Ability Upgrades with Elemental and Debuff Synergies

A brief summary of abilities that have upgrades that add elemental or debuff traits beyond their initial set.

Spark

Arcane Splinters

• Arcane Elements: Splinters will get elemental damage and can apply affects on hit.

Arcane Rift

• Elemental Rift: Lightning: Rifts spawns with an element based on element types. Adds Lightning damage type to the Rift source and Splinter upgrade.

Astronomer's Orbs

• Electrified Orbs: Orbs deal additional lightning damage based on their movement speed. Orbs can electrify enemies on hit based on movement speed.

Frost Avalanche

• Static Ice: Ice damage from all Avalanche attacks will get Lightning damage type and have a chance to electrify enemies.

Frost

Arcane Splinters

• Arcane Elements: Splinters will get elemental damage and can apply affects on hit.

Arcane Rift

• Elemental Rift: Ice: Rifts spawns with an element based on element types. Adds Ice damage type to the Rift source and Splinter upgrade.

Flame Strike

• Frost Strike: Transforms the Flame Strike into Frost Strike. The Ability and Upgrades become Ice and work now with Frost.

Burn

Arcane Splinters

• Arcane Elements: Splinters will get elemental damage and can apply affects on hit.

Arcane Rift

• Elemental Rift: Fire: Rifts spawns with an element based on element types. Adds Fire damage type to the Rift source and Splinter upgrade.

Clay Golem

• Magma Fists: Golem's melee attacks deal fire damage and have a chance to inflict burn. +50% Attack Area, +4s Roll Cooldown

Hailstorm

• Frozen Fire: Every time Hailstorm applies frost, it also applies burn. All Hailstorm damage will be of the type Fire.

Lightning Strikes

• Explosive Strikes: When a Lightning Strike deals a critical hit, it causes an explosion that deals fire damage based on the strikes strength (30%).

Radiant Aura

• Sacred Flame: Emits an additional fire based attack that will distribute a certain number of burn stacks among all enemies in range. Number of stacks can be increased with burn chance.

Affliction

Radiant Aura

• Punitive Light: Emits an additional magic attack that can apply Fragile and Affliction to all enemies.

Transfixion

• Painful Incision: Fires projectiles behind you. All Transfixion projectiles get a chance to apply Affliction.
  
• Amputation: Adds shots in backwards direction. Enemies hit by Transfixion take 10% additional damage for each debuff stack.

Fragile

Radiant Aura

• Punitive Light: Emits an additional magic attack that can apply Fragile and Affliction to all enemies.

Ring Blades

• Piercing Blades: Adds two projectiles per cycle. Additional blades deal magic damage and can apply fragile. Projectiles can't be blocked.

Slow

Frost Avalanche

• Quick Freeze: Frost Avalanche will leave a trail of ice patches that slow down enemies. Patches may also apply frost effect.

Morning Star

• Spiked Chain: The chains of your Morning Stars also inflict damage and have a chance to apply slow on hit enemies.

Phantom Needles

• Phantom Fetters: Needles apply Slow on hit. Apply chance is reduced for each enemy hit by the projectile. For each Slow stack on enemies needles have an additional flat 15% Crit Chance.

Ring Blades

• Crippling Blades: Adds two projectiles per cycle. Additional blades can apply slow effect.

Spectral Fists

• Spectral Clutch: Each Spectral Fists attack summons an additonal clutching hand that targets the strongest closeby enemy. They damage and slow enemies they on touch.

Spirit Warrior

• Dash Impact: At the end of his dash the spirit warrior casts a physical shockwave that damages and slows down enemies.

Transfixion

• Crippling Cuts: Fires projectiles behind you. All Transfixion projectiles get a chance to apply slow on hit enemies.
  
• Amputation: Adds shots in backwards direction. Enemies hit by Transfixion take 10% additional damage for each debuff stack.

Footnotes

Ability text has been borrowed with gratitude from https://hot.fandom.com/wiki/Halls_of_Torment_Wiki

Header image is from Heavy Metal Magazine issue #278

[bluemeep]

Good note! I thought that one might have just been a general AoE, but I'll have to double check now.

[Stormtempter]

The golem also has a lightning upgrade, ferrite something, it give it zappy power on rolls.