Stacking thorns question...

I know, i know, u must be totaly retarded to wanna get hit in PoE in order to deal damage :o)
but this is more ore les for theorycrafting purposes,

Is thorns effected by melee physical % bonuses? I have no clue about it, and i cant seem to find it, but it would make a "not very usefull" stat into a "little bit less useles" stat, assuming u would roll thorns on all equip, then get a multiplier from str + passive skills i bet u could get some wicked thorns dps going (aldo the problem of getting hit stil remains..)
Also is thorns aplied when u "block"? some shield has an insane amount of thorns on them, so i was wondering if it aplied if u block, would make some crazy cool block builds posible.

If it doesn't get effected i wil suply this thought to the sugestions forums...

Bump for answer x), would like to know.

Nobody knows this, is thorns counted as a melee attack y/n? can u therefore boost it y/n?

If one of the developers reads this:

I would love to see an adjustment to 'thorns' that makes it an interesting mod you might want to stack. One idea might be to give it a percentage of reflect like some rare mobs have. When I was farming today (with low resist gear) I almost killed myself because I didn't see the 2 elemental reflect rare roahs. My health went so low that it was barely visible. I would like to turn this around for the lulz.

Of course you would have to add a mod like 'immunity to reflected damage' to some mobs to keep us on our toes. =P

If thorns was a melee attack that returns damage when ure hit, it would give a gear boost to melee char's, because they could have a use for the skill, also it would be enchanced by ure str bonus + melee physical damage bonuses.

In other words u could have a 400 thorns mod on all of ure gear wich could result into a 1200 dps attack if u stacked some dps/str (most likely u already have this a bit)

I dont know if this were the case it could be a little bit more "viable" even if only for fun lvling gear that relied on u getting hit x))