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Fortifying Cry Shield Wall Freeze Smith Of Kitava (+5 Melee Skills)

Smith of Kitava·WarriorPatch 0.5.1·byPublic Ladder
Version 1·Updated Jun 9, 2026
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Passive Tree

154
Nodes
37
Notables
3
Keystones

Key Passives

Greatest DefenceNotable
4% increased Attack Damage per 75 Item Armour and Evasion on Equipped Shield
Armour
Coal StokerNotable
Modifiers to Fire Resistance also grant Cold and Lightning Resistance at 50% of their value
Fire Resistance
Bolstering YellNotable
Empowered Attacks deal 30% increased Damage
Warcry Skills have 30% increased Area of Effect
DamageGem
Crushing VerdictNotable
50% increased Attack Damage
-5% reduced Attack Speed
30% increased Stun Buildup
Attack DamageSpeedStun
MomentumNotable
Ignore all Movement Penalties from Armour
Movement Speed
Dedication to KitavaNotable
base physical damage reduction rating no display: 200
Body Armour grants +100% of Armour also applies to Chaos Damage
Physical DamageArmour
BloodthirstyNotable
30% increased Armour and Evasion Rating while Leeching
10% increased Attack Speed while Leeching
20% increased Damage while Leeching
ArmourSpeedDamage
Support StrapsNotable
base physical damage reduction rating no display: 200
Body Armour grants 20% increased Strength
Physical DamageAttribute

Effect Profile

EffectStats
Attribute
PassiveCountTotal
  • to any Attribute34+170
  • to Strength11+128
  • body Armour grants # % increased Strength120%
  • increased Damage per # Strength11%
Armour
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Armour8115%
  • of Armour also applies to Elemental Damage560%
  • of Armour also applies to Fire Damage230%
  • body Armour grants # % of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage125%
Attack Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Melee Damage13138%
  • increased Attack Damage486%
  • increased Melee Damage against Immobilised Enemies390%
  • increased Melee Damage against Heavy Stunned enemies140%
Speed
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Attack Speed624%
  • increased Warcry Speed589%
  • increased Skill Speed312%
  • increased Attack Speed while Leeching225%
Life
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased amount of Life Leeched770%
  • increased maximum Life24%
  • leech Life # % faster223%
  • body Armour grants # % increased maximum Life115%
Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • empowered Attacks deal # % increased Damage7110%
  • increased Damage with Warcries372%
  • increased Damage while Leeching120%
Warcry
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Warcry Cooldown Recovery Rate569%
  • increased total Power counted by Warcries210%
  • warcries Empower an additional Attack1+1
  • warcries have a minimum of # Power1+10
Physical Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • base physical damage reduction rating no display: #6+1200

Gear

Weapon 1

Entropy Wreck

Heavy Greathammer

Item Level 81
Rare
Properties
Range15
Physical Damage137-188
Quality20
SocketsS S
Attacks per Second1.1
Critical Hit Chance5%
Total DPS178.8
Physical DPS178.8
Requirements
Level59
Rune
  • 16% increased Skill Speed
Bonded
  • Bonded: 30% increased Reservation Efficiency of Herald Skills
Desecrated
  • 94% increased Damage against Enemies with Fully Broken Armour
Explicit
  • Adds 24 to 36 Physical Damage
  • +5 to Level of all Melee Skills
  • +29 to Strength
  • 11% increased Stun Duration
Crafted
  • Gain 28% of Damage as Extra Physical Damage
Weapon 2 / Offhand

Entropy Duty

Tawhoan Tower Shield

Item Level 80
Rare
Properties
Armour1695
Movement Speed-3%
Block26
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level80
Rune
  • 20% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
Bonded
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Mana
Desecrated
  • +269 to Armour
Explicit
  • 145% increased Armour
  • +31 to Strength
  • +31% to Fire Resistance
  • +324 to Stun Threshold
Helmet

Sorrow Keep

Masked Greathelm

Item Level 80
Rare
Properties
Armour588
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level70
Rune
  • +60 to maximum Life
Bonded
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Mana
Desecrated
  • +33% to Fire Resistance
Explicit
  • +149 to Armour
  • +173 to maximum Life
  • +95 to maximum Mana
  • +42% of Armour also applies to Elemental Damage
Crafted
  • +18% to Chaos Resistance
Body Armour

Exceptional Soldier Cuirass

Item Level 81
Normal
Properties
Armour684
Quality20
SocketsS S S
Requirements
Level65
Rune
  • +33% to Chaos Resistance
Gloves

Beast Hold

Feathered Mitts

Item Level 70
Rare
Properties
Armour209
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level59
Rune
  • 8% increased Attack Speed
Bonded
  • Bonded: 20% reduced Slowing Potency of Debuffs on You
Desecrated
  • 17% increased Armour
  • +16 to maximum Life
Explicit
  • +104 to maximum Life
  • +109 to maximum Mana
  • +2 to Level of all Melee Skills
  • +31% of Armour also applies to Elemental Damage
  • Leech 8.57% of Physical Attack Damage as Life
Boots

Soul Stride

Carved Greaves

Item Level 73
Rare
Properties
Armour530
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level59
Rune
  • +60 to maximum Life
Bonded
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Mana
Desecrated
  • +146 to maximum Life
Explicit
  • 30% increased Movement Speed
  • 98% increased Armour
  • +36% to Fire Resistance
  • +39% of Armour also applies to Elemental Damage
Crafted
  • +19% to Chaos Resistance
Belt

Pandemonium Shackle

Fine Belt

Item Level 80
Rare
Properties
Charm Slots3
Requirements
Level62
Implicit
  • Has 3 Charm Slots
  • Flasks gain 0.17 charges per Second
Explicit
  • +123 to maximum Life
  • 38% increased Flask Life Recovery rate
  • +35% to Fire Resistance
  • +33% to Lightning Resistance
  • +14% to Chaos Resistance
  • 27 to 48 Physical Thorns damage
Amulet

Rage Gorget

Lunar Amulet

Item Level 76
Rare
Requirements
Level14
Enchant
  • Allocates Acceleration
Implicit
  • +25 to maximum Energy Shield
Explicit
  • +126 to Accuracy Rating
  • +26 to maximum Energy Shield
  • +109 to maximum Life
  • +3 to Level of all Melee Skills
  • +29 to Strength
  • +16% to all Elemental Resistances
Ring 1

Maelstrom Knot

Sapphire Ring

Item Level 82
Rare
Requirements
Level12
Implicit
  • +24% to Cold Resistance
Explicit
  • Adds 14 to 24 Cold damage to Attacks
  • +102 to maximum Life
  • +169 to maximum Mana
  • +21 to Strength
  • +15% to all Elemental Resistances
  • +44% to Fire Resistance
Ring 2

Horror Gyre

Pearl Ring

Item Level 81
Rare
Requirements
Level32
Implicit
  • 7% increased Cast Speed
Explicit
  • Adds 1 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks
  • +70 to Evasion Rating
  • +112 to maximum Life
  • +33 to Strength
  • +33 to Dexterity
  • Leech 7.35% of Physical Attack Damage as Life
Charm 1

For Utopia

Stone Charm

Item Level 65
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use20
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level8
Implicit
  • Used when you become Stunned
Explicit
  • Defend with 200% of Armour during effect
Charm 2

Sunny Thawing Charm of the Copious

Item Level 37
Magic
Properties
Quality0
Requirements
Level12
Implicit
  • Used when you become Frozen
Explicit
  • Also grants 50 Guard
  • 33% increased Charges
Charm 3

The Fall of the Axe

Silver Charm

Item Level 78
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use20
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level10
Implicit
  • Used when you are affected by a Slow
Explicit
  • Grants Onslaught during effect
Life Flask

Vitiating Ultimate Life Flask of the Surgeon

Item Level 81
Magic
Properties
Quality20
Requirements
Level60
Implicit
  • 91% increased Life Recovered
  • Removes 15% of Life Recovered from Mana when used
  • 31% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
Mana Flask

Concentrated Ultimate Mana Flask of the Surgeon

Item Level 75
Magic
Properties
Quality0
Requirements
Level60
Implicit
  • 66% increased Amount Recovered
  • 34% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy

Skills & Gems

Fortifying Cry(Lv20)5 gems

Perform a Warcry that grants Guard and Triggers Shield Wave when subsequent Shield Attacks deal damage. This Skill's cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge.

Grants 2 Guard for every 5 enemy Power in range, counting up to 20 Power
3 to 5 Base Off Hand Physical Damage
Raging CrySupports Warcry skills, causing them to grant you Rage on use depending on counted monster Power.Lv1
Enraged WarcrySupports Warcries, causing them to spend Rage to bypass their usual Cooldown.Lv1
Heavy SwingSupports Melee Attacks, boosting their Physical damage at the cost of Attack Speed.Lv1
HeftSupports Skills which deal Damage, increasing the maximum Physical Damage of their Hits.Lv1
BrutalitySupports any skill that deals damage, boosting its Physical damage at the expense of all other Damage Types.Lv1
Shield Wall(Lv21)5 gems

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.

4 to 6 Base Off Hand Physical Damage
Wall Segments have 36 maximum Life
Life ThiefSupports Attacks, causing their Physical damage to Leech Life.Lv1
Ahns CitadelSupports skills that create walls in a line, causing them to instead be created along a fissure.Lv1
Kaoms MadnessSupports Skills which create fissures in the ground, causing them to create many additional fissures at the cost of damage, speed, and area of effect.Lv1
Styrns FerocityLv1
Magnified EffectSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Lv1
Shield Charge(Lv3)4 gems

Channel to charge in the target direction. You will crash into enemies on your path, stopping your charge and dealing damage to enemies in an area, and extra damage to the enemies you collided with. While charging, your Shield is raised and you will Block all incoming Blockable hits.

3 to 5 Base Off Hand Physical Damage
Martial TempoSupports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.Lv1
Life ThiefSupports Attacks, causing their Physical damage to Leech Life.Lv1
Medveds FellingLv1
CadenceSupports Attacks you use yourself. Supported Skills gain more Attack speed each time you use them, but will become unusable if used too frequently in a short time frame. Sustained Skills will instead gain Attack speed periodically while being used.Lv1
Leap Slam(Lv7)4 gems

Jump into the air, damaging and Knocking Back enemies with your mace where you land. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way.

50% more Stun buildup
Martial TempoSupports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.Lv1
RageSupports Melee Attacks, causing them to grant Rage on Hit.Lv1
Holy DescentSupports Skills that leap into the air, causing them to create Consecrated Ground when you land.Lv1
Hit And RunSupports Attack Skills you use yourself which do not already have some Condition for use. Supported Skills can only be used after you have moved a certain distance, but have massively increased Skill Speed. Cannot support Skills which have a cooldown.Lv1
Raise Shield(Lv1)3 gems

Raise your Shield to Block all incoming Blockable hits. Release immediately after Blocking when an enemy is close to perform a Shield Bash, damaging and Stunning enemies. While your Shield is raised you cannot be Light Stunned by hits you Block, but Blocking too much damage may Heavy Stun you. You cannot Evade while your Shield is raised, but Evasion instead grants an equal chance to avoid this Heavy Stun buildup.

Culling StrikeSupports Attack Skills, causing them to Cull Rare and Unique Enemies on Hit.Lv1
ImpaleSupports Attacks, causing them to Impale on Hit but making them unable to Extract Impale themselves.Lv1
Lacerate FourSupports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict Bleeding.Lv1
Infernal Cry(Lv19)3 gems

Perform a Warcry, Empowering subsequent Melee Attacks if there are enemies nearby. Enemies in the warcry's area are destabilised and will Combust on death. This Skill's cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge.

Empowered Attacks Gain 30% of damage as extra Fire damage
Deals 3 to 5 Fire Damage
TirelessSupports Warcry Skills. Attacks Empowered by Supported Skills have a chance not to lower the Empowerment count of Supported Skills when they are used.Lv1
Raging CrySupports Warcry skills, causing them to grant you Rage on use depending on counted monster Power.Lv1
InspirationSupports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.Lv1
Sunder(Lv11)2 gems

Slam the ground, creating a roiling fissure that damages enemies in a sequence of areas in front of you. A number of enemies hit by the wave will release a shockwave, damaging other enemies. Hitting an enemy with Fully Broken Armour applies Sundered Armour, making it take additional increased Physical damage.

Martial TempoSupports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.Lv1
Hit And RunSupports Attack Skills you use yourself which do not already have some Condition for use. Supported Skills can only be used after you have moved a certain distance, but have massively increased Skill Speed. Cannot support Skills which have a cooldown.Lv1
Scavenged Plating(Lv12)1 gem

While active, uses fragments of armour scavenged from enemies to bolster your own. Fully Breaking an enemy's Armour grants you stacks of Scavenged Plating for a duration based on the enemy's Rarity, and you gain Armour and Thorns per stack. Normal enemies grant 1 stack, Magic enemies grant 2 stacks, Rare enemies grant 5 stacks and Unique enemies grant 10 stacks.

2 to 2 Thorns per Scavenged Plating
PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
Berserk(Lv19)1 gem

While active, strengthens your Rage, but causes you to lose Life while not losing Rage.

Grants 40% increased Rage effect
PrecisionSupports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the Skill is active.Lv1
Herald of Ash(Lv18)No supports

While active, enemies you sufficiently Overkill with non-Herald Attacks will cause an explosion that Ignites nearby enemies based on the Overkill damage dealt.

No support gems detected for this skill.

Thorns Player(Lv1)No supports

No support gems detected for this skill.

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