Vigilant Strike

Overview

Attacks enemies with a powerful melee strike which grants Fortification, reducing damage you take from hits. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge. Requires a Melee Weapon.

Properties

Gem type: Active
Colour: Red
Attribute: Strength
Drop level: 5
Cast time: 1 sec

Quest reward sources

These are reward options. Availability can depend on your class and quest choices. A blank class restriction remains unspecified.

Quest	Classes	Amount	Reward item level
Breaking Some Eggs	Templar	1	1
Breaking Some Eggs	Marauder	1	1
Breaking Some Eggs	Duelist	1	1
Breaking Some Eggs	Scion	1	1

Compare gem levels and variants

Choose levels and quality to see which recorded properties and effects change. Additional skill effects remain in their separate progression tables.

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Mechanics at a glance

Melee Hits Fortify for 8 seconds

At 20% quality

4% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge

Acquisition

Breaking Some EggsAct 1 quest reward · Templar Breaking Some EggsAct 1 quest reward · Marauder Breaking Some EggsAct 1 quest reward · Duelist Breaking Some EggsAct 1 quest reward · Scion

Compatibility inputs

Skill types: Attack, Buff, Melee, Multistrikeable, Melee Single Target, Threshold Jewel Area, Cooldown
Granted minion skill types: None recorded
Can be supported: Yes

Support compatibility is evaluated against these recorded types. A support is omitted when its allowed expression does not match, its excluded expression matches, or this skill is marked as unable to be supported.

Gem level	Required level	Cost	Cooldown	Damage effectiveness	Exp. to next	Total exp.
1	4	7 Mana	4 sec	290.2%	841	0
2	6	7 Mana	4 sec	304.3%	3,099	841
3	9	7 Mana	4 sec	319.7%	7,433	3,940
4	12	7 Mana	4 sec	335.7%	22,895	11,373
5	16	8 Mana	4 sec	353.2%	49,725	34,268
6	20	8 Mana	4 sec	371.6%	95,714	83,993
7	24	8 Mana	4 sec	391.1%	169,595	179,707
8	28	9 Mana	4 sec	411.4%	283,759	349,302
9	32	9 Mana	4 sec	432.8%	453,996	633,061
10	36	9 Mana	4 sec	455.2%	703,128	1,087,057
11	40	10 Mana	4 sec	478.8%	1,061,223	1,790,185
12	44	10 Mana	4 sec	503.6%	2,065,870	2,851,408
13	48	10 Mana	4 sec	529.8%	2,507,110	4,917,278
14	52	10 Mana	4 sec	557.1%	2,573,731	7,424,388
15	55	11 Mana	4 sec	584.9%	7,611,351	9,998,119
16	58	11 Mana	4 sec	614.2%	13,437,908	17,609,470
17	61	11 Mana	4 sec	644.7%	25,052,147	31,047,378
18	64	11 Mana	4 sec	676.9%	43,869,436	56,099,525
19	67	12 Mana	4 sec	710.6%	242,081,178	99,968,961
20	70	12 Mana	4 sec	745.9%	—	342,050,139

Gem level	Required level	Cost	Cooldown	Damage effectiveness	Exp. to next	Total exp.
21	72	12 Mana	4 sec	781.9%	—	—
22	74	12 Mana	4 sec	819.4%	—	—
23	76	12 Mana	4 sec	858.7%	—	—
24	78	12 Mana	4 sec	900%	—	—
25	80	13 Mana	4 sec	943.2%	—	—
26	82	13 Mana	4 sec	988.4%	—	—
27	84	13 Mana	4 sec	1035.9%	—	—
28	86	13 Mana	4 sec	1085.6%	—	—
29	88	13 Mana	4 sec	1137.6%	—	—
30	90	13 Mana	4 sec	1192.1%	—	—
31	91	13 Mana	4 sec	1275.2%	—	—
32	92	14 Mana	4 sec	1305.7%	—	—
33	93	14 Mana	4 sec	1337%	—	—
34	94	14 Mana	4 sec	1369%	—	—
35	95	14 Mana	4 sec	1401.8%	—	—
36	96	14 Mana	4 sec	1435.2%	—	—
37	97	14 Mana	4 sec	1469.5%	—	—
38	98	14 Mana	4 sec	1504.7%	—	—
39	99	14 Mana	4 sec	1540.7%	—	—
40	100	14 Mana	4 sec	1577.5%	—	—

Quality	Effects
0%	No quality bonus
5%	1% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge
10%	2% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge
15%	3% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge
20%	4% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge
23%	4.6% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge
30%	6% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge