PoE Brand Skills & Arcanist Brand

PoE Brand Skill Gems

Level	Skill Gems	Description	Tag
12	Storm Brand	Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, firing beams which deal damage to nearby enemies and those around them. The brand will detach if the enemy dies.	Lightning, Spell, AoE, Chaining, Duration, Brand
12	Wintertide Brand	Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy, dealing cold damage over time and chilling them. It periodically activates while attached, gaining stages that raise the damage. When removed, a short-duration debuff dealing the same damage over time and chill is applied to each nearby enemy. The brand keeps its charges while detached.	Spell, AoE, Cold, Duration, Brand
16	Brand Recall	Recall your brands to you, detaching them from enemies and increasing attachment range until they next attach to an enemy. Spends a portion of each recalled brand's cost to cause it to activate.	Brand, Spell
28	Armageddon Brand	Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, causing a fiery meteor to fall from the sky. The brand will detach if the enemy dies.	Spell, AoE, Fire, Duration, Brand
28	Penance Brand	Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, adding energy to the branded enemy. Each activation, energy spreads from each energised enemy to an enemy in range which is not energised by the brand. If the branded enemy has 20 energy, each activation will instead deal a pulse of area damage. Energy explodes when the energised enemy dies or the brand is removed, dealing damage in an area.	Spell, AoE, Physical, Lightning, Duration, Brand
38	Arcanist Brand	Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, triggering linked spells. The brand will detach if the enemy dies.	Trigger, Spell, Duration, Brand
31	Swiftbrand Support	Supports skills which create brands.	Brand, Support

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Please clarify my understanding about brand speed:

Actual Brand Activation Frequency = initial BAF * (1 + Increased cast speed + Increased BAF) * (1 + more BAF from Swiftbrand, Hierophant's passive) * (1 + faster BAF from Brandsurge)

That is roughly correct.

And does faster action speed affect brand frequency, if it does would it be additive to Brandsurge or be another multiplier?

Modifiers to Action Speed affect the speed of animations played by the character model. This does not affect brand activation, as that is independent of which animations your character plays.

Arcanist Brand

Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy. It periodically activates while attached, triggering linked spells. The brand will detach if the enemy dies.Supports spell skills that have no reservation. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.You are Branded. Trigger, Spell, Duration, Brand. Level: 1–20. Cost: 18–32 Mana. Cast Time: 0.80 sec. Requires Level 38. Activates every 1 second while Attached Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed also apply to this Skill"s Activation frequency Can be Detached for a total Duration of 5 seconds Can be Attached for a total Duration of 3 seconds Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. Name Additional Effects From Quality Weight Arcanist Brand (0–10)% increased Activation frequency 50

Related Gems

Arcanist Brand Support Gems

• Controlled Destruction Support(Blue): 67%
• Concentrated Effect Support(Blue): 56%
• Elemental Focus Support(Blue): 50%
• Inspiration Support(Red): 39%
• Energy Leech Support(Blue): 28%
• Hypothermia Support(Green): 22%
• Physical to Lightning Support(Blue): 17%
• Increased Critical Strikes Support(Blue): 17%
• Fire Penetration Support(Red): 11%
• Combustion Support(Blue): 11%
• Swiftbrand Support(Blue): 11%
• Added Fire Damage Support(Red): 11%
• Lightning Penetration Support(Blue): 11%
• Slower Projectiles Support(Green): 11%

Build Recommend

• Arcanist Brand + Wave of Conviction

Weapons Build

• Staff: 33%
• Wand / Shield: 28%
• Wand / Wand: 22%
• Dagger / Dagger: 11%
• Mace / Shield: 6%

Level Effect

Arcanist Brand is a skill gem that turns a linked spell into a trigger skill. The brand periodically triggers all linked spells in a sequence while being attached to an enemy.

Skill functions and interactions

• The gem consists of two components: a skill part Arcanist Brand and a support part Arcanist Brand Support. However, it does not have the Support gem tag. It is one of the few skill/support hybrid gems. Other examples of this are; item skill Snipe, or skill gems such as Spellslinger, General's Cry, Predator Support, Shockwave Support, etc..
• Channelling Spells: Even though it's not mentioned in the gem's description, linking a channelling spell won't cause it to be activated by this skill.
• Arcanist Brand's base cast speed determines how long it takes to cast the brand itself. The activation frequency is how often the brand triggers linked spells. Both of these are increased by cast speed modifiers.
• Targeting - Arcanist Brand auto-targets enemies with precision. For skills that can be hard to aim close to enemies like Desecrate, this will get corpses close to enemies.
• Arcanist Brand will cast all linked spells in a sequence, until its duration runs out. This can allow the character to apply multiple spells with one cast, assuming the brand has enough duration.
• Trigger: Attempting to support Arcanist Brand in The Poet's Pen linked to other spells will cancel both out, making Arcanist Brand unlinked to any spell, and lock the spells in The Poet's Pen, making them untriggerable. This is an action similar to attempting supporting a spell with multiple trigger mechanics, such as Cast On Critical Strike Support, Cast when Damage Taken Support or other trigger supports or triggering items, such as Cospri's Malice or Mjölner.

Item acquisition

Arcanist Brand can drop anywhere. Drop level: 38.

Recipes

Arcanist Brand 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
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 ↓
The Eternal Nightmare Act 4	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗

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 ↓
The Eternal Nightmare Act 4 Petarus and Vanja	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Arcanist Brand:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Arcanist Brand.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Arcanist Brand Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Arcanist Brand has 8% increased Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Arcanist Brand Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Arcanist Brand has 12% increased Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Arcanist Brand Unnerve 1	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Spells Triggered by Arcanist Brand Unnerve enemies on Hit for 4 seconds	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Arcanist Brand has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Celestial Brand Effect	Your Brand becomes a Celestial Effect.

Arcanist Brand Build Guide

Arcanist Brand is a new Brand skill and supports all triggerable spells associated with it. Every time the Brand is activated, it triggers a supported spell, allowing you to build your own Brand setup, possibly triggering multiple different spells in succession.

Since Brand mechanics naturally has a strong ability to clear, the supported skills have less area, projectile range, and chain range. Triggering a spell deals damage penalty to balance its ability to activate multiple times. Triggered spells also deal more damage to branded enemies.

Projectiles hit the branded enemy, but each activation targets another nearby enemy, so they often use Pierce, Chain, and Fork effects.

Arcanist Brand’s duration is shorter than that of other Brands, so you won’t use it in any build to passively trigger effects, but it will be very powerful for Brands build. As with other brands, Cast Speed affects the activation rate, so it benefits from most spellcaster investments.

After you place Arcanist Brand on the ground, it will attach to an enemy and trigger any spells linked to this skill in a sequence. It works in a similar fashion to a few popular existing mechanisms like Poet’s Pen and other trigger skills. This one is basically a “build your own brand” thing. You basically put any other skill gems wherever you want, and it will use these spells. This opens a huge range of options for player’s builds, letting you use almost any spell as if it was a Brand.