Lancing Steel

Lancing Steel is an attack which uses your sword or axe to generate a cluster of shards that fires projectiles sequentially. The projectiles have a chance to impale on hit. This skill consumes Steel Shards from Call of Steel to fire more projectiles per cluster.

Skill functions and interactions

 * Steel Shards: Equipping this skill grants the Call of Steel ability, which is used to generate Steel Shards. This skill consumes up to 4 Steel Shards to launch 50% more projectiles per Steel Shard used.


 * Melee: Lancing Steel is not considered a melee attack despite using melee weapons, similarly to.

Version history

 * Lancing Steel now fires a sequence of projectiles when you attack, and fires more projectiles based on the number of Steel Shards consumed by the attack. Enemies can be hit by multiple projectiles from the same attack, but subsequent hits after the first deal less damage.


 * Now has a base attack speed multiplier of 80%.
 * Now deals 63% of base damage at gem level 1, up to 85% at gem level 20.
 * Now fire 3 additional projectiles.
 * Now has a 20% chance to impale enemies on hit.
 * Subsequent hits from the same attack now deal 60% less damage.
 * Now consumes up to 4 Steel Shards, and fires 50% more projectiles per Steel Shard consumed.


 * Now has a base attack time multiplier of 85% (from 80%).
 * Now deals 135% of base damage at gem level 1 (from 130%), up to 180% at gem level 20 (from 175%).
 * Now grants 1% increased Impale Effect per 1% gem quality (from 1% chance to Impale per 2% gem quality).


 * Can no longer hit close-range enemies multiple times with a single attack.
 * Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 130% at gem level 1 (from 65%), up to 175% at gem level 20 (from 80%).
 * Now adds 20 to 30 physical damage to attacks at gem level 1, up to 113 to 169 at gem level 20.
 * Now has 30% chance for the non-primary projectiles to impale enemies on hit.
 * Now has an attack speed multiplier of 80%.
 * Now gains 0.5% chance to impale enemies on hit per 1% gem quality (previously gained 1% chance to impale enemies per 1% gem quality).


 * Lancing Steel has been added to the game.
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