Path of Dark Flame

Path of Dark Flame is a spell that leaves a trail of static magical fire projectiles as it moves which can inflict significant damage on any enemies that collide with them. These projectiles will stay in the world for a few seconds before dissipating.

Tips

• While the main projectile of the spell deals 20 Projectile damage, the individual trail projectiles left behind deal 6.25 and 6.25 damage.
• Only the main projectile is affected by projectile modifiers; the static flames are not.
• Although the static flames cannot be given Homing, the Vortex created by some enemies and spells can move them.
  • This can be exploited by casting Path of Dark Flame in conjunction with Black Holes, which turns the trail into a vortex of projectiles concentrated on the Black Hole. The utility of this combination is limited by Black Hole's limited charge count, though.
  • A Personal Gravity Field can also be used to pull the trail towards an affected enemy.
  • The Homing Shots perk can make all the flame particles home in on one enemy, dealing significant damage.
• Since it comes with 60 charges, this spell is one of the more useful use-limited spells in Noita.
• Kallokärpänen will attack you using this spell.
• When Epäalkemisti's ball is destroyed, similar dark flames will be thrown in all directions.
• The dark flames are not actually Fire and do not ignite flammable materials.
• Very effective against Mato and other worms due to their segmented nature.
• This spell can make a very effective boss killer in speedruns, being able to very quickly kill SPOILER: Kolmisilmä

Gallery

Path of Dark Flame in action.

Testing Path of Dark Flame in a Holy Mountain.

Wand Appearance with Path of Dark Flame x3.

Black Hole concentrates the trail of projectiles into itself.

A Personal Gravity Field pulling the trail of projectiles into a Hahmonvaihtaja

History

• Apr 8 2024:
  • Fixed issue with this spell not working with Add Trigger.
  • Changed the spawn probabilities on tier 5 from 1 to 0.9, and tier 6 from 1 to 0.8.

• Oct 11 2019:
  • Increased main projectile damage from 5 to 20.
  • Increased the trail damage from 5 to 12.5.

 

Spells

 

Projectile

 

Static

 

Passive

 

Utility

 

Modifier

 

Material

 

Multicast

 

Other

• Wand and Spell Tiers
• Spell Information Table
• Modding:Spell IDs
• Unlockable spells