Tornado Gem – Path of Exile

The Tornado Tornado Skill chases enemies and pulses with damage. It has a charge-up period where it will absorb damage from projectiles you hit it with. This will cause it to power up, greatly increasing its damage output.

Create a Tornado that hinders and repeatedly damages enemies around it. It will move forward for a duration, during which your projectiles can collide with it to deal damage as though it was an enemy. Then it will chase down enemies for a secondary duration, and reflect a portion of the damage it took from your projectiles to them in addition to its own damage.

Spell, Duration, Physical, AoE, Orb. Level: 1–20. Cost: 15–25 Mana. Cast Time: 0.75 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 95%. Requires Level 34.

  • Deals (31–414) to (46–620) Physical Damage
  • Deals Damage every 0.25 seconds
  • Base duration is 1.5 seconds
  • Base secondary duration is 4 seconds
  • During initial Duration, can be hit by your Projectiles up to 20 times
  • Reflects 10% of Damage Taken to Enemies
  • Tornado has (0–57)% increased Movement Speed
  • Maximum 1 Tornado

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

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
TornadoTornado has (0–10)% increased Movement Speed100

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PoE Tornado Build

Let's use a level 1 Tornado as an example.

  1. The main damage type is Physical Damage.
  2. This skill creates a Tornado and has two phases. In the first phase, the Tornado moves towards enemies and pulses with damage. It lasts 2 seconds and deals damage every 0.25 seconds.
  3. During the first attack time, you have 2 seconds to fire as many projectiles as you can into the Tornado.The tornado will absorb damage from projectiles you hit it with. It greatly increasing its damage output. The tornado can be hit by your projectiles up to 20 times.
  4. Tornados are only affected by projectiles that can collide with enemies. Skills like Rolling Magma and Cremation can't use their projectiles to add to Tornado's damage.
  5. In the secondary duration, the Tornado will reflect 10% of the damage it took from your projectiles to them in addition to its own damage. It lasts 4 seconds.

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelDexterityIntelligenceCostDeals 31 to 46 Physical DamageTornado has #% increased Movement SpeedExperience
13450351531, 46252,595
23653361536, 543314,394
33855381642, 636388,734
44058401649, 739477,437
54260421757, 8512583,786
64463441866, 9915710,359
74666461876, 115181,355,511
84868481988, 133211,138,877
950714919102, 153241,368,233
1052745120118, 177271,638,338
1154765320136, 204301,956,648
1256795521157, 235333,655,184
1358825721181, 271363,017,327
1460845922208, 312393,576,232
1562876022239, 358429,164,731
1664906223274, 4114517,861,428
1766926424315, 4724846,032,386
1868956624361, 5415187,248,039
1969966724386, 58054157,972,052
2070986825414, 62057
217225474, 71160
227426542, 81363
237626620, 93066
247827709, 106469
258027810, 121572
268228925, 138875
2784281057, 158578
2886291206, 180881
2988301375, 206384
3090301568, 235287
3191301674, 251188
3292311787, 268090
3393311907, 286191
3494312035, 305393
3595312172, 325894
3696322318, 347796
3797322473, 371097
3898322639, 395899
3999332815, 4222100
40100333003, 4504102

Tornado is a skill that launches a tornado that repeatedly damages enemies around it. It will move forward for a duration, during which your projectiles can collide with it to deal damage as though it was an enemy. Then it will chase down enemies for a secondary duration, and reflect a portion of the damage it took from your projectiles to them in addition to its own damage. Note only projectiles that can collide with enemies contribute to Tornado's damage, so skills like Rolling Magma and Cremation cannot contribute.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Duration: Skill effect duration affects both the initial duration and the secondary duration (this is additive with reduced initial duration from the anomalous version of the skill gem).

Item acquisition

Tornado can drop anywhere. Drop level: 34.

Recipes

Tornado 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 ↓
Breaking the Seal
Act 4		 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

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 ↓
Breaking the Seal
Act 4
Petarus and Vanja		 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Tornado.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Tornado Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Tornado Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tornado Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Tornado Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tornado Movement Speed 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Tornado has 20% increased Movement Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tornado Movement Speed 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Tornado has 30% increased Movement Speed helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tornado Area Of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 16% increased Tornado Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tornado Area Of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 24% increased Tornado Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0

Two Tornado Skills problem

Problem: The Saqawal's Flock Unique Helmet has a skill called Tornado, which is now the name of a new Skill Gem.

Solution: The Tornado skill granted by the Saqawal's Flock Unique Helmet has been renamed to Twister.

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