Wild Strike - Path of Exile

Wild Strike Wild Strike is an active skill gem.

Your melee weapon strikes enemies, converting physical damage to a random element. Then, depending on the element chosen, it releases a fiery explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave. It will avoid choosing the same element twice in a row.

Attack, Melee, Strike, Lightning, Cold, Fire, Projectile, AoE, Chaining, Prismatic. Level: 1–20. Cost: 6 Mana. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 160–231%. Projectile Speed: 1800. AoE Radius: 24. Requires Level 28.

  • Projectiles Pierce all Targets
  • Beams Chain (4–7) Times
  • Fires 2 additional Projectiles
  • (0–19)% increased Area of Effect
  • 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire, Cold or Lightning Damage

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

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Wild Strike(0–20)% increased Elemental Damage50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthDexterityBase DamageBeams Chain 4 Times#% increased Area of EffectExperience
1282942160%4199,345
2313246163.7%41285,815
3343550167.5%42401,344
4373754171.2%43554,379
5404058174.9%44477,437
6424260178.7%45583,786
7444463182.4%56710,359
8464666186.2%571,355,511
9484868189.9%581,138,877
10504971193.6%591,368,233
11525174197.4%5101,638,338
12545376201.1%5111,956,648
13565579204.8%6123,655,184
14585782208.6%6133,017,327
15605984212.3%6147,759,995
16626087216.1%61515,138,193
17646290219.8%61626,083,825
18666492223.5%61762,620,247
19686695227.3%718211,708,088
20706898231%719
2172234.7%720
2274238.5%721
2376242.2%722
2478245.9%723
2580249.7%824
2682253.4%825
2784257.2%826
2886260.9%827
2988264.6%828
3090268.4%829
3191270.2%829
3292272.1%930
3393274%930
3494275.8%931
3595277.7%931
3696279.6%932
3797281.4%932
3898283.3%933
3999285.2%933
40100287.1%934

Wild Strike is a melee attack skill that converts all of the damage to a random element when an enemy is struck. Then, depending on the element chosen, it releases an explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave.

Skill functions and interactions

An attack with Wild Strike consists of two parts: an initial melee hit that functions similarly to a default melee attack and one of the following effects being chosen at random with equal chance: If an enemy is hit with the melee part, they cannot be hit by the secondary effect.

  • A fiery explosion with the keywords Fire, AoE, Attack
  • An icy wave with the keywords Cold, Projectile, Attack
  • An arcing bolt of lightning with the keywords Lightning, Chaining, Attack

Modifiers that require a specific keyword only apply to the appropriate portions of the attack. For example, supporting Wild Strike with Melee Physical Damage Support will increase the melee hit's physical and converted damage, but will not increase the damage of the secondary elemental effect. That said, passive points that grant Increased damage with one-handed melee weapons for example will in fact affect the triggered attacks as well if one is using a one-handed weapon, since it is still an attack that is dealt with a melee weapon (though the damage you're dealing is not actually melee damage). Similarly, supporting Wild Strike with Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support will cause the Icy Wave to fire additional projectiles and deal less damage, but will not affect any other portions of the attack.

Prismatic: Wild Strike will never pick the same element twice in a row.

Damage conversion: An attack with Wild Strike converts 100% of physical damage to a random element; this conversion applies to all parts of the attack. Like all converted damage, the elemental portion of Wild Strike's damage will be modified by both elemental and physical damage increases.

Additional damage: Any additional damage gains from gear, auras, weapons or any other source (such as Added Fire Damage Support, Hatred, or Anger) will apply to all parts of the attack.

Tooltip damage: The damage dealt and DPS values shown on this ability's tooltip only indicates the statistics of the initial hit and does not include the random elemental conversion.

Dual wielding: Wild Strike with dual wielding will always alternate between both weapons.

Multistrike Support: Repeats of Wild Strike will be of the same element as the original attack. Wild Strike will avoid choosing the same element for the next set of attacks.

Item acquisition

Wild Strike can drop anywhere. Drop level: 28.

Recipes

Wild Strike can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
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		 ✓

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Wild Strike:

Item Limit Radius Stats
Combat Focus 2 Medium (10-15)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills
With 40 total Intelligence and Dexterity in Radius, Prismatic Skills cannot choose Fire
With 40 total Intelligence and Dexterity in Radius, Prismatic Skills deal 50% less Fire Damage
Combat Focus 2 Medium (10-15)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills
With 40 total Strength and Intelligence in Radius, Prismatic Skills cannot choose Cold
With 40 total Strength and Intelligence in Radius, Prismatic Skills deal 50% less Cold Damage
Combat Focus 2 Medium (10-15)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills
With 40 total Dexterity and Strength in Radius, Prismatic Skills cannot choose Lightning
With 40 total Dexterity and Strength in Radius, Prismatic Skills deal 50% less Lightning Damage

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Wild Strike.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Wild Strike Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Wild Strike Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Wild Strike Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Wild Strike Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Wild Strike Num Of Additional Projectiles In Chain 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Wild Strike's Beam Chains an additional 4 times helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Wild Strike Num Of Additional Projectiles In Chain 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Wild Strike's Beam Chains an additional 6 times helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Wild Strike Area Of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 24% increased Wild Strike Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Wild Strike Area Of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 36% increased Wild Strike Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0