Not enough skill gems to scale single target phys.

There isn't a real good way to scale single target physical damage attacks.

Trying to make a physical damage Dual Striker with the 'Might and Influence' jewel. All I can get is a 4-link maybe 5. The rest of the support gems to scale phys damage aren't even viable or useful. Worse yet is that you have to start using elemental gems because elemental spells/attacks have a load of supports to choose from.

Here are your options.

Melee Phys
Faster Attacks
Multistrike

That is really it for reliable damage, unless you want crit or elemental. Lets go through the other significant physical damage boosters.

Culling Strike support - The Culling effect is nice, 38% damage increase and the 10% attack speed from quality is also nice. I said maybe 5-link because Culling Strike is decent. It isn't a more multiplier but all the effects it does provide do make it quite viable for a main skill. Your damage overall does suffer though because it isn't a more modifier.

Fortify support - this gems damage increase is to low (44% increased not more) for a main skill. If you were to use Fortify you wouldn't want to combine it with Culling Strike because your damage severely suffers. You really only want one or the other.

Bloodlust - the drawback on this gem is just dumb. Not realistic in this clear speed meta as it forces you to use 2 skills. One to apply bleed and one to deal damage.

Melee Phys on full life - the drawback on this gem is just dumb. CI characters are the only
ones that can use this gem to get reliable damage, as if CI needs the help...

Any gems I forgot?

I think they need a couple more supports for single target phys characters.

theres a lack of gems yes, but that in itself presents a possibility -> use dual wield + kaoms, its a solid choice for hc build and it works perfectly fine

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Vipermagi wrote:

Added Fire and Physical-to-Lightning both scale off your Physical Damage and Phys modifiers (the latter does also Convert 50% though). Yes, it's Elemental Damage. That shouldn't be a reason to skip them.

Ya currently this is my solution.
Im just gonna have to run Added Fire and Phys2Light
My tree is going towards Phas Acro so I'm going to get the 40% cold conversion nodes by the ranger to get the more out of Weapon Elemental Damage.

I just think staying physical damage should be a thing.

Another reason for not wanting to go Elemental was because I wanted to go Blood Magic. Now I feel compelled to run Herald of Ash and Hatred to really get the most out of all this elemtal damage.

I have to agree with the Goddess killer

When you ask for phys damage scaling people always scream "hatred! Added fire damage! Phys to lightning !"

But no! They are not physical damage scalers they are elemental

Phys is too blend atm while it should be the most diverse

It doesn't have effect on crit and bleed is a boring 1stack dot

When your organism is poisoned it's poisoned but when you bleed you can bleed from multiple places

They should be switch

Bloodlust should be viable for boss fights given you have a warchief or w/e that can apply bleeds.

I wouldn't write bloodlust off so easily if you are just looking for melee physical scaling.

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maLcious wrote:

Melee Phys on full life - the drawback on this gem is just dumb. CI characters are the only
ones that can use this gem to get reliable damage, as if CI needs the help...

Ancient Warchief Dual Totem during levelling. Get that quiver to have a second totem and you hardly take damage...

Tabula Rasa, Meginord's, Facebreakers, Iron Rings.... everything dies really quickly... it's nice to level.

I know how you feel. Coming back from league of legends I got used that single target skill should have 2-3x dmg inherently. Sadly this is not the case.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Mostly I hate it because it adds visual spam to my attacks, especially when I crit. I'd suck a goat's business to get an Avatar of Force keystone.

Viper, tap your encyclopaedic knowledge of the game for me. is there ANY way to turn off elemental damage other than some bullshit Shaper-dropped sword? My brief wiki research says no.

Elemental Focus Support disables elemental ailments, that might help the visual spam part.