Heavy Strike

"When facing the hungry throngs on Wraeclast, offense truly is the best form of defense. Skilled melee combatants have mastered the technique of the Heavy Strike, a devastating blow they unleash with an Axe, Mace or any two-handed weapon. Heavy Strike lands with terrifying force, knocking foes back and often stunning them, if not killing them outright."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Heavy Strike is an attack skill that hits and knocks back an enemy, using a mace, axe, sword or two-handed weapon.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Dual Wielding: Dual wielders can use Heavy Strike as long as one of their weapons is an axe or mace. If only one weapon is an axe or mace, only that weapon will be used to attack. If both weapons are axes and/or maces, the attack will alternate between weapons.

Reduced Enemy Stun Threshold: This essentially means that enemies struck by Heavy Strike have a greater chance to be stunned than with other attacks.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 1 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 6 || 150.0% || 70 |- ! 2 | 2 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 6 || 151.8% || 308 |- ! 3 | 4 || 16 || 6 || 153.6% || 1,554 |- ! 4 | 7 || 22 || 6 || 155.4% || 6,667 |- ! 5 | 11 || 31 || 6 || 157.2% || 26,047 |- ! 6 | 16 || 41 || 7 || 159.0% || 49,725 |- ! 7 | 20 || 50 || 7 || 160.8% || 95,714 |- ! 8 | 26 || 62 || 7 || 35% || 581,328 |- ! 9 | 32 || 75 || 7 || 40% || 566,989 |- ! 10 | 38 || 88 || 7 || 45% || 1,143,783 |- ! 11 | 42 || 96 || 7 || 50% || 1,426,490 |- ! 12 | 46 || 104 || 7 || 55% || 2,737,323 |- ! 13 | 49 || 111 || 7 || 60% || 3,289,072 |- ! 14 | 52 || 117 || 7 || 65% || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 55 || 123 || 7 || 70% || 9,936,267 |- ! 16 | 58 || 130 || 8 || 75% || 21,346,397 |- ! 17 | 61 || 136 || 8 || 80% || 50,694,186 |- ! 18 | 64 || 142 || 8 || 85% || 90,050,815 |- ! 19 | 66 || 146 || 8 || 90% || 147,034,823 |- ! 20 | 68 || 151 || 8 || 95% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 21 | 68 || 151 || 9 || 100% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 68 || 151 || 9 || 105% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 68 || 151 || 9 || 110% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Version history

Version	Changes
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised.
0.11.6	Heavy Strike: reduced stun threshold reduction from 30% to 25%.
0.10.2	Heavy Strike's physical damage now increases by 5% per level rather than 4%.
0.9.12qq	Heavy Strike's 50% damage bonus now affects support gems and elemental damage. It is now represented as Damage Effectiveness.
0.9.12e	Fixed a client crash that could occur when using a Duelist and Heavy Strike with certain weapon combinations.
0.9.3	Heavy Strike has been added to the game.