Leap Slam

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Long ago, the marauders of Oriath perfected a devastating battle technique - the ferocious Leap Slam. With a guttural cry, the leaper hurtles forward and smashes the ground at the feet of the enemy. The force from this blow deals substantial damage in a circle around the targeted spot, and will even knock back and stun. The Leap Slam is useful not only as an offensive technique, but also because it can serve, in a pinch, to escape from danger. The Marauders of Oriath were famous for attacking their foes from above, leaping down from high ledges to crush their enemies' skulls.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Leap Slam is an attack skill that performs a leap to a target area, damaging and knocking back enemies landed on.

Skill functions and interactions

• Accuracy: Accuracy is a factor despite the nature of the skill. Leap Slam can miss.

• Attack speed: Leap Slam has its own attack time of 1.40 seconds and modifiers to attack speed will modify the speed at which Leap Slam 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). Leap Slam may seem slow when jumping small distances, but in reality, Leap Slam is simply always performed at the same modified speed regardless of the distance jumped.

• Dual wielding: Leap Slam will use only the main hand weapon.

• Damage: Tooltip incorrectly averages the DPS and APS of your Main and Off Hand weapons, even though only your Main Hand weapon will ever be used. This is true even if your Off Hand weapon could not be used with Leap Slam in the first place. You can calculate your actual APS by multiplying 1/1.4 with (1 + Main Hand Attack Speed Modifier) and your actual DPS by multiplying the result with your average Main Hand Total Combined Damage, your Chance To Hit and (1 + Main Hand Critical Strike Chance * (Main Hand Critical Strike Multiplier - 1)). Make sure to convert all %-values to actual numbers by dividing by 100 before plugging them into this formula.

• This will give you a reasonably close approximation, as your chance to hit may vary between your main and off hand but is averaged on the character screen.

• : Leap Slam cannot be supported by Multistrike.

Strategy

Leap Slam is primarily used as a movement skill. It is one of three skills that allow you to cross cliffs, chasms, and obstacles without prior preparation, the others being and . is a good support for this purpose as it will increase the speed of travel . BrightbeakBrightbeak
War HammerOne Handed Mace
Physical Damage: (19.5-22.75) to (46.5-54.25)
Critical Strike Chance: 6.25%
Attacks per Second: 2.10
Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 20, 71 Str10% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold(50-75)% increased Physical Damage
45% increased Attack Speed
25% increased Critical Strike Chance
+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance
+(20-30)% to Lightning Resistance"I know how to say 'faster' and 'attack' in Karui, Marak and Ezo."
- Voll of Thebrus in the alternate weapon set is a popular weapon to use for moving with Leap Slam due to its huge increase in attack speed. A Prismatic EclipsePrismatic Eclipse
Twilight BladeOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: (90-100) to (157-166)
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 53, 91 Str, 91 Dex40% increased Global Accuracy Rating+8% Chance to Block Attack Damage while Dual Wielding
Adds (60-70) to (71-80) Physical Damage
25% increased Global Physical Damage with Weapons per Red Socket
12% increased Global Attack Speed per Green Socket
0.4% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana per Blue Socket
+0.2 metres to Melee Strike Range per White Socket"A raging Solaris seared and contorted the orb's surface.
A despairing Lunaris filled the scars with her tears.
Yet Viridi remained, trapped within, forever more."
- Azmerian Creation Myth with green sockets can be used in the other hand if even more speed is desired.

Gem level progression

Level			Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	100%	100%	0	0
2	13	35	103%	102.6%	9569	9569
3	17	43	105%	105.3%	28189	37758
4	21	52	108%	107.9%	59146	96904
5	25	60	111%	110.5%	111192	208096
6	29	69	113%	113.2%	193800	401896
7	33	77	116%	115.8%	320280	722176
8	36	83	118%	118.4%	359090	1081266
9	39	90	121%	121.1%	498508	1579774
10	42	96	124%	123.7%	682057	2261831
11	45	102	126%	126.3%	921777	3183608
12	48	109	129%	128.9%	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	132%	131.6%	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	134%	134.2%	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	137%	136.8%	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	139%	139.5%	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	142%	142.1%	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	145%	144.7%	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	147%	147.4%	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	150%	150%	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	153%	152.6%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	155%	155.3%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	158%	157.9%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	161%	160.5%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	163%	163.2%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	166%	165.8%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	168%	168.4%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	171%	171.1%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	174%	173.7%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	176%	176.3%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	178%	177.6%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	179%	178.9%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	180%	180.3%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	182%	181.6%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	183%	182.9%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	184%	184.2%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	186%	185.5%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	187%	186.8%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	188%	188.2%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	189%	189.5%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Leap Slam.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Leap Slam Attack Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Leap Slam Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Leap Slam Attack Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Leap Slam Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Leap Slam Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Leap Slam Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Leap Slam Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Leap Slam Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Leap Slam Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Leap Slam Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Leap Slam Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Leap Slam Area of Effect	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.2.2c	Fixed a bug with Leap Slam when used by Ranger wielding a staff.
2.2.2	Fixed a bug where Leap Slam did not correctly change speed based on attack speed bonuses.
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.
2.0.0	Increased the mana cost from 15 to 18. Standardised the knockback chance to 20% at all levels. Maximum range has been reduced from 70 to 60 Can no longer be supported by Multistrike. Now grants 0.5% increased knockback chance per 1% quality instead of increased stun duration.
0.10.0	Fixed a bug where you could not target chests with the Leap Slam skill.
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 Leap Slam would always get critical strikes.
0.9.12d	Leap Slam has been slowed down a little. It is still a lot faster than it was in 0.9.11.
0.9.12	Reduced cast speed from 1.9 seconds to 1.2 seconds.
0.7.1	Leap Slam and Ground Slam now check your Accuracy Rating