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Artillery Ballista

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Artillery BallistaAttack, Totem, AoE, Projectile, Fire, Duration
Tier: 9
Level: 1
Deploy a Ballista Totem that fires bolts skyward, to explode a short time after landing.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.
Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemArtilleryBallista

Artillery Ballista crossbow skill that summons a ballista totem that attacks by launching bolts in the air that land to create fire explosions on impact.

Skill functions and interactions

Gem level progression

LevelRequired Level
11

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 Hourglass Overabundance
II Ancestral Urgency Fire Penetration Primal Armament
III Culling Strike Font of Rage Immolate

Item acquisition

Artillery Ballista has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Artillery Ballista has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemDescription

Version history

Version Changes
0.2.0f
  • All Totem Skills now start gaining Elemental Resistances and Chaos Resistance, scaling up with Skill level, from around Gem level 13. At gem level 20 they have +75% to all Elemental Resistances and +35% to Chaos Resistances.
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.
  • The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels.
  • Artillery Ballista base Physical Damage scaling now matches that of other totems like Shockwave Totem and Ripwire Ballista. The Artillery Explosion now converts 100% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage (previously 90%). Quality now provides 0 to -0.4 seconds to Totem base Attack Time (previously increased Attack Speed).
  • Artillery and Ripwire Ballista now have an aggro range of 8 metres (previously 6).
  • Artillery Ballista now fires 3 Projectiles (previously 1).
0.1.0e
  • Artillery Ballista's explosion radius increased to 1.8 metres (from 1.4 metres).
  • Artillery Ballista's Damage increased by approximately 21%.
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.