Acid Cloud

Acid Cloud is a tier five Witch Doctor skill.

This functions as a DfA attack, spilling poison damage on any enemies in the targeted location. It leaves behind a toxic puddle that deals DoT and AoE as well.

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]

Acid Cloud Active, 5 ranks
Used by:	Witch Doctor
Skill Description:
Acid rains down dealing initial poison damage followed by poison damage per second to nearby enemies who remain in the area.
Skill Details:
Type:	Direct Damage & DoT
Quantity:	Duration
Effect:	AoE
School:	Acid
Mana cost:	15 mana
Cast time:	Unknown
Duration:	Unknown
Cooldown:	Unknown
Synergies:	None
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

The Witch Doctor creates a rain of acid over a small radius, dealing poison damage, plus poison damage to anything in the vicinity of the resulting toxic puddle.

Skill Design

Acid on skellies!

This skill opens a hole in the air, pouring poison out on whomever is under it at the time. Pools of poison stay on the floor for about ten seconds after, damaging enemies. The green goo from the poison looks a lot like the remains of the Witch Doctor's Plague of Toads.

If you ever hated the acid dogs from Diablo I, now you can wreak that acidic pain on others!

This spell was originally one of the Wizard's. It was switched to the Witch Doctor during early development.

Skill Rank Table

These listed damage figures come from Blizzcon 2009. They will likely differ considerably in the final game.

Rank 1: 1-5 initial poison damage, 5-10 damage per second.
Rank 2: 2-6 initial poison damage, 10-15 damage per second. (projected)
Rank 3: 3-7 initial poison damage, 15-20 damage per second. (projected)
Rank 4: 4-8 initial poison damage, 20-25 damage per second. (projected)
Rank 5: 5-9 initial poison damage, 25-30 damage per second. (projected)

Synergies

None of the Witch Doctor traits directly boost Acid Cloud, though several of them affect all of his spells in various ways.

Runestone Effects

None are yet known for Acid Cloud.

Development

The spell was first shown at BlizzCon 2008 when the Wizard was unveiled, in the gameplay material released to the public. The skill initially belonged to the Wizard, but was moved to the Witch Doctor's Voodoo Skill Tree some time before BlizzCon 2009 (21 August 2009). This change was confirmed by Bashiok in a forum post in mid-July, 2009. [1].

Previous Versions:

Acid Cloud (BlizzCon 2008)

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:

Zoom of the Acid Cloud.
Wizard Acid Cloud on Skeletons.
Acid pools on the floor.

References