In Path of Exile: Necropolis, we have added a use portal scroll keybind. This can be found on the Input tab of the options menu.
As long as you have a portal scroll in your inventory, then this will instantly open a portal at your leisure.
A Portal Scroll is a common currency item that instantly creates a portal when used. The skill gem Portal is the spell version. These both create a portal to the current area’s town. For Portal Scroll, right-click on this item to use it. For Portal Gem, place into an item socket to gain this skill. Per 1% quality of Portal Gem can increase 3% of cast speed. The maximum quality is 20%.
The Portal gem is a spell that performs the same function as a Portal Scroll, creating a portal to the current act’s town. Portal is a colorless gem and can be placed into any item socket.
Using a Vaal Orb to corrupt a Portal Gem has one of the following effects:
Only the quality of a Portal gem has an effect: per 1% quality increases 3% Cast Speed. Normally, the cast time is 2.50 sec. With +20% quality, 60% increased cast speed, the new cast time is 1.56 sec.
Unlike most gems, Portal does not gain any experience and therefore cannot level up. It is also affected by support gems like Faster Casting Support, Cast on Death Support, Cast when Stunned Support, Spell Totem Support, etc. Faster Casting increases the cast speed of linked spells.
You can get this skill gem by killing monsters. The drop level of Portal gem is 10 and the drop is random.
Amount | Ingredient | General Notes |
Drop Areas |
---|---|---|---|
5 | The Realm | random quality Portal | Can drop from Breach monsters. |
3 | Gemcutter's Promise | random superior gem (Q20) | The Ebony Barracks(Act 3) • The Lunaris Concourse(Act 8) • Colonnade Map • Promenade Map |
This is the best way to get a Portal gem. The price of a Portal Gem is about one Chaos Orb. You can obtain it by exchanging currency items for it.
Carrying Portal Scroll is usually recommended unless a player is using the Portal skill gem. Players may also use Portal Scrolls to go in and out of town, to immediately refill flasks and heal to full while in the middle of combat.
Portal Scroll has a vendor recipe for Scroll of Wisdom. When you have a Portal Gem, you will not need Portal Scroll any more. Then, you can vendor all Portal Scrolls in exchange for Scrolls of wisdom.
There is no direct hotkey for Portal Scroll. However, you can get a Portal Gem, and put it as a skill. You can then use the skill hotkey to activate the Portal skill.
Player-created portals can be used to travel to town unlimited times by any party members. However, it will disappear once the creator uses it from the town-side. Other party members can use the town-side portal unlimited times.
Portals will automatically disappear after the instance they are linked to has expired. The expiration time for instances is 8 minutes for normal instances and 15 minutes for “hub” instances (instances that lead to more than one instance, eg. Mud Flats which leads to Fetid Pool and Submerged Passage). A portal will not expire as long as the instance it is linked to is prevented from expiring (eg. a player stays in it).
The drop level of Portal Scroll is 2 and it has a high drop rate. You can obtain it easily by killing monsters.
Nessa is an NPC that lives in Lioneye's Watch in Act 1. She sells a Portal Scroll with the cost of 3 Scrolls of Wisdom.