Infusion¶

Absorbing your ground with a staff shrinks the patch and accumulates matching infusion. The next eligible manually cast damaging spell consumes the stored infusion once. Its added damage is shared between the cast's projectiles and repeats; ordinary spell damage is not divided. Natural ground expiry grants no infusion. Absorption cannot repeatedly harvest overlapping area or recapture its own spent infusion for a net gain.

How it works¶

Infusion: with Gather the Elements and a staff in hand (elemental or blood magic), standing on your own spell patches absorbs them into a store, by damage type. A patch shrinks as it's absorbed and is gone below 0.3 m.

Less is gained where your other patches of the same type already cover the patch's edge.

The store holds at most 10 units in all (limits). It empties 10 s after the last gain, and when you die.

Your next damaging spell cast by hand (or attack with Sceptre of the Pious) uses the whole store: each unit adds 6% of the damage of the spell that made the patch (that type, after its increases) × (1 + infusion potency), as flat damage of its type. A projectile spell splits it among its projectiles; an area spell adds all of it to every hit. Damage that came from infusion can't be absorbed again.

Spell Echo repeats infused projectile spells; infused area spells aren't repeated.

With the other mechanics: Combat and building.

Referenced by¶

Passive Tree¶

Notables¶

	Name	Effect
	Drawing the Earth	+10% absorption rate for infusion 15% increased potency for infusion
	Gathered Essence	15% increased potency for infusion
	Held in the Hands	20% increased effect duration for infusion 15% increased potency for infusion

Masteries¶

	Option	Effect
	Spell Echo	+100% staff repeat chance when casting with infused casts +0.2 staff s repeat delay when casting with infused casts

Small passives¶

Items¶

Mods (4)¶

Mentioned in¶

• Absorption

Patch history¶

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