Double Strike

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal 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

Level			Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Phys dmg against Bleeding	Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	91%	91.3%	3 to 5	N/A	0	0
2	2	0	92%	92.4%	3 to 5	N/A	70	70
3	4	16	93%	93.5%	4 to 6	N/A	308	378
4	7	22	95%	94.5%	6 to 8	N/A	1554	1932
5	11	31	96%	95.6%	8 to 11	N/A	6667	8599
6	16	41	97%	96.7%	10 to 16	N/A	26047	34646
7	20	50	98%	97.8%	13 to 20	1	49725	84371
8	24	58	99%	98.9%	17 to 25	1	95714	180085
9	28	67	100%	100%	20 to 30	1	169595	349680
10	32	75	101%	101.1%	25 to 37	1	283759	633439
11	36	83	102%	102.2%	30 to 44	1	453996	1087435
12	40	92	103%	103.3%	35 to 53	1	703128	1790563
13	44	100	104%	104.4%	42 to 63	1	1061223	2851786
14	48	109	105%	105.5%	49 to 74	2	2065870	4917656
15	52	117	107%	106.5%	58 to 86	2	2507110	7424766
16	56	125	108%	107.6%	67 to 101	2	5798936	13223702
17	60	134	109%	108.7%	78 to 117	2	15083919	28307621
18	64	142	110%	109.8%	91 to 136	2	27792735	56100356
19	67	148	111%	110.9%	101 to 152	2	43869739	99970095
20	70	155	112%	112%	113 to 169	2	242081556	342051651
21	72	159	113%	113.1%	121 to 181	3	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	114%	114.2%	130 to 195	3	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	115%	115.3%	139 to 209	3	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	116%	116.4%	149 to 224	3	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	117%	117.5%	160 to 239	3	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	119%	118.5%	171 to 256	3	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	120%	119.6%	183 to 274	3	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	121%	120.7%	196 to 293	4	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	122%	121.8%	209 to 314	4	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	123%	122.9%	223 to 335	4	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	123%	123.5%	231 to 346	4	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	124%	124%	239 to 358	4	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	125%	124.5%	247 to 370	4	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	125%	125.1%	255 to 382	4	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	126%	125.6%	263 to 395	5	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	126%	126.2%	272 to 408	5	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	127%	126.7%	281 to 421	5	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	127%	127.3%	290 to 435	5	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	128%	127.8%	300 to 449	5	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	128%	128.4%	309 to 464	5	N/A	N/A

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

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Double Strike.

Alternate skill effects

Double Strike has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.7.0	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%.
2.4.0	13% 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.
1.0.2b	Fixed a bug introduced in 1.0.2 where the skill tooltip damage per second stats displayed incorrect values for , and .
0.10.2	Double Strike's physical damage now increases by 4% per level rather than 3%.
0.9.12qq	From 1% attack speed per quality point to 0.35%.
0.9.9d	Double Strike has been rebalanced so that the starting level is now level 1 It is now pure Dexterity.
0.9.9c	Double Strike is now counted as a Melee gem.
0.9.3	Double Strike is now disabled on Bows (and Wands).
0.8.0	Added new skills: , , , , , Double Strike