Lightning Strike

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DeathTouch wrote:

I see. So the projectiles are doing something like 30% less damage from LS and another 40% less damage from MS than what it shows?

No, because it the 40% from multistrike applies to the melee hit, and thus is already included in the melee hit damage that you're looking at. Projectile damage is further also by the 30% less projectile damage, it doesn't somehow get the multistrike penalty twice.

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DeathTouch wrote:

Hmm. I guess Mark was right, LS+MS is still "brutally powerful".

I never said that (although there are certainly builds for which it's true).

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bigpieceofchicken wrote:

LS "ranged attack" is calculated based on an attack roll w/o str and melee buffs -30%. It should be just 30% of the melee strike (like the gem says it is)

The gem doesn't say that. The gems says exactly what it does, which is that there's a penalty to projectile damage, and that the projectiles are projectiles (which means they are not melee and don't benefit from melee damage modifiers, and do benefit from projectile damage modifiers).