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Ground Slam

Ability Warrior Book Physical Attack Max Rank 5 id: 5 Updated Aug 14, 2026

Leap forward and slam your blade down!

Version history

Version Date Change What changed
v1316 Aug 14, 2026 Updated Ground Pound updates improve Divine Slam’s first-slam sword area while adjusting its shockwave size and allowing more player hits per damage tag.
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  • Player hit cap per tag increased from 3 to 5.
  • Divine Slam first-slam sword radius increased from 4 to 6.
  • Divine Slam shockwave radius is now halved during shockwave creation instead of reducing the stored ability radius earlier.
  • Divine Slam keeps its Holy Magic description and magical damage type unchanged.
v1311 Jul 17, 2026 Updated Ground Slam gained Light/Dark Mana sword interactions, adaptive damage, new debuffs, and a lower first-path damage multiplier.
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  • Light Sword Ground Pound hits apply 10% weakness for 6 seconds.
  • Dark Sword Ground Pound hits apply a 3-second debuff that makes targets take 10% more damage from the ability source.
  • Having either sword perk makes Ground Pound adaptive, using physical or magical damage based on whether STR or INT is higher.
  • Ground Pound shockwaves, dust, and impact particles now use distinct light or dark mana colors when those perks are active.
  • The first Ground Pound path damage multiplier was reduced from 1 to 0.75, and Perfected Strike’s status effect now only applies when Agile Strike is also active
v1302 Jun 20, 2026 Updated Updated ground pound ability equipment requirements to allow more weapon types.
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  • Changed equipmentTypeNeeded from the string "sword" to the list { "sword", "spear" }.
  • Added spear support while retaining sword support for the ability.
  • No line count change in the LuaSourceContainer.

Stats

Power: 250 Cost: 15 MP Cost: 0.5 STAM Cooldown: 7s Radius: 15m Slams: 1

Stats by rank

This ability has 2 upgrade paths; each table assumes all points are spent in that path.

Smash

RankPowerCostCooldownRadiusSlams
Rank 025015 MP7s15m1
Rank 130017 MP7s15m1
Rank 235019 MP7s15m1
Rank 340021 MP7s15m1
Rank 445023 MP7s15m1
Rank 550025 MP7s15m1

Quake

RankPowerCostCooldownRadiusSlams
Rank 025015 MP7s15m1
Rank 125017 MP7s20m1
Rank 225019 MP7s25m1
Rank 325021 MP7s30m1

Interactions

Variations

JSON: GET /abilities/warrior/ground-pound?format=json · Book: GET /abilities/warrior?format=json

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