Dominating Blow

Dominating Blow is a melee attack that summons a friendly Sentinel minion on kill or sometimes when you hit a rare or unique enemy. Sentinels copy the mods of the monster it was raised from.

Skill functions and interactions

• Sentinels: Sentinels use regular melee attacks, as well as Shield Charge on a cooldown. They can also perform a Crusade Slam, which deals area of effect damage in a cone in front of them.

• Sentinel types: Magic (blue named) and rare (yellow named) enemies can be made into a Sentinel using this skill, but unique monsters cannot. Magic and Rare Sentinels will keep all special attributes of the enemy it was raised from, including auras which will be applied to the player and all allies. Auras come from monster modifiers.

• Sentinel mods: the Skill only copies the Prefix and Suffix modifiers from the monster. These are the regular mods that it gets for being magic/rare, just as with Prefixes and Suffixes on items. Nemesis and Bloodline mods are extra mods that are not prefixes or suffixes, and thus are not copied.

• Support gems: Any support gem that can apply to both an attack as well as a minion skill will apply to both the attack made by Dominating Blow and the Sentinels. For example, will grant both the attacks made with Dominating Blow and the Sentinel's basic attacks splash damage.

• Sentinels won't hit additional targets if the skill gems is supported by , but will still receive the "Supported skills deal x% less Damage" penalty.

• Dual wielding: Dual wielding attacks with Dominating Blow will alternate the weapon being swung.

• Sentinel stats scale heavily with the gem level of Dominating Blow. For example at gem level 20 they have a base physical damage of 768 to 1,152 with a total life of 7,228 per Sentinel, while at gem level 15 their base physical damage is 461 to 692 with a total life of 4,408 per Sentinel.
• Sentinels have 40% Elemental Resistances and 20% Chaos Resistance.

• Sentinels have a base attack time of 1.20.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	42	29	165%	165%	N/A	0	0
2	31	46	32	168.8%	166.3%	N/A	199345	199345
3	34	50	35	172.7%	167.6%	N/A	285815	485160
4	37	54	37	176.5%	168.9%	N/A	401344	886504
5	40	58	40	180.4%	170.3%	N/A	554379	1440883
6	42	60	42	184.2%	171.6%	N/A	477437	1918320
7	44	63	44	188.1%	172.9%	1	583786	2502106
8	46	66	46	191.9%	174.2%	1	710359	3212465
9	48	68	48	195.7%	175.5%	1	1355511	4567976
10	50	71	49	199.6%	176.8%	1	1138877	5706853
11	52	74	51	203.4%	178.2%	1	1368233	7075086
12	54	76	53	207.3%	179.5%	1	1638338	8713424
13	56	79	55	211.1%	180.8%	1	1956648	10670072
14	58	82	57	214.9%	182.1%	2	3655184	14325256
15	60	84	59	218.8%	183.4%	2	3017327	17342583
16	62	87	60	222.6%	184.7%	2	7759995	25102578
17	64	90	62	226.5%	186.1%	2	15138193	40240771
18	66	92	64	230.3%	187.4%	2	26083825	66324596
19	68	95	66	234.2%	188.7%	2	62620247	128944843
20	70	98	68	238%	238%	2	211708088	340652931
21	72	100	70	241.8%	191.3%	3	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	245.7%	192.6%	3	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	249.5%	193.9%	3	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	253.4%	195.3%	3	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	257.2%	196.6%	3	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	261.1%	197.9%	3	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	264.9%	199.2%	3	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	268.7%	200.5%	4	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	272.6%	201.8%	4	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	276.4%	203.2%	4	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	278.3%	203.8%	4	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	280.3%	204.5%	4	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	282.2%	205.1%	4	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	284.1%	205.8%	4	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	286%	206.4%	5	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	287.9%	207.1%	5	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	289.9%	207.8%	5	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	291.8%	208.4%	5	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	293.7%	209.1%	5	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	295.6%	209.7%	5	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dominating Blow.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Now deals 238% of Base Damage, and has 238% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 190%).
3.8.0	Now has a 25% chance to summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance when you hit a unique monster (from 10%). Summoned Sentinels can now use Crusade Slam regardless of Ascendancy. Previously, this required a specific Guardian notable.
3.7.0	Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 165% at gem level 1 (from 140%), up to 190% at gem level 20 (from 172%). Now causes minions to deal 1% increased damage per 1% gem quality (from 0.5% per 1% gem quality).
3.4.0	Now gains additional melee weapon range every 7 levels, up to +2 at level 20 (and +3 at level 21) Base Damage buffed to (140-171.9)%; Previously was (125-164.9)%; based off level. All minions from this skill now count as sentinels. Now has a max cap of minions (9 Normal, 3 magic, and 1 rare) for a total of 13. This is throughout all levels. Now has a 10% chance to summon a Normal minion on hitting an unique monster throughout all levels. Now shows both duration stats. The debuff time on monsters, and the minion duration. Mana cost was reduced to 8 at all levels. Previously was (12-16) mana.
2.4.0	6% more attack damage at gem level 20 (not minion damage).
2.1.0	Dominating Blow's mana cost has been reduced substantially. The attack now deals 125% of base damage at level 1, increasing to 155.4% at level 20. Minions created by it now deal 35% less damage at all levels.
2.0.0	Dominating Blow: Minions deal 20% less damage at level 1, with the penalty reduced at each gem level. Base duration set to 20 seconds at all levels. Mana cost reduced at all levels. It now grants 0.5% increased damage per 1% quality instead of affecting duration.
1.3.0b	Fixed a bug introduced in 1.3.0 where Dominating Blow wasn't classed as a melee skill.
0.11.4	Fixed a bug where Dominating Blow could still apply to targets if the attack missed.
0.9.12	Now works with unarmed attacks and has no limit to the number of minions it can create.
0.9.5	Fixed a bug where multiple conversions of one monster would not be applied correctly.
0.9.3	Dominating Blow has been added to the game.