Lightning strike projectiles
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Do lightning strike projectiles get an increase in damage from support gems like increased melee damage, and increased melee on full life?
IGN: Beardedwizzard
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" No. They are not melee attacks. |
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I would have thought that the projectiles from lightning strike based their damage off the initial strike, so "yes"? No?
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" Uh actually it does get bonus from melee elemental and physical.... check for yourself. Got an 80 LS |
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" Nope - the tooltip will display the dps for the initial strike. The projectiles are calculated completely differently and are not considered melee attacks and do not receive any sort of bonus to melee attacks. They are however considered weapon attacks and will therefore benefit from stuff like "increased phys dmg with weapons" and "Increased elemental dmg with weapons". This is pretty much common knowledge by now. IGN Standard: HolyPatman IGN Anarchy: UnholyPatman Last edited by AlmightyPatman#5417 on Jun 8, 2013, 12:58:09 PM
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To add to what has been said, for all skills that hit multiple enemies the damage of each hit is always rolled independently of any other hits caused by the same skill. An example of this is how when using Shock Nova against a pack of identical monsters, given its wide damage variance, some enemies die sooner than others. This means that whenever damage is calculated it ignores how much damage other enemies may have taken, and includes whatever modifiers that are appropriate to that target (excluding modifiers that are not appropriate). Lightning strike is the same case; melee targets take melee damage whereas projectile targets take projectile damage, and the latter does not depend on the former.
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ok, thanks a whole lot, this helps
IGN: Beardedwizzard
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