Siege Ballista

Siege BallistaBarrageable, Attack, Totem, AoE, Projectile, Fire, Duration
Tier: 9
Level: 1Deploy a Ballista Totem that fires bolts skyward, to explode a short time after landing.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.

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

Siege Ballista crossbow skill that summons a ballista totem that attacks by launching bolts in the air that land to create fire explosions on impact.

Gem level progression

Level
1	1

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	Fire AttunementFire AttunementSupport, Attack, Fire Category: Fire Attunement Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Attacks, causing them to Gain Fire Damage but deal less Cold and Lightning Damage.Supported Attacks Gain 25% of Damage as extra Fire Damage Supported Attacks deal 50% less Cold and Lightning 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.	Magnified Area IMagnified Area ISupport, AoE Category: Increased Area of Effect Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Supported Skills have 35% increased Area of EffectPlace 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.	Overabundance IOverabundance ISupport Category: Overabundance Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports skills which can have a Limited number of effects active at once, increasing that Limit at the cost of their duration. Only applies to restrictions that use the word "Limit".Supported Skills have +1 to Limit Supported Skills have 50% less 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	Multishot IIMultishot IISupport, Projectile Category: Additional Projectiles Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.Supported Skills deal 25% less Damage Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles Supported Skills have 20% less Skill SpeedPlace 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.	Rising TempestRising TempestSupport Category: Rising Tempest Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Skills which deal Damage, raising Elemental Damage dealt for each Skill used Recently of a different Elemental type. Cannot support Minion Skills.Supported Skills deal 12% more Elemental Damage for each Skill used Recently of a different Elemental typePlace 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.	Urgent Totems IUrgent Totems ISupport, Totem Category: Urgent Totems Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly.Supported Skills have 80% increased Totem Placement speedPlace 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	Greatwood IGreatwood ISupport, Totem Category: Greatwood Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 115%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems, limiting their active Totem count to one but granting significant benefits for supported Totems based on what their Totem Limit would have been without this restriction. Does not Support Skills used by Minions.Supported Skills can only have one active Totem Totem Limit instead grants 5% increased Area of Effect for Totems per Limit to Supported Skills, up to 20% Totem Limit instead grants 10% more Totem Damage per Limit to Supported Skills, up to 40% Totem Limit instead grants 10% more Totem Life per Limit to Supported Skills, up to 40%Place 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.	ImmolateImmolateSupport, Fire, Payoff Category: Immolate Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Attacks, granting them extra Fire damage against Ignited enemies but making them unable to Ignite enemies themselves.Supported Skills cannot Ignite Supported Attacks Gain 30% of Damage as extra Fire Damage against Ignited enemiesPlace 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.	Reinforced Totems IReinforced Totems ISupport, Totem Category: Reinforced Totems Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by Supported Skills have additional Elemental Resistances.Totems summoned by Supported Skills have +40% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace 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	Fire ExposureFire ExposureSupport, Fire, Duration Category: Fire Exposure Tier: 4 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to inflict Exposure when Igniting.Supported Skills inflict Exposure for 8 seconds on Igniting a targetPlace 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.	Greatwood IIGreatwood IISupport, Totem Category: Greatwood Tier: 4 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 115%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems, limiting their active Totem count to one but granting significant benefits for supported Totems based on what their Totem Limit would have been without this restriction. Does not Support Skills used by Minions.Supported Skills can only have one active Totem Totem Limit instead grants 5% increased Area of Effect for Totems per Limit to Supported Skills, up to 20% Totem Limit instead grants 15% more Totem Damage per Limit to Supported Skills, up to 60% Totem Limit instead grants 15% more Totem Life per Limit to Supported Skills, up to 60%Place 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.	Urgent Totems IIIUrgent Totems IIISupport, Totem Category: Urgent Totems Tier: 4Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly. Totems created by Supported Skills have increased Attack and Cast Speed.Spells Cast by Totems created by Supported Skills have 20% increased Cast Speed Attacks used by Totems created by Supported Skills have 20% increased Attack Speed Supported Skills have 100% increased Totem Placement speedPlace 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.
V	Blind IIBlind IISupport Category: Blind Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit with increased effect.Supported Skills Blind Enemies on Hit Blind inflicted with Supported Skills has 20% increased EffectPlace 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.	Fire Penetration IIFire Penetration IISupport, Fire Category: Fire Penetration Tier: 5 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits ignore enemy Fire resistance.Hits from Supported Skills ignore enemy Fire ResistancePlace 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.	Reinforced Totems IIReinforced Totems IISupport, Totem Category: Reinforced Totems Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by Supported Skills have additional Elemental Resistances.Totems summoned by Supported Skills have +10% to all Maximum Elemental Resistances Totems summoned by Supported Skills have +40% to all Elemental ResistancesPlace 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

Siege Ballista has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Siege Ballista has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Shockwave TotemShockwave TotemAttack, Totem, AoE, Melee, Slam, Physical, Duration, Nova Tier: 3 Level: (1-40) Cost: (15-1317) ManaRaise a Totem that Slams the ground around it, repeatedly damaging nearby enemies. Jagged Ground erupts when hit by this Slam, damaging enemies standing on it.Totem Totem duration is 12 seconds Limit 1 Totem Totem base attack time is 1.5 seconds Totem base Critical Hit chance is 5% Totem uses its own weapon, dealing (4-103) to (6-155) base Physical damage Totem gains +(0-75)% to all Elemental Resistances Totem gains +(0-35)% to Chaos Resistance Slam Attack Damage: (80-211)% Shockwave radius is 3 metres Jagged Ground Eruption Attack Damage: (30-79)% Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Totem base attack time is -(0.01-0.2) secondsSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel., Ancestral Warrior TotemAncestral Warrior TotemAttack, Totem, AoE, Melee, Physical, Duration, Meta Tier: 13 Level: (1-20) Cost: (13-98) Mana Cost & Reservation Multiplier: (200-100)%Raise a Totem that uses socketed Mace Skills. Cannot use Channelling Skills or Skills with Cooldowns.Totem duration is 8 seconds Limit 1 Totem Totem base attack time is 1 second Totem base Critical Hit chance is 5% Totem gains +(0-75)% to all Elemental Resistances Totem gains +(0-35)% to Chaos Resistance Totem uses its own Two Handed Mace, dealing (6-159) to (9-238) base Physical damage 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., Artillery BallistaArtillery BallistaBarrageable, Attack, Totem, Projectile, Duration Tier: 7 Level: 1Deploy a Ballista Totem that fires Pinning bolts which Maim Enemies.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel. and Siege Ballista now use your equipped weapon(s). They no longer have their own flat damage, base critical hit chance, or base attack time. Artillery Ballista: Has been renamed to Siege Ballista. Now has a duration of 8 seconds (previously 16). Bolts Attack Speed is now 25% of base, and Bolts now Deal 25-66% Attack Damage (previously 30-79%). Bolt Explosion radius is now 1.4 metres (previously 1.8). Explosion now deals 50-132% Attack Damage (previously 70-185%). Quality now provides +0-0.3 metres to Bolt Explosion radius (previously Totem base attack time is 0 to -0.4 seconds).
0.2.1	Added "Barrageable" gem tag.[Undocumented]
0.2.0f	All Totem Skills now start gaining Elemental Resistances and Chaos Resistance, scaling up with Skill level, from around Gem level 13. At gem level 20 they have +75% to all Elemental Resistances and +35% to Chaos Resistances.
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. The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels. Artillery Ballista base Physical Damage scaling now matches that of other totems like Shockwave Totem and Ripwire Ballista. The Artillery Explosion now converts 100% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage (previously 90%). Quality now provides 0 to -0.4 seconds to Totem base Attack Time (previously increased Attack Speed). Artillery and Ripwire BallistaArtillery BallistaBarrageable, Attack, Totem, Projectile, Duration Tier: 7 Level: 1Deploy a Ballista Totem that fires Pinning bolts which Maim Enemies.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel. now have an aggro range of 8 metres (previously 6). Artillery Ballista now fires 3 Projectiles (previously 1).
0.1.0e	Artillery Ballista's explosion radius increased to 1.8 metres (from 1.4 metres). Artillery Ballista's Damage increased by approximately 21%.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.