Path of Dark Flame

Path Of Dark Flame
A trail of dark, deadly flames
Type	Projectile
Uses	60
Mana Drain	90
Cast Delay	+0.33
Damage (Projectile)	20
Explosion Radius	1
Lifetime ⓘ	100
Speed	250
Additional Information
ID	DARKFLAME
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	000 100 200 31/12910.77 400 51/13910.72 61/10210.97 700 800 900 1000

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 damage, the individual trail projectiles left behind deal 6.25 projectile and 6.25 fire 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.
• As it comes with 60 charges this spell is one of the more useful use-limited spells in the game.
• 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.