Earth Spike

Earth Spike is a Druid skill from the Basic skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Physical Damage	Immobilized
Nature Magic	Stunned
Earth Skills	Knocked Back
Fortifies
Stuns - (CC)
Spirit

Earth Spike Details and Upgrades

Earth Spike Sunder the earth, impaling the first enemy hit for 19% damage. Generate Spirit: 16 Lucky Hit Chance: 35% Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Basic, Nature Magic, Earth Class: Druid

Upgrades

Enhanced Earth Spike Earth Spike has a 15% chance to Stun (CC) for 2.5 seconds.	Wild Earth Spike Summon a second Earth Spike when hitting an Immobilized or Stunned enemy.
	Fierce Earth Spike Fortify for 12% of your Maximum Life whenever Earth Spike damages enemies who are Stunned, Immobilized, or Knocked Back.

Other Skills that work with Earth Spike

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Earth Spike can exploit
• Exploit a condition Earth Spike creates

Core Tree
Abundance Basic Skills generate 10%[x] more Spirit. Tags: Basic Passive
Raging Landslide When you strike an Immobilized (CC) or Stunned (CC) enemy with Landslide , an additional pillar of earth is formed. Skill
Companion Tree
Enhanced Wolf Pack Wolves deal 25%[x] increased damage to Immobilized (CC), Stunned (CC), Slowed (CC), or Poisoned enemies. Skill
Nature's Reach Deal 5%[x] increased damage to Distant enemies. Double this bonus if they are also Slowed (CC), Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC), or Knocked Back. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Wrath Tree
Natural Boulder While you have any Fortify, Boulder has +20% increased Critical Strike Chance. Skill
Crushing Earth Earth Skills deal 5%[x] increased damage to Slowed (CC), Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC) or Knocked Back (CC) enemies. Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Passive
Safeguard Critical Strikes with Earth Skills Fortify you for 3% of your Maximum Life (1). Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Prerequisite: Can also reach Safeguard via Boulder. Passive
Stone Guard While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, your Earth Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Prerequisite: Can also reach Stone Guard via Boulder. Passive
Bad Omen Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance when dealing damage to a Vulnerable, Immobilized (CC) or Stunned (CC) enemy that a Lightning Bolt also hits dealing 55% damage. Damage: Lightning Damage Tags: Nature Magic, Storm Passive
Ultimate Tree
Defensive Posture Increases the amount of Fortify you gain from all sources by 5%[+] and you gain 3% Damage Reduction while Fortified. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Unrestrained Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by 5%. Double this effect while you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Defiance Nature Magic Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage to Elites. Tags: Nature Magic Passive
Natural Disaster Your Earth Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Your Storm Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage to enemies that are Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC) or Knocked Back (CC). Tags: Earth, Storm, Nature Magic Prerequisite: Can also reach Natural Disaster via Petrify. Passive
Resonance Nature Magic Skills deal 2%[x] increased damage. Triple this bonus if an Earth Skill is the next Skill cast after a Storm Skill, or a Storm Skill is the next Skill cast after an Earth Skill. Tags: Nature Magic, Earth, Storm Prerequisite: Can also reach Resonance via Petrify. Passive
Key Passives Tree
Earthen Might Lucky Hit: Damaging enemies with Earth Skills has up to a 15% chance to: • Restore all of your Spirit • Cause your attacks to be guaranteed Critical Strikes and deal 70%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage for 5 seconds This chance is increased by: • 15% for Critical Strikes • 15% if the target is Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC), or Knocked Back (CC) Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Passive
Nature's Fury Casting or Channeling an Earth Skill has a 40% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category, and vice versa. In addition. You deal 40%[x] more Earth and Storm damage and these free Skills count as both. Skills on your Action Bar are far more likely to trigger. Tags: Earth, Storm, Nature Magic Passive

Items that work with Earth Spike

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Earth Spike
• Create a condition Earth Spike can exploit
• Exploit a condition Earth Spike creates

Legendary Aspects

Seismic-shift Aspect	Offensive	Earth Spike deals 50 - 70% [x] increased damage and launches spikes in a line. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Druid
Aspect of Retaliation	Offensive	Your Core Skills deal up to x35 - 75% increased damage based on your amount of Fortify.. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Seaside Descent (Map)	Dry Steppes	Druid
Ballistic Aspect	Utility	When you have Fortify your Earth Skills gain +2 Ranks. Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Whispering Pines (Map)	Scosglen	Druid
Crashstone Aspect	Offensive	Earth Skills deal 35 - 75% [x] more Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Stockades (Map)	Scosglen	Druid
Earthguard Aspect	Defensive	Gain 10 - 30% bonus amount to your next Earthen Bulwark for each enemy you Crowd Control up to a maximum of 100%. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Druid
Subterranean Aspect	Offensive	Poison Creeper's active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal 15 - 35% increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Druid

* Extraction means the Legendary Aspect can be removed from any Legendary item at the Occultist. A dungeon name means the Aspect will be added to your Codex of Power as a reward after completing that dungeon.

Unique Items

Vasily's Prayer "Roots from the Great Oak growing at the seaward statue of Vasily will, on rare occasions, be found twisted back upon themselves, suffused with ferocious magic." - Barrett's Book of Implements Type: Unique Helm Class: Druid Description: Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear Skills and Fortify you for [2.0 - 5.0]% of your Maximum Health.

Affixes: (Item Power 925) +[638 - 873] Maximum Life +[3.1 - 7.3]% Willpower +[3 - 4] to Defensive Posture +[1,500 - 1,750] Armor

Malignant Hearts

Creeping Death	Wrathful Super	Your damage over time effects are increased by 30-40% for each different Crowd Control effect on the target. Unstoppable monsters and Staggered bosses instead take 110-130% increased damage from your damage over time effects.	Generic
The Malignant Pact	Wrathful Super	Cycle through a Malignant bonus every 20 kills: Vicious: Gain 20% Attack Speed. Devious: Core and Basic Skills have a 15% chance to fully restore your Primary Resource. Brutal: Every 21 seconds, gain a Barrier absorbing 85 - 102 damage.	Generic

Changes to Earth Spike

Patch 1.3.3, March 5, 2023

• Spirit Generation increased from 13 to 16.
• Damage increased by 10%.

Patch 1.1.1, August 8, 2023

• Spirit gain increased from 11 to 13.

Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

• Base damage increased from 16% to 17%.
• Spirit generated increased from 10 to 11.
• Fierce Earth Spike - Fortify increased from 4% to 8%.