PoE Kinetic Blast

Ah, Kinetic Blast! This versatile and explosive skill continues to be a popular choice for Path of Exile players, offering both strong clear speed and decent single-target potential. Let's dive into its intricacies:

Mechanics:

  • Fires a projectile that explodes on impact, creating multiple smaller explosions in a circular area.
  • Each explosion deals a portion of the initial projectile's damage, making it effective against groups of enemies.
  • Can be linked with various support gems to modify its behavior, such as:
    • Increased Projectile Count: Fires more projectiles, increasing the number of explosions and total damage.
    • Elemental Hit Support: Converts physical damage to an element based on your linked attack gems.
    • Volley Support: Fires in a cone instead of a single direction, improving clear speed.
    • Volatile Support: Increases maximum damage but decreases minimum damage, creating a "boom or bust" playstyle.

Strengths:

  • Excellent Clear Speed: The chain reactions from multiple explosions make it fantastic for clearing maps and packs of enemies.
  • Decent Single-Target: Properly built, it can also handle bosses and tougher encounters.
  • Scalable Damage: Works well with various damage types and can be scaled through skills, support gems, and gear.
  • Caster-like Playstyle: Fires like a projectile spell, offering a ranged alternative to traditional melee or attack builds.

Weaknesses:

  • Projectile-based: Can be hindered by enemy projectile defenses and terrain obstacles.
  • Mana intensive: Higher attack speeds demand efficient mana management.
  • Requires investment: Reaching its full potential often requires specific gear and gem setups.
  • Less intuitive aiming: Controlling the precise direction of explosions can be tricky.

Building with Kinetic Blast:

  • Ascendancy options: Several ascendancies like Deadeye, Raider, and Elementalist offer beneficial options for Kinetic Blast builds.
  • Damage scaling: Focus on scaling projectile damage, elemental damage (if converted), and attack speed.
  • Defense: Balance offense with survivability through evasion, energy shield, or life regeneration.
  • Movement skills: Utilize efficient movement skills to reposition and maximize clear speed.

Overall:

Kinetic Blast is a rewarding and versatile skill with a high skill ceiling. While it takes some planning and investment to truly shine, its explosive potential and satisfying gameplay make it a popular choice for players seeking a fast-paced and powerful build.

Kinetic Blast Kinetic Blast is an active skill gem.

Fires a projectile from a Wand that causes a series of small explosions surrounding its point of impact, each damaging enemies caught in the area.

Attack, Projectile, AoE. Level: 1–20. Cost: 15–16 Mana. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 140–155%. Requires Level 28.

  • (0–19)% increased Area of Effect
  • Creates 4 explosions
  • 35% less Area Damage

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Kinetic Blast(0–10)% increased Area of Effect50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelIntelligenceCostBase Damage#% increased Area of EffectExperience
1286715140%199,345
2317315140.8%1285,815
3347915141.6%2401,344
4378515142.4%3554,379
5409215143.2%4477,437
6429615143.9%5583,786
74410015144.7%6710,359
84610415145.5%71,355,511
94810916146.3%81,138,877
105011316147.1%91,368,233
115211716147.9%101,638,338
125412116148.7%111,956,648
135612516149.5%123,655,184
145813016150.3%133,017,327
156013416151.1%147,759,995
166213816151.8%1515,138,193
176414216152.6%1626,083,825
186614616153.4%1762,620,247
196815116154.2%18211,708,088
207015516155%19
217216155.8%20
227416156.6%21
237616157.4%22
247816158.2%23
258017158.9%24
268217159.7%25
278417160.5%26
288617161.3%27
298817162.1%28
309017162.9%29
319117163.3%29
329217163.7%30
339317164.1%30
349417164.5%31
359517164.9%31
369617165.3%32
379717165.7%32
389818166.1%33
399918166.4%33
4010018166.8%34

Kinetic Blast fires a projectile from a wand that causes a series of small explosions surrounding its point of impact, each damaging enemies caught in the area.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Multiple Projectiles: Kinetic blast always produces 4 explosions per projectile impact. This makes supports such as Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support and Greater Multiple Projectiles Support valuable additions for clearing groups. Note that only one projectile per attack can contact any enemy at a time. While it is possible to cause the explosions to overlap on a single target from multiple projectiles careful targeting is required. Positioning an enemy in front of a wall or obstacle is one of the most reliable ways to make sure the areas overlap since Kinetic Blast can no long interact with the player or ally's Frost Walls, as of Version 2.4.0.
  • Piercing, Forking, and Chaining: Kinetic Blast will produce its 4 additional explosions for each enemy contacted by the projectile. This makes piercing, chaining, and forking useful mechanics to utilize for clearing large groups of enemies. However, due to the large damage penalty associated with supporting a skill with Chain Support, chain is not recommended unless it comes from a passive source skill such as the Deadeye notable passive Ricochet.
  • Area of Effect: Increases to this skill's area of effect such as those in the skill tree or Increased Area of Effect Support will affect both the radius of the explosions and their spacing apart from each other, meaning more area of effect will increase coverage but not increase the chance of multiple explosions hitting a single target.

Item acquisition

Kinetic Blast can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Kinetic Blast can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
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 helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Kinetic Blast.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Kinetic Blast Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Kinetic Blast Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Kinetic Blast Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Kinetic Blast Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Kinetic Blast Explosions 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Kinetic Blast has a 50% chance for an additional explosion helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Kinetic Blast Explosions 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Kinetic Blast has a 75% chance for an additional explosion helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Kinetic Blast Area Of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 16% increased Kinetic Blast Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Kinetic Blast Area Of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 24% increased Kinetic Blast Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0

Alternate skill effects

Kinetic Blast has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Celestial Kinetic Blast Effect Your Kinetic Blast becomes a Celestial Effect.