Powerful precision + drillneck behaviour (ascendancy - deadeye)

So, drillneck says projectile dmg increased by arrow pierce chance, and powerful precision says you have 100% additional pierce chance at start of movement of an arrow, but bonus pierce chance will reduce while arrow travels further away.

Question is, is damage of arrows calculated when i cast it, so all arrows will do bonus 100% dmg regardless of travel distance (and at the same time bonus pierce chance will fall down) or is it a dynamical process, damage of arrows will fall down proportionally with bonus pierce chance while it travels?


i play a 100+% pierce chance build so it matters to me a bit, thx for inputs

edit: i thought of 3rd possibility, arrow dmg is calculated when arrow hits an enemy? that makes more sense?

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Necromael wrote:

i play a 100+% pierce chance build so it matters to me a bit, thx for inputs

it actually means it does not matter at all. your chance is 100% all the time -> you get 100% increased crit chance and projectile damage all the time

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Ludvator wrote:

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Necromael wrote:

i play a 100+% pierce chance build so it matters to me a bit, thx for inputs

it actually means it does not matter at all. your chance is 100% all the time -> you get 100% increased crit chance and projectile damage all the time

so game only calculates pierce up to 100% and ignores all the extras?

if that is so, bonus pierce chance from passive is kind of useless for me , but effects of damage and crit chance are good? (basically 2 out of 3 things benefit me while pierce chance is irrelevant)

asking just to have some clarity in understanding it, thx

Say one doesn't have 100% pierce chance, the question remains: do Powerful Precision and Drillneck synergize and give one 100% damage at the start of the flight, throughout the flight, or not at all?

Are there any reliable source of testing to this yet? Thanks

I want to play a close range Drillneck/Chin Sol combination. And wonder if i have to pick up any pierce at all. As I understand it with powerfull precision on close range I can have 0% pierce from skills&tree but at close range will get 100% pierce chance already, right? That would mean 100% more dmg from chin sol and 100% increased dmg from drillneck plus 100% increased crit chance from powerful precision?

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ScorpioRex wrote:

Say one doesn't have 100% pierce chance, the question remains: do Powerful Precision and Drillneck synergize and give one 100% damage at the start of the flight, throughout the flight, or not at all?

I need to know this answer so badly. I currently have 60% pierce chance and use powerful precision + drillneck. Does the drillneck increase the damage from the bonus pierce chance from powerful precision?

Yes, it does. Vipermagi said it does, and Vipermagi is a reliable source. If you want a GGG response, why not ask in the 'Mechanical Questions' thread?

Anyway I googled drillneck powerful precision for you and got this result. Hope it helps.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1689752

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viperesque wrote:

If you want GGG responses on mechanics questions, it's now best to use the stickied thread. That said, search it first because Mark has already addressed this question in this post:

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Atimar549 wrote:

I'm deciding on the ranger class, using a Drillneck for the pierce bonus damage. But the problem is that I'm unsure if the Ranger Deadeye passive interacts with Drillneck.

It does.

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Atimar549 wrote:

is it dynamic? Such as reducing total damage as the projectile travels and loses pierce chance?

Of course. The projectile loses pierce chance, so anything calculated based on that pierce chance also changes.