Elemental Hit

Cold steel tends to solve most problems, but sometimes it's not quite enough. With Elemental Hit, a player infuses their weapon with the heat of a furnace, the electricity of a Summer tempest, or the icy chill of the Winter night. The specific element is randomly chosen, but the result is the same: tons of extra damage dealt, often killing the target with a single blow.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Elemental Hit is an attack skill, executing a basic attack with added damage of a random element. An Elemental Hit may be performed with any weapon, or with no weapon equipped.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Dual Wielding: Using Elemental Hit while dual wielding will alternate the weapon used for attacking.

Damage Display: The DPS display can't currently account for the random choice of element.

Elemental Damage: Each of the three damage types is increased by "weapon elemental damage" and "elemental damage" passives and item mods. Additionally, fire, cold or lightning damage passives and mods will boost the damage of only that respective type.

Random Damage Type: One and only one of the listed elemental damage types will be applied per attack. There is no way to influence which type is chosen.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Fire Damage	Cold Damage	Lightning Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	0	0
2	15	39	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	15249	15249
3	19	48	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	41517	56766
4	23	56	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	81983	138749
5	27	64	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	147968	286717
6	31	73	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	250557	537274
7	35	81	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	405086	942360
8	38	88	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	447718	1390078
9	41	94	9	N/A	N/A	N/A	615318	2005396
10	44	100	9	N/A	N/A	N/A	834639	2840035
11	47	106	9	N/A	N/A	N/A	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	9	N/A	N/A	N/A	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	9	N/A	N/A	N/A	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	10	N/A	N/A	N/A	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	10	N/A	N/A	N/A	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	10	N/A	N/A	N/A	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	10	N/A	N/A	N/A	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	10	N/A	N/A	N/A	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	11	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	14	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	14	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	14	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	14	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	14	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.2	damage increased by 10%.
2.0.0	Now has a base chance to inflict elemental status ailments.
1.3.0	The mana costs of Elemental Hit, , Infernal Blow and Lightning Strike have been reduced.
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised.
1.0.0	Increased the mana cost. Damage progression past level 1 has been reduced.
0.10.0	Is now player level 19 (was 2) and has had its damage reduced, especially at high levels.
0.9.2	Reduced the mana cost.
0.9.1	Increased damage at higher levels.