Wake of Fire

Wake of Fire

Class: Assassin
Required Level: 12
Skill Tree: Traps
Requires: Fire Blast
Active
Cost: 13 Mana

The Assassin drops a trap at her location that sends out small waves of fire around it, dealing damage to enemies caught in the waves.

Damage Type: Fire
Synergies: Fire Blast, Wake of Inferno
Other Stats: Summon; Unattackable; Fires 5 times

Wake of Fire is an Assassin Skill in Diablo II.

Lore

Once erected, this trap releases waves of flame that incinerate any opponents within its path.

General Information

Synergies

Gives synergy to:
- Fire Blast: +11% Fire damage per level
- Wake of Inferno: +0.5 Yards per level
- Wake of Inferno: +18% Fire damage per level
Receives synergy from:
- Fire Blast: +10% Fire damage per level
- Wake of Inferno: +10% Fire damage per level

Wake of Fire places a trap in a chosen area that shoots waves of fire when triggered. Due to its high speed, good number of shoots and wide coverage, this trap can still be very effective well past Normal. However, due to its relatively low synergies and innate damage, as well as the higher amount of fire immune and resistant monsters in later difficulties, the efficiency of this skill is not as high in the very later stages of Nightmare and most of Hell.

Due to the relative low damage of the spell, dropping many of these traps at once is helpful for dealing more damage. This ability is also much more effective in dungeons, as the cramped corridors and rooms lets the waves hit many more targets than normal.

The waves are not radial, but instead are fired in cone-shaped bursts, like Baal's cold waves.

Skill Progression

Mana Cost: 13
Shoots 5 times

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Damage	5–10	7–12	9–15	11–17	14–19	16–21	18–23	20–25	23–29	27–32	30–35

Level	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	25
Damage	33–38	36–42	39–45	43–48	46–51	51–58	57–64	62–71	68–77