PoE Holy Strike Gem Build Guide 3.28

PoE 3.28: Added a new Strength/Intelligence Skill Gem, Holy Strike: Infuse your weapon with holy energy and swing. Successfully hitting an enemy will summon forth a Holy Armament, which copies your main hand weapon stats to determine its own. These Holy Armaments are undamageable minions, and will attack the enemies you target with Holy Strike. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff.

Holy Strike(Level 20 with 20% quality)

Holy Strike is a PoE 3.28 new Gem. Tag: Minion, Attack, Melee, Strike, Lightning, Duration. Level: 20 (Max). Cost: 10 Mana. Attack Damage: 392.3% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 392%. Quality: +20%. Requires Level 70, 98 Str, 68 Int. Infuse your weapon with holy energy and swing. Successfully hitting an enemy will summon forth a copy of your Main Hand weapon as a Holy Armament. These Holy Armaments are undamageable minions, and will attack the enemies you target with Holy Strike. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff. Base duration is 10.00 seconds Maximum 3 Holy Armaments +2.6 metres to Minion Melee Strike Range Minions deal 168% more Damage This Attack and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Level 20 with 20% quality Holy Strike Gem

The Templar now wakes on the Twilight Strand more in touch with his faith: the starting skill gem for Templar is now Holy Strike, and the starting support gem for Templar is now Hallow Support.

How to get Holy Strike?

• Holy Strike can now be purchased from Nessa by the Scion upon completing Enemy at the Gate.

Core Mechanics

• Strike and Summon: When you attack with Holy Strike, it summons Holy Armaments (minions) that follow you.
• Stat Mimicry: These minions copy the stats of your main-hand weapon to deal their damage.
• Coordinated Attacks: The minions will perform a "Holy Strike" of their own whenever you use the skill.
• Damage Multipliers: Early data indicates the skill has approximately 392% base damage effectiveness, while the minions deal significantly more damage—some reports suggesting they gain roughly 168% more damage.

Build Guide 3.28

• Weapon Scaling: Since minions inherit weapon stats, scaling Critical Strike Chance, Crit Multiplier, and high-damage weapons (like Staves or high-DPS Maces) directly improves their output.
• Support Gems: Essential supports for mapping include Ancestral Call Support and Melee Splash Support due to it being a strike skill.