Powershaker - Minecraft Dungeons II Artifact

The Powershaker is a Fighter artifact in Minecraft Dungeons II that shakes things up: while active, every hit you land explodes for flat bonus damage. It is a smashing good time — and it will blow your enemies' minds.

Effect and cost

The Powershaker costs 35 souls with a 16-second cooldown, one of the longer cooldowns among damage artifacts. The explosions add flat damage per hit, which strongly favors very fast weapons — daggers, sickles and gauntlets trigger far more blasts than slow hammers. That is the B-tier tradeoff in a nutshell: devastating on rapid attackers, weak on slow, heavy weapons.

When to use it

Run the Powershaker on fast-hitting melee builds where the per-hit explosions multiply. It combines well with attack-speed buffs like the Death Cap Mushroom or the Fighting Fungus — more swings mean more explosions — and with the Thundering enchantment for builds that want every hit to pop. Avoid it on slow weapons; the 16-second cooldown is too precious to waste on a handful of blasts.

How to get it

The Powershaker drops in The Deep Dark, Singer's Meadow and Humbler Huskland. For other per-hit damage options, compare it with the Grindstone and the Fighter's Flute.