Does +Spell Damage work with Bow Skills?

It's a little unclear to me what certain skills are considered for the sake of bonuses. Take a bow for example, the normal attacks of a bow are obviously projectile & bow damage. But what about skills like poison arrow, elemental hit, or fire arrow? Are they considered spells and do they benefit from Passive Skill bonuses to +% spell damage or +% spell critical?

Since the OP seems confused/new I will offer another bit of advice to help out any who have this same question, even though it has been covered:


If you hover over a slotted skill in the button area of the UI on the bottom right of the screen (near your mana globe), you will see a popup description of the skill name, mana cost, description, and CAST/ATTACK time.

If you hover over a skill and it says Cast Time: x.xx sec this means it is a SPELL.

If you hover over a skill and it says Attack Time: x.xx sec this means it is an ATTACK.

Simple way to be sure :)

And to be even more clear regarding your original question: No, +%Spell Damage does not buff bow skills that are attacks, like Burning Arrow or Lightning Arrow or Poison Arrow, beacuse they are not spells.

[+% Elemental Damage or +% Elemental Damage from Weapons passive nodes would affect the elemental damage portion of these weapon attack skills, however.]