Ancestral Boost

Ancestral Boost

Tooltip

An Ancestrally Boosted SlamSlams are Melee Attacks that cause damaging areas of effect, rather than Striking enemies with your weapon directly. Damage from Slams is still Melee damage. has 30% more damage and 25% increased area of effect, and an Ancestrally Boosted StrikeA Strike is a Melee attack that directly hits with weapons or body parts. Slam attacks do not count as Strikes. will target 2 additional Enemies. Triggered SkillsMany effects can cause a Skill to Trigger. A Triggered Skill occurs immediately, without an attack or cast time, and usually targets the cause of the trigger. Triggering a Skill does not count as using it.

If multiple methods of Triggering a skill attempt to apply to the same skill, that skill will be disabled. cannot be Ancestrally Boosted. Ancestrally Boosted AttacksAttacks are skills that directly use your equipped weapon to damage enemies. Spells are not Attacks.

The base damage, attack speed and critical hit chance of an attack are determined using your weapon's stats unless a skill says otherwise.

Attacks do not necessarily deal Physical damage — they can deal any damage type. count as being Empowered.Empowered Skills do not have any inherent bonuses, but a number of stats and modifiers specifically apply to Empowered Skills.

A compatible strike or slam skill that's been Ancestrally Boosted becomes embued with the spirit of a Karui ancestor, granting the attack more damage and increased area of effect.

Sources

• Ancestral Empowerment (Titan)

Related gems

Gem	Tier
Fist of War IFist of War ISupport, Attack, Melee, Slam Category: Fist of War Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Slams you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds.Attacks with Supported Skill are Ancestrally Boosted, no more than once every 6 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.	1
Fist of War IIFist of War IISupport, Attack, Melee, Slam Category: Fist of War Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Slams you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds.Attacks with Supported Skill are Ancestrally Boosted, no more than once every 4 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.	3
Ancestral Call IAncestral Call ISupport, Attack, Melee, Strike Category: Ancestral Call Tier: 4 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Strikes you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds. Cannot Support Channelled Skills and does not modify Skills used by Minions.Supported Strike Skills are Ancestrally Boosted once every 5 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.	4
Crescendo IIICrescendo IIISupport, Attack, Melee, Strike Category: Crescendo Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Strikes that perform a Final Strike at the end of a combination of attacks, causing the Final Strike to be Ancestrally Boosted.Final Strike of Supported Skill is Ancestrally BoostedPlace 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.	5
Ancestral Call IIAncestral Call IISupport, Attack, Melee, Strike Category: Ancestral Call Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Strikes you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds. Cannot Support Channelled Skills and does not modify Skills used by Minions.Supported Strike Skills are Ancestrally Boosted once every 3 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.	5
Fist of War IIIFist of War IIISupport, Attack, Melee, Slam Category: Fist of War Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 200%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Slams you use yourself, providing a very powerful Ancestral Boost infrequently.Attacks with Supported Skill are Ancestrally Boosted, no more than once every 14 seconds Ancestral Boost has double effect on Supported 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.	5
Ancestral Warrior TotemAncestral Warrior TotemAttack, Totem, AoE, Melee, Duration, Conditional, Meta Tier: 13 Level: (1-20) Cost: (13-91) Mana Cost & Reservation Multiplier: (200-100)%Requires: One Hand Mace, Two Hand MaceConsume 3 Endurance Charges to Raise a Totem that uses socketed Mace Skills. Cannot use Channelling Skills or Skills with Cooldowns.Totem duration is 8 seconds Totem gains +(0-75)% to all Elemental Resistances Cannot have more than 10 Ancestral Warrior Totems active Totem gains +(0-35)% to Chaos Resistance Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.1-2) seconds to Totem durationPlace one or more Skill Gems into this Meta Gem's sockets in the Skills Panel. The socketed Skills will be incorporated into the Meta Gem's effect.	13

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Ancestrally Boosted Slams now have 25% increased Area of Effect (previously 20% increased). We've also fixed a bug where the Area of Effect bonus from Ancestral Boosted Slams was described as multiplicative (more) instead of additive (increased). Fixed a bug where multiple instances of Ancestral Boosting for a single Strike skill would add more and more additional additional targets.
0.2.0	An Ancestrally Boosted Slam now has 30% more Damage and 20% more area of effect (previously 20% for both).
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.