Detonate Dead

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Detonate DeadSpell, AoE, Physical, Fire, Detonator
Tier: 7
Level: 1
Cast Time: 0.80 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 8.00%Requires Level 22Causes a Corpse to violently explode, damaging surrounding enemies.Skills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemDetonateDead

Detonate Dead is a Spell skill.

Skill functions and interactions

Detonate Dead causes a Corpse to violently explode, damaging surrounding enemies.

The explosion deals Fire and Physical damage.

Improving the quality of Detonate Dead increases the explosion radius by 0-0.04 meters. At 20% quality, this increases the total radius of the explosion to 3 meters.

Gem level progression

Detonate Dead deals fire damage that scales with its level.

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I	Hourglass	Ignition	Magnified Effect
II	Considered Casting	Corpse Conservation	Spell Echo
III	Elemental Focus	Fire Exposure	Searing Flame

Version history

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Version	Changes
0.2.0	Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread. Detonate Dead now deals Physical Damage equal to 8.8-10.7% of Corpse's maximum Life at Gem levels 7-20 (previously 20% at all Gem levels), scaling further past Gem level 20. It also now deals 41 to 61 Fire Damage at gem level 7 (previously 28 to 43), scaling up to 139 to 208 Fire Damage at gem level 20 (previously 169 to 254).
0.1.1	Fixed a bug where enemies could cast detonate dead on players minions when the player was using the Sacrifice Gem.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.