Mantra of Destruction

Mantra of DestructionBuff, Chaos, Duration, Conditional
Tier: 9
Level: 1Requires Level 31Build 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 10 Combo to use
Lose Combo if you generate no Combo for 8 seconds
Empowered Attack gains 30% of Damage as Chaos
Buff duration is up to 8 seconds, or until your next Attack
Purple Flames of Chayula Duration is 8 secondsSkills 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	Murderous IntentMurderous IntentSupport Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports skills that can Empower skills other than themselves, causing skills they Empower to Cull enemies.Skills Empowered by Supported Skills have Culling StrikePlace 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.		PremeditationPremeditationSupport Category: Premeditation Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports skills that can Empower skills other than themselves, causing skills they Empower to deal more damage.Skills Empowered by Supported Skills deal 15% more 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.
II	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	FlowFlowSupport Category: FlowSupport Requirements: +5 DexSupports Skills which require Combo to use. Supported Skills lose their Combo stacks after a longer delay spent not gaining any Combo.Combo count loss for Supported Skills occurs 60% slowerPlace 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	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
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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.