Firebolt

FireboltBarrageable, Spell, AoE, Projectile, Fire
Level: (1-20)
Cast Time: 0.90 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 8.00%Launches a fiery Projectile towards a target. The Projectile explodes on impact, damaging foes in a small area.Projectile
Deals (7–203) to (11–304) Fire Damage

Explosion
Explosion radius is 0.7 metres

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0–20)% more chance to Ignite enemiesSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop disabled
Granted as an inherent weapon skill from an Ashen StaffAshen StaffStaffGrants Skill: Level (1-20) Firebolt.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemFirebolt

Firebolt is a fire spell skill that shoots a projectile to the direction of the cursor, dealing fire damage to a target then exploding, dealing further damage in an area.

It is granted as an inherent weapon skill from an Ashen StaffAshen StaffStaffGrants Skill: Level (1-20) Firebolt.

Gem level progression

Level			Fire Damage
1	1	1	7 to 11
2	3	9	10 to 15
3	6	16	14 to 21
4	10	25	18 to 27
5	14	34	23 to 34
6	18	43	28 to 42
7	22	52	34 to 51
8	26	61	41 to 61
9	31	72	48 to 72
10	36	83	56 to 84
11	41	95	65 to 97
12	46	106	74 to 112
13	52	119	85 to 128
14	58	133	97 to 146
15	64	146	111 to 166
16	66	151	125 to 188
17	72	164	142 to 213
18	78	178	160 to 240
19	84	191	180 to 271
20	90	205	203 to 304

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.
II	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
III	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
IV
V

Item acquisition

Firebolt is drop disabled.

Alternate skill effects

Firebolt has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	The base damage scaling of all player spell and secondary damage skills has been tweaked to scale better in the late game. The following skills found as inherent skills on Wands and Staves now deal approximately 12% more Damage from skill level 11 onwards: Bone Blast, Chaos Bolt, Decompose, Firebolt, Freezing Shards, Lightning Bolt, Power Siphon, and Solar Orb.
0.2.1	Added "Barrageable" gem tag.[Undocumented]
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. Firebolt now uses the same animation as Freezing ShardsFreezing ShardsSpell, Projectile, Cold Level: (1-20) Cost: 0 Mana Cast Time: 1.20 sec Critical Strike Chance: 11.00%Launch icy Projectiles in a sweeping arc. Multiple Projectiles can hit the same enemy.Deals (2-64) to (3-96) Cold Damage 100% more Freeze Buildup Fires 5 Projectiles Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Fires (0.05-1) ProjectilesSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel. instead of generic projectile spell animations. Firebolt now has a maximum downward tilt angle against closer targets, making it harder to hit enemies with multiple explosions.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.