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Elemental Expression
Level: (1-20)
Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec
Cast Time: InstantCreate a fiery explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave of projectiles. The chance for an explosion is proportional to your Strength, for a bolt proportional to your Dexterity, and for a wave proportional to your Intelligence.Fiery Explosion
Critical Hit Chance: 7.00%
Deals (5–152) to (8–228) Fire Damage
Icy Wave
Critical Hit Chance: 12.00%
Pierces all Targets
Fires 3 Projectiles
Deals (4–125) to (7–187) Cold Damage
Arcing Bolt
Critical Hit Chance: 9.00%
Chains 7 Times
Deals (2–53) to (11–298) Lightning DamageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.


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Granted by the Invoker ascendancy notable ...and Scatter Them to the Winds.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemAscendancyElementalExpression
Elemental Expression is a spell skill granted by the Invoker ascendancy notable ...and Scatter Them to the Winds. This skill triggers when the user lands a critical hit with a melee attack. When triggered, one of three elemental effect goes off, the odds of each effect depending on the user's attributes.
Skill functions and interactions
Not all the gem tags on this skill will apply to all three effects. Each of the effects use the following gem tags:
- Fiery Explosion: Fire, AoE, Spell
- Icy Wave: Cold, Projectile, Spell
- Arcing Bolt: Lightning, Chaining, Spell
This skill functions very similarly to Path of Exile 1's Wild Strike.
Gem level progression
Level | ![]() |
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1 | 0 |
2 | 3 |
3 | 6 |
4 | 10 |
5 | 14 |
6 | 18 |
7 | 22 |
8 | 26 |
9 | 31 |
10 | 36 |
11 | 41 |
12 | 46 |
13 | 52 |
14 | 58 |
15 | 64 |
16 | 66 |
17 | 72 |
18 | 78 |
19 | 84 |
20 | 90 |
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.
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Version history
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0.2.0 |
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0.1.0e |
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0.1.0 |
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