Chaos Bolts

Abrupt Chaos max 3

Chaos Bolts has increased cast speed, and its projectiles travel faster.

• +4% Cast Speed
• +8% Projectile Speed

Sanguine Reverie max 1

Chaos Bolts' base necrotic damage is converted to physical. Consequently this damage scales with increases to physical damage, but not increases to necrotic damage.

Damned chance from all sources are converted to bleed chance for Chaos Bolts.

Swaps Chaos Bolts' Necrotic tag for a Physical tag.

• Necrotic -> Physical Conversion
• Damned -> Bleed Chance

Requires Condemned to Chaos or Exacted Libation or Another Affliction

Scatter max 4

Chaos Bolts' hits now have a chance to fear enemies, but the projectiles target a wider area.

• +25% Fear Chance
• +13% Target Area

Requires Pandemonium

Condemned to Chaos max 5

Chaos Bolts' hits have a chance to inflict enemies with damned.

• +20% Damned Chance

Blood Tithe max 3

Chaos Bolts costs less mana, but now consumes a portion of your current health and ward on cast.

• -20% Mana Cost
• 9% Current Health Consumption
• 3% Ward Consumption

Requires Sanguine Reverie

A Grave for Two max 1

Chaos Bolts deals more damage over time (multiplicative with other modifiers) equal to a portion of your missing health.

• +1% DoT per 20 Missing Health

Requires 2 points in Condemned to Chaos or 2 points in Mania in Flames

The Gate max 1

Hitting your minions with Chaos Bolts grants them any damned, ignite, bleed or frostbite chance that Chaos Bolts gains from this tree.

This buff lasts 10 seconds, and does not stack.

• Ailment Chances to Minions on Hit

Requires A Grave for Two

The Burn max 1

Directly casting Chaos Bolts extends the duration of your active Cthonic Fissures and Infernal Shades.

This effect has a 3 second cooldown.

• +2 Skill Duration Extension (seconds)
• 3 Effect Cooldown (seconds)

Requires A Grave for Two

Exult in Misery max 3

Chaos Bolts' hits deal more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers) to damned, ignited, bleeding and frostbitten.

• +4% Hit Damage to Damned
• +4% Hit Damage to Ignited
• +4% Hit Damage to Bleeding
• +4% Hit Damage to Frostbitten

Requires 2 points in Condemned to Chaos or 2 points in Mania in Flames

Hitting enemies inflicted with multiple of these ailments, will cause the damage modifier to stack.

Mania in Flames max 5

Chaos Bolts' hits have a chance to ignite enemies.

• +20% Ignite Chance

Call of Morditas max 1

Chaos Bolts' base fire damage is converted to cold. Consequently this damage scales with increases to cold damage, but not increases to fire damage. It now has a chance to freeze enemies.

Ignite chance from all sources are converted to frostbite chance for Chaos Bolts.

Swaps Chaos Bolts' Fire tag for a Cold tag.

• Fire -> Cold Conversion
• Ignite -> Frostbite Chance
• 20 Freeze Rate

Requires Mania in Flames

Chance of Snow max 5

Chaos Bolts' hits have a chance to chill enemies.

Additionally, Chaos Bolts' hits have a chance to deal double hit damage to chilled enemies.

• +20% Chill Chance
• 6% Chance for Double Hit Damage against Chilled fixed

Requires Call of Morditas

Torment of the Red Tundra max 1

Chaos Bolts' hits have a higher chance to freeze enemies per 1% uncapped cold resistance.

Additionally, Chaos Bolts deals more physical damage over time (multiplicative with other modifiers) per 4% uncapped cold resistance.

• +6% Freeze Rate Multiplier per 1% Cold Res
• +1% Physical Damage over Time per 4% Cold Res

Requires Call of Morditas

Pandemonium max 3

Chaos Bolts explosions have a chance to deal damage in a much large area.

• 13% Chance for Increased Area
• +160% Area fixed

Requires 2 points in Abrupt Chaos

Cthonic Aurora max 4

Chaos Bolts releases additional projectiles, but it has a higher mana cost.

• +1 Extra Projectiles
• +5 Mana Cost

Requires 2 points in Pandemonium

Mana Anarchy max 3

Chaos Bolts' projectiles have a chance to consume additional mana causing it to deal more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers).

• 13% Chance to Consume Mana
• +30% Damage fixed
• 13 Mana Consumption fixed

Requires Cthonic Aurora

Revolution max 1

Whenever mana is consumed by the Mana Anarchy node, your minions gain additional spell damage based on your maximum mana and they also gain increased cast speed.

This buff lasts 13 seconds.

• +1 Spell Damage per 20 max mana
• +13% Cast Speed

Requires 2 points in Mana Anarchy

Chains of the Betrayer max 1

Chaos Bolts no longer shoots multiple projectiles, but now instead shoots one large projectile causing it to deal more damage (multiplicative with other multipliers) in a larger area.

These effects scale with the amount of projectiles Chaos Bolts would have shot.

• Only One Big Bolt
• +50% Damage per Projectile
• +35% Area per Projectile

Requires Mana Anarchy

Volatile Kindling max 1

Chaos Bolts' hitting one of your Volatile Zombies causes it to instantly explode. Zombies exploding this way deal more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers) in a larger area.

• +35% Zombie Explosion Damage
• +70% Zombie Explosion Area

Requires Cthonic Aurora

Sudden Putrescence max 3

Volatile Zombies exploding from the Volatile Kindling node deal even more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers) in a larger area and poisons enemies.

• +25% Zombie Explosion Damage
• +40% Zombie Explosion Area
• 1 Zombie Explosion Poison Stacks

Requires Volatile Kindling

Destructive Intensity max 4

Whenever you cast Chaos Bolts you gain a stack of Destructive Intensity up to a maximum.

Each stack reduces the target area and improves Chaos Bolts base critical strike chance.

If you go 2 seconds without gaining a stack, all stacks are lost.

• +1% Crit Chance per stack fixed
• -6% Target Area per stack fixed
• 2 Maximum Destructive Intensity

Requires 2 points in Abrupt Chaos

Doom's Vindication max 4

Chaos Bolts deals more damage and its hits deal more damage to Cursed enemies (both multiplicative with other modifiers).

• +4% Damage
• +4% Hit Damage to Cursed

Requires Abrupt Chaos or 2 points in Exacted Libation or 2 points in Devour the Damned

Reaper of Mayhem max 1

Chaos Bolts' hits have a chance per Dexterity to cause you to attack with Harvest from the location of enemies hit, hitting them and enemies around them.

This effect can occur a maximum of 3 times per second.

• 1% Harvest chance per Dexterity

Requires 2 points in Doom's Vindication

Devour the Damned max 2

Chaos Bolts' hits against Cursed enemies regain health and mana.

• 5 Health Gain against Cursed
• 1 Mana Gain against Cursed

Requires 2 points in Doom's Vindication or Cursed Blood

Seed of Chaos max 1

Chaos Bolts' hits against Cursed enemies has a chance to cause you to recast Chaos Bolts from their location towards another nearby enemy, consuming a portion of its mana cost.

The recast has a minimum range of 5 meters, and will not cast at enemies within that range.

• 10% Chance to recast
• 80% Chaos Bolts Mana Consumption

Requires 2 points in Devour the Damned

Recasts from Seed of Chaos can't trigger Seed of Chaos.

Exacted Libation max 2

Chaos Bolts' hits have a chance per Intelligence to cast Rip Blood at target enemies.

This effect can occur a maximum of 2 times per second.

• 1% Rip Blood chance per 2 Intelligence
• 2 Maximum Rip Bloods per second

Requires 2 points in Doom's Vindication or Sanguine Reverie

Cursed Blood max 1

Chaos Bolts hits refreshes the duration of your Curses on them and grants you health per curse.

• Curse Duration Refreshes on hit
• 6 Health Gain per Curse

Requires Devour the Damned or Another Affliction

Another Affliction max 1

Chaos Bolts' hits against Cursed enemies casts Bone Curse at their location.

This effect has a 6 second cooldown.

• Bone Curse at Target Location

Requires Cursed Blood or Sanguine Reverie