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Magma Barrier

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Magma BarrierBuff, Attack, Persistent, AoE, Melee, Trigger, Fire, Duration
Tier: 4
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: 30 spirit
Attack Damage: (120-490)% of base
When you raise your Shield it is infused with magma for a short time. Blocking during this time will spray magma at the attacker and grant you an Endurance Charge.Raising your shield infuses it with magma for 0.5 seconds
Cannot perform a magma-infused block for 0.75 seconds after magma dissipates
Gain Endurance Charge on Block

Magma Spray
Critical Hit Chance: 5.00%
Attack Damage: (120-490)% of base
(2-4) to (3-6) Added Fire Damage per 15 Armour on Shield
(4-234) to (7-351) Base Off Hand Fire Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Raising your shield infuses it with magma for (0-0.2) seconds
Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill.
Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab.
Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Spirit Gem.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemMagmaBarrier

Magma Barrier is an persistent buff skill. Whenever you begin to use Raise Shield or Parry, your shield will be briefly infused with magma. When you block a hit during this period, it triggers a magma spray attack that deals fire damage to enemies in front of you and grants an endurance charge.

Skill functions and interactions

Base damage from this skill scales off of the equipped shield's Armour rating. Conditional modifiers that increase the Armour provided by the shield do not contribute towards the skill's damage. Passive skills with the mod X% increased Defences from Equipped Shield does not affect the skill's damage.

This skill can be used with bucklers, but the Magma Spray will not gain any damage scaling due to it not providing any Armour.

Your weapon's local modifiers will not scale the damage of this skill. Damage is classified as off-hand damage regardless of the type of weapon you have equipped in your main hand or if you're unarmed.

Blocking with Magma Barrier during the first 0.5 seconds of its activation will not place Magma Barrier on its internal cooldown, allowing it to be used in quick succession with each successful block that is within the allotted window.[Likely due to a bug][confirmation needed]

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired StrengthAttack
Damage
Off Hand Fire DamageAdded Fire Damage
111120%4 to 72 to 3
239132%6 to 92 to 3
3616146%8 to 112 to 3
41025160%10 to 152 to 3
51434174%12 to 192 to 3
61843189%15 to 232 to 4
72252204%19 to 292 to 4
82661218%24 to 352 to 4
93172232%29 to 432 to 4
103683246%35 to 532 to 4
114195262%43 to 643 to 5
1246106280%51 to 773 to 5
1352119299%62 to 933 to 5
1458133319%75 to 1133 to 5
1564146342%91 to 1363 to 5
1666151367%110 to 1644 to 6
1772164393%132 to 1984 to 6
1878178423%160 to 2404 to 6
1984191455%193 to 2904 to 6
2090205490%234 to 3514 to 6

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 Fire Infusion Magnified Effect
II Close Combat Exploit Weakness
III Elemental Focus Immolate

Item acquisition

Magma Barrier has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Spirit Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Magma Barrier has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemDescription

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.
  • Magma Spray (from the Magma Barrier skill) now deals 6-10 to 151-226 base Fire damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 4-7 to 234-351). It now has 6 to 8 Added Fire Damage per 15 Armour on Shield at all levels (previously 2-4 at gem level 1 and 3-6 at gem level 20). It now has a damage effectiveness of 130-405% (previously 120-490%).
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.