Earthquake

Earthquake is a melee attack dealing damage in an area and leaving a crack in the ground. After a duration, the crack releases an aftershock, dealing more damage in a larger area. Requires an axe, mace, staff or unarmed.

Skill Functions and Interactions

 * Duration: increases and reductions to duration increase or reduce time between impact and aftershock respectively. The following gems and items reduce skill's duration:, , and . Be aware that Warped Timepiece will apply globally and reduce duration to buffs and other effects such as Fortify.
 * Dual Wielding: Using Earthquake while dual wielding will use both weapons for attacking.
 * Aftershock: The aftershock is a specific part of the skill that hits and has a 150% more multiplier to hits and ailments. Ailments such as poison, bleed, and ignite will have more damage if applied by the shockwave. The shockwave will however not scale other DoTs like as it is not a ailment.

Version history

 * The visual effects have been improved.
 * Aftershocks no longer have added Attack Physical Damage.
 * Aftershocks now deal 150% more Damage with hits and ailments.
 * Can now be used while unarmed.
 * The base radius of the initial hit is now 14 units (from 18).
 * The Labyrinth helmet enchantments Earthquake duration can no longer be obtained, though existing versions are unaffected.


 * Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 85% at gem level 1 (from 90%), up to 120% at gem level 20 (from 109%).
 * Aftershock now benefits from 30 to 46 added physical damage at gem level one, up to 169 to 254 at gem level 20.
 * Now has an attack speed multiplier of 75%.
 * Radius of the aftershock is now +2 units larger.
 * Now gains 1% increased damage per 1% gem quality (rather than 1% increased physical damage).


 * Earthquake is no longer main hand only.


 * The aftershock now deals 70% (up from 50%) more damage with hits and ailments (as opposed to every form of damage) at all gem levels.


 * The base delay between the initial attack and the aftershock is now 1 second (down from 1.5 seconds).
 * The aftershock now deals more damage as the gem levels, dealing 69% more damage at gem level 20 (up from 50%).
 * (Undocumented) Only uses main hand when dual-wielding


 * Radius has been increased from 25 to 28 for the second stage.


 * Earthquake's initial hit radius has been reduced from 20 to 18 units.


 * Aftershock damage has been reduced to 50% more at all Levels.
 * Mana cost has been increased from 6 to 10.
 * Aftershock area of effect has been reduced by 12%.


 * The Merciless Labyrinth Helmet enchantment for Earthquake duration is now 20% reduced duration.


 * Added to the game.
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