Chaos Bolt

Witch skill · Chaos line · tier 3

Beta 0.7.2

A ball of what should not exist.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 6 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Chaos Bolt scales with Chaos Damage. Its value at each rank is 40.1 + 11.4 × rank:

Rank12345678910
Value51.562.974.385.797.1108.5119.9131.3142.7154.1

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Chaos skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

  1. 1
    Rank 5 in Chaos Thorns Tier 1 of the Chaos line.
  2. 2
    Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
  3. 3
    One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Chaos Bolt opens Corruption.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Chaos skills makes Chaos Bolt 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Skills that boost Chaos Bolt

Each rank in one of these makes Chaos Bolt 2% stronger (+20% at rank 10).

Chaos line

SkillTierTypeCooldownScales with
Chaos Thorns1Direct damage6 sChaos Damage
Chaotic Blast2Area damage9 sChaos Damage
Chaos Bolt3Direct damage6 sChaos Damage
Corruption4Damage over time8 sDecay
Cataclysm5Ultimate16 sChaos Damage

Other Witch skills

Source: closed-beta game client 0.7.2. Data from the closed beta, so values may change at launch.