Irresistible Blow

Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you strike for +5...17...20 damage. If Irresistible Blow is blocked, your target is knocked down and takes 5...17...20 damage.

Irresistible Blow

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• 5
• 6

Profession

Warrior

Attribute

Hammer Mastery

Type

Hammer attack

Campaign

Core

Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you strike for +5...17...20 damage. If Irresistible Blow is blocked, your target is knocked down and takes 5...17...20 damage.

Concise description

Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Deals 5...17...20 damage and causes knock-down if blocked.

Progression
Hammer Mastery + Damage Damage if blocked	0 5 5 1 6 6 2 7 7 3 8 8 4 9 9 5 10 10 6 11 11 7 12 12 8 13 13 9 14 14 10 15 15 11 16 16 12 17 17 13 18 18 14 19 19 15 20 20 16 21 21 17 22 22 18 23 23 19 24 24 20 25 25 21 26 26

Acquisition

Unlock and learn

Skill quests

• Prophecies
  • Securing the Vale (Yak's Bend)

Skill trainers

• Prophecies
  • Firstwatch Sergio (Lion's Arch)
  • Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
• Factions
  • Masaharu (Seitung Harbor)
  • Michiko (Kaineng Center)
• Nightfall
  • Dau (The Mouth of Torment)

Hero skill trainers

• Eye of the North
  • Gedrel of Ascalon (Eye of the North)
  • Kodan (Gunnar's Hold)
  • Tyr the Skaald (Gunnar's Hold)
  • Lexx (Rata Sum)

Signet of Capture

• Nightfall
  • Ursula the White (Fahranur, the First City, during How the Grentches Stole Wintersday)
  • Earthen Abomination (Turai's Procession, before completion of Troubled Lands)
• Eye of the North
  • Baglorag Grumblesnort (Norrhart Domains)
  • Chieftain Ulgrimar Gnash (Drakkar Lake, during The Big Unfriendly Jotun)
  • Lann Browsmasher (Drakkar Lake, during Nornhood)
  • Jormungand (Norrhart Domains, Bjora Marches, Drakkar Lake, and Varajar Fells)
  • Grelk Icelash (Darkrime Delves)
  • Havok-kin (Darkrime Delves)
  • Ignus the Eternal (Sacnoth Valley, during The Smell of Titan in the Morning)
  • Indestructible Golem (The Elusive Golemancer)
  • Avatar of Destruction (Destruction's Depths)

Unlock only

Heroes

• Prophecies
  • Unlocking Devona
• Nightfall
  • Unlocking Goren

Related skills

• Griffon's SweepLeviathan's Sweep Griffon's Sweep/Leviathan's Sweep
• File:Seeking Blade.jpg Seeking Blade
• File:Swift Chop.jpg Swift Chop

Hero Usage

• Heroes will use this skill whenever it is charged, but will not change targets to apply the secondary effect on targets that are blocking.

Trivia

• The figure in the skill icon resembles the Undead Lich.
• During early development, this skill was called "Brutal Blow".