Tempest Shield - Path of Exile

Tempest Shield Tempest Shield is an active skill gem.

Enchants your shield with the power of storms, which lashes out to deal arcing lightning damage to attackers when you block them.You have additional chance to block spell damage, and are immune to shock.

Spell, Lightning, Chaining. Level: 1–20. Reservation: 25% Mana. Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 220%. Requires Level 16.

  • Deals (38–896) to (115–2688) Lightning Damage
  • Chains +1 Times
  • Buff grants +(18–25)% Chance to Block Spell Damage while holding a Shield
  • Buff grants Immunity to Shock

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

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Tempest Shield(0–20)% chance to Shock enemies50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthIntelligenceDeals 38 to 115 Lightning DamageBuff grants +18% Chance to Block Spell Damage while holding a ShieldExperience
116182638, 1151849,725
220223151, 1541895,714
324253768, 20319169,595
428294288, 26419199,345
5313246106, 31819285,815
6343550128, 38320401,344
7373754153, 45820554,379
8404058182, 54521755,049
9434362215, 646211,016,533
10464666255, 764211,898,602
11494870300, 901221,964,019
12525174353, 1060222,573,731
13555478415, 1244234,676,439
14585782486, 1457233,017,327
15605984539, 1616237,823,001
16626087597, 17922415,264,208
17646290662, 19852426,272,845
18666492733, 21982562,872,274
19686695811, 243225212,023,122
20706898896, 268825
2172990, 297026
22741093, 328026
23761207, 362027
24781331, 399227
25801467, 440127
26821617, 485028
27841780, 534128
28861960, 588029
29882157, 647029
30902372, 711629
31912487, 746230
32922608, 782430
33932734, 820330
34942866, 859930
35953004, 901331
36963149, 944731
37973300, 990031
38983458, 1037531
39993624, 1087131
401003797, 1139031

Tempest Shield is a spell that reserves mana to empower your shield, granting spell block chance and immunity to shock. While active, whenever you block, you deal damage to the enemy that hit you with an arc of lightning that chains to nearby enemies.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Damage on Blocking: This spell will damage the attacker whenever you successfully block any direct attack or spell.

Chaining: The damage on block chains from the attacker to the nearest enemy in a range. The number of times the lightning damage chains can be increased by supporting Tempest Shield with Chain Support, by equipping Mjölner or equipping a helmet with an Tempest Shield chains an additional x times enchantment.

Necromantic Aegis does not cause Tempest Shield to be applied to Minions. The block chance will be lost and Tempest Shield can no longer deal damage because you are not using a shield.

Item acquisition

Tempest Shield can drop anywhere. Drop level: 16.

Recipes

Tempest Shield can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
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

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 ↓
Intruders in Black
Act 2
Yeena
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Tempest Shield.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Tempest Shield Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Tempest Shield Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tempest Shield Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Tempest Shield Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tempest Shield Num Of Additional Projectiles In Chain 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Tempest Shield chains an additional 2 times helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Tempest Shield Num Of Additional Projectiles In Chain 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Tempest Shield chains an additional 3 times helmet 100
default 0

Alternate skill effects

Tempest Shield has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Celestial Tempest Shield Effect Your Tempest Shield becomes a Celestial Effect.
Invisible Buff Effect Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.