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Decompose

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DecomposeSpell, AoE, Fire, Chaos, Duration
Level: 1
Consume a Corpse to create a cloud of flammable Poisonous gas. Any Burning effects or Detonator skills will explode the gas cloud, creating a fiery explosion.Poison Cloud
Limit 6 Poison Clouds
Poisons enemies as though dealing Chaos damage equal to 10% of Corpse's maximum Life
Gains +20% more Radius per second, up to a maximum of +80%
Cloud radius is 1.6 metres
Cloud duration is 4 seconds

Explosion
Critical Hit Chance: 8.00%
Cloud radius is 1.6 metres
Cloud duration is 4 seconds
Deals (11–352) to (17–529) Fire Damage
Skills can be managed in the Skills Panel.
Acquisition
Drop disabled
Granted as an inherent skill from Corpsewade.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemCorpseCloud

Decompose is a spell skill granted by the unique item Corpsewade. This skill triggers on each step, causing nearby corpses to release an expanding poison gas cloud that deals damage based on the corpse's maximum life. The gas clouds can be detonated with burning damage to create a firey explosion.

Skill functions and interactions

Gem level progression

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 Bursting Plague Corrosion Persistence
II Coming Soon Corpse Conservation Demolisher
III Coming Soon Deadly Poison Fire Mastery

Item acquisition

Decompose is drop disabled.

Version history

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.
  • Decompose, the Skill granted by the Corpsewade Unique Boots, now causes the Poison Cloud to poison enemies as though dealing Chaos damage equal up to 10% of Corpse's Maximum Life at Gem levels 1-20 (previously 30-39.5%).
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.