Herald of Thunder PoE Autobomber Build, Support Gems

Herald of Thunder is Herald skill. Grants a buff which adds lightning damage to spells and attacks. If you kill a shocked enemy, this skill will create a storm, causing lightning bolts to strike enemies around you for a duration. The damage inflicted by this skill is not affected by modifiers to spell damage. Spell, AoE, Duration, Lightning, Herald. Level: 1–20. Reservation: 25% Mana. Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Radius: 32. Requires Level 16. Deals (1–23) to (31–1108) Lightning Damage Cannot inflict Shock Base duration is 6 seconds Storm Hits an Enemy every 0.25 Seconds Creates a storm when you Kill a Shocked Enemy Buff grants (2–19) to (7–76) Added Attack Lightning Damage Buff grants (2–19) to (7–76) Added Spell Lightning Damage 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 Herald of Thunder Buff grants (0–15)% increased Lightning Damage 50

Buy PoE Currency Cheap

• Divine Orbs for Sale (6% off coupon: vhpg). Best site to buy PoE currency.
• Buy PoE Currency Instant Delivery (6% off coupon: poeitems). Path of Exile item and currency. Payment: PayPal, Skrill, Cryptocurrencies.

Related Gems

Level Effect

Mechanics

Similar to the Herald of Ash and Herald of Ice skill gems, Herald of Thunder has two separate effects.

The first effect adds x-y lightning damage to both spells and attacks. Damage dealt by this effect can shock.

The second effect is triggered when a shocked enemy is killed. A Storm will strike enemies and destructible objects within Herald of Thunder's radius for its duration dealing lightning secondary damage. This storm remains centered on the character's location if the character moves. Damage dealt by the storm cannot inflict shock, and is not an area of effect.

The storm will strike an enemy or destructible object every 250ms, but will prioritise targets that have been struck fewer times.

The storm from Herald of Thunder applies to enemies killed by attacks as well as spells, but not if they are killed by minions, traps, mines, or totems.

Interactions

• Elemental Damage: Elemental and lightning damage modifiers affect both the on-hit and on-kill effects of Herald of Thunder. Added damage from support gems such as Added Cold Damage Support and Added Chaos Damage Support only applies to Herald of Thunder's storm.

• Casting and Spell Interactions: Because Herald of Thunder's lightning bolts is secondary damage and not spell damage it is not directly affected by items, support gems, or passive skills which specifically modify spells.

• Area of Effect: AoE modifiers like Increased Area of Effect Support and Concentrated Effect Support affect the radius in which Herald of Thunder's storm can strike targets. Lightning bolts are not AoE damage, therefore Area Damage modifiers don't affect the storm's damage.

• Duration: Duration modifiers like Increased Duration Support and Less Duration Support affect the duration of the storm.

• Auras, Buffs and Mana Reservation: Like Herald of Ash and Herald of Ice, Herald of Thunder is not an aura and does not receive bonuses from aura nodes, items, or support gems. It does reserve mana however, and it therefore benefits from #% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency modifiers.

• Quality: Herald of Thunder's increased lightning damage quality bonus is global, meaning that it affects the character's lightning damage from all sources, not only Herald of Thunder.

• Cannot Apply Shock: Herald of Thunder's on-kill effect cannot apply Shock. However, if The Three Dragons is equipped, the storm can apply Freeze.

Item acquisition

Herald of Thunder can drop anywhere. Drop level: 16.

Recipes

Herald of Thunder 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 ↓
Intruders in Black Act 2	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

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 ↓
Intruders in Black Act 2 Yeena	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Herald of Thunder.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Herald Of Thunder Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Herald of Thunder Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Herald Of Thunder Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Herald of Thunder Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Herald Of Thunder Mana Reservation 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Herald of Thunder has 50% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Herald Of Thunder Mana Reservation 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Herald of Thunder has 75% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 100 default 0

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Herald of Thunder:

Item	Base Item	Level	Stats
Megalomaniac	Medium Cluster Jewel	1	Adds 4 Passive Skills Added Small Passive Skills grant Nothing <3 Random notable mods> Corrupted
Fidelitas' Spike	Jagged Foil	22	+25% to Global Critical Strike MultiplierNo Physical Damage Adds 1 to (40-50) Lightning Damage (25-30)% increased Attack Speed +2 Life gained for each Enemy hit by Attacks (15-20)% chance to Shock Herald of Thunder has 50% increased Buff Effect
Circle of Regret	Topaz Ring	52	<One to three random Synthesis implicit modifiers>+(20-30) to Intelligence Adds 1 to (48-60) Lightning Damage +(20-30)% to Lightning Resistance <Two Random Herald of Thunder modifiers>
Storm Secret	Topaz Ring	56	+(20-30)% to Lightning Resistance+(20-30) to Intelligence (20-30)% increased Lightning Damage (10-15)% chance to Shock Herald of Thunder also creates a storm when you Shock an Enemy Herald of Thunder's Storms Hit Enemies with (30-50)% increased Frequency Take 250 Lightning Damage when Herald of Thunder Hits an Enemy

Related passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Herald of Thunder: No results found for the given query.

Alternate skill effects

Herald of Thunder has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Automaton Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an Automaton Effect.
Blood Guard Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Blood Guard Effect.
Celestial Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Celestial Effect.
Darkwood Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Darkwood Effect.
Demonic Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Demonic Effect.
Despair Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Despair Effect.
Divine Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a divine effect.
Dragon Hunter Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Dragon Hunter Effect.
Faith Guard Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Faith Guard Effect.
Gloom Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a dark effect.
Gore Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a gory effect.
Innocence Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes an innocence effect.
Invisible Buff Effect	Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.
Purple Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a purple effect.
Sin Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a sin effect.
Stygian Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Stygian Effect.
Sunprism Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Sunprism Effect.
Transcendence Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a Transcendence Effect.
Wasteland Herald Effect	Your Herald of Ash, Thunder or Ice becomes a Wasteland Effect.
White Herald Effect	Your Herald becomes a White Effect.