Projectile Passives

For the purposes of projectile passives, what things other than arrows shot from bows or wand attacks count as projectiles?

Anything that creates projectile-like effects. This includes spells like Fireball, Ice Spear, Spark, Freezing Pulse, etc.

Lightning Strike is a melee skill that creates projectiles when it hits. The main attack isn't affected by projectile passives, but the created projectiles are.

We discussed this in-game the other day as someone noticed that the projectile support gems didn't affect Firestorm. I came up with the arbitrary notion that projectile means anything originating from the character and 'projected' at a mob. Since Firestorm falls from the heavens, it's not really a projectile in that respect, even if it is composed of smaller projectiles.

...Not sure if that holds much water but I liked the quirky elegance of it. :)

a group of goat shaman spectres linked to a bunch of projectile passives are a sight to behold :)

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

We discussed this in-game the other day as someone noticed that the projectile support gems didn't affect Firestorm. I came up with the arbitrary notion that projectile means anything originating from the character and 'projected' at a mob. Since Firestorm falls from the heavens, it's not really a projectile in that respect, even if it is composed of smaller projectiles.

That's pretty much it. A projectile is an object in the game world that the character projects out from them than then travels separately from the player and collides with things.

Fireballs, Ice Spear, Freezing Pulse are all projectiles.

It´s just like my customers at work.

The Bowling caster produces a ball projectile that collides with the pin mobs