Melee Physical Damage versus Weapon Elemental Damage

They do pretty much the same thing, one increases elemental damage while the other increases physical damage.

However, Melee Physical Damage only applies to melee attacks while Weapon Elemental Damage applies to any attack, whether projectile or melee.

I know there are physical ranged builds out there that work but usually require some pretty decent gear and high crit chance. There is no way to directly increase the physical damage done by ranged projectile attacks and that to me seems slightly imbalanced.

I believe Melee Physical Damage should be Weapon Physical Damage so ranged attack users have more choice of support gems. Right now they really only have supports that increase the projectile damage, or the just the damage in general (culling strike).

Does anyone else feel this way or do you think its fine the way it is.

I personally would like more options to increase my physical damage on my bows, specifically on my 7 frenzy charge physical ranger. I thought it would work out great but in reality the damage sucks even with a 14% quality frenzy gem.

This would also open up more options for wand users and spectral throw builds.

i believe it is like that to give melee some sort of advantage over range counter parts

Bumping because buried behind a bunch of qq server disconect and desync threads that arent even feedback.

Also this is probably more gameplay discussion than feedback but who knows these days.

I like the idea of that gem very much!

Amp, I have a few queries regardin this (more things to consider than disagreements)

Both of these are multiplier gems.

If we take the physical gem, make it apply to bows, then apply it to the weapon elemental gem, through conversions such as LA and AFD, does this not make WED more powerful than it was before?

Take for examplet he common bow, of lioneyes. If we were to have an average 5l of
LA->WED->LMP->FA->Leech and changed it to LA->WED->LMP->physdmg->Leech how much more effective would this be?

What if we made it a 6l aswell, at which point the 6th link for most LA builds is fairly unimportant, how powerful would this be?


Things to remember is conversion is already almost erquired for phys dmg based builds, as things like hatred or AFD are just too powerful to pass up.

I imagine a hatred, WED+AFD+WepPhys combo on all phys based builds becoming super powerful. Things to remember is at the moment this isn't used by melee mostly because melee have more options for equipment. Most are using a melee splash to turn single into aoe, which takes up space, and the 2hers weren't good for ele dmg due to aspd scaling.




That being said, bow builds have needed a buff for a long time. At the moment a phys bow build has to go crit or its pointless, and with crit it normally ends up using the crit supports, crit dmg or crit strikes

real_wolf hit the nail on the head.

There is no such thing as pure physical builds in this game. If there was something like this might be possible but that would require a big change in the meta game.

But you can already combine WED and MPD on melee attacks

in my setup I swap melee splash for WED when I'm fighting single targets like bosses and exiles so why cant I do the same for ranged attacks?

If I had a 6L then I could keep them both on at the same time for even more AoE damage and probably swap melee splash for AFD for single targets


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And weapon

Because you can't easily do 40-50k dps to 20-30 targets like you can with LA.

The point is amp, that the bow skills are already AoE, while the melee skills people would be using for good dps aren't