Artillery Ballista - Path of Exile

Artillery Ballista is an active skill gem.

Summons a ballista totem that propels a sequence of fiery arrows into the air. The arrows impact the ground in a line, each dealing area damage to enemies around it. Requires a Bow.

Attack, Totem, AoE, Fire, Projectile, Bow. Level: 1–20. Cost: 7–11 Mana. Attack Speed: 50% of base. Attack Damage: 50–65% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 50–65%. Requires Level 28.

Totem lasts 8 seconds
+(2–3) to maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems
Fires 5 additional Arrows
100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Summons a Ballista Totem which uses this Skill

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
Artillery Ballista	(0–20)% increased Fire Damage	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Artillery Ballista	(0–20)% increased Fire Damage	50
Anomalous Artillery Ballista	(0–100)% increased Burning Damage	100
Divergent Artillery Ballista	Fires an additional Arrow	10

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Dexterity	Cost	Base Damage	+2 to maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems	Experience
1	28	67	7	50%	2	199,345
2	31	73	7	50.8%	2	285,815
3	34	79	7	51.6%	2	401,344
4	37	85	8	52.4%	2	554,379
5	40	92	8	53.2%	2	477,437
6	42	96	8	53.9%	2	583,786
7	44	100	8	54.7%	2	710,359
8	46	104	8	55.5%	2	1,355,511
9	48	109	9	56.3%	2	1,138,877
10	50	113	9	57.1%	2	1,368,233
11	52	117	9	57.9%	3	1,638,338
12	54	121	9	58.7%	3	1,956,648
13	56	125	10	59.5%	3	3,655,184
14	58	130	10	60.3%	3	3,017,327
15	60	134	10	61.1%	3	7,759,995
16	62	138	10	61.8%	3	15,138,193
17	64	142	10	62.6%	3	26,083,825
18	66	146	11	63.4%	3	62,620,247
19	68	151	11	64.2%	3	211,708,088
20	70	155	11	65%	3
21	72		11	65.8%	3
22	74		11	66.6%	4
23	76		12	67.4%	4
24	78		12	68.2%	4
25	80		12	68.9%	4
26	82		12	69.7%	4
27	84		12	70.5%	4
28	86		13	71.3%	4
29	88		13	72.1%	4
30	90		13	72.9%	4
31	91		13	73.3%	4
32	92		14	73.7%	4
33	93		14	74.1%	4
34	94		14	74.5%	4
35	95		14	74.9%	4
36	96		14	75.3%	4
37	97		15	75.7%	4
38	98		15	76.1%	4
39	99		15	76.4%	4
40	100		15	76.8%	4

Artillery Ballista summons a ballista totem that rains down arrows in a line, dealing area damage on landing. Its damage scales on the player's bow damage.

Skill functions and interactions

Ballista: Artillery Ballista is part of the Ballista sub-class of totems. Ballista totems have inherent added totem limit. They have a much shorter summoning range, spawning much closer to the summoner.

Item acquisition

Artillery Ballista can drop anywhere. Drop level: 28.

Recipes

Artillery Ballista 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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Sever the Right Hand Act 3	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗

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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Artillery Ballista:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Artillery Ballista.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Artillery Ballista Cross Pattern 1	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Artillery Ballista Projectiles fall in two perpendicular lines instead	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Artillery Ballista Additional Arrows 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Artillery Ballista fires an additional Arrow	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Artillery Ballista Additional Arrows 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Artillery Ballista fires 2 additional Arrows	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Artillery Ballista Fire Penetration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Artillery Ballista Damage Penetrates 6% Fire Resistance	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Artillery Ballista Fire Penetration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Artillery Ballista Damage Penetrates 10% Fire Resistance	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Artillery Ballista has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Arcane Tome Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an Arcane Tome.
Darkshard Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a darkshard totem.
Demonic Arctic Ballista Totem Skin	Replaces the default skin on your ballista totems with a Demonic Arctic version.
Dragon Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a golden dragon.
Eagle Guardian Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an eagle guardian.
Olmec Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a carved stone totem with two faces.
Pylon of Pain Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Pylon of Pain.
Tiki Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a coloured totem that has carved tiki designs.
Twisted Skull Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a twisted skull totem.
Ziggurat Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an ancient ziggurat.