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AbsolutionSpell, Minion, Duration, Physical, Lightning, AoE
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (9-26) Mana
Cast Time: 0.75 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 200%
Requires Level 12Damages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the corpse will be consumed to summon a Sentinel of Absolution for a secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them.Deals (21-873) to (31-1310) Physical Damage
Base duration is 1.00 seconds
Base secondary duration is 10.00 seconds
+(0-0.6) metres to radius
25% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Absolution on Hitting a Rare or Unique Enemy
This Spell and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage
Maximum 3 Summoned Sentinels of Absolution

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 12
Vendor Offer
1x Scroll Fragment
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemAbsolution

Absolution is a skill that damages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed to summon a friendly Sentinel of Absolution minion for a longer secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them.

Contents

  • 1 Skill functions and interactions
    • 1.1 Sentinel of Absolution
  • 2 Gem level progression
  • 3 Item acquisition
    • 3.1 Recipes
    • 3.2 Quest reward
    • 3.3 Vendor reward
  • 4 Related helmet enchantments
  • 5 Related passive skills
  • 6 Alternate skill effects
  • 7 Version history
  • 8 References

Skill functions and interactions

  • Despite what the gem says, the skill does not consume corpses when refreshing sentinels as of the launch of 3.19.
  • Support gems: Any support gem that can apply to both a spell as well as to a minion skill will apply to both the spell cast by the player's skill and the Sentinels' relevant spells. For example, Absolution | PoE Wiki (6)Spell Echo SupportSpell Echo SupportSpell, Support
    Icon: k
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%
    Requires Level 38Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.Supported Skills deal 10% less Damage
    Supported Skills Repeat an additional time
    Supported Skills have (40-54)% more Cast Speed

    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell Damage

    This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
    Absolution | PoE Wiki (7)
    will grant both the player's and minions' casts the ability to repeat.
    • Sentinels will not affect additional areas if the skill gem is supported by Absolution | PoE Wiki (8)Spell Cascade SupportSpell Cascade SupportAoE, Spell, Support
      Icon: p
      Level: (1-20)
      Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%
      Requires Level 4Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Skills have (25-16)% less Area of Effect
      Supported Skills deal (40-31)% less Damage
      Supported Area of Effect Skills also affect areas in front of and behind the targeted area

      Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
      Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Area of Effect

      This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
      Absolution | PoE Wiki (9)
      , but will still be affected by Supported Skills deal x% less Damage.

Sentinel of Absolution

  • Stats: Like most minions, Sentinels' life and base damage scale heavily with the gem level of Absolution. Sentinels have 40% Elemental Resistances and 20% Chaos Resistance by default. Sentinels have a base cast time of 1.33 and 6% base Critical Strike Chance. The minion's regular AbsolutionMinion spell has 180% Effectiveness of Added Damage, and its empowered version, AbsolutionMinionEmpowered, has a value of 130%.
    • This Spell and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage: 50% of the Sentinels' Physical damage dealt is converted to Lightning damage baseline. Using Absolution | PoE Wiki (10)Physical to Lightning SupportPhysical to Lightning SupportLightning, Physical, Support
      Icon: x
      Level: (1-20)
      Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%
      Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits enemies.Supported Skills gain (10-29)% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage
      Supported Skills have 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage

      Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
      Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Physical Damage

      This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
      Absolution | PoE Wiki (11)
      allows full elemental conversion without requiring Absolution | PoE Wiki (12)Triad GripTriad Grip
      Mesh Gloves
      Armour: (104-147)
      Energy Shield: (21-30)
      Requires Level 32, 26 Str, 26 Int(80-120)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
      Minions convert 25% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage per Red Socket
      Minions convert 25% of Physical Damage to Cold Damage per Green Socket
      Minions convert 25% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage per Blue Socket
      Minions convert 25% of Physical Damage to Chaos Damage per White Socket
      Minions have (5-10)% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite
      The secret of the elements lies within a square triangle.
      Absolution | PoE Wiki (13)
      .
  • Skills: A Sentinel of Absolution, according to the datamined material, is a reskinned Temple Adjudicator (which itself has another variant Heretical Adjudicator). It has a melee attack, which cannot normally be used, and two skills that are known for their internal IDs as AbsolutionMinion, and AbsolutionMinionEmpowered.[1]

Gem level progression

LevelAbsolution | PoE Wiki (14)Absolution | PoE Wiki (15)Absolution | PoE Wiki (16)Mana
Cost
Physical
Damage
RadiusExp.Total Exp.
1122114921to31N/A00
21525171026to40N/A1524915249
31930211236to55+0.1m4151756766
42335241349to74+0.1m81983138749
52741281465to98+0.1m147968286717
63146321586to129+0.2m250557537274
735513616112to167+0.2m405086942360
838553817135to203+0.2m4477181390078
941594118163to245+0.3m6153182005396
1044634419196to294+0.3m8346392840035
1147674720235to352+0.3m15707604410795
1250714920281to421+0.4m16339876044782
1353755221335to502+0.4m21510308195812
1456795522398to597+0.4m281218911008001
1559835823473to709+0.5m509936016107361
1662876024560to840+0.5m940073125508092
1764906225627to940+0.5m1527336640781458
1866926425700to1050+0.6m2628658267068040
1968956626782to1173+0.6m62890590129958630
2070986826873to1310+0.6m212046017342004647
21721007027974to1461+0.7mN/AN/A
2274N/AN/A271086to1629+0.7mN/AN/A
2376N/AN/A281210to1815+0.7mN/AN/A
2478N/AN/A291347to2021+0.8mN/AN/A
2580N/AN/A291500to2250+0.8mN/AN/A
2682N/AN/A301669to2503+0.8mN/AN/A
2784N/AN/A301855to2783+0.9mN/AN/A
2886N/AN/A312062to3093+0.9mN/AN/A
2988N/AN/A322291to3437+0.9mN/AN/A
3090N/AN/A322544to3817+1mN/AN/A
3191N/AN/A322681to4021+1mN/AN/A
3292N/AN/A332824to4237+1mN/AN/A
3393N/AN/A332975to4463+1mN/AN/A
3494N/AN/A333134to4701+1mN/AN/A
3595N/AN/A343301to4952+1mN/AN/A
3696N/AN/A343477to5215+1.1mN/AN/A
3797N/AN/A343661to5492+1.1mN/AN/A
3898N/AN/A343855to5782+1.1mN/AN/A
3999N/AN/A354059to6088+1.1mN/AN/A
40100N/AN/A354273to6410+1.1mN/AN/A

Item acquisition

Absolution can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Absolution can be created from the following recipes:

AmountPartDescriptionMeta
6Absolution | PoE Wiki (18)The SummonerAbsolution | PoE Wiki (19)The Summoner6Minion Gem
Quality: +20%
To own a piece of the Nightmare, you must first belong to the Nightmare.
Absolution | PoE Wiki (21)
Random Minion gem with 20% qualityA
13Absolution | PoE Wiki (22)The CataclysmAbsolution | PoE Wiki (23)The Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem
Corrupted
The mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.
Absolution | PoE Wiki (25)
Random corrupted level 21 Spell gemA
6Absolution | PoE Wiki (26)The FoxAbsolution | PoE Wiki (27)The Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
- Ezomyte Proverb
Absolution | PoE Wiki (29)
Random level 20 gemA
3Absolution | PoE Wiki (30)Gemcutter's PromiseAbsolution | PoE Wiki (31)Gemcutter's Promise3Gem
Quality: +20%
"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Absolution | PoE Wiki (33)
Random gem with 20% qualityA
1Absolution | PoE Wiki (34)Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
Item drops after killing {0} monsters
Right click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Absolution | PoE Wiki (35)
Random gem with 1–20% qualityA
1Absolution | PoE Wiki (36)The VoidAbsolution | PoE Wiki (37)The Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.Absolution | PoE Wiki (39)Random divination card set exchangeA

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →WitchShadowRangerDuelistMarauderTemplarScion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →WitchShadowRangerDuelistMarauderTemplarScion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1
Nessa
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Absolution.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

NameAbsolution | PoE Wiki (40)LabyrinthStatsSpawn Weighting
Enchantment Absolution Cast Speed 166Merciless Labyrinth8% increased Absolution Cast Speedhelmet 100
Enchantment Absolution Cast Speed 275Eternal Labyrinth12% increased Absolution Cast Speedhelmet 100
Enchantment Absolution Duration 166Merciless Labyrinth20% increased Sentinel of Absolution Durationhelmet 100
Enchantment Absolution Duration 275Eternal Labyrinth30% increased Sentinel of Absolution Durationhelmet 100
Enchantment Absolution Minion Area of Effect 166Merciless LabyrinthSummoned Sentinels of Absolution have 16% increased Area of Effecthelmet 100
Enchantment Absolution Minion Area of Effect 275Eternal LabyrinthSummoned Sentinels of Absolution have 24% increased Area of Effecthelmet 100

Related passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Absolution:

NameStats
Disciples

Minions deal 20% increased Damage while you are affected by a Herald
Summoned Sentinels have 25% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate [1]

Alternate skill effects

Absolution has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemEffect(s)

Version history

VersionChanges
3.23.0
  • Quality now causes Minions to have 0-40% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate, instead of dealing 0-20% increased Damage.
3.21.0
  • Fixed a bug where Sentinels of Absolution would sometimes pause and play a taunt animation when not on full life.
3.19.0
  • The damage and life scaling values for minions have been adjusted. Generally speaking, minion life and damage is unchanged in the very early game, roughly 30% lower in mid acts, roughly 20% lower at level 20 of the minion skill, and roughly 10% lower at level 30 of the minion skill.
  • Sentinels of Absolution now deal approximately 25% less damage at gem level 1, scaling to approximately 5% less damage at gem level 20. The player version of the skill now has +0 to radius at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to +6 to radius at gem level 20 (previously +4). Both the player and minion versions of the skill now have 6% base Critical Strike Chance (previously 5%). The regular Minion skill now has 180% Effectiveness of Added Damage (previously 100%), and the empowered version now has 130% (previously 100%).
3.17.0
  • Absolution now deals 21 to 31 Physical Damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 873 to 1310 at gem level 20 (previously 588 to 882).
  • Now has 200% Effectiveness of Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 130%).
3.16.0
  • Absolution now has +0 to radius at gem level 1, up to +4 to radius at gem level 20.
  • Absolution now grants 25% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Absolution on Hitting a Rare or Unique Enemy (previously only Hitting a Unique Enemy).
3.15.0d
  • Absolution now deals 21 to 31 Physical Damage at gem level 1 (previously 19 to 28), up to 588 to 882 at gem level 20 (previously 408 to 612).
  • Sentinels of Absolution now deal 242% more damage at gem level 1, scaling up to 429% more damage at gem level 20.
3.15.0
  • Absolution has been added to the game.

References

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