Gong Strike

 is a Spellblade skill in Outward, requiring an imbued melee weapon and a shield.

Effects
Consumes the current weapon imbue to create a short-range but wide area of effect explosion of the consumed element. The damage and impact of the skill is based on the Shield stats, however any Effects on the shield are not applied here, they are only applied to Shield Charge.

Depending on the current weapon imbue, Gong Strike produces different effects:

 Fire Imbues:
 * Damage overrides to Fire
 * Damage multiplier: 2.2x
 * Impact multiplier: 1.4x

 Frost Imbues:
 * Damage overrides to Frost
 * Damage multiplier: 2.2x
 * Impact multiplier: 1.4x

 Ethereal Imbues:
 * Damage overrides to Ethereal
 * Damage multiplier: 2.6x
 * Impact multiplier: 1.6x

 Decay Imbues:
 * Damage overrides to Decay
 * Damage multiplier: 2.6x
 * Impact multiplier: 1.6x

 Poison Imbues:
 * Damage overrides to Decay
 * Damage multiplier: 2.0x
 * Impact multiplier: 0x (deals no impact)

 Lightning Imbues:
 * Damage overrides to Lightning
 * Damage multiplier: 2.3x
 * Impact multiplier: 1.9x

Wind Imbues:
 * No damage
 * Guaranteed to knock all affected targets down (deals 99x impact)