Ring of Fire

Releases a volley of expanding hellfire in all directions that pushes enemies away.

Ring of Fire is a Warlock fire attack (Chaos Skills, level 6, no prerequisite, unlocks Flame Wave). It sends the ringoffire missile out in every direction from you, 16 of them at first and 32 from level 10, each carrying the row's fire damage. The numbers that decide it are each missile's hit, 152–175 fire damage at level 20, and the count, 32 from level 10.

The numbers

• Mana is 8 at level 1 and rises 0.5 a level (mana 16, lvlmana 1, manashift 7) to 17.5 at level 20.
• Fire damage comes from EMin 6 / EMax 10 and their brackets: the minimum grows +6 a level to level 8, +8 to 16, +10 to 22, +11 to 28, +12 past that; the maximum +7, +9, +11, +13, +15 over the same brackets. Level 1 is 6–10, level 10 is 64–77, level 20 is 152–175, level 30 is 262–305.
• Missiles is calc2, (lvl >= 10) ? 32 : 16: 16 missiles at levels 1 to 9 and 32 from level 10, with no further step. Param1 (5, "number of missiles") is not read by the calc. The count is a two-value step, so it is stated here rather than in the table.
• The per-frame bonus line of the tooltip reads the ringoffire row of missiles.txt (its Param1), not this skill's row, so this page cannot compute it.
• calc1 is empty; the table's comment says it would set the explosion radius only if the server missile's sHitParam were 0. calc3 and cltcalc1 (0) are the missile velocity adder.

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

How it works

Each of the 16 or 32 missiles is its own fire hit (EType fire) that goes through the target's fire resistance and nothing else, see Dealing Elemental Damage. The row has no ToHit, no SrcDam and no attack rating: the missiles always hit what they touch and carry none of your weapon's damage. The same missile fills all three server missile slots (srvmissilea, b and c). The game's description says the volley pushes enemies away; the row has no knockback column of its own, so the push belongs to the missile. The row names no aura, state or periodic column.

The count doubles at level 10 and never again; the damage in the table is per missile, and the row gives no figure for how many of them one enemy takes.

Synergies and +skills

Two damage synergies, each +10% fire damage per hard point (Param8, EDmgSymPerCalc): Flame Wave and Apocalypse. Both read blvl. Ring of Fire in turn gives +15% fire damage and +10% average fire damage per second per hard point to Flame Wave, and +10% fire damage per hard point to Apocalypse. There is no mastery line on the 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; each missile's fire damage is cut the same way. The table has no separate player value for the push.

Build notes

• Level 10 is the step that matters: the missile count doubles from 16 to 32 and nothing else changes the count; +skills reach it as well as hard points.
• Each missile grows 10 to 11 a level at level 20; each hard point in Flame Wave or Apocalypse is +10% to every missile.
• Mana is 17.5 at level 20 for 32 missiles.