PoE Slam Skill, Slams

As part of two-handed weapon improvements, several melee skills have been recategorised as slams. PoE Harvest league introduces a new slam skill and support gem. GGG has also revamped several existing slams with new visual effects, improved functionality, and greater power for two-handed weapon users.

PoE Slam Skill Gems

#	Skill Gems	Description	Level	Tag
1	Perforate	Smash the ground to bring forth multiple spears to damage enemies. When in Blood Stance, multiple spikes burst from the ground in sequence, able to hit enemies multiple times. In Sand Stance, the spikes are thrust outwards. Requires a Sword or Axe. You are in Blood Stance by default.	1	Physical, Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee
2	Ground Slam	Slams the ground in front of you, creating a wave that travels forward and damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. The wave deals more damage to closer enemies. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.	1	Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee
3	Vaal Ground Slam	Slams the ground in front of you, creating a wave that travels in all directions that damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. The wave deals more damage to closer enemies. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.	1	Vaal, Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee
4	Leap Slam	Jump into the air, damaging and knocking back enemies with your weapon where you land. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Sword or Staff. Cannot be supported by Multistrike.	10	Attack, AoE, Movement, Travel, Slam, Melee
5	Sunder	Slams the ground, creating a slow wave of churning terrain that damages enemies in a sequence of areas in front of you. A number of enemies hit by the wave will release a shockwave, damaging other enemies around them. Using the skill again will stop the previous wave. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Staff or Unarmed.	12	Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee
6	Earthshatter	Slam the ground, sending out rectangular fissures that deal area damage to enemies and thrust a spike from the ground when they end. Warcries or other Slam Attacks performed by you or allied players near any spike will cause them to shatter, damaging surrounding enemies. Works with Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed.	12	Attack, AoE, Slam, Duration, Melee
7	Consecrated Path	Slams the ground at a targeted location. If an enemy is near where you target, you'll teleport to it from a short distance away, slam, and create an area of consecrated ground. Can't be supported by Multistrike, and requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.	28	Fire, Attack, AoE, Movement, Duration, Slam, Melee
8	Ice Crash	Slam the ground, damaging enemies in an area around the impact in three stages. Enemies take slightly less damage on the second and third stage. Works with Swords, Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed.	28	Attack, AoE, Cold, Slam, Melee
9	Earthquake	Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and cracking the earth. The crack will erupt in a powerful aftershock after a short duration. Cracks created before the first one has erupted will not generate their own aftershocks. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.	28	Attack, AoE, Duration, Slam, Melee
10	Ancestral Warchief	Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with a powerful slam while you're near it. Being near it grants you more melee damage. Requires a Melee Weapon or Unarmed.	28	Attack, Totem, AoE, Slam, Melee
11	Vaal Ancestral Warchief	Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with a powerful cascading slam while you're near it. If the enemies are far away, it will leap toward them as it slams. Being near it grants you more melee damage. Requires a Melee Weapon or Unarmed.	28	Vaal, Attack, Totem, AoE, Melee, Slam
12	Tectonic Slam	Slam the ground, unleashing a fiery fissure in front of you, dealing area damage and randomly releasing a number of smaller fissures branching off from it. Consume an Endurance Charge every third time you slam the ground with this skill. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Sword, Axe, Staff, or Unarmed.	28	Fire, Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee
13	Vaal Earthquake	Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and cracking the earth. The crack will erupt in a powerful aftershock after a short duration. After using this skill, your steps will deal damage around you, cracking the earth if the previous cracks have erupted. This effect ends after a secondary duration, or after a maximum number of aftershocks. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.	28	Vaal, Attack, AoE, Duration, Slam, Melee
14	Ruthless Support	Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.	1	Slam, Support, Melee, Attack, Strike
15	Earthbreaker Support	Supports slam skills, causing them to summon an ancestor totem that uses the skill for you while you're near it. Being near it grants you increased area of effect for melee skills.	8	Attack, Melee, Slam, AoE, Support, Totem
16	Fist of War Support	Supports slam skills, providing a powerful boost when they're used, with a delay before they can be boosted again. Cannot support Vaal skills or triggered skills. Cannot modify the skills of minions. Only skills you use yourself can receive the boost.	38	Slam, Attack, Melee, AoE, Support

PoE 3.19 Changes

Problem: Chieftain's Tawhoa, Forest's Strength skill doesn't provide enough damage to be attractive to slam-based builds, especially when it has to compensate for not being exertable and not synergising with Fist of War Support.

Solution: Slams used by Tawhoa's Chosen now deal 100% more damage (previously 50%).

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Fist of War Support

PoE 3.11 revealed the new Fist of War Support that works with all slams except Vaal Slams and Ancestral Warchief. Every few seconds an ancestor appears above your character and performs your slam in unison with you, creating a supercharged slam dealing much more damage with an increased Area of Effect. 

It supports slam skills, providing a powerful boost when they’re used, with a delay before they can be boosted again. Cannot support Vaal skills or triggered skills. Cannot modify the skills of minions. Only skills you use yourself can receive the boost. The following slam skills can be used with the Fist of War support.

• Ground Slam
• Tectonic Slam
• Earthquake
• Earthshatter
• Sunder
• Ice Crash
• Consecrated Path
• Perforate
• Leap Slam
• Doryani’s Touch (from the Doryani’s Fist unique item)

Ancestral Warchief

Ancestral Warchief is a skill that creates a totem which will attack enemies with melee AoE slams while the character stands close to it. Being near it also increases the character’s damage. Ancestral Warchief has an attack speed multiplier of 90%.

Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with a powerful slam while you’re near it. Being near it grants you more melee damage.

Tag: Attack, Totem, AoE, Slam, Melee

Vaal Ancestral Warchief

Vaal Ancestral Warchief is a Vaal skill gem. It functions much the same as Ancestral Warchief, but deals more damage, in a cascade, and has the ability to leap towards enemies that are out of range.

Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with a powerful cascading slam while you’re near it. If the enemies are far away, it will leap toward them as it slams. Being near it grants you more melee damage.

Consecrated Path

Consecrated Path is a attack skill where the user strikes the ground to deal physical damage converted to fire damage around the user and create consecrated ground. When targeting distant enemies, the user will teleport to the target.

Slams the ground at a targeted location. If an enemy is near where you target, you’ll teleport to it from a short distance away, slam, and create an area of consecrated ground. Can’t be supported by Multistrike, and requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Tag: Fire, Attack, AoE, Movement, Duration, Slam, Melee

Doryani’s Touch

Doryani’s Touch is a slam skill(from the Doryani’s Fist unique item). Doryani’s Fist grants level 20 Doryani’s Touch. Doryani’s Touch will be supported by any applicable support gems socketed into Doryani’s Fist; it is not necessary to have the sockets be linked together.

Earthshatter

Earthshatter slams the ground, sending out rectangular fissures that deal area damage to enemies and thrust a spike from the ground when they end. Warcries or other Slam Attacks performed by you or allied players near any spike will cause them to shatter, damaging surrounding enemies. Works with Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed.

Tag: Attack, AoE, Slam, Duration, Melee

Earthshatter is a new level 12 slam attack that sends out five damaging fissures in all directions when you slam the ground. At the end of each fissure, a spike bursts from the ground and remains for a short time. If these spikes are in the area of another Slam or Warcry used by you or an allied player, the spikes will explode, dealing damage in an area around them. The range of the fissures combined with the area of the exploding spikes ends up spreading damage over a large area, with explosions overlapping near the location you slammed. 

You can alternate between slamming with Earthshatter and using a Warcry, letting you kill enemies around you by detonating your spikes while simultaneously preparing to exert your next use of the skill. You can also easily Leap Slam onto your spikes to trigger them while you move. Any exploding spike can detonate other spikes near it, so you can leave a trail of spikes with repeated slams then set them off by leaping onto one of them. 

New and Changed Slam Skills in Path of Exile: Harvest

Earthquake

Earthquake is a melee attack dealing damage in an area and leaving a crack in the ground. After a duration, the crack releases an aftershock, dealing more damage in a larger area. Requires an axe, mace or staff.

Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and cracking the earth. The crack will erupt in a powerful aftershock after a short duration. Cracks created before the first one has erupted will not generate their own aftershocks. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Tag: Attack, AoE, Duration, Slam, Melee

3.11 Changes: This skill is receiving numerical changes which will be revealed closer to launch. In general, the idea is to make it generally stronger.

Vaal Earthquake

Vaal Earthquake is a Vaal skill gem. The character strikes the ground, creating an aftershock that erupts to deal more damage in a bigger area. Only one aftershock can be active at a time. The user will also release a limited number of aftershocks while moving.

Ground Slam

Ground Slam is a melee attack creating a wave that travels forwards and damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. Before you go you should also know that Ground Slam can also be used unarmed.

The character slams the ground in front of them with a Staff, Axe, Mace or Sceptre, creating a wave that travels forward and damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. The wave deals more damage to closer enemies. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Tag: Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee

PoE 3.11 Changes: This skill is receiving numerical changes which will be revealed closer to launch. In general, the idea is to make it generally stronger.

Vaal Ground Slam

Vaal Ground Slam is a vaal melee attack that slams the ground with a mace or staff, creating a wave that travels in all directions, knocking enemies back and stunning them.

The character slams the ground in front of them with a Staff, Axe, Mace or Sceptre, creating a wave that travels in all directions that damages and stuns enemies. The wave deals more damage to closer enemies. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Ice Crash

Ice Crash is an attack skill that strikes the ground, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage, and creating a wave of expanding icicles in an area around you. The damage is weaker further away from you. Ice Crash requires a sword, mace, axe or a staff, but can also be used while unarmed.

Slam the ground, damaging enemies in an area around the impact in three stages. Enemies take slightly less damage on the second and third stage. Works with Swords, Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed.

Tag: Attack, AoE, Cold, Slam, Melee

PoE 3.11 Changes: This skill is receiving numerical changes which will be revealed closer to launch. In general, the idea is to make it generally stronger.

Leap Slam

Leap Slam is an attack skill that performs a leap to a target area, damaging and knocking back enemies landed on. It is guaranteed to stun enemies at full life.

Jump into the air, damaging and knocking back enemies with your weapon where you land. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Sword or Staff. Cannot be supported by Multistrike.

Tag: Attack, AoE, Movement, Travel, Slam, Melee

Perforate

Perforate is an attack skill where the user strikes the ground to launch multiple spikes from the ground that deal area of effect damage. This skill interacts with Blood and Sand Stance, launching multiple spikes in a small area in Blood Stance and launching the spikes outwards in Sand Stance.

Smash the ground to bring forth multiple spears to damage enemies. When in Blood Stance, multiple spikes burst from the ground in sequence, able to hit enemies multiple times. In Sand Stance, the spikes are thrust outwards. Requires a Sword or Axe. You are in Blood Stance by default.

Tag: Physical, Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee

Perforate 3.11 Changes

Perforate now provides flat physical damage that scales as the gem levels. The distribution of its spikes in Blood Stance has been made more consistent. A higher percentage of its spikes should hit a small target and investment in Area of Effect and/or the number of spikes should keep this percentage of spikes hitting consistent. 

Sand Stance’s base area starts off slightly smaller but increases as the gem levels. Perforate also provides one additional spike at all levels and also grants two additional spikes if you’ve changed stance recently. 

The issue with Perforate in the past was that in Sand Stance, there were large gaps between Spikes which meant that enemies within those gaps would be missed. The extra spikes it now provides and additional Area of Effect vastly improve the number of targets that can be hit by a single Slam. 

In Blood Stance, increased Area of Effect used to result in a loss to single target damage and the extra Spikes from the Perforate enchantment would be placed outside of the range of most small enemies and therefore wouldn’t contribute any damage to single targets. 

These changes to Perforate improve its ability to hit enemies more reliably and with a better spread of damage. 

Sunder

Sunder is a melee attack creating a wave that travels forward and damages enemies in a straight line. Enemies hit by the wave release circular shock waves that further damage nearby enemies. Requires an axe, mace or staff.

Slams the ground with a Mace, Sceptre, Axe or Staff, creating a wave of broken ground that damages enemies in an area in front of you. Enemies hit by the wave will release a circular shockwave, dealing damage to other enemies around them. Using the skill again will stop the previous wave. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Staff or Unarmed.

Tag: Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee

Sunder 3.11 Changes

As part of our effort to encourage slower and heavier-hitting Slams, Sunder has become a much wider and longer but slower cascade. Using Sunder while one cascade is still in motion will cause the existing cascade to end prematurely. These cascades will always travel a minimum length, so you can still use Sunder effectively with Multistrike and fast hitting weapons when close to enemies. 

It still releases Shockwaves which can overlap when they hit enemies. Leveling the gem no longer scales its radius but instead scales its Area of Effect. Overall it now provides a better Area of Effect for slower hitting weapons. 

Tectonic Slam

Tectonic Slam is an attack skill that slams the ground in front of the player, dealing area of effect damage in a cone. Each attack has a chance to consume an endurance charge to deal more damage and gain a larger AoE.

Slam the ground, unleashing a fiery fissure in front of you, dealing area damage and releasing a random number of smaller fissures branching off from it. Can consume an Endurance Charge to perform a Charged Slam, covering a greater area with more branching fissures. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Sword, Axe, Staff, or Unarmed.

Tag: Fire, Attack, AoE, Slam, Melee

Tectonic Slam 3.11 Changes

Tectonic Slam has received an impressive new visual effect and no longer uses ‘charged slams’; it instead counts Endurance Charges to grant more Area of Effect and additional damaging cracks in the ground. This improves the reward for investing in Endurance Charges by providing both a larger and more consistent Area of Effect. It now consumes an Endurance Charge every three Slams, rather than at a random 35% chance. The additional cracks that Endurance Charges generate can spread out further from the base impact and are more deterministic. 

Enchantments that previously granted a chance for a Charged Slam now grant an additional chance for cracks.