Explosive Blast
Explosive Blast is a Wizard skill unlocked at level 14, blasting a small area for high damage.
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| Diablo III Active Skill [e] | |
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| Explosive Blast | |
| Used by: | Wizard |
| Enabled at: | Clvl 14 |
| A blast of energy explodes at the target causing 10-16 damage in a small radius. | |
| Type: | Direct Damage/AoE |
| Resource Use: | Costs Arcane Power |
| Alabaster rune: | Unknown |
| Crimson rune: | Unknown |
| Golden rune: | Unknown |
| Indigo rune: | Unknown |
| Obsidian rune: | Unknown |
The Wizard conjures volatile gasses into the physical realm, which ignite with oxygen and create a powerful blast in a very limited space.
Skill Design
This skill is basically a short-range nova centered around the Wizard, on a short time delay. Since the Wizard can move after activating it, she can select it, run into the midst of a pack of monsters, then laugh when they go boom.
The spell's delay (about 1.5 seconds) makes it unsuitable for emergency use, and its short range (at least at level 1) makes it difficult to use without getting pounded on. Skill runes will undoubtably make it more viable, and less a novelty skill.
Skill Rank Table
- Rank 1: After building up for 1.5 seconds, an arcane explosion deals 10-16 damage to all nearby monsters.
Synergies
- No synergies with any of the passive skills are yet known.
Skill Rune Effects
The following rune effects for Explosive Blast are known:
- Unknown rune: Turns the single blast into three consecutive blasts.[1]
- Unknown rune: The blast hits at the point of activation, making it work more like a trap. The explosion also seems to set off other nearby Blasts. (Seen in video here.)
Development
Explosive Blast was first seen at BlizzCon 2009 in the gameplay demo, where it was on the Conjuring Skill Tree at Tier III. Originally, the Wizard targeted a specific location, and after a short delay, the blast went off.
By BlizzCon 2010, the mechanics had changed; the blast was focused on the Wizard. It was also moved to Tier 2 after skill trees were removed. It was one of the Wizard's starting skills in the gameplay demo, and Flux found it entertaining:[1]
It’s basically a short-range nova, on a time delay. You click it, and after 1.5 seconds (at level one) it blew up, dealing fairly substantial physical damage. The time delay made it unsuitable for emergency situations, but if you got used to the timing it was fun to click midway through a battle, knowing it would blast a moment later and finish off the enemy.
Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Explosive Blast became a level 14 skill.
Previous Versions
See the Wizard skill archive for more details on previous versions of Explosive Blast and other Wizard skills.
Media
Explosive Blast can be seen in action on video here:
You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:
References
- Jump up ↑ BlizzCon 2010 Hands-on: GamePlanet NZ -- Incgamers 5th Nov 2010
- BlizzCon 2009 Full Wizard Skill Trees
- BlizzCon 2010 Wizard Hands-on Report
- JudgeHype.com July 2011 Press Event Coverage - The Wizard (Translated by Zediono)
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