Double Strike

"Originally perfected by the renowned Duelist Fammal during his reign in the arenas of Oriath, the deadly Double Strike brings fame and renown to those who master it. A Double Strike performs two regular melee attacks in the blink of an eye, dealing twice as much damage in a single span of time. Foes caught unawares will find themselves cut to ribbons or stunned into submission beneath a flurry of blows."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Double Strike is an attack skill. It performs two fast attacks on a target enemy with the player's main hand melee weapon.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Dual Wielding: This skill will only attack with the main hand weapon while dual wielding.

Multiple Hits: This attack hits twice, activating Life Gain on Hit twice, and giving two opportunities to activate chance-based effects such as Blind, Knockback, Stun, and elemental Status Ailments. It does not, however, have two chances to crit. If one hit is a crit, the other will also be a crit.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 1 | 0 | 70% | 0 | 0 |- ! 2 | 2 | 0 | 70.8% | 70 | 70 |- ! 3 | 4 | 16 | 71.6% | 308 | 378 |- ! 4 | 7 | 22 | 72.4% | 1,554 | 1,932 |- ! 5 | 11 | 31 | 73.2% | 6,667 | 8,599 |- ! 6 | 16 | 41 | 74% | 26,047 | 34,646 |- ! 7 | 20 | 50 | 74.8% | 49,725 | 84,371 |- ! 8 | 24 | 58 | 75.6% | 95,714 | 180,085 |- ! 9 | 28 | 67 | 76.4% | 169,595 | 349,680 |- ! 10 | 32 | 75 | 77.2% | 283,759 | 633,439 |- ! 11 | 36 | 83 | 78% | 453,996 | 1,087,435 |- ! 12 | 40 | 92 | 78.8% | 703,128 | 1,790,563 |- ! 13 | 44 | 100 | 79.6% | 1,061,223 | 2,851,786 |- ! 14 | 48 | 109 | 80.4% | 2,065,870 | 4,917,656 |- ! 15 | 52 | 117 | 81.2% | 2,507,110 | 7,424,766 |- ! 16 | 56 | 125 | 82% | 5,798,936 | 13,223,702 |- ! 17 | 60 | 134 | 82.8% | 15,083,919 | 28,307,621 |- ! 18 | 64 | 142 | 83.6% | 27,792,735 | 56,100,356 |- ! 19 | 67 | 148 | 84.4% | 43,869,739 | 99,970,095 |- ! 20 | 70 | 155 | 85.2% | 242,081,556 | 342,051,651 |- ! 21 | 72 | 159 | 86% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 74 | | 86.8% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 76 | | 87.6% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 78 | | 88.4% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 80 | | 89.2% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 82 | | 90% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 84 | | 90.8% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 86 | | 91.6% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | 88 | | 92.4% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | 90 | | 93.2% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Version history

Version	Changes
2.1.0	Attack skills that have their damage based on the wielded weapon have their mana costs fixed in place from level 1 onwards.
1.0.2b	Fixed a bug introduced in 1.0.2 where the skill tooltip damage per second stats displayed incorrect values for , and .
0.10.2	Double Strike's physical damage now increases by 4% per level rather than 3%.
0.9.12qq	From 1% attack speed per quality point to 0.35%.
0.9.9d	Double Strike has been rebalanced so that the starting level is now level 1 It is now pure Dexterity.
0.9.9c	Double Strike is now counted as a Melee gem.
0.9.3	Double Strike is now disabled on Bows (and Wands).