some questions about point blank - maybe ggg staff can answer?

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KalHirol wrote:

I think your mixing up maths here.
All buffs only apply to the first hit.

If you shoot at something at a distance with 25% bonus, your initial hit gets +25%.
The fork/chain/lmp or whatever is based on this already buffed damage and does not get any bonus.

If the first hit gets no bonus, fork gets no bonus, or anything else which is connected to the initial hit, there is only ONE check for PB.

If this would not be the case, PB would be pretty OP, because you could get +50 damage with every additional chain/fork/lmp.

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Jackel6672 wrote:

To word it better:

A projectile that has the PB bonus pierces an enemy at close range, does the projectile still have the bonus when it pierces the next enemy that is right outside of the PB bonus range.

Basically, is PB an on hit bonus based on range, or does the projectile get it once and it last the life span of the projectile.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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The_x_ile wrote:

1. if i hit something with chain/fork, is it considered as if i hit them from distance 0 and gain the point blank 50% bonus?

No, it's based on the distance the projectile has travelled from where you fired it. A projectile which pierces, chains or forks is still considered the same projectile, and it's total travel distance is used.

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The_x_ile wrote:

2. if i firstly hit someone at close distance, and the hit pierce and hit someone far away, will the second hit be considered also as 50% bonus? or will it be calculated from scratch?

No, see above.


There appear to be a lot of misconceptions in this thread. Point Blank is not a bonus to the projectile as a whole, it's a bonus to dealing projectile damage - if a projectile pierces a close thing and then also hits a second thing, it dealt damage twice. Each of those damages is an entirely separate effect, and neither in any way "relies on" or is "based on" the other. The projectile deals damage to thing 1 at a distance of X, and that damage has an appropriate modifier when it's calculated. It later hits thing 2 at distance Y, and that damage also gets an appropriate modifier. Each is an entirely separate calculation with a different distance input.