Updated 2 Oct 2026
Abilities/Aether Beam

Aether Beam fills your Main slot. Beam main ability of the spirit school. Base damage 10.8. Cast 14 ticks. Beam 9 units long, 7 ticks.

You get it by equipping 17 bases across 6 lines: Auroralens Staff, Conduit Staff, Goldenchord Staff, Stormlens Staff and Tidelight Staff and 1 more.

The draft can bend it 7 ways — Echo, Reach, Multiplicity, Area, Force, Duration and Critical — and cards that ask for beam, channel, critical, on_hit and pierce will find it.

Between rooms it can be offered 139 cards: 30 written for it specifically, plus the 109 that any ability can take. Those cards can put Shock, Distortion, Brand and Chill on it, and attune it to Storm, Void, Holy and Frost.

7 Uniques are built on gear that hands it to you: The Unbroken Sentence, Petrichor, Rifthunger, Doxology, Clap of Thunder, The Short Fuse and Aurora Fan.

Gear that hands it to you

6 lines · 17 bases
LineSlotTiers, and the item levels they drop atFound in
Auroralens StaffMain Hand
T5 iLvl 60–79T6 iLvl 80+
DEMON
Conduit StaffMain Hand
T1 iLvl 1–14T2 iLvl 15–29T3 iLvl 30–44T4 iLvl 45–59T5 iLvl 60–79T6 iLvl 80+
DEMON
Goldenchord StaffMain Hand
T6 iLvl 80+
MORTAL
Stormlens StaffMain Hand
T5 iLvl 60–79T6 iLvl 80+
DEMON
Tidelight StaffMain Hand
T2 iLvl 15–29T3 iLvl 30–44T4 iLvl 45–59T5 iLvl 60–79T6 iLvl 80+
DEMON
Voidsiphon StaffMain Hand
T6 iLvl 80+
NIGHTMARE

How the draft bends it

7 ways to change it
ChangeWhat it does to a beam
Echo
The whole cast plays once more after a short gap, at reduced effect.
+100% Repeats
-20% Damage
Reach
The ability reaches farther.
+15% RangeUnits
Multiplicity
More projectiles, targets or summons at reduced individual effect.
+1 Count
+15 SpreadDegrees
-12% Damage
Area
Wider bursts, arcs and impact zones.
+15% Radius
Force
Harder hits: knockback, shove and stagger pressure.
+0.4 Knockback
Duration
Statuses, buffs, summons and channels last longer.
+20% StatusDuration
Critical
The ability crits more often; heals and wards grow instead.
+4 CritBonus

The fine print

the raw numbers behind it
Damage tagsmagic, beam
Fires onchannel_start → channel_tick → channel_end
RangeUnits9
Radius0.8
Ticks7
Pierce12

Cards it can be offered

139 cards it can see
Written for this ability (30)
Decisive Strikes
Minor · common
Keen Strike
Minor · common
Far Reach
Minor · common
Farcaster
Minor · rare
Widening Gyre
Minor · rare
Forceful
Minor · rare
Lingering Grasp
Minor · rare
Deadly Focus
Minor · rare
Fluid Strikes
Minor · common
Beam Focus
Minor · common
Conduit Flow
Minor · common
Conduit Ramp
Minor · common
Heavy Strike
Major · rare
Lance Strikes
Major · rare
Sweeping Strikes
Major · rare
Flamebrand Arms
Major · rare
Rimebound Arms
Major · rare
Stormbound Arms
Major · rare
Venombound Arms
Major · rare
Bloodsworn Arms
Major · rare
Stonebound Arms
Major · rare
Lightsworn Arms
Major · rare
Voidtouched Arms
Major · rare
Endless Refrain
Major · legendary
Driving Strikes
Major · rare
Sundering Strikes
Major · rare
Conduit Surge
Major · rare
Wider Beam
Major · rare
Conduit Well
Major · rare
Manifold
Major · legendary
Plus the ones any ability can take (109)

Nothing on these cards narrows the draft, so every ability can be offered them — see all 139 together →

What it can end up carrying

if the draft goes your way
StatusesShock, Distortion, Brand, Chill
AffinitiesStormVoidHolyFrost

Uniques

built on gear that grants it
The Unbroken Sentence
Your Main deals 35% more damage, pierces 2 more enemies and starts 25% faster.
Petrichor
Your Main attack applies Shock.
Rifthunger
Your beam drinks 3 ticks longer, reaches 40% farther and 15% wider, and warps everything it touches with Distortion, but your maximum health is 12% lower.
Doxology
Your beam Brands everything it crosses, channels 3 ticks longer and pierces deeper; a Brand's Release is doubled, but you move 12% slower.
Clap of Thunder
Overload is a thunderclap: 50% wider, shoves 2 units and applies Shock, but recharges 25% slower.
The Short Fuse
Overload recharges twice as fast and casts 25% quicker, but hits 35% softer: spend Conduit constantly.
Aurora Fan
Aether Beam is twice as wide and applies Chill, but reaches 35% less far.