Crimson Dance - Path of Exile

Crimson Dance is a keystone passive skill. It allows bleed to stack on an enemy up to 8 times. However, the bleeding does not deal extra Damage while the Enemy is moving.

  • You can inflict Bleeding on an Enemy up to 8 times
  • Your Bleeding does not deal extra Damage while the Enemy is moving
  • 50% less Damage with Bleeding
Crimson Dance PoE

Bleed Damage

If Crimson Dance is allocated, potential damage of one application is 35% of base attack’s physical damage regardless of whether the target is moving or not, and 8 strongest application deal damage. Sustaining all 8 stacks on a target will deal in total 280% of average attack’s base physical damage per second. This effectively quadruples bleed DPS in prolonged fights.

Bleed Duration

The base duration of bleed is 5 seconds.

Separate applications of bleed do not stack cumulatively (unless Crimson Dance is allocated, then it stacks up to 8 times). Each bleed effect remains present on the target until it runs its course, but only the one with the highest damage per second will cause damage at any given moment. For example, assume an enemy is inflicted with bleed for 100 damage per second, then after 2 seconds it is inflicted with bleed for 50 damage per second. The outcome will be 500 damage over 5 seconds followed by 100 damage over 2 seconds.

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How to get Crimson Dance?

1. Passive Skill Tree

Crimson Dance is located at the middle layer of the southwest part of the tree, to the right of the transition path between Duelist and Marauder.

Class Distance from start
Duelist 8
Marauder 10
Scion 14
Ranger 16
Templar 18
Shadow 24
Witch 24

2. Crimson Dance Uniques

These unique items have the Crimson Dance modifier, which provides the same effect as this keystone. Taking the keystone in addition to equipping one of these items will impart no additional benefit.

Item Base Item Lvl. Category Stats
Skin of the Lords Skin of the Lords Simple Robe 1 Body Armour Item has no level requirement and Energy Shield (Hidden)
Sockets cannot be modified
+1 to Level of Socketed Gems
100% increased Global Defences
You can only Socket Corrupted Gems in this item
Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden)

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Corrupted

Farrul’s Pounce Farrul’s Pounce Hydrascale Gauntlets 59 Gloves (100-140)% increased Armour and Evasion
+(50-70) to maximum Life
+(400-500) to Accuracy against Bleeding Enemies
Attacks always inflict Bleeding while you have Cat’s Stealth
(40-50)% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments against Bleeding Enemies
You have Crimson Dance while you have Cat’s Stealth
Sanguine Gambol Sanguine Gambol Skinning Knife 59 Dagger 30% increased Global Critical Strike Chance+(10-15) to Dexterity
(50-70)% increased Physical Damage
Adds (70-85) to (110-118) Physical Damage
30% increased Critical Strike Chance
40% increased Attack Damage against Bleeding Enemies
50% chance to cause Bleeding on Critical Strike
You have Crimson Dance if you have dealt a Critical Strike Recently

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