Lightning Warp - Path of Exile

Lightning Warp Lightning Warp is an active skill gem.

Waits for a duration before teleporting to a targeted destination, with the duration based on the distance and your movement speed. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt to the area around both where the player was and where they teleported to. Casting again will queue up multiple teleportations to occur in sequence.

Spell, AoE, Duration, Movement, Lightning, Travel. Level: 1–20. Cost: 9–26 Mana. Cast Time: 0.70 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 90%. Radius: 16. Requires Level 10.

  • Deals (1–51) to (19–965) Lightning Damage
  • +(0–4) to radius
  • Can queue up to 50 uses
  • (30–49)% reduced Duration

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

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Lightning Warp(0–20)% increased Cast Speed50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelIntelligenceCostDeals 1 to 19 Lightning Damage30% reduced Duration# to radiusExperience
1102991, 193009,569
21335101, 2531028,189
31743112, 3432059,146
42152122, 47331111,192
52560133, 62341193,800
62969144, 82351320,280
73377166, 108361359,090
83683167, 131372498,508
93990178, 159382682,057
1042961810, 191392921,777
11451021912, 2304021,727,879
12481092014, 2754121,791,769
13511152117, 3294232,353,679
14541212221, 3914333,070,912
15571272324, 4654439,095,466
16601342329, 55245316,039,890
17631402434, 65446429,817,117
18661462541, 77447462,895,056
19681512645, 864484212,051,599
20701552651, 965494
21722757, 1077505
22742763, 1200515
23762870, 1338525
24782978, 1490535
25802987, 1659545
26823097, 1846556
278430108, 2053566
288631120, 2282576
298832133, 2536586
309032148, 2817597
319132156, 2968607
329233165, 3128607
339333173, 3295617
349433183, 3471617
359534192, 3656627
369634203, 3851627
379734213, 4056637
389834225, 4271637
399935237, 4497648
4010035249, 4735648

Lightning Warp is a movement / travel skill (and a spell) that causes the player character (or totem when supported by Spell Totem) to teleport to a location after a delay. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt in a small area around both the previous location and the new location.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Description: When the skill is cast, the exit point is set. The caster can then attack, cast, or move until the teleport executes. The AoE lightning damage will occur wherever the player was standing when the teleport resolves and wherever the caster teleports to.
  • Usage time and stats: Total usage time consists of casting time and delay time. Casting time is standard casting with base time of 0.7 second. It can be modified by cast speed stats. Delay time is skill effect duration and is affected by skill effect duration stats including skill gem's one. Base time for delay is calculated as a time needed for character to normally run the euclidean distance between position where the spell was cast and exit position with character's current movement speed. Because of that movement speed stats (including conditional ones, auras, etc) also affects delay time. It is not possible to completely eliminate this delay because there is a hidden 0.1 second delay added to it.
  • Sequence of operations: The lightning explosion occurs before the caster leaves and after the caster arrives. This will, for example, cause the caster to take damage from monsters that explode on death that are killed by Lightning Warp.
  • Death: If the caster dies before the teleport executes, the teleport will still execute, transporting the caster's corpse to the targeted location.
  • Can be used in left mouse button slot to cast and move.

Strategy

Movement

Lightning Warp is primarily used as a movement skill. To improve Lightning Warp's effectiveness as a movement skill, one should support it with Less Duration Support, Faster Casting Support, and Swift Affliction Support. If only one support gem can be used, Less Duration Support will generally result in faster travel. Taking increased Skill Effect Duration passives will render Lightning Warp much less useful as a movement skill, in which case you may want to consider alternatives such as Flame Dash, Leap Slam, Whirling Blades.

Compared with Leap Slam, Lightning Warp has the advantages of not requiring any particular weapon, potentially higher speed, and slightly longer range. However, it costs more mana and requires three support gems to be fully effective. Compared with Flame Dash, Lightning Warp has the advantage of being able to be cast as many times as possible, but costs slightly more mana and has a noticeable delay.

With Arctic Armour

Lightning Warp can be used as a method of travel when using Arctic Armour, since this will allow the player to always remain stationary and thus always receive Arctic Armour's less Damage taken while stationary bonus.

Item acquisition

Lightning Warp can drop anywhere. Drop level: 10.

Recipes

Lightning Warp 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

Usage in recipes

Lightning Warp is used in the following recipes:

Result Amount Part Notes Description
Star of Wraeclast 1 Ruby Ring Any unique variant. Always gave corrupted Star of Wraeclast. Can use Influenced items (excluding gem) to yield Star of Wraeclast on influenced base.
1 Onyx Amulet Can be of any rarity.
1 Lightning Warp level 20 corrupted (Vaal Lightning Warp or level 21 Lightning Warp gem will not work)

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute
Act 1		 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

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 ↓
The Caged Brute
Act 1
Nessa		 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Lightning Warp.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Lightning Warp Cast Speed 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 8% increased Lightning Warp Cast Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Cast Speed 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 12% increased Lightning Warp Cast Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Lightning Warp Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Lightning Warp Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Duration 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 20% reduced Lightning Warp Duration helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Lightning Warp Duration 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 30% reduced Lightning Warp Duration helmet 100
default 0

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Lightning Warp:

Item Base Item Level Stats
Moonbender's Wing Tomahawk 39 Trigger Level 15 Lightning Warp on Hit with this Weapon
(30-50)% increased Physical Damage
(30-50)% increased Critical Strike Chance
Hits with this Weapon gain (75-100)% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold or Lightning Damage

Alternate skill effects

Lightning Warp has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Automaton Lightning Warp Effect Your Lightning Warp becomes an Automaton Effect.
Blood Guard Lightning Warp Effect Your Lightning Warp becomes a Blood Guard Effect.
Demonic Lightning Warp Effect Your Lightning Warp becomes a Demonic Effect.
Innocence Lightning Warp Effect Your Lightning Warp becomes an innocence effect.