Siege Ballista - Path of Exile

Siege Ballista Siege Ballista is an active skill gem.

Summons a ballista totem that attacks with piercing arrows. Requires a Bow.

Attack, Projectile, Totem, Bow. Level: 1–20. Cost: 6–11 Mana. Attack Speed: 50% of base. Attack Damage: 100–145% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 100–145%. Projectile Speed: 3260. Requires Level 12.

  • Arrows Pierce (6–9) additional Targets
  • +(2–3) to maximum number of Summoned Totems
  • Totem lasts 8 seconds
  • Summons a Ballista Totem which uses this Skill

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

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Siege Ballista(0–20)% increased Projectile Damage50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelDexterityCostBase Damage+2 to maximum number of Summoned TotemsArrows Pierce 6 additional TargetsExperience
112336100%2615,249
215396102.4%2641,517
319487104.7%2681,983
423567107.1%26147,968
527647109.5%26250,557
631737111.8%27405,086
735818114.2%27447,718
838888116.6%27615,318
941948118.9%27834,639
10441008121.3%271,570,760
11471069123.7%381,633,987
12501139126.1%382,151,030
13531199128.4%382,812,189
14561259130.8%385,099,360
155913210133.2%389,400,731
166213810135.5%3915,273,366
176414210137.9%3926,286,582
186614610140.3%3962,890,590
196815111142.6%39212,046,017
207015511145%39
217211147.4%310
227412149.7%410
237612152.1%410
247812154.5%410
258012156.8%410
268213159.2%411
278413161.6%411
288613163.9%411
298813166.3%411
309014168.7%411
319114169.9%411
329214171.1%412
339314172.2%412
349415173.4%412
359515174.6%412
369615175.8%412
379715177%412
389816178.2%412
399916179.3%412
4010016180.5%412

Siege Ballista is a bow attack skill. It summons a ballista totem that fires a powerful, piercing bolt after a build-up time. The bolts scale on the player's weapon damage. The totem suffers an attack speed penalty but deals increased base damage. Siege Ballista's range is 80 units.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Ballista: Siege Ballista is part of the ballista sub-class of totems. Ballista totems have inherent added totem limit. They have a much shorter summoning range, spawning much closer to the summoner.

Bow: Siege Ballista requires that a bow is equipped in order to be cast and has a Bow Gem tag.

Since Siege Ballista's attacks are also bow attacks, effects such as Point Blank and Chin Sol's close range bonus apply. For the range-dependent effects, bonus damage is based on the target's distance from the totem making the attacks.

Attack: Siege Ballista fires ranged attacks that scale off of base attack damage, and thus scale directly off of the player's equipped bow and other attack stats. Siege Ballista fires at 50% of the attack speed of the equipped bow. Siege Ballista attacks can be evaded.

With the unique Iron Commander, one can summon 1 additional Siege Ballista Totem per 200 Dexterity.

Item acquisition

Siege Ballista can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.

Recipes

Siege Ballista 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 ↓
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 ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1
Nessa		 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Alternate skill effects

Siege Ballista has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Arcane Tome Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an Arcane Tome.
Darkshard Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a darkshard totem.
Demonic Arctic Ballista Totem Skin Replaces the default skin on your ballista totems with a Demonic Arctic version.
Dragon Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a golden dragon.
Eagle Guardian Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an eagle guardian.
Olmec Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a carved stone totem with two faces.
Pylon of Pain Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Pylon of Pain.
Tiki Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a coloured totem that has carved tiki designs.
Twisted Skull Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a twisted skull totem.
Ziggurat Totem Skin Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an ancient ziggurat.

Monster stats

Totem

Resistances:

  • 40% elemental resistance
  • 20% chaos resistance
Level Life
4 67
6 88
9 120
12 161
16 226
20 308
24 411
28 538
32 693
36 882
40 1114
44 1393
48 1734
52 2146
55 2507
58 2928
61 3407
64 3957
67 4589
70 5312
72 5853
74 6444
76 7088
78 7793
80 8564
82 9405
84 10322
86 11327
88 12421
90 13615

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Siege Ballista.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Siege Ballista Attack Speed 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Siege Ballista has 10% increased Attack Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Siege Ballista Attack Speed 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Siege Ballista has 15% increased Attack Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Siege Ballista Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Siege Ballista deals 25% increased Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Siege Ballista Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Siege Ballista deals 40% increased Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Siege Ballista Totem Placement Speed 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Siege Ballista has 30% increased Totem Placement Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Siege Ballista Totem Placement Speed 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Siege Ballista has 45% increased Totem Placement Speed helmet 100
default 0