Double Strike

Double Strike is a melee attack that performs two fast attacks on a target enemy with the player's melee weapon(s). It deals bonus physical damage against bleeding enemies.

Skill functions and interactions

 * Multiple Hits: This attack hits twice, activating gain on hit twice, and giving two opportunities to activate chance-based effects such as blind, knockback, stun, and elemental status ailments. It does not, however, have two chances to crit. If one hit is a crit, the other will also be a crit.

Gem level progression
In addition, Double Strike is the starting skill gem for Duelist. It drops after killing the first monster of the game, Hungry Corpse.

Version history

 * Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 91% at gem level 1 (from 70%), up to 112% at gem level 20 (from 94%).
 * Now has a 25% chance to cause bleeding.
 * Now has an attack speed multiplier of 80%.


 * 13% more damage at gem level 20.


 * Attack skills that have their damage based on the wielded weapon have their mana costs fixed in place from level 1 onwards.


 * Fixed a bug introduced in 1.0.2 where the skill tooltip damage per second stats displayed incorrect values for, and.


 * Double Strike's physical damage now increases by 4% per level rather than 3%.


 * From 1% attack speed per quality point to 0.35%.


 * Double Strike has been rebalanced so that the starting level is now level 1
 * It is now pure Dexterity.


 * Double Strike is now counted as a Melee gem.


 * Double Strike is now disabled on Bows (and Wands).


 * Added new skills:, , , , , Double Strike
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