Point Blank & Lightning Strike

Does anyone know if the Point Blank keystone affects the projectile portion of Lightning Strike? Considering I'm in melee using Lightning Strike and can see this being a good upgrade to the Lightning Strike skill.

Thanks

I'll admit that I use lightning strike and I'm pretty baffled on how it works.
Some linked gems show up in tooltip, some don't.

You know you can hold shift/left click (swing at nothing) and crit (screen shake and shock stuff) even though you hit nothing w/ the melee swing?

I put 3 nodes into wep ele dmg (50%) and the dps hardly moved.

I'm not sure if the projectiles are 30% less of 120% or wtf. Are they pure lighting, do the projectiles do phy dmg. Can you life steal w/ them, does LMP/GMP nerf dmg or just chain, etc... I got like 20 questions about lightning strike.

Point blank does work on LS projectiles, but I'm not sure if it's really a good choice for a LS build.

The range in which you'll get a nice damage bonus from it is pretty small, and if something's close enough for you to get the full 50% more damage, you may end up hitting it with LS's melee attack instead, which doesn't benefit from PB at all, since no monster can be hit by both the melee part and projectile part.

If you want to play around with it, try getting your hands on the gem and see if it works for you. That's a better way to go than spec'ing in and out of the keystone.

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bigpieceofchicken wrote:

I'm not sure if the projectiles are 30% less of 120% or wtf. Are they pure lighting, do the projectiles do phy dmg. Can you life steal w/ them, does LMP/GMP nerf dmg or just chain, etc... I got like 20 questions about lightning strike.

The projectiles have the same damage conversion as the melee attack, basically. So they aren't pure lightning. It's 50% physical converted to lightning. And if you have something like added fire gem or hatred aura, those get added to the projectiles just as they do to the melee attack. The 120% gets applied to everything (melee and projectiles both) multiplicatively, and the 30% penalty is applied to the projectiles multiplicatively as well.

You can life steal with the projectiles (only the physical part if you're relying on normal life steal, but the life leech gem will leech from all damage dealt by the attack). GMP/LMP penalties apply to the projectiles, Chain penalty applies to both the projectiles and the melee attack.

I'm just slowly building up an PB+LS char too, based on someone's post that damage starts to diminish at roughly half the screen and damage on the other side of the screen to be almost not perceptible, if I remember correctly. That's good enough I think.

The guy who said that did some thorough testing and it did seem very viable. Can't remember the thread though, it was a couple of months ago.

edit: By 'diminish' I mean the modified damage starts to become less than +0%.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/18840/page/2

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