Death Wish - Path of Exile

As you channel this Death Wish spell, it spreads its effect to more of your minions. When you stop channelling, each affected minion explodes, and this skill deals spell damage around them. The explosion of the minion is not affected by modifiers to spell damage, and cannot be reflected.

Icon Name Stats Description
Death Wish Icon Death Wish
  • Deals 316 to 474 Fire Damage
  • Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 13% of the Minion’s maximum Life
  • Deals 10% more Damage with Hits and Ailments per affected Minion
  • Affected Minions have 40% increased Attack Speed
  • Affected Minions have 40% increased Cast Speed
  • Affected Minions have 40% increased Movement Speed
  • Can affect 13 Minions
  • Cast Time: 0.2s
  • Level Req.: 70
  • Critical Strike Chance: 6%
  • Mana Cost: 7
  • Attack Speed: 100%
  • Effectiveness of Added Damage: 100%
  • Damage Multiplier: 100%

1. Death Wish Items

Item Category Lvl. Stats Note
Maw of Mischief Maw of Mischief helmet 73 Grants Level 20 Death Wish Skill Unique

How does the Maw of Mischief Helmet skill "Death Wish" prioritize the minions that will be chosen first to explode? Making it choose minions based on proximity of the location of the mouse would make sense, but it seems to be almost random.

The only prioritisation it has is that it cannot affect immortal minions or minions already affected by the skill. Beyond that it is random.

2. Death Wish Build

Immortal minions by Spectral Spirits (from Essence of Insanity’s mod) or Herald of Agony Herald of Agony cannot be made to explode.

The immortal Bestial minions from Yriel’s Fostering Yriel’s Fostering, however, can be made to explode.

Death Wish can be supported by applicable support gems socketed in the Maw of Mischief Maw of Mischief; it is not necessary to link the sockets together.

Death Wish is not a skill gem, therefore it cannot be supported by Empower Support Empower SupportEnhance Support Enhance Support, or Enlighten Support Enlighten Support.

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