Heavy Strike

Heavy StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (7-12) Mana
Attack Speed: 85% of base
Attack Damage: (224-552)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (224-552)%Attacks enemies with a forceful blow. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Sword or Staff.25% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
(20-39)% chance to deal Double Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(1-20)% chance to deal Double DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 5Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemHeavyStrike

Heavy Strike is a melee strike attack skill that hits enemies with a mace, axe, sword or any two-handed weapon. Each hit has a chance to deal double damage.

Skill functions and interactions

• Dual Wielding: Dual wielders can use Heavy Strike as long as both of their weapons are an axe, sword or mace, the attack will alternate between weapons.

• Reduced Enemy Stun Threshold: This modifier increases the chance that enemies struck by Heavy Strike are stunned. This is additive with other reduced Enemy Stun Threshold modifiers, such as from Stun SupportStun SupportSupport
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  Level: (1-20)Requires Level 8Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.Supported Skills have (30-49)% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% chance to double Stun DurationThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket..

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Double Damage Chance	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	7	224.3%	224.3%	20%	0	0
2	2	0	7	234.1%	234.1%	21%	70	70
3	4	16	7	244.9%	244.9%	22%	308	378
4	7	22	7	256.5%	256.5%	23%	1554	1932
5	11	31	7	269.3%	269.3%	24%	6667	8599
6	16	41	8	283.1%	283.1%	25%	26047	34646
7	20	50	8	297.1%	297.1%	26%	49725	84371
8	24	58	8	311.8%	311.8%	27%	95714	180085
9	28	67	9	327.3%	327.3%	28%	169595	349680
10	32	75	9	343.3%	343.3%	29%	283759	633439
11	36	83	9	360.3%	360.3%	30%	453996	1087435
12	40	92	10	378%	378%	31%	703128	1790563
13	44	100	10	396.6%	396.6%	32%	1061223	2851786
14	48	109	10	416.1%	416.1%	33%	2065870	4917656
15	52	117	10	436.5%	436.5%	34%	2507110	7424766
16	56	125	11	458%	458%	35%	5798936	13223702
17	60	134	11	480.4%	480.4%	36%	15083919	28307621
18	64	142	11	503.9%	503.9%	37%	27792735	56100356
19	67	148	12	527.7%	527.7%	38%	43869739	99970095
20	70	155	12	552.5%	552.5%	39%	242081556	342051651
21	72	159	12	577.7%	577.7%	40%	—	—
22	74	—	12	604%	604%	41%	—	—
23	76	—	12	631.3%	631.3%	42%	—	—
24	78	—	12	660%	660%	43%	—	—
25	80	—	13	689.9%	689.9%	44%	—	—
26	82	—	13	721.2%	721.2%	45%	—	—
27	84	—	13	754%	754%	46%	—	—
28	86	—	13	788.1%	788.1%	47%	—	—
29	88	—	13	823.8%	823.8%	48%	—	—
30	90	—	13	861.1%	861.1%	49%	—	—
31	91	—	13	917.7%	917.7%	49%	—	—
32	92	—	14	938.4%	938.4%	50%	—	—
33	93	—	14	959.7%	959.7%	50%	—	—
34	94	—	14	981.4%	981.4%	51%	—	—
35	95	—	14	1003.6%	1003.6%	51%	—	—
36	96	—	14	1026.2%	1026.2%	52%	—	—
37	97	—	14	1049.4%	1049.4%	52%	—	—
38	98	—	14	1073.2%	1073.2%	53%	—	—
39	99	—	14	1097.4%	1097.4%	53%	—	—
40	100	—	14	1122.2%	1122.2%	54%	—	—

Item acquisition

Heavy Strike can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Heavy Strike can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description	Meta
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	Random level 20 gem	A
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	Random gem with 20% quality	A
1	Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.	Random gem with 1–20% quality	A
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Enemy at the Gate Act 1 Nessa
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth

In addition, Heavy Strike is the starting skill gem for Marauder. It drops after killing the first monster of the game, Hungry Corpse.

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Heavy Strike:

Note that the jewels may be drop disabled and can only be found in permanent leagues as legacy items.

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats	Drop enabled
Weight of the EmpireWeight of the Empire Crimson JewelLimited to: 2 Radius: Medium(8-12)% increased Global Physical Damage With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Heavy Strike has a 20% chance to deal Double DamageOndar not only betrayed his emperor, He betrayed his friend. And in his dying moments, Chitus ensured, That Ondar felt the full weight of his guilt.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.	2	Medium	(8-12)% increased Global Physical Damage With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Heavy Strike has a 20% chance to deal Double Damage

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Heavy Strike.

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 Heavy Strike Attack Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Heavy Strike Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Heavy Strike Attack Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Heavy Strike Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Heavy Strike Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Heavy Strike Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Heavy Strike Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Heavy Strike Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Heavy Strike Double Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Heavy Strike has a 8% chance to deal Double Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Heavy Strike Double Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Heavy Strike has a 12% chance to deal Double Damage	helmet 100

Modifiers

Name	Domain	Generation Type		Stats	Spawn Weighting
WeaponTreeSkillHeavyStrikeBoneshatter	Item	Crucible Passive Skill Tree	1	Trigger Level 20 Bone Corpses when you Stun an Enemy with Heavy Strike or Boneshatter	sword 500 staff 1000 sceptre 1000 mace 1000 axe 1000 shield 500

Alternate skill effects

Heavy Strike has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	Now has a Mana cost of 7 at gem level 1, scaling up to 12 at gem level 20 (previously 5 at all gem levels). No longer has +0.2 metres to Melee Strike Range, or Knocks Enemies Back on Hit. Now has 224% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 195%), scaling up to 552% at gem level 20 (previously 313%).
3.23.0	Quality now provides 0-20% chance to deal Double Damage, instead of 0-20% increased Stun Duration on enemies and 0-20% increased Damage.
3.17.0	Heavy Strike now has 20% chance to deal Double Damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 39% at gem level 20 (previously 20%).
3.16.0	Now has "+2 to Melee Strike Range" at all gem levels (previously +2 at gem level 1, up to +4 at gem level 20).
3.15.0	Now deals 313% of Base Damage, and has 313% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 250%).
3.13.0	Now deals base weapon damage and has an added damage effectiveness of 195% at gem level 1 (from 176%), up to 250% at gem level 20 (from 222%).
3.12.4	Divergent Heavy Strike (whose quality grants reduced Knockback Distance) can no longer cause enemies to be pulled towards you when the gem has greater than 20% quality. At 20% quality, the skill will not provide any Knockback effect.
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.7.0	Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 176% at gem level 1 (from 150%), up to 222% at gem level 20 (from 194%). Now has +2 to melee range at gem level 1 (from 0), up to +4 at gem level 20 (from +2). Now has 20% chance to deal double damage at all gem levels. Now has an attack speed multiplier of 85%. Now gains 1% increased Stun Duration on enemies and 1% increased damage per 1% gem quality (previously only gained increased stun duration on enemies).
3.4.0	Now gain additional melee weapon range every 7 levels, up to +2 at level 20 (and +3 at level 21)
2.4.0	5% more damage at gem level 20.
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	Now grants 1% increased stun duration per 1% quality (quality no longer affects attack speed).
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	Added new skill prototype - Heavy Strike: Attacks the enemy with a forceful blow, knocking them back. Requires an Axe, Mace or Two-Handed Weapon.