PoE2 skill gem

Magma Barrier

While active, increases your Block Chance passively and imbues your Shield with lava over time. When fully imbued, your next Block with your Shield raised will expend the lava to Trigger the Magma Spray skill and grant you an Endurance Charge.

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.0
Direct change

Magma Barrier: Now deals 5 to 7 Added Fire Damage per 15 Armour and Evasion on Shield (previously 6 to 8).

Full patch history

Effects

14 effects
  • Mana: 30
  • Grants 25% increased Block chance
  • Fully imbues Shield in 8 seconds
  • % reduced Imbuement time
  • 5 to 7 Added Fire damage per 15 Armour on Shield
  • 5 to 7 Added Fire damage per 15 Evasion on Shield
  • Magma Spray radius is 2.8 metres

Buff

  • Fully imbues Shield in 8 seconds
  • % reduced Imbuement time
  • Grants 25% increased Block chance

Magma Spray

Requirements and restrictions

1 requirement groups
Player requirementsLevel (1-90), (4-157) Str, Any Shield
Source requirement text

Requires: Level (1-90), (4-157) Str

Requires: Any Shield

Gem level progression

40 levels
Magma Barrier levels 1 to 20
LevelRequires LevelStrBase Damage4 to 6 Base Off Hand Fire Damage
104100%, 100%, 100%, 170%4, 6
239100%, 100%, 100%, 187%6, 9
3614100%, 100%, 100%, 207%10, 15
41021100%, 100%, 100%, 227%13, 20
51428100%, 100%, 100%, 247%17, 26
61835100%, 100%, 100%, 267%21, 32
72241100%, 100%, 100%, 288%26, 38
82648100%, 100%, 100%, 309%30, 45
93157100%, 100%, 100%, 328%35, 53
103665100%, 100%, 100%, 349%40, 60
114174100%, 100%, 100%, 372%45, 68
124682100%, 100%, 100%, 396%51, 76
135292100%, 100%, 100%, 423%57, 85
1458103100%, 100%, 100%, 453%63, 94
1564113100%, 100%, 100%, 484%69, 103
1666116100%, 100%, 100%, 519%75, 113
1772126100%, 100%, 100%, 557%82, 123
1878137100%, 100%, 100%, 599%89, 133
1984147100%, 100%, 100%, 644%96, 144
2090157100%, 100%, 100%, 694%103, 155
Beyond level 20, 20 levels
Magma Barrier levels beyond 20
LevelRequires LevelStrBase Damage4 to 6 Base Off Hand Fire Damage
21Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 748%111, 166
22Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 806%119, 178
23Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 868%127, 190
24Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 935%135, 202
25Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1007%144, 215
26Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1085%152, 228
27Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1169%161, 242
28Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1259%170, 256
29Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1356%180, 270
30Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1461%190, 284
31Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1574%200, 299
32Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1696%210, 315
33Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1827%220, 330
34Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 1968%231, 346
35Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 2120%242, 362
36Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 2284%253, 379
37Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 2461%264, 396
38Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 2651%275, 413
39Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 2856%287, 431
40Not applicableNot applicable100%, 100%, 100%, 3077%299, 449

Quality effects

2 effects

Buff standard quality

  • +(0-5)% increased Block chance

Advanced Thaumaturgy

This is the additional quality effect granted while the Gemling Legionnaire passive is allocated. The main value below is shown at 20% gem quality. Compare all gem bonuses.

  • Buff grants +5% to maximum Block ChanceQuality scaling: Buff grants +(0-5)% to maximum Block Chance

Compatible support gems

34 source records
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Compatibility rules

Active Type: Buff, OngoingSkill, HasReservation, Fire, Persistent, GeneratesCharges

Granted by items

1 items

Acquisition

2 sources

How to engrave this skill

1 category
Mace, tier 4

This skill becomes available when engraving an Uncut Skill Gem of level 4 or higher. The resulting skill uses the selected Uncut Skill Gem's level.

Open Mace

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 0 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Magma Barrier. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

01
No change.
02
Permanently add or subtract one gem level. This is retained when upgrading the gem level using an uncut gem. Max level gems can exceed their normal maximum this way, but cannot go below Level 1.
03
Add or remove a socket.
04
±10% to Quality, up to 23%.
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Patch history

7 changes
0.3.0c
Direct change

Fixed a bug where the following skills were not scaling with modifiers to area damage: Toxic Growth, Magma Barrier, Whirlwind Lance (whirlwind only), Freezing Mark, Voltaic Mark, and Bloodhound's Mark.

0.3.0c
Direct change

Fixed an issue where Magma Barrier had an outdated, misleading Duration tag.

0.1.0d
Direct change

Reduced the defenses provided to monsters by the Magma Barrier modifier.

0.5.0
Direct change

Magma Barrier: Now deals 5 to 7 Added Fire Damage per 15 Armour and Evasion on Shield (previously 6 to 8).

0.3.0
Direct change

Magma Barrier: Now passively increases your chance to Block while active. Over time, it charges up with lava. While fully charged, your next Block with your Shield raised will spray lava in front of you and grant you an Endurance Charge. Now grants 25% increased Block Chance. Magma Spray now has 6 to 8 Added Fire Damage per 15 Evasion on Shield, and has a radius of 2.8 metres. Magma Spray deals 12-103 to 20-155 Base Off Hand Fire Damage at Gem levels 3-20 (previously 23-177 to 34-265), and 227%-684% Attack Damage (previously 172-471%). Quality now provides +0-5% increased Block Chance (previously Raising your shield infuses it with magma for 0-0.2 seconds).

0.3.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where Profusion Support was not functioning correctly when supporting Magma Barrier.

0.2.0
Direct change

Magma Spray (from the Magma Barrier skill) now deals 6-10 to 151-226 base Fire damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 4-7 to 234-351). It now has 6 to 8 Added Fire Damage per 15 Armour on Shield at all levels (previously 2-4 at gem level 1 and 3-6 at gem level 20). It now has a damage effectiveness of 130-405% (previously 120-490%).