Seven-Sided Strike

Seven Sided Strike is a Monk skill unlocked at level 24. The Monk uses holy magic to attack multiple enemies at once.

This is one of the Monk's signature skills.

Background

Diablo III Active Skill [e]
Seven Sided Strike
Used by:	Monk
Enabled at:	Clvl 24
Skill Description
Dash at your enemies, striking several times in succession for 50% of your weapon damage.
Type:	Multi Damage
Resource Use:	Costs Spirit
Skill Rune Effects
Alabaster rune:	Unknown
Crimson rune:	Unknown
Golden rune:	Unknown
Indigo rune:	Unknown
Obsidian rune:	Unknown

The Monk transcends, calling the holy Light to gain supernatural speed, hitting multiple foes in the timespace of a second.

Skill Design

A very fun skill. Much like a finishing move in a fighter. Jay Wilson described it as "Human Chain Lightning."

The Monk teleports to his target, Dragon Flight style, and commences to strike multiple times. As best I could tell, the Monk was invulnerable, or perhaps intangible, during this attack. He's not visible except as flashing series of human shapes, all shining gold and two-dimensional. You can see a screenshot in this article, or see it featured in the Blizzcon B-roll gameplay footage. The evolution of the skill was described in detail during the Monk design panel as well.

The hits always seemed to land, and did considerable damage in total. If this one was cast on an empty space, the monk would do three flashing hits before stopping. He’d also stop short of 6 if the target died along the way. If there were multiple targets in the area, he seemed to select targets randomly, hitting each of them some number of times out of his total of 6.

Seven Sided Strike Video

A video of Seven Sided Strike can be seen below, courtesy of the DiabloInc You Tube channel.

Skill Rank Table

• Rank 1: 6 strikes. X spirit.
• Rank 2: 7 strikes. X spirit.
• Rank 3: 8 strikes. X spirit. (A)
• Rank 4: 9 strikes. X spirit. (A)
• Rank 5: 10 strikes. X spirit. (A)

(A) = Assumed

Synergies

Seven Sided Strike in action.

• No synergies with any of the passive skills are yet known.

Skill Rune Effects

• No rune effects for Seven Sided Strike are known.

Development

Seven Sided Strike was first shown at BlizzCon 2009 as one of the originals when the Monk was unveiled. Flux was able to try it in the gameplay demo:[1]

This one was best used on single or double targets, ideally a boss that needed finishing off, especially a teleporter or another elusive one, since all the hits would go to it in rapid succession, and hit it no matter how it squirmed.

Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Seven Sided Strike became a level 24 skill.

Previous Versions

See the Monk skill archive for more details on previous versions of Seven Sided Strike and other Monk skills.

Media

Seven Sided Strike can be seen in action on video here:

• Gameplay: Blizzcon 2009

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

• Diablo III screenshots and pictures
• Seven Sided Strike specific gallery contents

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  Male Monk using Seven Sided Strike.

References

• BlizzCon 2009 Full Monk Skill Tree Stats and Discussion
• JudgeHype.com July 2011 Press Event Coverage - The Monk (Translated by Zediono)