Damage

Bleeding is a damaging Ailment that deals Physical damage over time and bypasses Energy Shield. It lasts five seconds by default and requires an explicit chance or effect that can inflict Bleeding.

Poison is a damaging Ailment that deals Chaos damage over time and bypasses Energy Shield. It lasts two seconds by default and requires an explicit chance or effect that can inflict Poison.

Ignite is a damaging Elemental Ailment that deals Fire damage over time for four seconds by default. A Hit's chance to Ignite comes from the target's total Flammability, including Flammability applied by that same Hit.

Shock is a non-damaging Lightning Ailment that makes a target take 20% increased damage by default. Lightning Hits gain a chance to Shock based on post-mitigation damage relative to the target's Elemental Ailment Threshold.

An Attack is a skill with the Attack tag. It normally takes its base damage, attack speed, and base Critical Hit Chance from an equipped Martial Weapon, unless the skill states a different rule.

A Spell is a skill with the Spell tag. Any base damage, Cast Time, and base Critical Hit Chance it lists come from the skill rather than the inherent damage, Attack Speed, or base Critical Hit Chance on a weapon.

A Hit is an instantaneous damage event. Any damage that is not damage over time is Hit damage, whether it comes from an Attack, a Spell, Thorns, or another effect.

Runic Ward protects the final point of Life. When damage would reduce Life to 0, Life stops at 1 and current Runic Ward absorbs the remainder. The character still dies if the remaining damage is greater than the Ward available.

Item modifiers are stat lines or rules attached to an item. They include implicit modifiers, explicit prefixes and suffixes, enchantments, corruption enchantments, crafted and Desecrated modifiers, fractured modifiers, and the fixed effects on Unique items.

Gain is wording used by several different mechanics. On a damage line, gaining damage as extra creates an additional amount of the named output damage without removing the original damage.

Physical damage is one of the five Damage Types. It is the most common and the only one reduced by Armour, rather than by a Resistance.

Elemental Damage is the collective name for Fire, Cold, and Lightning Damage. A modifier to Elemental Damage can scale all three types, but each part is still mitigated by its matching Resistance and keeps its own ailment rules.

Fire Damage is one of the five damage types. Fire Hits apply Flammability, which supplies chance to Ignite, while Fire Resistance mitigates Fire Hits and Fire damage over time separately.

Cold Damage is one of the five damage types. Cold Hits can Chill and build Freeze, but Chill Magnitude, Freeze Buildup, and Freeze Duration are separate values, and Cold damage from Hits cannot build Heavy Stun.

Lightning Damage is one of the five damage types and one of the three Elemental damage types. Lightning Hits can Shock by default, while Electrocution requires a Skill, item, support, or other effect that explicitly enables Electrocution Buildup.

A Repeatable skill can perform its release portion several times from one skill use when another effect grants Repeats. Repeating does not mean recasting the entire skill, and each Repeat makes the sequence take longer.

Chaos is one of the five damage types. Chaos Resistance reduces it, and ordinary Chaos damage removes twice its damage value from Energy Shield instead of bypassing Energy Shield by default.

A Strike is a Melee Attack that directly hits with a weapon or body part. Strike and Slam are mutually exclusive classifications, and Melee Strike Range affects how far a Strike can directly reach.

A Sustained skill deals many Hits over time and rolls Critical Hits independently each time it damages an enemy. The tag describes this repeated damage behavior, not a universal duration, frequency, or damage bonus.

A Payoff skill gains a powerful extra effect when it Hits an enemy affected by a specified Debuff. It often Consumes that Debuff, and it cannot inflict the same Debuff that enables its Payoff effect.

Fire Resistance reduces Fire damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Cold Resistance reduces Cold damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Lightning Resistance reduces Lightning damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Chaos Resistance reduces Chaos damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Damage Conversion changes part or all of one Hit damage type into another. In Path of Exile 2, the converted portion uses only its new damage type for scaling, mitigation, and default ailment contribution. It no longer keeps the old damage type.

Flammability is a stackable Debuff that builds from contributing damage and determines the chance for Hits to Ignite. It is not itself an Ailment, and its magnitude is separate from the magnitude of the resulting Ignite.

Exposure is a Debuff that lowers one or more of the target's Resistances. It changes the target's actual resistance, can reduce it below zero, and can improve both Hit and non-Hit damage that uses the affected resistance.

Deflection Rating gives a chance to Deflect damage from Hits. A normal Deflection prevents 40% of the Hit damage, while the chance depends on your Deflection Rating and the attacker's Accuracy Rating.

Skill Speed changes how quickly skills are used. Generic increases and reductions to Skill Speed add together with matching specific speed stats such as Attack Speed, Cast Speed, Warcry Speed, reload speed, or totem placement speed.

Cooldown Recovery Rate changes how quickly Skill cooldowns restore. It divides the effective cooldown rather than subtracting the displayed percentage directly from the cooldown duration.

Life Leech recovers Life from a percentage of damage dealt by a Hit. A normal Life Leech instance delivers its recovery over one second, subject to the source's eligible damage type and the monster's Leech Resistance.

Each Withered stack makes the target take 5% increased Chaos damage. A target can have up to 10 stacks.

Intimidate is a debuff that makes the target take 10% increased damage and deal 10% reduced damage.

A Lucky value is rolled twice and the better result is used. Luck applies only to the roll named by the modifier, such as Hit damage, Critical Hit chance, Block chance, or Deflect chance.

An Unlucky value is rolled twice and the worse result is used. The modifier affects only the named roll, such as enemy Hit damage, Physical Hit damage, Lightning Hit damage, Critical Hit chance, or Evasion chance.

Soul Eater consumes Souls from nearby deaths and grants 1% increased Skill Speed per Soul, up to 50 Souls. If no new Soul is eaten for four seconds, one Soul is lost every 0.5 seconds until another Soul is eaten or the count reaches zero.

Unholy Might is a Buff that grants 30% of all applicable damage as extra Chaos Damage. It creates an additional Chaos portion and does not remove or convert the original damage.

Decimating Strike makes a Hit against a Full Life enemy remove a random 5% to 30% of its Life immediately before the Hit's damage is applied. It is granted by the Witchhunter notable Judge, Jury, and Executioner and by Aerisvane's Wings.

Reveal Weaknesses highlights random sections of a Rare or Unique enemy's Life bar. The highlighted sections total 45% of maximum Life. While the enemy's current Life is inside one of those sections, it has an Open Weakness.

Mage's Legacies are fourteen possible bonuses rolled in Mageblood's four Legacy slots. Each distinct Legacy grants one always-active bonus while the belt is equipped. Repeated names do not stack directly; instead, every duplicate increases the effect of all distinct Mage's Legacies on that belt.

Unbound Potential is a stacking buff created by The Unleashed body armour. It converts the Runic Bindings built by Spell Hits in Human form into increased Damage, Armour, and Energy Shield for a shapeshifted character.