Dominating Blow

"In their campaign to become the dominant order on Oriath, the Templars often faced impossible odds. This led them to master the technique known as the Dominating Blow.

Dominating Blow does nothing exceptional when it strikes, little more than some damage. However, it also binds the soul of the victim to the will of the caster for a short duration. If the target dies with its soul bound, it will immediate reanimate, ready to fight alongside its new master for a time. With Dominating Blow on their side, warriors of The Order were able to overcome incredibly lopsided numbers in battle, often turning half of an army against itself."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Skill Functions and Interactions

Dominated monster types: Magic (blue named) and rare (yellow named) monsters can be made into minions using this skill, but unique monsters cannot. Rare and magical monsters that are dominated will keep all special attributes, including auras which will be applied to the player and all allies.

Support Gems: Any support gem that can apply to both an attack as well as a minion skill will function on both the attack made by Dominating Blow as well as any minions who are dominated as a result of the attack. For example, supporting Dominating Blow with an Added Lightning Damage support will add the stated amount of lightning damage to both attacks made by the player using the Dominating Blow skill as well as attacks made and spells cast by minions that have been dominated by the skill.

Increased Minion Physical Damage: Despite the misleading skill description, the bonus minion damage granted by the skill also applies to the skill itself. Thus, higher levels of Dominating Blow yield higher player melee damage. However, Minion Damage supports do not.

Dual Wielding: Dual wielding attacks with Dominating Blow will alternate the weapon being swung.

Duration: Buff/Debuff duration passives will not affect the lifespan of dominated monsters, but skill duration passives and the Increased Duration support gem will.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 24 || 37 || 25 || 20|| 14s || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 118,383 |- ! 2 | 27 || 41 || 28 || 21 || 15s || 3% || 175,816 |- ! 3 | 30 || 45 || 31 || 22 || 16s || 6% || 254,061 |- ! 4 | 33 || 49 || 34 || 23 || 17s || 9% || 225,766 |- ! 5 | 35 || 51 || 36 || 24 || 18s || 12% || 447,718 |- ! 6 | 38 || 55 || 38 || 26 || 19s || 15% || 388,734 |- ! 7 | 40 || 58 || 40 || 27 || 20s || 18% || 755,049 |- ! 8 | 43 || 62 || 43 || 29 || 21s || 21% || 860,401 |- ! 9 | 46 || 66 || 46 || 30 || 22s || 24% || 1,016,533 |- ! 10 | 48 || 69 || 48 || 30 || 23s || 27% || 1,038,201 |- ! 11 | 50 || 71 || 49 || 31 || 24s || 30% || 1,248,678 |- ! 12 | 52 || 74 || 51 || 33 || 25s || 33% || 1,498,138 |- ! 13 | 54 || 76 || 53 || 34 || 26s || 36% || 1,790,934 |- ! 14 | 56 || 79 || 55 || 34 || 27s || 39% || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 58 || 82 || 57 || 34 || 28s || 42% || 9,900,250 |- ! 16 | 60 || 84 || 59 || 35 || 29s || 45% || 21,274,363 |- ! 17 | 62 || 87 || 60 || 35 || 30s || 48% || 50,550,118 |- ! 18 | 64 || 90 || 62 || 36 || 31s || 51% || 89,834,713 |- ! 19 | 66 || 92 || 64 || 37 || 32s || 54% || 146,782,704 |- ! 20 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 37 || 33s || 57% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 21 | 70 || 98 || 68 || 37 || 34s || 60% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 70 || 98 || 68 || 37 || 35s || 63% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 70 || 98 || 68 || 37 || 36s || 66% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 70 || 98 || 68 || 37 || 37s || 69% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Version history

Version	Changes
1.3.0b	Fixed a bug introduced in 1.3.0 where Dominating Blow wasn't classed as a melee skill.
0.11.4	Fixed a bug where Dominating Blow could still apply to targets if the attack missed.
0.9.12	Now works with unarmed attacks and has no limit to the number of minions it can create.
0.9.5	Fixed a bug where multiple conversions of one monster would not be applied correctly.
0.9.3	Dominating Blow has been added to the game.