Scorching Ray - Path of Exile

Scorching Ray is an active skill gem.

Unleash a beam of fire that burns enemies it touches. Remaining in the beam intensifies the burning, adding a portion of the beam"s damage in stages. Inflicts Fire Exposure at maximum stages. Enemies who leave the beam continue to burn for a duration. Increasing cast speed also increases the rate at which the beam can turn.You are burning, taking fire damage over time from a Scorching Ray.

Spell, Fire, Duration, Channelling. Level: 1–20. Cost: 2–5 Mana. Cast Time: 0.25 sec. Requires Level 12.

Deals (13.4–780.7) Base Fire Damage per second
Base duration is 1.5 seconds
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill"s Damage Over Time effect
Burning Debuff can have a maximum of 8 stages
Additional Debuff stages add 60% of Damage
Fire Exposure applies -25% to Fire Resistance

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
Scorching Ray	(0–10)% increased beam length	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Scorching Ray	(0–10)% increased beam length	50
Anomalous Scorching Ray	(0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration	100
Divergent Scorching Ray	(0–40)% less Skill Effect Duration (0–40)% increased Cast Speed	50

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Intelligence	Cost	Deals 13.4 Base Fire Damage per second	Experience
1	12	33	2	13.4	15,249
2	15	39	2	17.6	41,517
3	19	48	2	24.7	81,983
4	23	56	3	34	147,968
5	27	64	3	46.2	250,557
6	31	73	3	62	405,086
7	35	81	3	82.4	447,718
8	38	88	3	101.5	615,318
9	41	94	4	124.5	834,639
10	44	100	4	152.1	1,570,760
11	47	106	4	185.3	1,633,987
12	50	113	4	225.2	2,151,030
13	53	119	4	272.9	2,812,189
14	56	125	5	329.9	5,099,360
15	59	132	5	398.1	9,400,731
16	62	138	5	479.4	15,273,366
17	64	142	5	542.2	26,286,582
18	66	146	5	612.6	62,890,590
19	68	151	5	691.8	212,046,017
20	70	155	5	780.7
21	72		5	880.4
22	74		6	992.3
23	76		6	1117.8
24	78		6	1258.5
25	80		6	1416.1
26	82		6	1592.7
27	84		6	1790.5
28	86		6	2011.9
29	88		6	2259.7
30	90		7	2536.9
31	91		7	2687.6
32	92		7	2847
33	93		7	3015.6
34	94		7	3193.8
35	95		7	3382.3
36	96		7	3581.5
37	97		7	3792.2
38	98		7	4014.8
39	99		7	4250.2
40	100		7	4499.1

Scorching Ray is a channelling fire spell skill that fires a beam that inflicts burning damage to targets in front of the caster and applies fire resistance exposure at maximum stages.

Skill functions and interactions

Applies the fire exposure debuff at max stacks, which lowers the target's fire resistance by 25%.
Touching an unaffected target by the beam at any point during a cast interval will apply the first stage of the debuff. If the target remains in the beam, the spell will apply the next stage of the debuff the instant it consumes mana from the player again. As a result, It is possible to inflict multiple debuff stacks in quick succession to targets with only brief contact such as when sweeping the beam across the screen.
Damage over time: Modifiers to Spell, Fire, Elemental, Burning Damage, Damage Over Time, and duration affect the damage over time component of this spell.
Scorching Ray does not hit and therefore cannot be supported by added damage supports such as Added Chaos Damage Support and cannot confer the effects of supports such as Blind Support or Hextouch Support.
While channeling Scorching Ray, the player has a reduced turning rate. Increasing scorching ray's cast speed will increase the rate at which the player can rotate while channeling it, up to a maximum +150% increased cast speed modifier.
Scorching Ray has a delay, equal to the cast time, between the pressing of the skill and the appearance of the beam.
Scorching Ray is not a projectile or an area of effect skill and therefore is not affected by modifiers to projectile damage, area damage, projectile speed, or area of effect.
Scorching Ray has the channelling tag and therefore cannot be supported by Spell Echo Support.

Item acquisition

Scorching Ray can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.

Recipes

Scorching Ray 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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
The Siren's Cadence 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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 Nessa	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Unique items

The following unique items are related to Scorching Ray:

Item	Base Item	Level	Stats
Balefire	Opal Sceptre	60	40% increased Elemental DamageGrants Level 25 Scorching Ray Skill (12-20)% increased Cast Speed Recover (1-3)% of Life on Kill Recover (1-3)% of Mana on Kill 10% increased Scorching Ray beam length

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Scorching Ray.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Fire Beam Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	8% increased Scorching Ray Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Fire Beam Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	12% increased Scorching Ray Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Scorching Ray Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Scorching Ray Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Scorching Ray Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Scorching Ray Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Fire Beam Length 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Scorching Ray beam length	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Fire Beam Length 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Scorching Ray beam length	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Scorching Ray has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Radiant Scorching Ray Effect	Your Scorching Ray becomes a Radiant effect.
Shaper Scorching Ray Effect	Your Scorching Ray becomes a Shaper Effect.
Stygian Scorching Ray Effect	Your Scorching Ray becomes a Stygian Effect.