Crackling Lance Gem - Path of Exile

Crackling Lance is a spell gem. Release a beam which deals lightning damage to enemies in a long area in front of you, and has several smaller beams branch off from it at an angle, hitting more enemies to the sides. Spell, AoE, Lightning. Level: 1–20. Cost: 11–21 Mana. Cast Time: 0.65 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 165%. Requires Level 28. Deals (28–458) to (84–1375) Lightning Damage This Spell loses 1 Intensity every 0.25 seconds while moving, or immediately if you teleport This Spell gains Intensity when you Cast it, to a maximum of 3 +3 to Beam Width Per Intensity 33% less branching angle per Intensity 35% more Damage with Hits and Ailments per Intensity 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 Crackling Lance (0–10)% chance to Shock enemies 50

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Related Gems

Crackling Lance Support Gems

• Intensify Support(Blue): 87%
• Concentrated Effect Support(Blue): 55%
• Archmage Support(Blue): 35%
• Controlled Destruction Support(Blue): 32%
• Inspiration Support(Red): 29%
• Awakened Lightning Penetration Support(Blue): 23%
• Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support(Blue): 23%
• Increased Critical Strikes Support(Blue): 19%

Crackling Lance Build Guide

Crackling Lance shoots out a wide beam of lightning that has secondary areas of lightning that split off it, striking enemies in a wide spread. Crackling Lance comes with built in Intensity, so each cast builds in damage, while the secondary areas angle in, until all the lightning fires in a single wider beam.

The skill has powerful single target damage capacity when handcast, while having reliable area coverage when used with triggers, totems, traps or mines.

Support Gems

• Intensify Support

Crackling Lance’s damage bonus is multiplicative with the Intensity support, allowing it to build up incredible single target damage, and its high damage is great for creating very powerful shocks on enemies.

Crackling Lance Build Example

Level Effect

Skill functions and interactions

Despite being an Area of Effect skill, effects modifying Crackling Lance behave in a similar way to the beam fired by Divine Ire:

• Concentrated Effect Support: Neither the beam itself nor the branches have an area to modify, so their range is not reduced. However, their damage is properly multiplied.
• Increased Area of Effect Support: Same as above. The Awakened version of this gem properly multiplies the hit damage.
• Intensify Support: Damage of the skill's hits is modified, but effective range is unchanged.
• All other passive effects which apply to AoE radius/etc do not apply to the beam or its branches.

As with all spells which can Intensify, the caster cannot gain a stack of Intensity when this spell is repeated (e.g. Spell Echo Support), triggered, or cast by a totem.

Item acquisition

Crackling Lance can drop anywhere. Drop level: 28.

Recipes

Crackling Lance 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 ↓
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 ↓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Crackling Lance:

Item	Base Item	Level	Stats
Apex Mode	Cobalt Jewel	1	(20-25)% increased Spell Damage Spells have 10% reduced Critical Strike Chance per Intensity Spells which have gained Intensity Recently gain 1 Intensity every 0.5 Seconds
Nadir Mode	Cobalt Jewel	1	(20-25)% increased Spell Damage Spells have 30% increased Critical Strike Chance per Intensity Spells which have gained Intensity Recently lose 1 Intensity every 0.5 Seconds

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Crackling Lance:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Crackling Lance.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Crackling Lance Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Crackling Lance has 8% increased Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Crackling Lance Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Crackling Lance has 16% increased Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Crackling Lance Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Crackling Lance deals 25% increased Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Crackling Lance Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Crackling Lance deals 40% increased Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Crackling Lance Beam Angle 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Crackling Lance has 24% increased branching angle	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Crackling Lance Beam Angle 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Crackling Lance has 36% increased branching angle	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Crackling Lance has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Automaton Crackling Lance Effect	Your Crackling Lance becomes an Automaton Effect.
Celestial Crackling Lance Effect	Your Crackling Lance becomes a Celestial Effect.