How to improve damage with lightning strike?
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Hey guys, what kind of nodes would improve lightning strike damage?
1. Lightning damage nodes? 2. Lightning damage nodes for melee weapons? 3. Strength nodes? 4. Weapons that have "add lightning/cold/fire damage"? 5. Spell damage (I guess that won't work)? 6. What does dual wielding to the damage? 7. Support Gems that add percentage damage and additional damage? Thanks in advance :) |
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1. Yes
2. Yes 3. Yes (the melee part, but since the projectiles are based on melee damage) 4. Yes 5. No 6. You alternate weapons 7. Yes. + the obvious ones, like crit, crit multiplier, attack speed, accuracy, projectile damage (for the projectile part only), point blank (for the projectile part only). The projectiles can also pierce, fork or chain. | |
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Thanks so far. :)
The point with dual wielding I didnt understand. If I equip two weapons, will this increase the damage of lightning strike? |
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It means that you will use weapons one after another. Whether it will increase dps, depends on the weapons - for example if your main-hand is very fast and has high damage and your-offhand is very slow and weak, you will probably lose dps. Dual-wielding confers an attack speed bonus of 12% (if I remember correctly), so if both weapons are similar it should gain you dps.
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Ah that's cool.
Btw. what does improve the speed? Attack speed or Cast Speed? I guess the first one, right? :) |
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Yup.
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" While this damage will be added to the damage of lightning strike it will add a lot less damage than physical unless you have a combination of 1,2 and 7 and/or + %elemental damage mods on your gear. Same with Added ele damage from support gems and auras. edit this is assuming the added melee damage gem which i believe is the best way to go and that lightning strike has been leveled up a few levels, at lower levels any +damage is good. Last edited by Apolyon34#2164 on Feb 11, 2013, 7:47:36 AM
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So Lightning strike is best used with physical attack nodes and gems?
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I am no expert but just keep in mind that LS is based on your weapon's physical damage, so anything that gives a % increase to physical will be good. %lightning damage will be good too, but you will need a higher % for it to be more effective. A combination of the 2 is probably the way to go.
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Can someone tell me if "increases physical damage with maces" increase the damage of lightning strike?
Last edited by AceNightfire#0980 on Feb 12, 2013, 6:47:04 PM
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