Absorption¶

With Gather the Elements and a staff in hand, standing on your own spell ground absorbs it: the patch visibly shrinks and its power goes into infusion. Absorption rate makes the patch shrink faster. Ground that simply expires gives nothing.

Referenced by¶

Passive Tree¶

Notables¶

	Name	Effect
	Drawing the Earth	+10% absorption rate for infusion 15% increased potency for infusion

Small passives¶

Stat	Nodes
+4% absorption rate for infusion	3

Items¶

Mods (1)¶

Mod	Type	Rolls on	From (item level)
+#% absorption rate for infusion	Suffix	must be weapon; one of elemental magic, blood magic or sceptre	Meadows (1)

Patch history¶

Patch	Change
Patch 5.3.1 (New)	With Gather the Elements and a staff in hand, standing on your own spell ground absorbs it: the patch visibly shrinks and its power goes into infusion. Absorption rate makes the patch shrink faster. Ground that simply expires gives nothing.

Data from Path of Valheiman 5.3.6, extracted 2026-10-27.