Abyss

Create a tear in the fabric of reality which pulls enemies close before violently collapsing.

Abyss is the Warlock's top Chaos skill (Chaos Skills, level 30, requires Enhanced Entropy). It casts the abysscenter missile, a tear that draws enemies toward it and then collapses in an explosion of magic damage. The numbers that decide it are the collapse, 125–180 magic damage at level 20, and the explosion radius, 6 yards plus 0.2 per level of Enhanced Entropy.

The numbers

• Mana is 23 at level 1 and rises 1 a level (mana 23, lvlmana 1, manashift 8) to 42 at level 20.
• Magic damage comes from EMin 20 / EMax 40 and their brackets: the minimum grows +3 a level to level 8, +6 to 16, +9 to 22, +12 to 28, +15 past that; the maximum +4, +8, +12, +16, +20 over the same brackets. Level 1 is 20–40, level 10 is 53–84, level 20 is 125–180, level 30 is 245–340.
• Explosion radius is calc1, ln12: Param1 (6, "Explosion Radius baseline") plus Param2 (0, "per level") a level, a flat 6 yards from this row; Enhanced Entropy adds 0.2 yards per level of its own, 4 yards at its level 20. The tooltip's radius line reads the abyssexplode row of missiles.txt, so the printed figure is the missile's and this page cannot compute it.
• Casting delay is printed by the tooltip as 50 frames, 2 seconds; the row's own localdelay is 30 frames, 1.2 seconds. Both are flat at every level, so neither is in the table.
• Param3 (2, "Duration of ground fire baseline") and Param4 (0, "per level") are the table's figures for what the tear leaves behind; no calc on the row reads them.
• Average magic damage per second and duration are tooltip lines that read the abysscenter row of missiles.txt rather than this skill's row, so this page cannot compute them.

The damage reads lvl, so +skills from items count; the synergy terms read blvl.

How it works

The tear is a missile, and the collapse is magic damage (EType mag) that goes through the target's magic resistance and nothing else, see Dealing Elemental Damage. The row has no ToHit, no SrcDam and no attack rating: it always hits what the explosion covers and carries none of your weapon's damage. The pull named in the game's description belongs to the abysscenter missile; the row has no knockback, aura, state, periodic column or summon of its own. Each cast is held back by a casting delay, see Casting Speed.

The collapse is 125–180 at level 20 on its own; the two +10%-a-point synergies and the per-second damage on the missile are where the rest is, and the per-second figure is not on this page.

Synergies and +skills

Two synergies, each with two lines: Miasma Bolt and Miasma Chain add +10% magic damage per hard point to the collapse (Param8, EDmgSymPerCalc, which reads Abyss's own Param8) and +10% average magic damage per second per hard point to the tear; the tooltip's four lines all read Param8, and Param9 (20) is not read by any of them. Both read blvl. Abyss in turn gives +10% magic damage and +20% average magic damage per second per hard point to Miasma Bolt and to Miasma Chain (their Param8 and Param9). Enhanced Entropy widens the explosion by level, not by hard points; it is not a synergy line on this row.

Against players

A player's hit on another player is cut to 17% of its value (difficultylevels.txt PlayerDamagePercentVSPlayer) before anything else, see Player versus Player; the collapse's magic damage is cut the same way. The table has no separate player value for the pull.

Build notes

• The collapse grows 9 to 12 a level at level 20; each hard point in Miasma Bolt or Miasma Chain is +10% to it and +10% per second to the tear.
• Enhanced Entropy's +0.2 yards a level reads lvl, so +skills widen the explosion; 20 levels of it make 10 yards.
• Mana is 42 at level 20 and 1 a level, with a casting delay on every cast.