Molten Shell PoE Build, Support Gems

Molten Shell is a guard spell that buffs the user with a shell that grants bonus armour and absorbs incoming hits. When the shell expires or absorbs enough damage, it explodes to deal fire damage around it, based on how much damage it absorbed. The amount of damage the shell can absorb increases with your armour value. Base duration is 3 seconds at all gem levels, followed by a 4 seconds cooldown. Applies a buff that adds to your armour, and can take some of the damage from hits for you before being depleted. When the buff expires or is depleted, the skill deals reflected damage to enemies around you based on the total damage that was taken from the buff. Shares a cooldown with other Guard skills.You have additional Armour, and a percentage of damage from hits will be taken from this buff before your Life or Energy Shield. Spell, AoE, Duration, Fire, Physical, Guard. Level: 1–20. Cost: 8–12 Mana. Cooldown Time: 4.00 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Radius: 15. Requires Level 4. base_physical_damage_reduction_rating. vaal_molten_shall_armour_+%_final Base duration is 3 seconds This Skill"s Cooldown does not recover during its effect 75% of Damage from Hits is taken from the Buff before your Life or Energy Shield Buff can take Damage equal to 20% of your Armour, up to a maximum of 10000 Reflects (100–3000)% of Damage taken from Buff as Fire Damage when Buff expires or is depleted Buff grants +(50–858) to Armour Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. Name Additional Effects From Quality Weight Molten Shell (0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration 50

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Molten Shell Support Gems

• Cast when Damage Taken Support – It causes a linked spell to trigger when the player takes a certain amount of damage.
• Increased Duration Support – It will increase the duration of any effects produced by the supported skill.
• Enlighten Support – Reduces the mana reserved of the aura by the amount of the mana multiplier.
• Empower Support – Adds levels to supported auras, but increases their cost by the mana multiplier.
• Enhance Support – Increases the quality of the gem, granting increased area of effect, but at increased mana cost.

Most popular skills build with Molten Shell

• Cyclone(Green): 37%
• Vaal Cyclone(Green): 8%
• Lacerate(Green): 7%
• Raise Zombie(Blue): 4%
• Flicker Strike(Green): 3%
• Spark(Blue): 3%
• Raise Spectre(Blue): 3%
• Herald of Agony(Green): 3%
• Molten Strike(Red): 3%

Related Gems

Level Effect

Molten Shell is a guard spell that buffs the user with a shell that grants bonus armour and absorbs incoming hits. When the shell expires or absorbs enough damage, it explodes to deal fire damage around it, based on how much damage it absorbed. The amount of damage the shell can absorb increases with your armour value. Base duration is 3 seconds at all gem levels, followed by a 4 second cooldown.

Skill functions and interactions

• Guard: Molten Shell shares a cooldown with other Guard skills (eg Steelskin, Immortal Call).

• Buff Effect: Modifiers to Molten Shell's buff effect will only affect the armour granted by the skill, not the damage, duration, or absorbed damage required.

• Duration: skill and buff/debuff duration will both increase the duration of Molten Shell. When the duration of Molten Shell expires, the buff and any accumulated damage toward an explosion is lost.

• Spell Totem: a Spell Totem Support linked with Molten Shell can and will cast Molten Shell but is highly unlikely to ever detonate because of its lack of defense.

• Vaal Molten Shell: Molten Shell and Vaal Molten Shell will replace each other's respective buff when cast, if possible. Due to how guard skill cooldowns are shared you can cast Molten Shell constantly without risking removing your Vaal Molten Shell buff, because if you do so Molten Shell will never be off cooldown while Vaal Molten Shell is active.

All Guard skills

Below are the 5 skill gems with the Guard gem tag:

• Guard: Molten Shell shares a cooldown with other Guard skills (eg Steelskin, Immortal Call).

• Buff Effect: Modifiers to Molten Shell's buff effect will only affect the armour granted by the skill, not the damage, duration, or absorbed damage required.

• Duration: skill and buff/debuff duration will both increase the duration of Molten Shell. When the duration of Molten Shell expires, the buff and any accumulated damage toward an explosion is lost.

• Spell Totem: a Spell Totem Support linked with Molten Shell can and will cast Molten Shell but is highly unlikely to ever detonate because of its lack of defense.

• Vaal Molten Shell: Molten Shell and Vaal Molten Shell will replace each other's respective buff when cast, if possible. Due to how guard skill cooldowns are shared you can cast Molten Shell constantly without risking removing your Vaal Molten Shell buff, because if you do so Molten Shell will never be off cooldown while Vaal Molten Shell is active.

All Guard skills

Below are the 5 skill gems with the Guard gem tag:

Gem	Level
Arcane Cloak	16
Immortal Call	34
Molten Shell	1
Steelskin	1
Vaal Molten Shell	1

Item acquisition

Molten Shell can drop anywhere. Drop level: 5.

Recipes

Molten Shell can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
13	The Cataclysm	Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6	The Fox	Random level 20 gem
8	Dying Anguish	Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8	The Hook	Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3	Gemcutter's Promise	Random gem with 20% quality
1	Gemcutter's Incubator	Random gem with 1–20% quality
1	The Void	Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

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

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Breaking Some Eggs Act 1	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗

Vendor reward

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

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Breaking Some Eggs 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 Molten Shell.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Molten Shell Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Molten Shell has 25% increased Skill Effect Duration	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Molten Shell Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Molten Shell has 40% increased Skill Effect Duration	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Molten Shell has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Invisible Buff Effect	Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.
Stygian Molten Shell Effect	Your Molten Shell becomes a Stygian Effect.
Viper Molten Shell Effect	Your Molten Shell becomes a Viper Effect.