PoE2 skill gem

Shield Wall

Ram your Shield into the ground, throwing up a wall of earth. Enemies can attack your wall segments, and your Slams, Warcries, and Shield Charge will instantly shatter them all. The segments explode when shattered, damaging enemies in front of and around them.

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.1
Direct change

Seismic Cry, Forge Hammer, and Shield Wall now display the Quality benefits they provide.

0.5.0
Direct change

Fortifying Cry: Now only consumes one stack when you detonate a shield wall to create a shockwave around each shield wall segment. Fortifying Cry Shockwaves from a single Shield Wall cannot hit the same enemy multiple times. Shield Wave now deals 5 to 7 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield (previously 6 to 8).

0.5.0
Direct change

Shield Wall: Now deals 5 to 7 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield (previously 6 to 8).

Full patch history

Effects

8 effects
  • 5 to 7 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield
  • Wall duration is 6 seconds
  • Explosion length is 4 metres
  • Limit 2 active Shield Walls
  • 80% less damage if destroyed within 0.5 seconds by something other than you
  • 100% more Damage if destroyed by your Skills
  • (4-103) to (6-155) Base Off Hand Physical Damage
  • Wall Segments have (36-12714) maximum Life

Requirements and restrictions

1 requirement groups
Player requirementsLevel (1-90), (4-157) Str, Armoured Shield
Source requirement text

Requires: Level (1-90), (4-157) Str

Requires: Armoured Shield

Gem level progression

40 levels
Shield Wall levels 1 to 20
LevelRequires LevelStrManaBase Damage4 to 6 Base Off Hand Physical DamageWall Segments have 36 maximum Life
1041365%, 65%, 65%4, 636, 1
2391571%, 71%, 71%6, 964, 1
36141879%, 79%, 79%10, 15108, 1
410212086%, 86%, 86%13, 20164, 1
514282393%, 93%, 93%17, 26240, 1
6183525100%, 100%, 100%21, 32334, 1
7224128108%, 108%, 108%26, 38460, 1
8264832115%, 115%, 115%30, 45624, 1
9315735121%, 121%, 121%35, 53832, 1
10366539128%, 128%, 128%40, 601100, 1
11417443136%, 136%, 136%45, 681438, 1
12468247144%, 144%, 144%51, 761866, 1
13529251153%, 153%, 153%57, 852408, 1
145810356162%, 162%, 162%63, 943086, 1
156411361172%, 172%, 172%69, 1033940, 1
166611666183%, 183%, 183%75, 1135016, 1
177212672195%, 195%, 195%82, 1236362, 1
187813778207%, 207%, 207%89, 1338032, 1
198414785221%, 221%, 221%96, 14410118, 1
209015792235%, 235%, 235%103, 15512714, 1
Beyond level 20, 20 levels
Shield Wall levels beyond 20
LevelRequires LevelStrManaBase Damage4 to 6 Base Off Hand Physical DamageWall Segments have 36 maximum Life
21Not applicableNot applicable99251%, 251%, 251%111, 16613254, 1
22Not applicableNot applicable107268%, 268%, 268%119, 17814371, 1
23Not applicableNot applicable115286%, 286%, 286%127, 19016378, 1
24Not applicableNot applicable123305%, 305%, 305%135, 20218862, 1
25Not applicableNot applicable133325%, 325%, 325%144, 21521933, 1
26Not applicableNot applicable142347%, 347%, 347%152, 22823030, 1
27Not applicableNot applicable153370%, 370%, 370%161, 24224181, 1
28Not applicableNot applicable164394%, 394%, 394%170, 25625390, 1
29Not applicableNot applicable175421%, 421%, 421%180, 27026660, 1
30Not applicableNot applicable188449%, 449%, 449%190, 28427993, 1
31Not applicableNot applicable201479%, 479%, 479%200, 29929392, 1
32Not applicableNot applicable215510%, 510%, 510%210, 31530862, 1
33Not applicableNot applicable229544%, 544%, 544%220, 33032405, 1
34Not applicableNot applicable245581%, 581%, 581%231, 34634025, 1
35Not applicableNot applicable261619%, 619%, 619%242, 36235727, 1
36Not applicableNot applicable279661%, 661%, 661%253, 37937513, 1
37Not applicableNot applicable297705%, 705%, 705%264, 39639389, 1
38Not applicableNot applicable316752%, 752%, 752%275, 41341358, 1
39Not applicableNot applicable337802%, 802%, 802%287, 43143426, 1
40Not applicableNot applicable358855%, 855%, 855%299, 44945597, 1

Quality effects

2 effects

Shield Wall standard quality

  • (0-40)% more Damage if destroyed by your Skills

Advanced Thaumaturgy

This is the additional quality effect granted while the Gemling Legionnaire passive is allocated. The main value below is shown at 20% gem quality. Compare all gem bonuses.

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Compatibility rules

Active Type: Attack, Wall, Duration, RequiresShield, Physical, Area, NonWeaponAttack, Melee, CanCreateStoneElementals, Limit

Acquisition

1 sources
  • Uncut Skill Gem: Uncut Skill Gem Tier 7

How to engrave this skill

1 category
Mace, tier 7

This skill becomes available when engraving an Uncut Skill Gem of level 7 or higher. The resulting skill uses the selected Uncut Skill Gem's level.

Open Mace

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 0 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Shield Wall. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

01
No change.
02
Permanently add or subtract one gem level. This is retained when upgrading the gem level using an uncut gem. Max level gems can exceed their normal maximum this way, but cannot go below Level 1.
03
Add or remove a socket.
04
±10% to Quality, up to 23%.
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Patch history

13 changes
0.5.1
Direct change

Seismic Cry, Forge Hammer, and Shield Wall now display the Quality benefits they provide.

0.3.0c
Direct change

Fixed an issue where too much Area of Effect could prevent Shield Wall from being used with the Ahn's Citadel Lineage Support.

0.3.0b
Direct change

Fixed a bug where Resonating Shield, Shield Wall, and Fortifying Cry's shockwaves did not scale with area damage modifiers.

0.2.0e
Direct change

Shield Wall can now be detonated by Warcries as well as Slams.

0.1.0e
Direct change

Resonating Shield, Shield Charge and Shield Wall now have 6-8 added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on your Shield at all Levels.

0.1.0e
Direct change

Shield Wall explosions increased to 4 metres (from 2 metres).

0.1.0e
Direct change

Shield Wall now can create a maximum of 2 walls (from 1 wall).

0.1.0
Direct change

Fixed an instance crash with Shield Wall.

0.5.0
Direct change

Fortifying Cry: Now only consumes one stack when you detonate a shield wall to create a shockwave around each shield wall segment. Fortifying Cry Shockwaves from a single Shield Wall cannot hit the same enemy multiple times. Shield Wave now deals 5 to 7 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield (previously 6 to 8).

0.5.0
Direct change

Shield Wall: Now deals 5 to 7 Added Physical Damage per 15 Armour on Shield (previously 6 to 8).

0.4.0
Direct change

Fixed the following skills having modifiable Limits that were not described as Limits: Frozen Locus, Earthquake, Earthshatter, Shield Wall. These skills can also now be supported by Overabundance.

0.3.0
Direct change

Shield Wall: Curvature has been reduced, and wall is now approximately 40% longer by default. Now has a base explosion radius of 4 metres (previously 3 metres) and additionally damages enemies in close proximity to the wall in all directions when exploding. You can now use Shield Charge to bash straight through the wall. When the wall is destroyed by your own skills, the entire wall is destroyed at once rather than only nearby segments. However, this can only deal damage to each enemy once. Now has 108-235% Attack Damage at Gem levels 7-20 (previously 147-281%), and now has 100% more Damage if destroyed by your Skills. Now deals 80% less damage if destroyed by enemies in the first 0.5 seconds of its duration. Quality now provides 0-40% more Damage if destroyed by your Skills, instead of Can have +0-2 Shield Walls active at a time. Using Shield Wall with your target location out of Line of Sight will now cause you to use the Skill towards that direction, rather than fail.

0.2.0
Direct change

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).