Sweep

"Sometimes a good blade just isn't enough. With a mighty swing, a player wielding a staff, two-handed axe or mace smashes the skulls of many enemies surrounding them. The furious blow breaks armor and bone alike, even knocking foes back a substantial distance."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Sweep deals damage to enemies in a full 360-degree circle around the player, and knocks some of them back. As the skill levels up, damage increases. Requires a two-handed axe, two-handed mace, or staff.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Accuracy: Accuracy is a factor despite the nature of the skill. Sweep can miss.

Attack Speed: Sweep has its own attack time of 1.15 seconds and modifiers to attack speed will modify the speed at which Sweep performs. While its base attack time is not equal to the base attack time of your weapon, it does benefit from local attack speed modifiers on the weapon just like any other skill (multiplicatively).

Gem level progression

Values marked with * are out of date. Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 2 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 8 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 30% || 123 |- ! 2 | 3 || 14 || 8 || 3% || 30% || 542 |- ! 3 | 5 || 18 || 8 || 6% || 31% || 2,220 |- ! 4 | 8 || 25 || 8 || 9% || 31% || 8,813 |- ! 5 | 12 || 33 || 8 || 12% || 32% || 22,895 |- ! 6 | 16 || 41 || 9 || 15% || 32% || 68,427 |- ! 7 | 21 || 52 || 9 || 18% || 33% || 150,439 |- ! 8 | 26 || 62 || 9 || 21% || 33% || 581,328 |- ! 9 | 32 || 75 || 9 || 24% || 34% || 566,989 |- ! 10 | 38 || 88 || 9 || 27% || 34% || 1,143,783 |- ! 11 | 42 || 96 || 10 || 30% || 35% || 1,426,490 |- ! 12 | 46 || 104 || 10 || 33% || 35% || 2,737,323 |- ! 13 | 49 || 111 || 10 || 36% || 36% || 3,289,072 |- ! 14 | 52 || 117 || 10 || 39% || 36% || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 55 || 123 || 10 || 42% || 37% || 9,936,257 |- ! 16 | 58 || 130 || 11 || 45% || 37% || 21,346,376 |- ! 17 | 61 || 136 || 11 || 48% || 38% || 50,694,143 |- ! 18 | 64 || 142 || 11 || 51% || 38% || 90,050,751 |- ! 19 | 66 || 146 || 11 || 54% || 39% || 147,034,749 |- ! 20 | 68 || 151 || 12 || 57% || 39% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Version history

Version	Changes
1.2.0	Damage effectiveness increased from 75% to 85%.
0.9.12qq	Damage modifiers are now factored into Damage Effectiveness rather than being listed as separate stats.
0.9.12f	Fixed a newly introduced bug where Sweep would always get critical strikes.
0.9.10	Removed knockback distance increase. Changed quality bonus to attack speed.
0.9.9	Reduced mana cost.
0.9.7	Normalised the balance so that there isn't such a large disparity. Sweep now hits in a full circle again (rather than a 300 degree arc).
0.9.2	Increased the damage of Sweep. Changed Sweep's quality bonus from knockback distance to increased attack speed. Sweep is now affected by increased area of effect stats.
0.9.1	Reduced damage of Sweep at lower levels.