Escalating Exposure

Escalating Exposure
Cost		6,400
Tier		4
-8% Spirit Resist On Spirit Damage
+20% Spirit Resist
Passive
Dealing Spirit Damage applies a stacking Spirit Amp that increases your Spirit Damage to the target. +4.5% Spirit Amp per Stack 12 Max Stacks 12s Duration 0.7s Max Frequency Per Target
Upgrades From: Mystic Vulnerability
Codename: upgrade_escalating_exposure

Escalating Exposure is a Tier 4 Spirit Item that provides Spirit Resist 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  6,400, with its Component, Mystic Vulnerability, making 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.
• 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.
  • 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

Main article: Update history

Update	Changes
May 19, 2025	Spirit Amp per Stack increased from 4% to 4.5% Max Stacks reduced from 14 to 12
December 21, 2024	Base Cost reduced from 6.2k to 6k souls (global T4 item change). Total cost decreased from 7,450 to 7,250 souls.
October 24, 2024	Spirit Amp Per Stack reduced from 5% to 4%.