Spectral Shield Throw

Spectral Shield Throw is an attack skill. The user tosses their shield at an enemy. On impact, it deals physical damage to the enemy and releases shards that deals damage to nearby enemies. Unlike most attack skills, Spectral Shield Throw uses your shield's stats to calculate damage.

Skill functions and interactions

• Projectile Modifiers: The initial projectile from Spectral Shield Throw can be modified to chain and fork, but not to have additional projectiles or pierce. Support gems that add these effects will have their appropriate damage modifiers applied to all part of Spectral Shield Throw's damage.
• Fork: Fork splits the initial shield throw into two projectiles, which can then each individually chain or hit. Secondary projectiles (Shards) pierce by default and therefor are unmodifiable in functionality.
• Shards: The shield will only explode into shards after it is done forking and chaining. The shards can pierce.
• Projectile Speed: Increased projectile speed will increase the velocity of the initial shield throw. Similarly to , the distance the shards travel is affected by projectile speed.
• Increased Defences from Equipped Shield Passives: Despite raising the Defences of the equipped shield when taking passives of this nature, these passives do not raise the intrinsic values present on your shield and thus do NOT increase the damage of Spectral Shield Throw.
• Totems: Spectral Shield Throw cannot be supported by .
• Attack Speed Modifiers: May not be acting as intended, with many modifiers not applying at 100% of their value.
• Unarmed: and provide no damage bonus to Spectral Shield Throw.
• Wands: Can be used with a wand, as long as there is a shield in the offhand.
• Gloves: increase damage with offhand, which includes shield offhand damage

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Physical Damage	Projectiles	Attack time	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	21	14	7	20 to 30	8	0.7	0	0
2	15	25	17	7	24 to 35	9	0.69	15249	15249
3	19	30	21	7	29 to 44	9	0.69	41517	56766
4	23	35	24	7	36 to 54	9	0.68	81983	138749
5	27	41	28	7	43 to 65	9	0.68	147968	286717
6	31	46	32	7	51 to 77	10	0.67	250557	537274
7	35	51	36	8	61 to 91	10	0.67	405086	942360
8	38	55	38	8	68 to 102	10	0.66	447718	1390078
9	41	59	41	8	76 to 115	10	0.66	615318	2005396
10	44	63	44	8	85 to 128	11	0.65	834639	2840035
11	47	67	47	8	95 to 143	11	0.65	1570760	4410795
12	50	71	49	8	106 to 158	11	0.64	1633987	6044782
13	53	75	52	9	117 to 175	11	0.64	2151030	8195812
14	56	79	55	9	129 to 194	12	0.63	2812189	11008001
15	59	83	58	9	142 to 213	12	0.63	5099360	16107361
16	62	87	60	9	157 to 235	12	0.62	9400731	25508092
17	64	90	62	9	167 to 250	12	0.62	15273366	40781458
18	66	92	64	9	177 to 266	13	0.61	26286582	67068040
19	68	95	66	10	189 to 283	13	0.6	62890590	129958630
20	70	98	68	10	200 to 301	13	0.6	212046017	342004647
21	72	100	70	10	213 to 319	13	0.59	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	10	226 to 339	14	0.59	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	10	240 to 359	14	0.58	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	10	254 to 381	14	0.58	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	11	269 to 404	14	0.57	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	11	285 to 427	15	0.57	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	11	302 to 452	15	0.56	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	11	319 to 479	15	0.56	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	11	337 to 506	15	0.55	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	11	357 to 535	16	0.55	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	11	367 to 550	16	0.54	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	12	377 to 565	16	0.54	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	12	387 to 581	16	0.53	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	12	398 to 597	17	0.53	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	12	409 to 614	17	0.52	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	12	420 to 631	17	0.52	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	12	432 to 648	17	0.51	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	13	444 to 666	18	0.51	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	13	456 to 684	18	0.5	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	13	468 to 702	18	0.49	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Spectral Shield Throw:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Spectral Shield Throw.

Alternate skill effects

Spectral Shield Throw has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Spectral Shield Throw's default behaviour has been reworked to be more similar to the Divide and Conquer threshold jewel (which has also been reworked). No longer "double-hits" against single targets in general. Now requires character level 28 to use at gem level 1 (previously character level 12). Now fires 3 additional Projectiles (previously 13). Primary Projectile now Chains +3 times. Additional Chains now apply to both the Primary and Secondary Projectiles. Shard Projectiles now deal 50% less Damage (previously 75%). Now deals 58 to 86 Base Off Hand Physical Damage at gem level 1 (previously 20 to 30), up to 399 to 599 at gem level 20 (previously 200 to 301). Now deals 4 to 5 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour or Evasion Rating on Shield at gem level 1, up to 6 to 8 at gem level 20 (previously 3 to 4 at all levels). No longer has +0.2% to Critical Strike Chance per 10 Maximum Energy Shield on Shield.
3.13.0	Now deals 20 to 30 base off hand physical damage at gem level 1 (from 18 to 27), up to 200 to 301 at gem level 20 (from 182 to 272). 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.
3.7.0	Now deals 18 to 27 base off hand physical damage at gem level 1 (from 13 to 19), up to 182 to 272 at gem level 20 (from 132 to 198). Now fires more projectiles on shield impact as the skill levels up, up to 13 at gem level 20 (from 8 at all levels). Now has a base off hand attack time of 0.7 seconds at gem level 1 (from 0.65), down to 0.6 seconds at gem level 20 (from 0.56).
3.6.0	Base Off Hand Attack Time is now 0.65 seconds at gem level 1 (from 0.7 seconds) and 0.56 seconds at gem level 20 (from 0.61 seconds). Base projectile speed is now slightly faster.
3.2.0	Added a new Dexterity/Strength Skill Gem - Spectral Shield Throw: Throws a spectral copy of your shield as a projectile which cannot pierce, and deals off-hand damage augmented by the defences of the shield. When it collides with something it will shatter, launching a number of smaller shards as projectiles in all directions. Modifiers that cause additional projectiles to be fired will add more shards, not more copies of the shield.