Elemental Expression

Elemental ExpressionSpell, AoE, Projectile, Trigger, Lightning, Cold, Fire, Chaining
Level: (1-20)
Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec
Cast Time: InstantCreate a fiery explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave of projectiles. The chance for an explosion is proportional to your Strength, for a bolt proportional to your Dexterity, and for a wave proportional to your Intelligence.Fiery Explosion
Critical Hit Chance: 7.00%
Deals (5–152) to (8–228) Fire Damage

Icy Wave
Critical Hit Chance: 12.00%
Pierces all Targets
Fires 3 Projectiles
Deals (4–125) to (7–187) Cold Damage

Arcing Bolt
Critical Hit Chance: 9.00%
Chains 7 Times
Deals (2–53) to (11–298) Lightning DamageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
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Granted by the Invoker ascendancy notable ...and Scatter Them to the Winds.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemAscendancyElementalExpression

Elemental Expression is a spell skill granted by the Invoker ascendancy notable ...and Scatter Them to the Winds. This skill triggers when the user lands a critical hit with a melee attack. When triggered, one of three elemental effect goes off, the odds of each effect depending on the user's attributes.

Skill functions and interactions

Not all the gem tags on this skill will apply to all three effects. Each of the effects use the following gem tags:

• Fiery Explosion: Fire, AoE, Spell
• Icy Wave: Cold, Projectile, Spell
• Arcing Bolt: Lightning, Chaining, Spell

This skill functions very similarly to Path of Exile 1's Wild Strike.

Gem level progression

Level
1	0
2	3
3	6
4	10
5	14
6	18
7	22
8	26
9	31
10	36
11	41
12	46
13	52
14	58
15	64
16	66
17	72
18	78
19	84
20	90

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I	Controlled DestructionControlled DestructionSupport, Spell Category: Controlled Destruction Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Spells that Hit enemies, boosting their damage but preventing them from dealing Critical Hits.Supported Spells deal 25% more Hit Damage Supported Skills cannot deal Critical HitsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Efficiency IEfficiency ISupport Category: Efficiency Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.Supported Skills have 30% less CostPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Multishot IMultishot ISupport, Projectile Category: Additional Projectiles Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.Supported Skills deal 35% less Damage Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles Supported Skills have 20% less Skill SpeedPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
II	Bounty IBounty ISupport Category: Bounty Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any Skill that Hits Enemies, causing Enemies it kills to grant more Flask and Charm charges.Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 50% more Charm charges Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 50% more Life Flask Charges Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 50% more Mana Flask ChargesPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Multishot IIMultishot IISupport, Projectile Category: Additional Projectiles Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.Supported Skills deal 25% less Damage Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles Supported Skills have 20% less Skill SpeedPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Rising TempestRising TempestSupport Category: Rising Tempest Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Skills which deal Damage, raising Elemental Damage dealt for each Skill used Recently of a different Elemental type. Cannot support Minion Skills.Supported Skills deal 12% more Elemental Damage for each Skill used Recently of a different Elemental typePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
III	Cooldown Recovery ICooldown Recovery ISupport Category: Cooldown Recovery Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Skills have 25% increased cooldown recovery ratePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Elemental FocusElemental FocusSupport Category: Elemental Focus Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.Supported Skills deal 25% more Elemental Damage Supported Skills cannot inflict Elemental AilmentsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	GambleshotGambleshotSupport, Projectile Category: Gambleshot Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Skills which fire Projectiles that are not ground targeted. Projectiles from Supported Skills randomly Fork, Chain or Pierce.Projectiles fired by Supported Skills Fork, Chain an additional time, or Pierce an additional time at random Projectiles from Supported Skills deal 15% less DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
IV	Bounty IIBounty IISupport Category: Bounty Tier: 4Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any Skill that Hits Enemies, causing Enemies it kills to grant more Flask and Charm charges.Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 100% more Charm charges Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 100% more Life Flask Charges Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 100% more Mana Flask ChargesPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Cooldown Recovery IICooldown Recovery IISupport Category: Cooldown Recovery Tier: 4 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Skills have 30% increased cooldown recovery ratePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Nova ProjectilesNova ProjectilesSupport, Projectile Category: Additional Projectiles Tier: 4Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile Skills, making them fire extra Projectiles in a circle, at the cost of Damage. Does not support Skills which rain down Projectiles from above.Supported Skills fire 4 additional Projectiles Supported Skills fire Projectiles in a circle Supported Skills deal 40% less DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
V	Blind IIBlind IISupport Category: Blind Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit with increased effect.Supported Skills Blind Enemies on Hit Blind inflicted with Supported Skills has 20% increased EffectPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Fire MasteryFire MasterySupport, Fire Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Fire skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Fire SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Retreat IIIRetreat IIISupport, Projectile Category: Retreat Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Skills which create Projectiles. Supported Skills deal more damage with Projectiles if you have struck with a Melee Hit in the last two seconds, but cannot themselves deal Melee Damage.Supported Skills deal no Melee damage Supported Skills deal 30% more Projectile Damage if you have Damaged an Enemy with a Melee Hit in the last two secondsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	The Elemental Expression Skill granted by the ...and Scatter Them to the Winds Notable Passive Skill now deals 8-244 to 12-366 Fire Damage with the Fiery Explosion at Gem levels 1-20 (previously 5-152 to 8-228), 7-200 to 10-300 Cold Damage with the Icy Wave (previously 4-125 to 7-187), and 3-84 to 16-477 Lightning Damage with the Arcing Bolt (previously 2-53 to 11-298). The base damage scaling of all player spell and secondary damage skills has been tweaked to scale better in the late game. Generally speaking, spells that do not have damage number changes called out below will have near-identical base damage at low levels, roughly 5% more damage at gem level 20, and roughly 20% more damage at gem level 30.
0.2.0	Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread. The Elemental Expression Skill, granted by the ...and Scatter Them to the Winds Ascendancy Passive Skill, now deals 40% more Damage at all Gem levels.
0.1.0e	Fixed a bug where the Elemental Expression skill from the Invoker Ascendancy Class had an incorrect hitbox.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.