Strike Skills Poe (2024)

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What is the most satisfying skill in Poe? ›

Strike skills are melee skills which hit a single target or all enemies with a melee's swing radius. It is not the same as slam melee skill. Supported Skills deal (19-0)% less DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it.

Range of melee attacks can be improved with various passive skills and items. Range bonuses provided by passive tree, jewels and non-weapon equipment are global, meaning they will apply to both weapons if dual-wielding.

Cyclone is a channeling melee attack skill that rapidly hits all enemies in a circular area around the player.

The choice of class determines combat style, with classes like Duelist, Witch, Templar, Ranger, Marauder, and Shadow having specific strengths and weaknesses. Scion, unlocked after Act 3, is considered the best class due to its flexibility and access to a wide skill tree.

At a typical base Critical Strike Chance of 5% and no increased Critical Strike Multiplier, 100% increased Critical Strike Chance corresponds to 2.5% increased dps. With 100% increased Critical Strike Multiplier, this increases threefold to 7.5% increased dps.

The recommended Ascendancy class for this build is Raider, which offers various benefits such as spell suppression, elemental ailment immunity, and increased attack speed and damage per frenzy charge. The passive skill tree should prioritize nodes that enhance attack damage, crit chance, accuracy, and defenses.

the 20% chance to defend with 200% armour means that every time you get hit, there is a 20% chance that the damage from that hit will be mitigated by double your armour. this will naturally not show up in any character sheets, as its a bonus that only applies to specific hits (that is, 20% of incoming hits).

The maximum rage a character can have by default is 50, but can be increased by items and passives.

How do you avoid stuns in Poe? ›

Having any amount of energy shield when hit grants a baseline 50% chance to ignore a stun. This occurs as long as the defender had energy shield before being hit, regardless of whether energy shield was fully depleted by the hit, and even if damage never reached energy shield due to e.g. Ward or Divine Flesh.

Chance to hit can not be lower than 5% but can hit 100%. Effects that state Can't be Evaded or Always Hit (e.g. Resolute Technique, Worthy Foe) will raise the chance to hit to 100%, ignoring all accuracy and evasion stats of the attacker and defender respectively.

Modification and Decay: A tropical cyclone begins to weaken in terms of its central low pressure, internal warmth and extremely high speeds, as soon as its source of warm moist air begins to ebb or is abruptly cut off.

Dual wielding: Cyclone will alternate weapons while dual wielding. While dual wielding, every 0.1 additional weapon range on those weapons only contributes 5% increased area of effect.

Tropical cyclones have gale force winds. The most powerful winds are near the centre, reaching more 90 km/h. In the most severe cyclones, gusts can exceed 280 km/h. These winds can cause extensive property damage.

Quality is normally capped at 20%. However, there are certain crafting methods that can increase quality beyond that, including: Corrupting a gem may increase its quality. Gems can have up to 23% quality this way.

Saboteur. The Saboteur is classified as one of the best classes in Path of Exile that you can use as a league starter. By utilizing traps or mines, the Saboteur can make quick work of the enemy, especially very early on in the league.

Crushed is a debuff. Crushed lowers Physical Damage Reduction by 15%.

Aspect of the Crab is an aspect skill that generates a Crab Barrier every 0.5 seconds, granting physical damage reduction for each Crab Barrier the player has. All Crab Barriers are lost when the player takes physical damage from a hit.