| Escalating Exposure | |||
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| Cost |  6,400
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| Tier | 4 | ||
| -8% Spirit Resist On Spirit Damage | |||
| +17% Spirit Resist | |||
| Passive |  0.7s
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Dealing  spirit damage applies a stacking Spirit Amp that increases your spirit damage to the target.
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12 Max Stacks 12s Duration | |||
Upgrades From: Mystic Vulnerability
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| Internal name: upgrade_escalating_exposure | |||
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| Escalating Exposure | |||
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| Cost | 6,400
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| Tier | 4 | ||
Enhanced
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| -18% Spirit Resist On Spirit Damage | |||
| +25% Spirit Resist | |||
| Passive | |||
| Dealing spirit damage applies a stacking Spirit Amp that increases your spirit damage to the target.
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18 Max Stacks 12s Duration | |||
| Upgrades From: Mystic Vulnerability
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| Internal name: upgrade_escalating_exposure | |||
Escalating Exposure is a Tier 4 
Spirit Item that can be purchased from the Shop for 6,400. Its component, Mystic Vulnerability, makes up 1,600 of the cost.
Notes
- The damage amp, and the spirit damage it is 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. As of the 03-06-2026 update, this was marked as a bug that has been patched and Vindicta gained a 4 second buffer from dealing damage on Assassinate to target death to still gain the bonus. This may indicate that these interactions are unintentional and that they will be fixed so that Escalating Exposure is considered part of the base effect damage eventually.
- EE's Damage amp is applied to only your damage, not to your teammates' damage as well. However, the flat non-stacking 8% vulnerability from Mystic Vulnerability, the trade-up for EE, is applied for all teammates.[1]
- This means regardless of your own stack count, your Geist's 100 damage bombs will only apply 108 damage (Mystic Vulnerability's 8%) and will not be affected by your stacks.
- This still applies even if the teammate also has escalating exposure.
- The user that most recently started applying stacks' icon will be the only one shown to the entire team.
- The user with stacks applied to them will only see the combined total of Escalating Exposure stacks on them, not each player's individual count.
Update history
View the full update history: Escalating Exposure/Update history
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References
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Alchemical Fire • 
Ballistic Enchantment • 
Berserker • 
Blood Tribute • 
Burst Fire • 
Cultist Sacrifice • 
Escalating Resilience • 
Express Shot • 
Headhunter • 
Heroic Aura • 
Hollow Point • 
Hunter's Aura • 
Point Blank • 
Shadow Weave • 
Sharpshooter • 
Spirit Rend • 
Tesla Bullets • 
Toxic Bullets • 
Weighted Shots 6400
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Cheat Death • 
Colossus • 
Divine Barrier • 
Diviner's Kevlar • 
Healing Tempo • 
Indomitable • 
Infuser • 
Inhibitor • 
Juggernaut • 
Leech • 
Phantom Strike • 
Plated Armor • 
Siphon Bullets • 
Spellbreaker • 
Unstoppable • 
Vampiric Burst • 
Witchmail
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