Thorns

Thorns

Tooltip

Thorns damage is a kind of Hit Damage you can deal. Thorns damage is not Attack damage or Spell damage and is not affected by modifiers specific to those.

If you have Thorns damage, you inherently Retaliate against Melee Attack Hits, dealing your Thorns damage to the enemy that Hit you.

Some skills and other effects may also deal your thorns damage to enemies at other times.

Thorns is a stat that deals damage to enemies that hit you with a melee attack. Mechanically, this works as if enemies are "hitting" themselves and triggers "all damage" effects back at them. Thorns damage is not attack damage or spell damage and is not affected by modifiers specific to those.

Mechanics

Thorns can trigger off from any melee hit, including blocked hits and hits that deal no damage, but not evaded hits. Thorns damage does not scale with the amount of damage the hit that triggered it dealt.

Thorns damage does not count as a character's own hit, and any effects inflicted by thorns damage (such as ailments) also do not count as originating from the player.

Thorns damage can be scaled by all relevant modifiers to damage, such as generic damage, physical damage (or other damage types for non-Physical thorns/with conversion), and critical hit chance/critical damage bonus. Thorns has a base critical hit chance of 0%, but can be increased through sources of base crit such as Briarpatch and Thornhide. Resolute Technique also removes thorns crit chance. Thorns damage can also be converted, including regular conversion (Avatar of Fire) and gain conversion.

Thorns can inflict ailments to enemies based on their chance to inflict ailments on all hits (for example an enemy with all damage shocks will shock themselves when they hit you). Thorns can inflict elemental ailments based on the damage it deals (such as if your thorns do fire damage from Avatar of Fire). Thorns do not benefit from players' increased chance to inflict ailments, but it does benefit from effects that apply to all hits, such as Shaper of Winter.

Crown of the Pale King allows thorns to trigger from non-melee hits except from thorns damage.

Sources

Thorns can roll as explicit prefixes on belts, body armours, and shields.

Related gems

Item		Stats
Barbs	1	Supported Skills deal your Thorns Damage on their next 4 Hits after you Retaliate with Thorns
Caltrops	1	Support Projectiles from Supported Skills trigger Caltrops when they reach the end of their flight Caltrops Attack Time: 0.00 sec Critical Hit Chance: 5.00% Increases and reductions to Thorns Damage apply to Hit Damage with this skill Maim on Hit Caltrop radius is 0.5 metres Caltrops land within a 3 metre radius of Projectile impact Creates 1 Caltrop Caltrop duration is 8 seconds Deals 60% of your Dexterity as Physical Damage on Hit
Crackling Barrier	1	Gain 15% of your maximum Mana as Lightning Thorns Damage while Channelling Supported Skills
Quill Burst	1	Supported Skills trigger Quill Burst on their next 3 Hits after you Retaliate with Thorns
Scavenged Plating	1	Scavenged Plating duration is 8 seconds (2–5)% more Armour per Scavenged Plating Maximum 10 Scavenged Plating (2–60) to (3–90) Thorns per Scavenged Plating
Thornskin	1	Deal 40% increased Thorns Damage while a Supported Skill is active

Related runes

Item	Stack size	Description	Drop level
Greater Rune of Tithing	10	Martial Weapons: Meta Skills gain 10% increased Energy Armour: 1 to 100 Lightning Thorns damage	65

Related unique items

Item	Base item		Stats
Crown of Thorns	Twig Circlet	1	+(100-150) to maximum Energy Shield Lose 5 Life when you use a Skill (3-5) to (6-10) Physical Thorns damage Pain Attunement
The Blood Thorn	Wrapped Quarterstaff	1	Adds (8-12) to (16-18) Physical Damage +(10-15) to Strength Causes Bleeding on Hit (4-5) to (8-10) Physical Thorns damage
Briarpatch	Laced Boots	11	(10–20)% increased Movement Speed +(40–60) to maximum Life +(60–80) to Stun Threshold +25% to Thorns Critical Hit Chance (10-15) to (20-25) Physical Thorns damage
Edyrn's Tusks	Iron Cuirass	11	(120-160)% increased Armour 50% chance to inflict Bleeding on Hit 50% reduced Slowing Potency of Debuffs on You (15-20) to (25-30) Physical Thorns damage
Crown of the Pale King	Cultist Crown	16	(50–100)% increased Armour and Energy Shield +(40–80) to maximum Life 10% increased Rarity of Items found (10-15) to (20-25) Physical Thorns damage Thorns damage is triggered by all Hits
Cloak of Flame	Silk Robe	22	+(30-50)% of Fire Resistance (30-50)% reduced Ignite Duration on You 40% of Physical Damage taken as Fire Damage 25 to 35 Fire Thorns damage
Dreadfist	Bolstered Mitts	27	(60-100)% increased Armour (20-30)% increased Critical Damage Bonus Critical Hits inflict Impale Critical Hits cannot Extract Impale (20-31) to (31-49) Physical Thorns damage
Belly of the Beast	Explorer Armour	33	(100-150)% increased Armour and Evasion +(100-150) to maximum Life +(100-150) to Stun Threshold Life Recovery from Flasks is instant (25-30) to (35-40) Physical Thorns Damage
Prized Pain	Iron Ring	48	Adds 1 to 4 Physical Damage to Attacks+(20–30) to Strength Skills gain a Base Life Cost equal to 10% of Base Mana Cost Deal your Thorns Damage to Enemies you Stun with Melee Attacks (24–35) to (35–53) Physical Thorns damage
Beetlebite	Velour Shoes	52	(20–30)% increased Movement Speed (60–120)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield Aggravate Bleeding on Enemies when they Enter your Presence 100% increased Thorns damage

Version History

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Version	Changes
0.2.0e	Fixed a bug where it was possible to apply Thorns damage to yourself, such as through using the Crown of the Pale King and Fireflower Unique Items.
0.2.0	Physical Thorns damage on Rare item Modifiers has been buffed by up to 3.5 times for the highest tier modifier, scaling down to unchanged for the lowest tier modifier.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.