AoE Question

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Juoppo wrote:

Yes, by combining Lightning Arrow with Lesser Multiple Shot and Pierce support gems, you can destroy large packs of monsters fast even in chaos if you have decent gear and a good skill build to go with it.

The way Lightning Arrow works is that when it hits a monster, it will also hit several monsters around that one monster. Now, if you combine it with Lesser Multiple Shot, which turns a single projectile into three, each of those hits in a tight pack of monsters is going to hit the monsters around them. To finish this off, pierce allows those Lightning Arrow shots to travel through the initially hit monsters, and hit the ones behind them, resulting in every monster getting several Lightning Arrow hits for each arrow you fire.