requires Level 12After a short preparation time, you attack repeatedly with a ranged weapon. These attacks have a small randomised spread. Only works with Bows and Wands.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal0.5% increased Projectile Damage1% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit0.5% increased Attack SpeedInflict non-Damaging Ailments as though dealing 5% more DamageDeals (40-47.6)% of Base Attack Damage Fires 4 additional Projectiles Fires Projectiles sequentiallyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has been removed from the Merciless Labyrinth. The Eternal Labyrinth Barrage enchantment now grants one additional projectile (down from 2).
2.1.0	Barrage damage has been increased from 40% to 50% of base damage at level one. At level 20, it now has been increased from dealing 47.6% to 61.4% of base damage.
2.0.0	Instead of gaining 4% increased Physical Damage per level, Barrage now gains 0.4% Base Damage per level.
1.1.0	The 33% less attack speed penalty has been removed from Barrage.
1.0.4	The Barrage skill has been added for the Ranger in Descent Champions.
1.0.3	Barrage has been added to the game.