Hollow Shell

Hollow Shell is a Skill Gem in Path of Exile 2. Tags: Spell, Buff, AoE, Nova. 45 Support Gems can support it.

Gem level 1

Hollow Shell

Spell, Buff, AoE, Nova

Level: 1

Cost: 3 Ward

Cast Time: 0.6 sec

Per-target lockout time: 6s

Runic Ward spent
% of spent Runic Ward granted as Guard: 100%
45%

Sacrifice your Runic Ward to send out an energy pulse that grants nearby Allies Guard.

+6 seconds to Guard duration

Pulse radius is 3 metres

Quality

At 20% quality

Additionally with Advanced Thaumaturgy (Gemling Legionnaire)

None of our builds uses this yet.

Only values that change with the level – fixed values are in the tooltip. Click a row to show that level in the tooltip.

Level	Character level	Cost	Pulse radius is # metres	Runic Ward spent % of spent Runic Ward granted as Guard: #% #%
1	–	3 Ward	3	100 / 45
2	3	3 Ward	3.1	100 / 46
3	6	3 Ward	3.1	100 / 47
4	10	4 Ward	3.2	100 / 48
5	14	4 Ward	3.2	100 / 49
6	18	5 Ward	3.3	100 / 50
7	22	5 Ward	3.3	100 / 51
8	26	6 Ward	3.4	100 / 52
9	31	6 Ward	3.4	100 / 53
10	36	7 Ward	3.5	100 / 54
11	41	7 Ward	3.5	100 / 55
12	46	8 Ward	3.6	100 / 56
13	52	8 Ward	3.6	100 / 57
14	58	9 Ward	3.7	100 / 58
15	64	9 Ward	3.7	100 / 59
16	66	10 Ward	3.8	100 / 60
17	72	11 Ward	3.8	100 / 61
18	78	11 Ward	3.9	100 / 62
19	84	12 Ward	3.9	100 / 63
20	90	13 Ward	4	100 / 64

Levels 21–40 (from additional gem levels)

Level	Character level	Cost	Pulse radius is # metres	Runic Ward spent % of spent Runic Ward granted as Guard: #% #%
21	–	13 Ward	4	100 / 65
22	–	14 Ward	4.1	100 / 65
23	–	15 Ward	4.1	100 / 66
24	–	15 Ward	4.2	100 / 66
25	–	16 Ward	4.2	100 / 67
26	–	17 Ward	4.3	100 / 67
27	–	18 Ward	4.3	100 / 68
28	–	19 Ward	4.4	100 / 68
29	–	20 Ward	4.4	100 / 69
30	–	21 Ward	4.5	100 / 69
31	–	22 Ward	4.5	100 / 70
32	–	23 Ward	4.6	100 / 70
33	–	23 Ward	4.6	100 / 71
34	–	25 Ward	4.7	100 / 71
35	–	26 Ward	4.7	100 / 72
36	–	27 Ward	4.8	100 / 72
37	–	28 Ward	4.8	100 / 73
38	–	29 Ward	4.9	100 / 73
39	–	30 Ward	4.9	100 / 74
40	–	31 Ward	5	100 / 74

45 Support Gems can support this skill.