Cleave

Wielders of the axe and sword often find themselves beset by multiple foes. Expecting this, a trained armsman will employ the deadly Cleave. With a single practiced stroke, a Cleave sweeps sideways to inflict grievous harm to anyone standing nearby, lopping off heads and limbs with ease. As a player gains skill with Cleave, they strike harder, and hit more enemies with each swing of their blade.

Deals damage with all equipped weapons to enemies in a 180 degree arc in front of the player. When dual wielding, equipment requirement applies to both weapons, and each weapon does reduced damage. As the skill levels up, damage increases. Requires an axe, sword, two-handed axe, or two-handed sword.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Accuracy: This skill is affected by accuracy, and therefore can miss.

Attack Speed: This is currently determined by the attack speed of the main hand weapon only.

Area of Effect: Increases to AoE will increase the radius of the affected area, but the current animation for Cleave doesn't accurately reflect this increase.

Dual Wielding: If the player's weapons have different critical strike chance values, it is possible to critical, but not the other. It is also possible to miss with only one of the weapons swung. The decrease to dual wielding damage is additive (not multiplicative). The character tab DPS display is inaccurate for this skill because it doesn't currently account properly for dual wielding attacks.

Gem Leveling

Level	Required Level	Required Strength	Required Dexterity	Mana Cost	% Increased Physical Damage	Experience to Level
1	1	-	-	9	-	70
2	2	-	-	10	3%	308
3	4	-	-	10	6%	2,560
4	8	-	-	10	9%	8,813
5	12	18	-	11	12%	22,895
6	16	22	16	11	15%	68,427
7					18%
8	26	34	23	11	21%	581,328
9					24%
10	38	47	33	12	27%
11					30%
12	46	56	39	12	33%	2,737,323
13	49	60	42	13	36%	3,289,072
14	52	63	44	13	39%	3,351,223
15					42%
16
17
18					48%
19
20

Gem Quality

Each percentage of quality adds +1% Attack speed.

Quest Reward

This gem is dropped by the Dying Exile on Twilight Strand for the Duelist.