Persistent

Persistent skills

Tooltip

Persistent Skills are toggled in the Skills Panel instead of being used normally and often need to Reserve Spirit in order to be activated.

Persistent is used to describe buffs or effects that remain active indefinitely until they are manually deactivated or the required resource is depleted. These often take the form of auras or sustained buffs, which continuously consume a portion of Spirit to remain active. Unlike temporary buffs (which may have a duration and cooldown), persistent buffs are ongoing and do not expire as long as their conditions are maintained.

For instance, skills like Arctic Armour create effects that continuously grant defensive benefits. Persistent Minions, such as Skeletal Warrior, also use Spirit to stay active, respawning automatically after death.

Activating Persistent Skills

Persistent skills need to be activated in the Skills Panel:

1. Learn the desired persistent skill by cutting an appropriate level Uncut Spirit Gem
2. Add the learned skill to a slot within the skills panel
3. Still within the skills panel, right-click the desired persistent skill icon (in the row next to the skill name) to activate or de-activate the skill

Most persistent skills operation continuously or automatically and thus cannot be added to the skill bar. Some persistent skills, such as Invocation or Banner skills, have an active component. They still need to be toggled on as above in the Skills Panel, but this will only cause them to start building up a resource (Energy for invocations, Valour for banners). They still need to be added to the skill bar and activated like normal skills, spending their collected resource.

Spirit Requirements

• You must have enough free spirit to activate the persistent skill. Hovering over the persistent skill gem will indicate how much spirit is required.
• Some support gems for persistent skills have an additional Spirit cost. You must have the full amount of spirit available, or the persistent skill cannot be activated. If you have only enough spirit to cover the requirement for the persistent skill but not the support gem, then you must remove the support gem to allow the persistent skill to be activated.

Gems

A list of gems with the Persistent gem tag:

Skill gems

Gem	Tier
Summon Infernal Hound	0
Skeletal Sniper	1
Skeletal Warrior	1
Skeletal Arsonist	3
Skeletal Frost Mage	5
Skeletal Reaver	9
Skeletal Storm Mage	11
Skeletal Brute	13
Skeletal Cleric	13

Spirit gems

Gem	Tier
Plague Bearer	4
Wind Dancer	4
Arctic Armour	4
Grim Feast	4
Mana Remnants	4
Raging Spirits	4
Withering Presence	4
Ghost Dance	4
Herald of Ice	4
Herald of Thunder	4
War Banner	4
Herald of Ash	4
Magma Barrier	4
Scavenged Plating	4
Combat Frenzy	8
Herald of Plague	8
Cast on Freeze	8
Cast on Ignite	8
Cast on Minion Death	8
Cast on Shock	8
Barrier Invocation	8
Blasphemy	8
Defiance Banner	8
Elemental Invocation	8
Lingering Illusion	8
Shard Scavenger	8
Overwhelming Presence	8
Time of Need	8
Alchemist's Boon	14
Blink	14
Cast on Critical	14
Elemental Conflux	14
Sacrifice	14
Attrition	14
Cast on Dodge	14
Charge Infusion	14
Dread Banner	14
Reaper's Invocation	14
Archmage	14
Berserk	14

Support gems

Gem	Tier
Clarity	1
Last Gasp	1
Precision	1
Vitality	1
Herbalism	2
Cannibalism	3

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.