Demon Form

Demon FormShapeshift, Buff
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-65) Mana
Cooldown Time: 15.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)Shapeshift into a demon, vastly boosting the power of your Spells. You gain Demonflame every second you remain in demon form, causing your Life to be lost at an ever-increasing rate. Maximum 10 Demonflame. Revert to human form if you reach 1 Life, use a Skill that isn't a Spell, or reactivate this Skill.(12-25)% increased Cast Speed while in Demon Form
(0.8-18.5) Life Loss per second per Demonflame
Deal 3% more Spell damage per Demonflame

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.5-10)% increased Cast Speed while in Demon FormSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
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Granted by the Infernalist ascendancy notable Demonic Possession.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemAscendancyDemonForm

Demon Form is a shapeshifting skill granted by the Infernalist ascendancy notable Demonic Possession that allows the player to Shapeshift into a Demon. While transformed, you gain a large bonus to spellcasting, but lose life over time. While transformed, you gain stacks of Demonflame over time, which increases spell damage and life loss over time.

Skill functions and interactions

Using a non-spell skill will shapeshift you back to normal. While shapeshifted, your weapon(s)/off-hand will not be visible, but your weapon stats will still be applied normally.

Demonflame is considered life loss, not damage. As a result, it cannot be redirected to other resources such as Mind Over Matter or mitigated through damage reduction. Demonflame will interrupt energy shield recharge (or life recharge with Eternal Youth).

Demon Form will automatically deactivate when the demoness:

• is at 1 Life, making it incompatible with Chaos Inoculation.
• dies, regardless of the amount of current life (in Trial of the Sekhemas, for example).
• starts reviving a downed teammate.
• uses any skill that is not a Spell or Warcry.

Other mechanics:

• Replaces the Dodge roll with a faster one, but does not add any new features.
• Prevents trigger effect of boots that create a ground: Birth of FuryBirth of Fury
  Stone GreavesArmour: 102Requires Level 33, 57 Str20% increased Movement Speed
  +(40-60) to maximum Life
  +(20-30)% to Fire Resistance
  Drop Ignited Ground while moving, which lasts 8 seconds and Ignites as though dealing Fire Damage equal to 10% of your maximum LifeAs the sun rises and the light approaches,
  so too shall your enemies fear you., Wake of DestructionWake of Destruction
  Secured LeggingsArmour: 33
  Energy Shield: 14Requires Level 16, 17 Str, 17 Int10% increased Movement Speed
  (30-60)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
  Adds 1 to (30-50) Lightning damage to Attacks
  Drop Shocked Ground while moving, lasting 8 secondsTempest's power given form,
  Flee before the walking storm..

Gem level progression

Level		Mana Cost
1	0	6
2	3	7
3	6	8
4	10	10
5	14	11
6	18	13
7	22	15
8	26	17
9	31	20
10	36	22
11	41	25
12	46	28
13	52	31
14	58	35
15	64	39
16	66	43
17	72	48
18	78	53
19	84	59
20	90	65

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
II
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.
IV	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.
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Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Demon Form, granted by the Demonic Possession Notable Passive Skill, no longer disables your weapons or has its own weapon set. It no longer grants level of all Spell Skills while in Demon Form, or increased Spell Damage per Demonflame. It now grants 3% more Spell Damage per Demonflame, and Quality now provides +0-10% increased Cast Speed while in Demon Form (previously had no Quality). Life Loss per second from Demonflame is now lower beyond Skill Gem 20. Removed "Persistent" gem tag. [Undocumented]
0.2.0	The Demon Form Skill granted by the Demonic Possession Ascendancy Passive Skill now has a Cooldown of 15 seconds (previously 20), and a maximum Demonflame of 10 (previously uncapped). You now lose a flat amount of Life per second per Demonflame (scaling with Skill level), rather than a percentage of your Maximum Life. The dodge roll while in Demon Form has also had its distance reduced. Using Blink while in Demon Form now plays an appropriate animation instead of landing to Blink.
0.1.1	Fixed a bug where the unique item "Corpsewade" did not work when the player was using the King of the Faridun Body Armour Microtransaction. This also appears to have fixed a similar bug with Demon Form not triggering Decompose. [Undocumented]
0.1.0f	Fixed a client crash that could occur after entering Demon Form while fighting Zarokh, the Temporal.
0.1.0e	Fixed a bug where interactables would remove the player from Demon Form. (Hotfix 2) Fixed a bug introduced in patch 0.1.0e where the Spell Gem Level from the Demon Form buff did not apply unless you resocketed affected gems. (Hotfix 7) Fixed a bug that could cause some characters to be disconnected, most notably when trying to use the Demon Form skill granted by the Demonic Possession Infernalist Ascendancy Passive Skill.
0.1.0c	(Hotfix 2) Demon form now has a minimum of 1 life lost per second, per stack.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.