Projectile?

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deathmongoose wrote:

For Freezing pulse:

You get 2 additional projectiles, but it is possible to cast Freezing Pulse in a way that these overlap. This is by the way one of the strongest skill combos in the game. If I remember right each projectile does 40% of the original damage, so if they overlap you will hit for 120% of the original damage gaining a 20% dmg boost. I might be wrong here.

For Split arrow or Ethereal Knives:

You just get 2 additional projectiles. So Ek would fire 12 instead of 10 projectiles. This is a loss of dmg. You shoudldn't add LMP to skills that already fire more than 1 projectile.

Thanks again for the advice. Cheers!

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deathmongoose wrote:

You just get 2 additional projectiles. So Ek would fire 12 instead of 10 projectiles. This is a loss of dmg. You shoudldn't add LMP to skills that already fire more than 1 projectile.

Why not? A leveled LMP won't really decrease your damage/projectile unlike GMP. You practically get 2 free projectiles which come in handy for large groups especially when you are using directional attacks like Split Arrow.

Why not? Because there a so many much better support gems:

- faster casting
- faster projectiles
- added fire
- added chaos vs energy shield mobs
- iron will
- chain!!! vs. pack of mobs or reflect
- fork for the same reason than above
- maxed culling strike


these are ALL better than LMP for EK.

Anything that has -50% dmg is horrible for leeching unless you have godly gear. Fork is unreliable, not to mention it doesn't work very well with piercing, nor does chain. Iron Will/Grip can be gained as passives. Added elemental/chaos are a matter of personal preference, there are better/just as good alternatives. Faster Casting/Attack and/or Projectiles can and should still be used with whatever. I'm not fond of Culling Strike, probably because I don't reduce my damage to 10% with chain and other "goodies". LMP at lvl 20 still does good damage, provides 2 free projectiles that can pierce quite a few targets (Pierce passive + Proj. Weakness; no slot wasted). I'm not saying LMP is better than any of those you listed... far from it. You simply can't generalize and say LMP is crap just because you are using EK. Split Arrow for example fires far less projectiles than EK. Frenzy with LMP is also quite good.

LOL. you really didn't read my posts, did you? I never generalized saying LMP is crap. I mentioned that LMP with freeze Pulse is very good. All I said is "you shouldn't add LMP to skill that already fire more projectiles".