Mantra of Destruction

Mantra of DestructionBuff, Chaos, Duration, Conditional
Tier: 9
Level: (1-20)Requires: QuarterstaffBuild Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to Empower your next Quarterstaff Attack, causing it to deal additional Chaos damage. Each kill with the Empowered Attack grants
Purple Flames of Chayula for a duration.Requires 8 Combo to use
Lose Combo if you generate no Combo for 8 seconds
Buff duration is up to 8 seconds, or until your next Attack
Purple Flames of Chayula Duration is 20 seconds
Empowered Attack gains (50-69)% of Damage as Chaos

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Requires (0.05-1) fewer Combo to useSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemMantraOfDestruction

Mantra of Destruction is a chaos buff skill which requires a quarterstaff. It can be activated after building enough Combo to gain a buff that empowers your next attack, granting it extra chaos damage and causing kills made with the attack to grant you Purple Flames of Chayula for 8 seconds, a stacking buff that grants extra chaos damage.

Gem level progression

Level
1	0	0	0
2	3	0	0
3	6	9	9
4	10	13	13
5	14	17	17
6	18	20	20
7	22	24	24
8	26	28	28
9	31	32	32
10	36	37	37
11	41	41	41
12	46	46	46
13	52	51	51
14	58	57	57
15	64	62	62
16	66	64	64
17	72	70	70
18	78	75	75
19	84	80	80
20	90	86	86

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	Prolonged Duration IProlonged Duration ISupport, Duration Category: Prolonged Duration Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Supported Skills have 30% more Skill Effect DurationPlace 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	Delayed GratificationDelayed GratificationSupport Category: Delayed Gratification Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Skills which require some Condition to be met for use. Supported Skills can be used an additional time after their Condition has been met, but meeting that Condition is harder.Supported Conditional Skills can be used an additional time within 10 seconds of using them after meeting their requirements Conditional requirements of Supported Skills are 150% harder to meetPlace 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.	LifetapLifetapSupport Category: Lifetap Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any Skill, turning its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support Skills which reserve Spirit.Skill Mana Costs Converted to Life CostsPlace 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	Prolonged Duration IIProlonged Duration IISupport, Duration Category: Prolonged Duration Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Supported Skills have 35% more Skill Effect DurationPlace 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
V	Chaos MasteryChaos MasterySupport, Chaos Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Chaos skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Chaos 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.

Item acquisition

Mantra of Destruction has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Mantra of Destruction has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Mantra of Destruction: Quality now provides Requires 0-1 fewer Combo to use (previously 0-2).
0.2.0	Mantra of Destruction's Purple Flames of Chayula now has a duration of 8 seconds (previously 6).
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.