Shield Wall

Shield WallAttack, AoE, Melee, Physical, Duration
Tier: 7
Level: (1-40)
Cost: (14-1174) Mana
Attack Time: 1.25 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attack Damage: (60-1086)% of baseRam your Shield into the ground, throwing up a semi-circular wall of earth. Enemies can attack the walls and your Slams or Warcries will instantly destroy them. Each wall segment explodes when destroyed, damaging enemies around it.Can have 2 Shield Walls active at a time
(4-88) to (6-132) Base Off Hand Physical Damage
6 to 8 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield
Explosion radius is 3 metres
Wall duration is 6 seconds
Wall segments have (36-12714) maximum life

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Can have (0.1-2) Shield Walls active at a timeSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemShieldWall

Shield Wall is a physical skill that slams your shield into the ground, throwing up walls of earth in a semi-circle. These walls can be damaged, obstruct incoming projectiles, and can hinder pathing. Upon being destroyed either by receiving damage or the character's Slam skills they explode, dealing damage to enemies. Shield Wall requires an equipped shield.

Skill functions and interactions

Despite it being an attack skill, the attack damage % used by Shield Wall is derived explicitly from the base off hand physical damage inherent to the gem itself. The amount of damage listed on a weapon in the main hand will not contribute to the Shield Wall damage. Mods such as X% increased Elemental Damage with Attacks found on main hand weapons, however, will increase the damage of Shield Wall if it is supported by Fire Infusion, Cold Infusion, or Lightning Infusion.

Focusing on the Armour value on your shield is one of the methods for scaling Shield Wall damage.

Passive tree nodes that contain the text X% increased Defences from Equipped Shield such as Towering Shield, Core of the Guardian, Spiked Shield, and Flashy Deflection do not impact Shield Wall damage. Instead, they impact the final Armour value added to the player rather than the implicit Armour value of the shield itself.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Attack Damage	Off Hand Physical Damage	Wall Segment Maximum Life
1	0	0	13	65%	4 to 6	—
2	3	9	15	71%	6 to 9	—
3	6	14	18	79%	10 to 15	—
4	10	21	20	86%	13 to 20	—
5	14	28	23	93%	17 to 26	—
6	18	35	25	100%	21 to 32	—
7	22	41	28	108%	26 to 38	—
8	26	48	32	115%	30 to 45	—
9	31	57	35	121%	35 to 53	—
10	36	65	39	128%	40 to 60	—
11	41	74	43	136%	45 to 68	—
12	46	82	47	144%	51 to 76	—
13	52	92	51	153%	57 to 85	—
14	58	103	56	162%	63 to 94	—
15	64	113	61	172%	69 to 103	—
16	66	116	66	183%	75 to 113	—
17	72	126	72	195%	82 to 123	—
18	78	137	78	207%	89 to 133	—
19	84	147	85	221%	96 to 144	—
20	90	157	92	235%	103 to 155	—

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I		HourglassHourglassSupport Category: Grants Cooldown Tier: 1 Cooldown Time: 10.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s)Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any damaging skill that you use yourself, causing it to deal significantly more damage but gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.Supported Skills deal 30% more Damage Supported Skills have a Cooldown of 10 secondsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
II		Font of BloodFont of BloodSupport, Totem Category: Font Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by supported Skills generate a Font of Blood which will Leech Life to Allies within it.Totems created by Supported Skills create a Blood Font with a radius of 4 metres Allies in Blood Fonts Leech Life equal to 12% of Physical Damage dealt by Supported TotemPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
III	Font of RageFont of RageSupport, Totem Category: Font Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by supported Skills generate a Font of Rage which will Leech Rage to Allies within it.Totems created by Supported Skills create a Rage Font with a radius of 4 metres Allies in Rage Fonts Leech Rage equal to 0.8% of Physical Damage dealt by Supported TotemPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
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Item acquisition

Shield Wall has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Shield Wall has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.2.0e	Shield Wall can now be detonated by Warcries as well as Slams.
0.2.0	Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread. The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels. Shield Wall segment Life past Gem level 20 now matches that of Ice Crystals (from Frost Wall for example), this is a reduction in total Life. Explosion radius is now 4 metres (previously 3).
0.1.0e	Resonating Shield, Shield Charge and Shield Wall now have 6-8 added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on your Shield at all Levels. Shield Wall explosions increased to 4 metres (from 2 metres). Shield Wall now can create a maximum of 2 walls (from 1 wall).
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.