Earthquake PoE Build

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. Before you go you should also know that Earthquake can also be used unarmed.

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.

Attack, AoE, Duration, Slam, Melee. Level: 1–20. Cost: 10 Mana. Attack Speed: 75% of base. Attack Damage: 85–150% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 85–150%. Requires Level 28.

Base duration is 1 seconds
Aftershock deals 150% more Damage with Hits and Ailments

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

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Earthquake	(0–20)% increased Damage	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Earthquake	(0–20)% increased Damage	50
Anomalous Earthquake	(0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration (0–60)% increased Damage	100
Divergent Earthquake	Initial Slam has (0–40)% increased Area of Effect	100
Phantasmal Earthquake	Increases and Reductions to Spell Damage also apply to Attack Damage from this Skill at (0–50)% of their value	5

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Base Damage	Experience
1	28	67	85%	199,345
2	31	73	88.4%	285,815
3	34	79	91.8%	401,344
4	37	85	95.3%	554,379
5	40	92	98.7%	477,437
6	42	96	102.1%	583,786
7	44	100	105.5%	710,359
8	46	104	108.9%	1,355,511
9	48	109	112.4%	1,138,877
10	50	113	115.8%	1,368,233
11	52	117	119.2%	1,638,338
12	54	121	122.6%	1,956,648
13	56	125	126.1%	3,655,184
14	58	130	129.5%	3,017,327
15	60	134	132.9%	7,759,995
16	62	138	136.3%	15,138,193
17	64	142	139.7%	26,083,825
18	66	146	143.2%	62,620,247
19	68	151	146.6%	211,708,088
20	70	155	150%
21	72		153.4%
22	74		156.8%
23	76		160.3%
24	78		163.7%
25	80		167.1%
26	82		170.5%
27	84		173.9%
28	86		177.4%
29	88		180.8%
30	90		184.2%
31	91		185.9%
32	92		187.6%
33	93		189.3%
34	94		191.1%
35	95		192.8%
36	96		194.5%
37	97		196.2%
38	98		197.9%
39	99		199.6%
40	100		201.3%

Skill Functions and Interactions

Duration: increases and reductions to duration increase or reduce time between impact and aftershock respectively. The following gems and items reduce skill's duration: Less Duration Support, Swift Affliction Support, and Warped Timepiece. Be aware that Warped Timepiece will apply globally and reduce duration to buffs and other effects such as Fortify.
Dual Wielding: Using Earthquake while dual wielding will alternate between weapons.
Aftershock: The aftershock is a specific part of the skill that hits and has a 150% more multiplier to hits and ailments. Ailments such as poison, bleed, and ignite will have more damage if applied by the shockwave. The shockwave will however not scale other DoTs like Decay Support as it is not a ailment.

Item acquisition

Earthquake can drop anywhere.Drop level: 28.

Recipes

Earthquake 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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
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	1% increased Damage	50
Anomalous	3% increased Damage 1% increased Skill Effect Duration	100
Divergent	Initial Slam has 2% increased Area of Effect	100
Phantasmal	Increases and Reductions to Spell Damage also apply to Attack Damage from this Skill at 2.5% of their value	5

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Earthquake.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Earthquake Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Earthquake Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Earthquake Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Earthquake Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Earthquake Damage per 0.1s Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Earthquake deals 5% increased Damage per 0.1 seconds Duration	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Earthquake Damage per 0.1s Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Earthquake deals 8% increased Damage per 0.1 seconds Duration	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Earthquake Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Earthquake Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Earthquake Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Earthquake Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Earthquake has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Crystal Earthquake Effect	Your Earthquake becomes a crystal effect.
Demonic Earthquake Effect	Your Earthquake becomes a Demonic Effect.
Gore Earthquake Effect	Your Earthquake becomes a gory effect.