Shield Charge

Shield Charge is an attack / movement / travel skill. The player charges at a location with their shield. Enemies that collide with the player while charging are damaged, knocked back, and stunned. Enemies in the way are pushed to the side. Unlike most attack skills, Shield Charge uses your shield's stats to calculate damage.

Skill functions and interactions

• Damage and reduced enemy stun threshold are proportional to the distance charged. The maximum charge distance is 60 units Note that the in-game average damage tooltip for Shield Charge does not factor in the bonus gained from charge distance.

• The damage dealt on strike is based on your shield's stats. Your main hand weapon damage would not play into effect, however, you can use wands, one hand melee weapons, and be unarmed. This also means it will not proc triggers on weapons such as Poet's pen, Cospri's Malice, or Mjölner.

• Area of Effect: Shield Charge deals AoE damage at the end animation of the charge in a circle in front of the player. Modifiers to area radius and damage affect the skill.

• Use Time: Shield Charge has three distinct sections — the start of the charge, the movement part of the charge, and the attack at the end of the charge. Your base attack speed affects the startup time and ending attack portions of the skill. Modifiers to movement speed and global attack speed affect the middle movement portion of the skill.

• Shield Charge cannot be supported by .

Gem level progression

Level			Movement Speed	Physical Damage	Attack Time	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	90%	16 to 24	0.53	0	0
2	13	35	91%	20 to 30	0.53	9569	9569
3	17	43	92%	25 to 37	0.53	28189	37758
4	21	52	93%	31 to 46	0.52	59146	96904
5	25	60	94%	37 to 56	0.52	111192	208096
6	29	69	95%	45 to 67	0.52	193800	401896
7	33	77	96%	53 to 79	0.52	320280	722176
8	36	83	97%	60 to 90	0.51	359090	1081266
9	39	90	98%	67 to 101	0.51	498508	1579774
10	42	96	99%	75 to 113	0.51	682057	2261831
11	45	102	100%	84 to 126	0.51	921777	3183608
12	48	109	101%	93 to 140	0.5	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	102%	103 to 155	0.5	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	103%	114 to 171	0.5	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	104%	126 to 189	0.5	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	105%	139 to 208	0.49	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	106%	153 to 229	0.49	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	107%	168 to 252	0.49	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	108%	178 to 268	0.49	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	109%	190 to 284	0.48	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	110%	201 to 302	0.48	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	111%	214 to 320	0.48	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	112%	227 to 340	0.48	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	113%	240 to 360	0.47	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	114%	254 to 382	0.47	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	115%	269 to 404	0.47	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	116%	285 to 428	0.47	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	117%	302 to 453	0.46	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	118%	319 to 479	0.46	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	119%	337 to 506	0.46	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	119%	347 to 520	0.46	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	120%	356 to 535	0.46	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	120%	366 to 550	0.45	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	121%	377 to 565	0.45	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	121%	387 to 580	0.45	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	122%	398 to 596	0.45	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	122%	408 to 613	0.45	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	123%	420 to 629	0.45	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	123%	431 to 647	0.45	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	124%	443 to 664	0.45	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Shield Charge.

Alternate skill effects

Shield Charge has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Now has the Physical tag. Now deals 16 to 25 Base Off Hand Physical Damage at gem level 1 (previously 16 to 24), up to 320 to 525 at gem level 20 (previously 190 to 284). Now deals 3 to 4 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour or Evasion Rating on Shield at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 4 to 6 at gem level 20 (previously 3 to 4). No longer has +0.2% to Critical Strike Chance per 10 Maximum Energy Shield on Shield.
3.13.0	Now deals 16 to 24 base off hand physical damage at gem level 1 (from 15 to 22), up to 190 to 284 at gem level 20 (from 172 to 258). Now has +0.2% base critical strike chance per 10 maximum energy shield on your shield (from 0.1% per 10). Now deals 3 to 4 added physical damage per 15 armour or evasion rating on shield (from 2 to 3 added physical damage per 15 armour or evasion rating).
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.10.0	The radius of the damaging circle at the end of the charge has been doubled. The effects have been updated to match.
3.8.0	Shield Charge now uses your equipped shield, including any cosmetics applied to it, for its effect, with the exception of the "Focus" shields (pure Intelligence base types).
3.7.0	Now deals damage in a cone, rather than a circle, on impact. Now bashes when used against targets at very close ranges. Can now be used with wands. Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 100% at gem level 1 (from 50%), remaining the same through to gem level 20 (from 61%). Now has 75% increased Stun Threshold Reduction on enemies at maximum charge distance (from 50%). Now deals 150% more damage with hits at maximum charge distance (from 200%). Now grants 90% increased movement speed during the attack at gem level 1 (from 75%), up to 109% at gem level 20 (from 94%). Now has a mana cost of 10 (from 8) at all gem levels. Now gains 1% increased movement speed per 1% gem quality (previously 1% increased damage per 1% quality). Now deals damage based on your equipped shield, not your weapon. Here's how it does it: Base off hand critical strike chance is 5%. Adds 0.1% to critical strike chance per 10 maximum energy shield on shield. Deals 11 to 17 base off hand physical damage at gem level 1, up to 132 to 198 at gem level 20. Adds 2 to 3 physical damage per 15 armour or evasion rating on shield. Base off hand attack time is 0.53 seconds at gem level 1, down to 0.48 seconds at gem level 20.
3.4.0	Now has three distinct sections—the start of the charge, the movement part of the charge, and the attack at the end of the charge. Your weapon's base attack time now affects the start and end, and movement speed and increases to global attack speed now affect the middle. Local attack speed modifiers no longer affect the middle movement part of the charge, whereas previously they would. In other words, while using Brightbeak will cause the start and end of the charge to be quicker, it will not cause you to move from point A to point B any more quickly. For that, you need to invest in global attack speed and movement speed. To help compensate for this loss in movement speed for most characters, Shield Charge now gains 1% increased movement speed as the gem levels up.
2.6.0	Fixed an issue where had two separate damage modifiers at gem level 2 and above, which displayed as "Deals 50% base damage, Deals 101.2% of base damage". These have been combined into one modifier.
2.3.0e	Shield Charge now has 20% less area of effect and the maximum distance has been increased from 50 to 60.
2.3.0	Shield Charge is now an Area of Effect skill. It deals damage to enemies you collide with as you charge, then deals a larger aoe at the end of the charge. It no longer always stuns. It gains more damage and stun threshold reduction the further you travel, up to a certain distance.
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	The end animation now scales with attack speed. Shield Charge can no longer be supported by Multistrike. Base Damage is now 50%. Damage at maximum range has been increased, and the stun duration has been set to 200% at all levels. Now has 50% increased movement speed increasing to 69% at level 20. Now grants 1% increased damage per 1% quality (was 0.75% per 1% quality).
1.3.1b	Fixed a bug with Shield Charge that would cause it to get out of sync.
1.3.0e	Fixed a bug with Shield Charge where it could repeat the end animation several times per skill use.
1.3.0	Shield Charge now supports Facebreaker.
0.11.1c	Fixed a bug where Shield Charge Multistrike hits after the first did no damage.
0.11.1b	Fixed a crash with and .
0.11.1	The support gem now works with . Shield charge can now be evaded.
0.11.0	Fixed a bug where Shield Charge would deal no damage if used very close to a monster.
0.10.0c	Fixed a game server crash that could occur when using Shield Charge.
0.10.0	Fixed a bug where your speed would not change when using Shield Charge to travel through ground ice or ground tar.
0.9.12t	Fixed a crash that would occur if a player or monster tried to use Shield Charge while caught in a Bear Trap.
0.9.12qq	From 1% damage per quality point to 0.35%.
0.9.10	Removed increase to knockback distance based on charge distance.
0.9.6b	Improved the effects for Shield Charge
0.9.4	Shield Charge now provides no damage bonus if used at minimum range, because it's fast and doesn't miss. It still provides the same damage bonus at longer ranges.
0.9.1	Fixed a bug that allowed Shield Charge to be spammed really fast. Increased stun and knockback.
0.8.3	Added "Shield Charge" skill