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This wicked curse alters the very flesh of those afflicted, turning their armor and hide to mere paper. Any projectiles striking a cursed target have a high chance of piercing it, boring straight through to hit additional enemies standing behind. Foes under the Projectile Weakness curse will find themselves frustrated trying to reach the archer, since every volley has a good chance of causing a knockback. A Ranger trained in the curse of Projectile Weakness will be counted amongst the most feared combatants on the battlefield.

Description on the official Path of Exile website [1]

Projectile Weakness is a spell that curses all targets in an area, making them easier to pierce and to knock back. Additionally affected targets take increased damage from projectiles.

Skill Functions and Interactions

  • Cursed Enemies take #% increased Damage from Projectiles: because this modifier is an increase to the target's damage taken, it is multiplicative with players damage dealt and additive with any other increased damage taken effects on the target.[2] It does not affect damage dealt by damage over time effects such as poison, ignite, or Essence Drain skill iconEssence Drain.[3]
  • Additional Pierce and Knockback Chance: any projectile type has a higher chance to pierce (additive with other sources of piercing chance) and a chance to cause the target to be knocked away from the player who created the projectile. It does not matter what direction the projectile strikes from, knockback is always away from the player who initiated the spell or attack projectile.
  • Projectile Weakness 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".
    Projectile Weakness aura screenshot

    The aura version of Projectile Weakness

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired DexterityMana
Cost
Base
Duration
Added
Radius
increased
Projectile
Damage
Exp.Total Exp.
12458166N/AN/A00
22764176.2N/AN/A118383118383
33071186.4N/AN/A175816294199
43377196.6N/AN/A254061548260
53683216.8N/AN/A359090907350
63990227N/AN/A4985081405858
74296237.2N/AN/A6820572087915
845102247.4N/AN/A9217773009692
948109257.6N/AN/A17278794737571
1050113267.8N/AN/A11388775876448
1152117268N/AN/A13682337244681
1254121278.2N/AN/A16383388883019
1356125288.4N/AN/A195664810839667
1458130298.6N/AN/A365518414494851
1560134298.8N/AN/A301732717512178
1662138309N/AN/A779391425306092
1764142319.2N/AN/A1520603140512123
1866146319.4N/AN/A2618558266697705
1968151329.6N/AN/A62755923129453628
2070155339.8N/AN/A211877683341331311
21721593410N/AN/AN/AN/A
2274N/A3410.2N/AN/AN/AN/A
2376N/A3510.4N/AN/AN/AN/A
2478N/A3610.6N/AN/AN/AN/A
2580N/A3610.8N/AN/AN/AN/A
2682N/A3711N/AN/AN/AN/A
2784N/A3811.2N/AN/AN/AN/A
2886N/A3911.4N/AN/AN/AN/A
2988N/A3911.6N/AN/AN/AN/A
3090N/A4011.8N/AN/AN/AN/A
3191N/A4011.9N/AN/AN/AN/A
3292N/A4112N/AN/AN/AN/A
3393N/A4112.1N/AN/AN/AN/A
3494N/A4212.2N/AN/AN/AN/A
3595N/A4212.3N/AN/AN/AN/A
3696N/A4212.4N/AN/AN/AN/A
3797N/A4312.5N/AN/AN/AN/A
3898N/A4312.6N/AN/AN/AN/A
3999N/A4312.7N/AN/AN/AN/A
40100N/A4412.8N/AN/AN/AN/A

Quest reward

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Vendor reward

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Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Projectile Weakness. No results found

Version history

Version Changes
2.6.0
  • Increased Area of Effect mod and its progression per level doubled.
2.0.0
  • Pierce chance is now 50% at all levels. Knockback chance is now 25% at all levels. 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. It now grants 0.5% chance to pierce cursed enemies per 1% quality (was 0.75% per 1% quality).
1.2.0
  • No longer reduces the enemy's chance to evade projectile attacks. This ability has been moved to the new skill Poacher's Mark.
1.1.0
  • Undocumented Change: Projectile damage taken changed from "more" to "increased".
0.9.5
  • Now increases damage taken from projectiles.
0.9.2
  • Projectile Weakness has been added to the game.

References

  1. "Dexterity skills". Official Path of Exile website.
  2. Mark_GGG (April 16, 2014). "Vulnerability Quality". Official Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  3. Mark_GGG (July 26, 2016). "Verify confused about projectile weakness double dipping with poison.". Reddit. Retrieved January 24, 2017.


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