Arcane Cloak - Path of Exile

Arcane Cloak Arcane Cloak is an active skill gem.

Spends a portion of your mana to grant a buff that takes some of the damage from hits for you until depleted. The buff grants added lightning damage based on the amount of mana spent by this skill. Shares a cooldown with other Guard skills.Grants Added Lightning Damage, and a percentage of damage from hits will be taken from this buff before your Life or Energy Shield.

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Adds the Arcane Cloak back attachment to any equipped body armour.
Spell, Duration, Guard, Lightning, Arcane. Level: 1–20. Cooldown Time: 4.00 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Requires Level 16.

  • Adds the Arcane Cloak back attachment to any equipped body armour.
Spell, Duration, Guard, Lightning, Arcane
  • Level: 1–20
  • Cooldown Time: 4.00 sec
  • Cast Time: Instant
    Requires Level 16
    Spends a portion of your mana to grant a buff that takes some of the damage from hits for you until depleted. The buff grants added lightning damage based on the amount of mana spent by this skill. Shares a cooldown with other Guard skills.
    Base duration is 3 seconds
  • Spends (45–64)% of current Mana
  • 75% of Damage from Hits is taken from Buff before your Life or Energy Shield
    Buff can take Damage equal to Mana Spent by this Skill"s effect
  • Buff grants Added Lightning Damage equal to (10–14)% of Mana Spent by this Skill"s effect
  • This Skill"s Cooldown does not recover during its effect

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

    NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
    Arcane Cloak(0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration50

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    Related Gems

    Level Effect

    LevelRequires LevelIntelligenceSpends 45% of current ManaBuff grants Added Lightning Damage equal to 10% of Mana Spent by this Skill's effectExperience
    11641451049,725
    22050461095,714
    324584710169,595
    428674810199,345
    531734911285,815
    634795011401,344
    737855111554,379
    840925211755,049
    9439853121,016,533
    104610454121,898,602
    114911155121,964,019
    125211756122,573,731
    135512357134,676,439
    145813058133,017,327
    156013459137,823,001
    1662138601315,264,208
    1764142611426,272,845
    1866146621462,872,274
    19681516314212,023,122
    20701556414
    21726515
    22746615
    23766715
    24786815
    25806916
    26827016
    27847116
    28867216
    29887317
    30907417
    31917417
    32927517
    33937517
    34947617
    35957618
    36967718
    37977718
    38987818
    39997818
    401007918

    Arcane Cloak is a guard skill that consumes a large amount of mana to apply a buff that absorbs incoming damage for a short period of time. The buff absorbs more damage and grants added lightning damage the more mana was spent.

    Skill functions and interactions

    Guard skill: Guard skills share cooldown with other guard skills. They do not go on cooldown until the buff they provide expires.

    Mana spent: The mana consumed by Arcane Cloak is considered spent mana, which means it can interact with effects based on mana spent, such as Arcane Surge Support and Indigon.

    Mana cost: Arcane Cloak technically has a mana cost of 0. The mana spent by the skill is unaffected by cost modifiers.

    Arcane: Arcane Cloak cannot be supported by Archmage Support.

    All Guard skills

    Below are the 5 skill gems with the Guard gem tag:

    Gem Level
    Arcane Cloak 16
    Immortal Call 34
    Molten Shell 1
    Steelskin 1
    Vaal Molten Shell 1

    Item acquisition

    Arcane Cloak can drop anywhere. Drop level: 16.

    Recipes

    Arcane Cloak can be created from the following recipes:

    Amount Part Description
    13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
    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 Arcane Cloak:

    Item Limit Radius Stats

    Related helmet enchantments

    The following helmet enchantments affect Arcane Cloak.

    Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
    Enchantment Arcane Cloak Additional Mana Spent 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Arcane Cloak Spends an additional 10% of current Mana helmet 100
    default 0
    Enchantment Arcane Cloak Additional Mana Spent 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Arcane Cloak Spends an additional 15% of current Mana helmet 100
    default 0
    Enchantment Arcane Cloak Grants Life Regeneration 1 75 Eternal Labyrinth Arcane Cloak grants Life Regeneration equal to 15% of Mana Spent per Second helmet 100
    default 0

    Alternate skill effects

    Arcane Cloak has the following alternate skill effects:

    Item Effect(s)
    Void Emperor Arcane Cloak Effect Your Arcane Cloak becomes a Void Emperor Effect.