Resonating Shield

Resonating ShieldAoE, Melee, Sustained, Physical, Channelling
Tier: 5
Level: (1-40)
Cost: (7-600) Mana
Attack Time: 0.80 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attack Damage: (25-127)% of baseRepeatedly strike your Shield with your weapon causing damaging shockwaves in an area around you. Enemies hit by the shockwave lose Armour for a duration. While using Resonating Shield, your Shield is raised and you will Block all incoming Blockable hits.Hits Break (2-1537) Armour
(4-88) to (6-132) Base Off Hand Physical Damage
6 to 8 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield
Cannot be Empowered by Warcries
Shockwave radius is 2.3 metres

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Break (0-20)% increased ArmourPlace into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill.
Skills 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/SkillGemResonatingShield

Resonating Shield is an attack skill that damages enemies using shockwaves from striking your shield. While channelling, the character counts as blocking. Resonating Shield requires an equipped shield.

Skill functions and interactions

While your Shield is raised, Blocking Hits fills your Stagger bar based on the damage the Hit would have dealt. If the bar fills completely, you are Stunned and cannot take actions for a short time.

Despite it being an attack skill, the attack damage % used by Resonating Shield 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 Resonating Shield damage. Mods such as X% increased Elemental Damage with Attacks found on main hand weapons, however, will increase the damage of Resonating Shield if it is supported by Fire Infusion, Cold Infusion, or Lightning Infusion.

Focusing on the Armour value of your shield is one of the methods for scaling Resonating Shield 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 Resonating Shield damage. Instead, they modify the final Armour value added to the character rather than the implicit Armour value of the shield itself.

Using Resonating Shield counts as an Active Block for the criteria of Towering Shield.

Gem level progression

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Level			Mana Cost	Attack Damage	Off Hand Physical Damage	Armour Broken
1	1	1	7	25%	4 to 6	2
2	3	9	8	27%	5 to 7	3
3	6	16	9	30%	7 to 10	5
4	10	25	10	33%	8 to 13	9
5	14	34	11	35%	10 to 16	14
6	18	43	13	38%	13 to 19	21
7	22	52	14	140%	15 to 23	31
8	26	61	16	42%	18 to 27	43
9	31	72	18	44%	21 to 31	63
10	36	83	20	46%	24 to 37	91
11	41	95	22	48%	28 to 42	128
12	46	106	25	50%	32 to 48	179
13	52	119	28	52%	37 to 55	262
14	58	133	31	54%	42 to 63	380
15	64	146	35	56%	48 to 72	545
16	66	151	39	58%	54 to 82	732
17	72	164	44	60%	61 to 92	871
18	78	178	49	62%	69 to 104	1034
19	84	191	55	64%	78 to 117	1298
20	90	205	62	66%	88 to 132	1537
21	—	—	69	68%	99 to 148	1625
22	—	—	78	70%	111 to 167	1719
23	—	—	87	73%	125 to 187	1817
24	—	—	98	75%	140 to 210	1921
25	—	—	109	78%	157 to 235	2030
26	—	—	122	80%	176 to 264	2146
27	—	—	137	83%	197 to 295	2267
28	—	—	154	86%	221 to 331	2396
29	—	—	172	88%	247 to 371	2531
30	—	—	193	91%	277 to 416	2674
31	—	—	216	94%	311 to 466	2824
32	—	—	242	98%	348 to 522	2982
33	—	—	271	101%	391 to 586	3149
34	—	—	303	104%	438 to 657	3325
35	—	—	340	108%	492 to 738	3510
36	—	—	381	111%	552 to 828	3706
37	—	—	427	115%	620 to 931	3912
38	—	—	478	119%	697 to 1046	4128
39	—	—	535	123%	784 to 1177	4344
40	—	—	600	127%	883 to 1324	4568

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	File:Burgeon inventory icon.pngBurgeon	Magnified Effect	Rage
II	Armour Explosion	Break Posture	Demolisher
III	File:Barbs inventory icon.pngBarbs	Coming Soon	File:Defy inventory icon.pngDefy

Item acquisition

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

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Resonating Shield has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
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. Resonating Shield radius increased to 2.3 metres (from 1.8 metres).
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.