Bladefall

Bladefall is a spell. It creates a rain of weapons in an area, dealing physical damage to enemies in a sequence of volleys, each wider but less damaging than the last. Enemies can be hit multiple times where these overlap.

Skill functions and interactions

• Spell Damage: despite the fact that it does physical damage, Bladefall is a spell and not an attack. It does not utilize weapon damage in any way. Bladefall is one of several skills that work in this manner, the others include Ethereal Knives, Shockwave Totem and Blade Vortex.

• Physical Damage: because Bladefall deals physical damage, it can be boosted by support gems and passive skills that are more commonly used to modify attacks, such as the support gem and the Hatred aura.

• Waves: casting the spell summons five cascading waves of blades, with each wave dealing damage once (6% less damage per wave after the first), and each falling one wave's width further than the last (there is no space in between waves where damage is not dealt). Enemies can be knocked back by this skill or others, allowing for the possibility of multiple hits. The first wave of the spell will always fall where the player points the cursor on cast.

• Area of Effect: area of effect increases and decreases apply to both the lateral width of the waves and their thickness, essentially increasing potential DPS when reduced due to the constant size of enemy hitboxes.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Physical Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	12	44 to 66	0	0
2	31	73	13	53 to 79	199345	199345
3	34	79	14	63 to 94	285815	485160
4	37	85	15	75 to 112	401344	886504
5	40	92	15	89 to 133	554379	1440883
6	42	96	16	99 to 148	477437	1918320
7	44	100	16	110 to 165	583786	2502106
8	46	104	17	123 to 184	710359	3212465
9	48	109	17	136 to 205	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	18	152 to 227	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	18	168 to 252	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	19	186 to 279	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	19	206 to 309	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	20	228 to 342	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	20	252 to 378	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	21	278 to 418	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	21	307 to 461	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	22	339 to 508	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	22	373 to 560	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	23	411 to 617	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	24	452 to 678	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	24	497 to 746	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	25	547 to 820	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	25	601 to 901	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	26	659 to 989	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	26	724 to 1086	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	27	794 to 1191	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27	870 to 1305	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28	954 to 1431	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	28	1045 to 1567	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	28	1093 to 1640	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	29	1144 to 1716	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	29	1197 to 1796	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	29	1252 to 1879	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	29	1310 to 1965	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	30	1370 to 2055	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	30	1433 to 2150	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	30	1499 to 2248	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	30	1567 to 2351	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	31	1639 to 2458	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Golden Bladefall EffectGolden Bladefall EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Bladefall becomes a rain of golden blades.	90	Replaces the standard effect on a Bladefall skill gem with a golden effect. Preview

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Bladefall.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Bladefall Additional Volley	75	Bladefall has an additional Volley	helmet 75 default 0
Enchantment Bladefall Critical Strike Chance 1	66	60% increased Bladefall Critical Strike Chance	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Bladefall Critical Strike Chance 2	75	90% increased Bladefall Critical Strike Chance	helmet 75 default 0
Enchantment Bladefall Damage 1	66	25% increased Bladefall Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Bladefall Damage 2	75	40% increased Bladefall Damage	helmet 75 default 0
Enchantment Bladefall Area Of Effect 1	66	16% increased Bladefall Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Bladefall Area Of Effect 2	75	24% increased Bladefall Area of Effect	helmet 75 default 0

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	The trap/mine behaviour of Bladefall has been made more consistent with other traps/mines. The blades fall from the mine itself, not targeting the location where the monster is. (They will fall in the direction of the monster though).
2.3.0	If you use , Blast Rain and Bladefall to target a blocked location then they will be now used on the nearest valid location.
2.2.0	Bladefall had a bug that caused its damage per volley reduction to apply too early, reducing the damage of the first four stages. This has been fixed, which has raised its damage. To compensate, Bladefall's damage has been reduced by 25% at all levels. Bladefall now does 6% less damage per stage (up from 5%). Its damage effectiveness has been reduced from 120% to 90%.
2.1.1b	Fixed a bug where Bladefall was unable to hit targets around corners.
2.1.0	Added to the game.