Heavy Strike

Heavy Strike is an melee strike attack skill that hits and knocks back an enemy, using a mace, axe, sword or any two-handed weapon. Each hit has a chance to deal double damage.

Skill functions and interactions

• Dual Wielding: Dual wielders can use Heavy Strike as long as both of their weapons are an axe, sword or mace, the attack will alternate between weapons.

• Reduced Enemy Stun Threshold: This modifier increases the chance that enemies struck by Heavy Strike are stunned. This is additive with other reduced Enemy Stun Threshold modifiers, such as from .

Gem level progression

Level			Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Range	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	195%	195%	2	0	0
2	2	0	198%	197.9%	2	70	70
3	4	16	201%	200.8%	2	308	378
4	7	22	204%	203.7%	2	1554	1932
5	11	31	207%	206.6%	2	6667	8599
6	16	41	209%	209.5%	2	26047	34646
7	20	50	212%	212.4%	3	49725	84371
8	24	58	215%	215.3%	3	95714	180085
9	28	67	218%	218.2%	3	169595	349680
10	32	75	221%	221.1%	3	283759	633439
11	36	83	224%	223.9%	3	453996	1087435
12	40	92	227%	226.8%	3	703128	1790563
13	44	100	230%	229.7%	3	1061223	2851786
14	48	109	233%	232.6%	4	2065870	4917656
15	52	117	236%	235.5%	4	2507110	7424766
16	56	125	238%	238.4%	4	5798936	13223702
17	60	134	241%	241.3%	4	15083919	28307621
18	64	142	244%	244.2%	4	27792735	56100356
19	67	148	247%	247.1%	4	43869739	99970095
20	70	155	250%	250%	4	242081556	342051651
21	72	159	253%	252.9%	5	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	256%	255.8%	5	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	259%	258.7%	5	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	262%	261.6%	5	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	264%	264.5%	5	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	267%	267.4%	5	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	270%	270.3%	5	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	273%	273.2%	6	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	276%	276.1%	6	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	279%	278.9%	6	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	280%	280.4%	6	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	282%	281.8%	6	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	283%	283.3%	6	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	285%	284.7%	6	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	286%	286.2%	7	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	288%	287.6%	7	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	289%	289.1%	7	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	291%	290.5%	7	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	292%	292%	7	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	293%	293.4%	7	N/A	N/A

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

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Heavy Strike:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Heavy Strike.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Now deals 313% of Base Damage, and has 313% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 250%).
3.13.0	Now deals base weapon damage and has an added damage effectiveness of 195% at gem level 1 (from 176%), up to 250% at gem level 20 (from 222%).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.7.0	Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 176% at gem level 1 (from 150%), up to 222% at gem level 20 (from 194%). Now has +2 to melee range at gem level 1 (from 0), up to +4 at gem level 20 (from +2). Now has 20% chance to deal double damage at all gem levels. Now has an attack speed multiplier of 85%. Now gains 1% increased Stun Duration on enemies and 1% increased damage per 1% gem quality (previously only gained increased stun duration on enemies).
3.4.0	Now gain additional melee weapon range every 7 levels, up to +2 at level 20 (and +3 at level 21)
2.4.0	5% 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.
2.0.0	Now grants 1% increased stun duration per 1% quality (quality no longer affects attack speed).
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised.
0.11.6	Heavy Strike: reduced stun threshold reduction from 30% to 25%.
0.10.2	Heavy Strike's physical damage now increases by 5% per level rather than 4%.
0.9.12qq	Heavy Strike's 50% damage bonus now affects support gems and elemental damage. It is now represented as Damage Effectiveness.
0.9.12e	Fixed a client crash that could occur when using a Duelist and Heavy Strike with certain weapon combinations.
0.9.3	Heavy Strike has been added to the game.