Spectral Throw Skill Gem

if facebreaker works that will be broken beyond broken, itll be the only way to play it. I kind of feel like it wont? That would just be too extreme.





either way, were prepared lol.

'Unarmed Damage' is different than 'damage while Unarmed'. Doryani's Fist adds damage to attacks while unarmed (speaking of, I now know what I'm doing/theorycrafting for SST!). Facebreakers adds Unarmed damage, which is damage you do with your leather glove-clad monkey paw.

SST is specifically an offhand attack. Went and rechecked the wording now (which, coincidentally, also shoots down the piercing plan. Goddamnit GGG), and it calls out explicitly 'offhand attack'. I don't believe unarmed can ever be offhand, especially when you have a shield equipped. The fact that SST uses the shield to generate stats doesn't change the normal rules of attacks.

Pretty sure Facebreakers won't work, now that I've been corrected on my idiotic brain derp and recall that SST is not Melee. Doryani's Fist, on the other hand, does not at all specify 'Melee' attacks and thus adds that nearly-a-thousand flat Lightning damage to SST just fine. Do that with a pure ES shield for max crit chance, and/or Physical to Lightning conversion for a regular shield, and go hambone with elemental scaling. Use SST for clearing and Doryani's Touch for bossing, enjoy the second ever semi-viable Doryani's Touch build out there.

yep, the wording does seem correct.

Ok so that could be potentially insane, phys to light and the ranger 40% to cold again, forget phys proj gem, just go straight to wed, stick on proj damage/ele damage/res pen on tree...

it does make me wonder about pure es, but I really dont like playing pure es as a defence without evasion tbh so I feel like either way round ci or life I do it Im gonna end up with a fairly beefy evasion stat on the shield. But for a budget league character could just go pure es shield even as life based, forget phys to light, go added lightning gem, lightning pen, wrath. It doesnt seem to have any sort of damage effectiveness for the main hit, its just what you add is what u get?

SST is a flat damage skill, with no listed damage scaling. I'm assuming that's because it's limited to attack speed and can't be multiproj'd; the bit where it can't pierce and can't gain additional shields specifically puts paid to any sort of Tornado Shot-esque shotgunnery. That means they can scale the damage higher (and also probably lets them keep this interaction), but it does mean you get all of one hit on any given critter for the most part. So yeah - heavy flat lightning scaling, skip any sort of physical buffery. Convert the shield's physical damage if you can, but even if you can't that could potentially work off of Doryani's Fist's flat lightning alone.

Could well be a thing, if you can afford godawful-expensive EDwA gear.

we might have some things going on.

how much do we have to pay chris to get some kind of update so we use a ring on each finger?