Dominating Blow - Path of Exile

Dominating Blow Dominating Blow is an active skill gem.

Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy"s corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.

Attack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike. Level: 1–20. Cost: 8 Mana. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 165–238%. Requires Level 28.

  • Base duration is 1 seconds
  • Base secondary duration is 20 seconds
  • Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance
  • Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance
  • Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance
  • 25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Dominating BlowMinions deal (0–20)% increased Damage50

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Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthIntelligenceBase DamageExperience
1284229165%199,345
2314632168.8%285,815
3345035172.7%401,344
4375437176.5%554,379
5405840180.4%477,437
6426042184.2%583,786
7446344188.1%710,359
8466646191.9%1,355,511
9486848195.7%1,138,877
10507149199.6%1,368,233
11527451203.4%1,638,338
12547653207.3%1,956,648
13567955211.1%3,655,184
14588257214.9%3,017,327
15608459218.8%7,759,995
16628760222.6%15,138,193
17649062226.5%26,083,825
18669264230.3%62,620,247
19689566234.2%211,708,088
20709868238%
2172241.8%
2274245.7%
2376249.5%
2478253.4%
2580257.2%
2682261.1%
2784264.9%
2886268.7%
2988272.6%
3090276.4%
3191278.3%
3292280.3%
3393282.2%
3494284.1%
3595286%
3696287.9%
3797289.9%
3898291.8%
3999293.7%
40100295.6%

Dominating Blow is a melee attack that applies a debuff. If an non-unique enemy dies with the debuff, it consumes their corpse to summon a friendly Sentinel of Dominance minion. Sentinels copy the modifiers of the monster it was raised from.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Sentinels: Sentinels use regular melee attacks, as well as Shield Charge on a cooldown. They can also perform a Crusade Slam, which deals area of effect damage in a cone in front of them.
  • Sentinel types: Magic and Rare enemies can be made into a Sentinel using this skill, but unique monsters cannot. Magic and Rare Sentinels will keep all special attributes of the enemy it was raised from, including auras which will be applied to the player and all allies. Auras come from monster modifiers.
  • Sentinel modifiers: The skill only copies the Prefix and Suffix modifiers from the monster. These are the regular mods that it gets for being Magic/Rare, just as with Prefixes and Suffixes on items. Sentinels are able to use the abilities granted by Archnemesis modifiers, such as Ice Prison, Temporal Bubble, Mana Siphoner, or Innocence-touched. The former system of Nemesis and Bloodline modifiers are extra modifiers that are not prefixes or suffixes, and thus are not copied. All summoned Sentinels of Dominance have a hidden modifier causing them to take 20% of Damage from Blocked Hits.
  • Support gems: Any support gem that can apply to both an attack as well as a minion skill will apply to both the attack made by Dominating Blow and the Sentinels'. For example, Melee Splash Support will grant both the attacks made with Dominating Blow and the Sentinels' basic attacks splash damage. Sentinels won't hit additional targets if the skill gem is supported by Ancestral Call Support, but will still receive the "Supported Skills deal x% less Damage" penalty.
  • Dual wielding: Dual wielding attacks with Dominating Blow will alternate the weapon being swung.
  • The summoned Sentinels of Dominance's stats scale heavily with the gem level of Dominating Blow. For example, at gem level 20 they have a base physical damage of 768 to 1,152 with a total life of 5,912 per Sentinel, while at gem level 15 their base physical damage is 462 to 693 with a total life of 3,448 per Sentinel.
  • Sentinels have 40% Elemental Resistances and 20% Chaos Resistance.
  • Sentinels have a base attack time of 1.20.

Item acquisition

Dominating Blow can drop anywhere. Drop level: 28.

Recipes

Dominating Blow can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
6 The Summoner Random Minion gem with 20% quality
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
Sever the Right Hand
Act 3		 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Sever the Right Hand
Act 3
Clarissa		 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Gem quality

Type Stats (per 1% quality) Weight
Superior Minions deal 1% increased Damage 50
Anomalous 1.5% increased Minion Duration 100
Divergent Summoned Sentinels have 1% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate 50
Phantasmal Maximum 0.1 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance 10

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dominating Blow.

Name Level Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Dominating Blow Additional Magic 1 66 Dominating Blow can summon 2 additional Magic Sentinels of Dominance helmet 100
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Enchantment Dominating Blow Additional Magic 2 75 Dominating Blow can summon 3 additional Magic Sentinels of Dominance helmet 100
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Enchantment Dominating Blow Additional Rare 1 75 Dominating Blow can summon an additional Rare Sentinel of Dominance helmet 100
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EnchantmentDominatingBlowAttackDamage1 66 24% increased Dominating Blow Damage helmet 0
default 0
EnchantmentDominatingBlowAttackDamage2 75 36% increased Dominating Blow Damage helmet 0
default 0
Enchantment Dominating Blow Duration 1 66 20% increased Sentinel of Dominance Duration helmet 100
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Enchantment Dominating Blow Duration 2 75 30% increased Sentinel of Dominance Duration helmet 100
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EnchantmentDominatingBlowMinionDamage1 66 Summoned Sentinels of Dominance deal 20% increased Damage helmet 0
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EnchantmentDominatingBlowMinionDamage2_ 75 Summoned Sentinels of Dominance deal 30% increased Damage helmet 0
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