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Sorcery Ward

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Sorcery WardSpell, Buff, Persistent, Lightning, Cold, Fire
Level: (1-20)
Cast Time: 1.00 sec
Passively manifests a protective barrier which takes Elemental Damage from Hits for you until depleted. The barrier instantly recharges to its full value a short time after it stops taking damage or is fully depleted.Barrier recharges after (6.1–8) seconds
Elemental Damage from Hits is taken from the Barrier before your Life, Mana or Energy Shield
Barrier can take Elemental Damage up to 30% of your Armour and Evasion Rating
Skills can be managed in the Skills Panel.
Acquisition
Drop disabled
Granted by the Witchhunter ascendancy notable Obsessive Rituals.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemAscendancySorceryWard

Sorcery Ward is a buff spell skill granted by the Witchhunter ascendancy notable Obsessive Rituals. It grants the user a passive barrier that redirects elemental damage, up to an amount scaling with the user's Armour and Evasion Ratings.

Skill functions and interactions

The barrier is not considered to be a Guard effect, and therefore can be used with them.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelBarrier
recharge
108
23
36
410
514
618
722
826
931
1036
1141
1246
1352
1458
1564
1666
1772
1878
1984
20906.1

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 Coming Soon Coming Soon Coming Soon
II Coming Soon Coming Soon Coming Soon
III Cold Mastery Fire Mastery Lightning Mastery

Version history

Version Changes
0.2.0
  • The Obsessive Rituals Ascendancy Passive Skill now provides 35% less Armour and Evasion Rating (previously 50%). The Sorcery Ward Barrier recharge delay has also been reduced by 2 seconds at all Gem levels.
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.