Dual Strike

Dual Strike is an attack skill. It attacks an enemy with both weapons with increased critical strike chance, and can only be used while dual wielding. It has more damage and critical strike chance against enemies at full life.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Dual Wielding: Most other melee skills will alternate weapons or only use the main hand while making dual wielding attacks. Dual Strike, , and are the only current exceptions. If the player's weapons have different critical strike chance or accuracy values, it is possible to critical or miss with one weapon, but not the other. Hollow Palm Technique does not allow the skill to work while unarmed.

On-hit Effects: Effects that typically occur when you hit an enemy will only apply for this skill once per use.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Critical Strike Chance	Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	0	125%	125%	50%	N/A	0	0
2	2	0	0	128%	128%	53%	N/A	70	70
3	4	0	0	132%	132%	56%	N/A	308	378
4	7	14	0	136%	136%	59%	N/A	1554	1932
5	11	19	0	139%	139%	62%	N/A	6667	8599
6	16	26	18	143%	143%	65%	N/A	26047	34646
7	20	31	22	147%	147%	68%	1	49725	84371
8	24	37	25	150%	150%	71%	1	95714	180085
9	28	42	29	154%	154%	74%	1	169595	349680
10	32	47	33	158%	158%	77%	1	283759	633439
11	36	52	36	161%	161%	80%	1	453996	1087435
12	40	58	40	165%	165%	83%	1	703128	1790563
13	44	63	44	169%	169%	86%	1	1061223	2851786
14	48	68	48	172%	172%	89%	2	2065870	4917656
15	52	74	51	176%	176%	92%	2	2507110	7424766
16	56	79	55	180%	180%	95%	2	5798936	13223702
17	60	84	59	183%	183%	98%	2	15083919	28307621
18	64	90	62	187%	187%	101%	2	27792735	56100356
19	67	94	65	191%	191%	104%	2	43869739	99970095
20	70	98	68	195%	195%	107%	2	242081556	342051651
21	72	100	70	198%	198%	110%	3	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	202%	202%	113%	3	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	206%	206%	116%	3	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	209%	209%	119%	3	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	213%	213%	122%	3	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	217%	217%	125%	3	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	220%	220%	128%	3	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	224%	224%	131%	4	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	228%	228%	134%	4	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	231%	231%	137%	4	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	233%	233%	140%	4	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	235%	235%	143%	4	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	237%	237%	146%	4	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	239%	239%	149%	4	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	241%	241%	152%	5	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	242%	242%	155%	5	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	244%	244%	158%	5	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	246%	246%	161%	5	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	248%	248%	164%	5	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	250%	250%	167%	5	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Dual Strike:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dual Strike.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.0	Now deals base Damage and has an added damage effectiveness of 125% at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 190% at gem level 20 (from 170%).
3.7.0	Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 125% at gem level 1 (from 58%), up to 170% at gem level 20 (from 104%). Now has 50% increased critical strike chance at gem level 1, up to 107% at gem level 20. Now has 100% more critical strike chance against enemies that are on full life. Now deals 30% more damage with hits and ailments against enemies that are on full life. Now has an attack speed multiplier of 70%. Now gains +0.5% to critical strike multiplier and 1% increased critical strike chance per 1% quality (previously 0.5% increased attack speed per 1% quality).
3.4.0	Now gain additional melee weapon range every 7 levels, up to +2 at level 20 (and +3 at level 21)
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.
2.0.0	Now grants 0.5% increased attack speed per 1% quality instead of increased critical strike chance.
1.3.0	Dual Strike's damage penalty has been increased from 10% to 15%.
1.0.2b	Fixed a bug introduced in 1.0.2 where the skill tooltip damage per second stats displayed incorrect values for Dual Strike, Double Strike and Cleave.
1.0.0	Increased the mana cost.
0.9.12qq	Damage modifiers factored into Damage Effectiveness rather than being listed as separate stats.
0.9.12f	Fixed a newly introduced bug where Dual Strike could not hit.
0.9.6	Fixed Dual Strike alternating weapon base durations when it should have been using an average.
0.9.3g	Increased the damage by reducing its damage penalty from -20% to -10%.
0.8.0	Added new skills: , , , , Dual Strike,