Ancestral Cry PoE Build

Ancestral Cry Ancestral Cry is a warcry skill that taunts nearby enemies and grants a buff that grants additional armour and melee strike range based on the power of nearby enemies. It also causes your next strike attacks to exert, targeting two additional enemies.

Performs a warcry, taunting all nearby enemies to attack the user and exerting subsequent strike attacks. Grants a buff which gives you bonus armour and melee range.You have bonus melee range and armour.

Warcry, AoE, Duration. Level: 1–20. Cost: 14–19 Mana. Cooldown Time: 8.00 sec. Use Time: 0.80 sec. Requires Level 16.

  • Base duration is (4–4.9) seconds
  • (0–38)% increased Warcry Speed
  • Counts total Power of Enemies in Range
  • Buff grants +(28–257) to Armour per 5 Power, up to a maximum of +(170–1540)
  • Buff grants +2 Melee Strike Range per 5 Power, up to a maximum of +6
  • Exerts the next 8 Melee Strike Attacks you perform
  • Exerted Strikes target 2 additional Enemies

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Ancestral Cry(0–10)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate50

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Related Gems

Ancestral Cry Support Gems

Ancestral Cry Build Guide

Ancestral Cry Ancestral Cry is a new Warcry which was designed to work well specifically with strike skills. It causes your next few strikes to also target nearby enemies, similar to the Ancestral Call support. 

It also provides a buff based on the power of nearby enemies which both increases your melee range as well as providing bonus armour.

It’s intended to be a well-rounded Warcry that generally provides benefit to anybody interested in playing strike skills.

Main Skills Build

  • Earthshatter Earthshatter: 15%
  • Pestilent Strike Pestilent Strike: 15%
  • Dominating Blow Dominating Blow: 15%

Weapons Build

  • Two Handed Axe: 23%
  • Two Handed Sword: 15%
  • Staff: 15%

Skill functions and interactions

Multistrike and Exerted attacksMultistrike Support Multistrike Support supported skills cannot be exerted, although skills that inherently strikes multiple times, like Double Strike Double Strike, consume one exerted attack per cast of the skill.

Ancestral Cry

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthCostBuff grants +28 to Armour per 5 Power, up to a maximum of +170#% increased Warcry SpeedBase duration is 4 secondsExperience
116411428, 170449,725
220501438, 2302495,714
324581553, 32044.1169,595
428671570, 42064.1199,345
531731582, 49084.2285,815
634791593, 560104.2401,344
7378516107, 640124.3554,379
8409216120, 720144.3755,049
9439816133, 800164.41,016,533
104610416148, 890184.41,898,602
114911117160, 960204.51,964,019
125211717173, 1040224.52,573,731
135512317188, 1130244.64,676,439
145813018207, 1240264.63,017,327
156013418218, 1310284.77,823,001
166213818232, 1390304.715,264,208
176414219238, 1430324.826,272,845
186614619245, 1470344.862,872,274
196815119250, 1500364.9212,023,122
207015519257, 1540384.9
217220262, 1570405
227420277, 1660415
237620292, 1750425.1
247820307, 1840435.1
258021322, 1930445.2
268221338, 2030455.2
278421355, 2130465.3
288621372, 2230475.3
298822388, 2330485.4
309022407, 2440495.4
319122415, 2490495.4
329222423, 2540505.4
339322433, 2600505.5
349422443, 2660515.5
359523452, 2710515.5
369623462, 2770525.5
379723470, 2820525.6
389823482, 2890535.6
399923490, 2940535.6
4010023500, 3000545.6

Skill functions and interactions

Multistrike and Exerted attacks: Multistrike Support supported skills cannot be exerted, although skills that inherently hit multiple times, like Double Strike, consume one exerted attack per use of the skill.

Item acquisition

Ancestral Cry can drop anywhere. Drop level: 16.

Recipes

Ancestral Cry can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
Intruders in Black
Act 2

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 ↓
Intruders in Black
Act 2
Yeena
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Ancestral Cry:

Item Limit Radius Stats
Spirited Response 1 Medium (7-10)% increased maximum Mana
With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, 10% of Damage taken Recouped as Mana if you've Warcried Recently

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Ancestral Cry.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Ancestral Cry Exerted Attack Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Attacks Exerted by Ancestral Cry deal 35% increased Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Ancestral Cry Exerted Attack Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Attacks Exerted by Ancestral Cry deal 50% increased Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Ancestral Cry Minimum Power 1 75 Eternal Labyrinth Ancestral Cry has a minimum of 10 Power helmet 100
default 0

Alternate skill effects

Ancestral Cry has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Celestial Warcry Effect Your Warcry becomes a Celestial Effect.
Wolf Howl Warcry Effect Your Warcry becomes a Wolf Howl Effect.

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