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Escalating Exposure
Cost		7,450
Tier		4
+15% Spirit Resist
+125 Bonus Health
-12% Spirit Resist on Spirit Damage
Passive
Dealing Spirit Damage applies a stacking Spirit Amp that increases your Spirit Damage to the target.
Upgrades From: Mystic Vulnerability
Internal name: upgrade_escalating_exposure

Escalating Exposure is a Tier 4 Spirit Item that provides Spirit Resist and Bonus Health to the purchasing hero, along with reducing the enemy Spirit Resist when the purchasing hero deals Spirit Damage. Additionally, it has a passive that applies a stacking Spirit Amp that increases your Spirit Damage to the target.

It can be purchased from the Shop for  7,450 (its Component Mystic Vulnerability makes up  1,250 of the cost).

Notes

• The damage amp, and the spirit damage it it amplifying, are applied to the target as separate instances of damage. The damage from the damage amp is dealt *after* the original spell damage. This has implications for abilities or effects that rely on single instances of damage, for example:
  • Vindicta has 5 stacks of Escalating Exposure on an enemy Warden, and she uses Assassinate on him. The baseline Assassinate on its own is not enough damage to kill the Warden, but the increased damage (due to the 5 stacks) is enough to secure the kill. Since the damage amp from Escalating Exposure is applied after the Assassinate, it is technically the damage amp which secures the kill, not the Assassinate. Thus, Vindicta will not receive bonus souls from Assassinate's passive.

Update history

Main article: Update history

View the full update history: Escalating Exposure/Update history

Update	Changes
April 30, 2026	Enhanced version: Max Stacks from +8 to +6. Amp per stack from +2 to +1.5. Base shred from +8 to +10 (matching Enhanced Mystic Vulnerability).
September 4, 2025	Spirit Resistance reduced from 20% to 17%.
May 19, 2025	Spirit Amp per Stack increased from 4% to 4.5% Max Stacks reduced from 14 to 12

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