Blade Vortex (often referred to as BV) is a spell that creates an ethereal blade that spins around the caster that deals physical damage, each blade lasting for the minimum duration of 5 seconds. This spell creates ethereal blades which orbit in an area around you, dealing damage every 0.6 seconds to all enemies in their radius. As more blades are added, the damage becomes greater and more frequent.You have blades in a Blade Vortex around youYou have blades in a Blade Vortex around youYou have blades in a Blade Vortex around you Critical, Spell, AoE, Duration, Physical. Level: 1–20. Cost: 6–16 Mana. Cast Time: 0.50 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 30%. Radius: 14. Requires Level 12.
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
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Level | Requires Level | Dexterity | Cost | Deals 3 to 5 Physical Damage | # to radius | Experience |
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1 | 12 | 33 | 6 | 3, 5 | 0 | 15,249 |
2 | 15 | 39 | 6 | 4, 6 | 0 | 41,517 |
3 | 19 | 48 | 7 | 5, 8 | 0 | 81,983 |
4 | 23 | 56 | 8 | 7, 11 | 0 | 147,968 |
5 | 27 | 64 | 9 | 10, 15 | 0 | 250,557 |
6 | 31 | 73 | 9 | 13, 19 | 0 | 405,086 |
7 | 35 | 81 | 10 | 16, 25 | 0 | 447,718 |
8 | 38 | 88 | 11 | 20, 30 | 1 | 615,318 |
9 | 41 | 94 | 11 | 24, 36 | 1 | 834,639 |
10 | 44 | 100 | 12 | 29, 43 | 1 | 1,570,760 |
11 | 47 | 106 | 12 | 35, 52 | 1 | 1,633,987 |
12 | 50 | 113 | 13 | 41, 62 | 1 | 2,151,030 |
13 | 53 | 119 | 13 | 49, 74 | 1 | 2,812,189 |
14 | 56 | 125 | 14 | 58, 88 | 1 | 5,099,360 |
15 | 59 | 132 | 14 | 69, 104 | 2 | 9,400,731 |
16 | 62 | 138 | 15 | 82, 123 | 2 | 15,273,366 |
17 | 64 | 142 | 15 | 92, 138 | 2 | 26,286,582 |
18 | 66 | 146 | 16 | 103, 154 | 2 | 62,890,590 |
19 | 68 | 151 | 16 | 114, 172 | 2 | 212,046,017 |
20 | 70 | 155 | 16 | 128, 191 | 2 | |
21 | 72 | 17 | 142, 214 | 2 | ||
22 | 74 | 17 | 159, 238 | 3 | ||
23 | 76 | 18 | 177, 265 | 3 | ||
24 | 78 | 18 | 197, 295 | 3 | ||
25 | 80 | 18 | 219, 328 | 3 | ||
26 | 82 | 19 | 243, 365 | 3 | ||
27 | 84 | 19 | 270, 405 | 3 | ||
28 | 86 | 19 | 300, 450 | 3 | ||
29 | 88 | 20 | 333, 500 | 4 | ||
30 | 90 | 20 | 370, 555 | 4 | ||
31 | 91 | 20 | 390, 584 | 4 | ||
32 | 92 | 20 | 410, 616 | 4 | ||
33 | 93 | 21 | 432, 648 | 4 | ||
34 | 94 | 21 | 455, 683 | 4 | ||
35 | 95 | 21 | 479, 719 | 4 | ||
36 | 96 | 21 | 505, 757 | 4 | ||
37 | 97 | 21 | 531, 797 | 4 | ||
38 | 98 | 22 | 559, 839 | 4 | ||
39 | 99 | 22 | 589, 883 | 4 | ||
40 | 100 | 22 | 619, 929 | 4 |
Blade Vortex's base damage is boosted by Physical Damage, Spell Damage, Area Damage, and Damage.
Interaction w/ Blade Blast: When targeted by Blade Blast, the blades will detonate in sequence, increasing in AoE with subsequent detonations. The damage from these detonations scale solely from the Blade Blast skill.
Physical Damage: Because Blade Vortex deals physical damage, it can be boosted by supports and skills that are more commonly used to modify attacks, such as the Added Fire Damage Support gem and the Hatred aura.
Spell Damage: Despite the fact that it does physical damage, Blade Vortex is a spell and not an attack. It does not utilize weapon damage in any way. Blade Vortex is one of several skills that work in this manner. The others include Ethereal Knives, Bladefall, and Shockwave Totem. Its damage can be amplified by Spell Damage on items and passives from the skill tree, as well as support gems that increase spell damage.
Leech: Leech effects that apply to Spell damage and to damage types dealt by Blade Vortex (Physical by default) will work as usual. Note that leech effects which apply to attacks do not apply to Blade Vortex because it is a spell, not an attack.
Area of Effect: Increases and decreases in to Area of Effect from support gems, passives, and equipment will augment the radius in which the skill deals damage (e.g. Increased Area of Effect Support, Concentrated Effect Support and Carcass Jack).
Cast Speed: Faster Casting Support, Spell Echo Support, and Cast Speed from passives and gear will increase the rate at which blades are generated.
Duration: Increased Duration Support, Less Duration Support, and duration-modifying passives and equipment will affect the duration of the blades (including Temporal Chains on yourself.) It is possible to have multiple blades active at the same time, up to a maximum of 10 blades. Once the limit is reached, creating a new blade will simply remove the oldest existing active blade, similar to Summon Raging Spirit.
Poison: As Blade Vortex deals physical damage, it can easily scale poison damage.
Visual effect: Blade vortex's visual effect does not scale with Area of effect modifiers. Instead, to give a rough indication of radius, there are several versions of the knife effect, each rotating at a different radius. The skill will always try to have one knife using the largest-radius effect that's not larger than the actual radius of the skill, but that skill results in discrete visual changes where you need to reach a certain threshold before the next wider effect can be used. The full radius is always used mechanically.
Multiple casts: When Blade Vortex is linked to Unleash Support, the damage is defined by the initial cast and does not inherit the less damage multiplier. This behavior includes the Greater Spell Echo Support from Pledge of Hands.
Blade Vortex's in-game tooltip DPS gives the average damage of one hit from one Blade Vortex instance, multiplied by casts per second. This value is misleading primarily because Blade Vortex can hit more than once over its duration, thus not cast speed must be used, but hits per second (rounds per second, spin rate), over the duration of the stacks.
Blade Vortex can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.
Blade Vortex can be created from the following recipes:
Amount | Part | Description |
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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 |
This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:
Class → | Witch | Shadow | Ranger | Duelist | Marauder | Templar | Scion |
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Quest ↓ | |||||||
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:
Class → | Witch | Shadow | Ranger | Duelist | Marauder | Templar | Scion |
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Quest ↓ | |||||||
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 Nessa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa | ✓ | ||||||
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth | ✓ |
The following helmet enchantments affect Blade Vortex.
Name | Level | Labyrinth | Stats | Spawn Weighting |
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Enchantment Blade Vortex Crit Multi Per Blade 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | Blade Vortex has +2% to Critical Strike Multiplier for each blade | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Crit Multi Per Blade 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | Blade Vortex has +3% to Critical Strike Multiplier for each blade | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Damage 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | 25% increased Blade Vortex Spell Damage | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Damage 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | 40% increased Blade Vortex Spell Damage | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Duration 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | 20% increased Blade Vortex Duration | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Duration 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | 30% increased Blade Vortex Duration | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Area Of Effect 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | 16% increased Blade Vortex Area of Effect | helmet 75 default 0 |
Enchantment Blade Vortex Area Of Effect 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | 24% increased Blade Vortex Area of Effect | helmet 75 default 0 |
Blade Vortex has the following alternate skill effects:
Item | Effect(s) |
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Demonic Blade Vortex | Your Blade Vortex becomes a black and red demonic vortex. |
Illusionist Blade Vortex Effect | Your Blade Vortex becomes an Illusionist Effect. |
Sawblade Blade Vortex | Your Blade Vortex becomes a Sawblade Effect. |
Transcendence Blade Vortex Effect | Your Blade Vortex becomes a Transcendence Effect. |
Life: | 3492 | Strength: | 64 |
Energy Shield: | 250 | Dexterity: | 193 |
Mana: | 920 | Intelligence: | 163 |
Evasion Rating: | 2038 | Charges: | E: 3 / F: 3 / P: 3 |
Armour: | 228 |
Main skill: Blade Vortex. DPS: 52k.
Damage types:
Blade Vortex Support Gems:
These are the support skill gems for it:
Boots: Aspect of the Spider (Aspect Skill) (20), Withering Step (Green) (21 / 23), Precision (Green) (5), Cast when Damage Taken Support (Red) (1), Immortal Call (Red) (3), Immortal Call (Red) (3), Precision (Green) (5), Cast when Damage Taken Support (Red) (1), Aspect of the Spider (Aspect Skill) (20), Withering Step (Green) (21 / 23), Aspect of the Spider (Aspect Skill) (20),
Body Armour: Vaal Blade Vortex (Green) (21 / 23), Vile Toxins Support (Green) (21 / 23), Awakened Deadly Ailments Support (Green) (6 / 20), Awakened Unbound Ailments Support (Blue) (6 / 20), Awakened Void Manipulation Support (Green) (6 / 20), Awakened Unleash Support (Blue) (5 / 20),
Gloves: Plague Bearer (Green) (21 / 23), Blood Rage (Green) (21 / 20), Despair (Blue) (21 / 23), Awakened Blasphemy Support (Blue) (5 / 20),
Helmet: Flesh and Stone (Red) (21 / 23), Herald of Agony (Green) (21 / 23), Enlighten Support (Blue) (4), Malevolence (Blue) (21),
Weapon: Wither (Blue) (21 / 23), Spell Totem Support (Red) (21 / 23), Multiple Totems Support (Red) (21 / 20),
Offhand: Whirling Blades (Green) (21 / 23), Fortify Support (Red) (17 / 20), Faster Attacks Support (Green) (21 / 20),
Body Armour: Maelström Hide Triumphant Lamellar
Weapon: Cold Iron Point Ezomyte Dagger
Offhand Weapon: Cold Iron Point Ezomyte Dagger
Helmet: The Devouring Diadem Necromancer Circlet
Gloves: Asenath’s Gentle Touch Silk Gloves
Boots: Sorrow Urge Nubuck Boots
Belt: Grim Twine Stygian Vise
Amulet: Impresence Onyx Amulet
Ring: Circle of Nostalgia Synthesised Amethyst Ring, Agony Eye Two-Stone Ring