New Skill Reveal - Contagion

Contagion places a chaos effect on enemies, dealing damage over time. If the enemy dies, Contagion spreads, applying the damage over time to surrounding enemies, but maintaining its duration. As long as enemies keep dying, it'll keep spreading until its duration ends. Unlike existing damage over time skills, Spell Damage increases also apply to Contagion.



Contagion is just one of a few Chaos skills we're introducing to Path of Exile. Players can try out an entirely new style of play by using them together, enhancing the damage of regular spell builds, or alongside existing Chaos skills like Desecrate.

Chaos damage over time synergy goes beyond how you build your character. Other upcoming skills interact directly with Chaos damage on the enemy, or with other Chaos skills. For example, Contagion also spreads the effect of another skill we're introducing. To find out more about this and other upcoming Chaos spells, keep an eye on www.pathofexile.com over the coming weeks.