Splitting Steel

Splitting Steel is an attack which uses your sword or axe to launch a projectile that impales enemies on hit. This skill consumes Steel Shards from Call of Steel to cause the projectile to split and hit multiple enemies.

Skill functions and interactions

• Steel Shards: Equipping this skill grants the Call of Steel ability, which is used to generate Steel Shards. This skill consumes 1 Steel Shard to have the projectile split to hit additional nearby enemies.

• Additional Projectiles: If you use the skill without any Steel Shards, it will always launch only one projectile, even if you have additional projectiles from other sources.

• Gem Type: Splitting Steel is a Green gem, indicates it is a dex gem, despite in higher gem level, the str requirements is higher than dex. Splitting Steel does not affected by mod such as +# to Level of Socketed Strength Gems, but affected by mod such as +# to Level of Socketed Dexterity/AOE/Projectile Gems or +# to Level of all Physical Skill Gems. Splitting Steel is an attack skill thus physical spell mod does not affect this gem.
  • Melee: Shattering Steel is not considered a melee attack despite using melee weapons, similarly to . Shattering Steel does not have melee gem tag.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Projectile split	Physical Damage	Radius	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	0	5	100%	100%	2	2 to 3	N/A	0	0
2	2	0	0	5	104%	103.6%	2	2 to 3	N/A	70	70
3	4	0	0	5	107%	107.2%	2	3 to 4	N/A	308	378
4	7	0	14	5	111%	110.8%	2	4 to 6	N/A	1554	1932
5	11	0	19	5	114%	114.4%	2	5 to 8	+1	6667	8599
6	16	18	26	6	118%	118%	2	7 to 11	+1	26047	34646
7	20	22	31	6	122%	121.6%	2	9 to 13	+1	49725	84371
8	24	25	37	6	125%	125.2%	3	11 to 17	+1	95714	180085
9	28	29	42	6	129%	128.8%	3	14 to 20	+2	169595	349680
10	32	33	47	6	132%	132.4%	3	16 to 25	+2	283759	633439
11	36	36	52	7	136%	136%	3	20 to 30	+2	453996	1087435
12	40	40	58	7	140%	139.6%	3	24 to 35	+2	703128	1790563
13	44	44	63	7	143%	143.2%	3	28 to 42	+3	1061223	2851786
14	48	48	68	7	147%	146.8%	3	33 to 49	+3	2065870	4917656
15	52	51	74	7	150%	150.4%	3	39 to 58	+3	2507110	7424766
16	56	55	79	8	154%	154%	3	45 to 68	+3	5798936	13223702
17	60	59	84	8	158%	157.6%	3	52 to 79	+4	15083919	28307621
18	64	62	90	8	161%	161.2%	4	61 to 91	+4	27792735	56100356
19	67	65	94	8	165%	164.8%	4	68 to 102	+4	43869739	99970095
20	70	68	98	8	168%	168.4%	4	75 to 113	+4	242081556	342051651
21	72	70	100	9	172%	172%	4	81 to 122	+5	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	9	176%	175.6%	4	87 to 130	+5	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	9	179%	179.2%	4	93 to 140	+5	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	9	183%	182.8%	4	100 to 150	+5	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	9	186%	186.4%	4	107 to 160	+6	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	10	190%	190%	4	114 to 172	+6	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	10	194%	193.6%	4	123 to 184	+6	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	10	197%	197.2%	5	131 to 197	+6	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	10	201%	200.8%	5	140 to 210	+7	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	10	204%	204.4%	5	150 to 224	+7	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	11	204%	204.4%	5	155 to 232	+7	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	11	208%	208%	5	160 to 240	+7	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	11	212%	211.6%	5	165 to 248	+7	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	11	215%	215.2%	5	171 to 256	+7	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	11	219%	218.8%	5	176 to 265	+7	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	11	222%	222.4%	5	182 to 273	+8	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	12	226%	226%	5	188 to 282	+8	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	12	230%	229.6%	6	194 to 292	+8	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	12	233%	233.2%	6	201 to 301	+8	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	12	237%	236.8%	6	207 to 311	+8	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Splitting Steel.

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Splitting Steel:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.12.5	Fixed an issue where Phantasmal Splitting Steel was missing its "chance to Impale Enemies on Hit" quality effect modifier.
3.12.0	Splitting Steel has been added to the game.