Elemental Damage vs Weapon Elemental Damage

Hey guys,

I am interested in making an elemental bow ranger and I am wondering the following:

Does elemental damage work with basic attacks/skills with weapons or is it exclusive to spells (regardless if the weapon is actually used to cast the spell)?

Increased elemental damage works with attacks, which deal elemental damage, as well as other spells.
Weapon elemental damage only increases elemental damage dealt with a weapon.

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Balguez wrote:

Increased elemental damage works with attacks, which deal elemental damage, as well as other spells.
Weapon elemental damage only increases elemental damage dealt with a weapon.

Would lightning arrow be considered Weapon Elemental? Or something like Ground Slam.

Lightning Arrow is an attack with a weapon (bow). You can see that Lightning Arrow is considered 'lightning, attack, AoE, bow' when you look at the skill gem.

Weapon elemental damage nodes will increase elemental damage dealt with Lightning Arrow (and any elemental damage dealt whith an attack using a weapon).
Pure elemental damage nodes will increase Lightning Arrow's elemental damage as well.

I'm not that conform with Ground Slam and will rather not comment on it.

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Balguez wrote:

Increased elemental damage works with attacks, which deal elemental damage, as well as other spells.
Weapon elemental damage only increases elemental damage dealt with a weapon.

So if I have put into an elemental damage node then I will only receive the bonus when using an elemental skill (ie: lightning arrow) but not from having added elemental damage from equipment (ie: 2-21 lightning damage gauntlets)?

Elemental damage nodes will increase ALL elemental damage. That is the lightning-damage from Lightning arrow, all the elemental damage on your weapons and also elemental damage from ele. dmg. auras like Wrath etc.

Hello, I have one newbie question:
Is bonus from Weapon Elemental Damage skill(8% increased elemental damage with weapons) visible somewhere (as a value)?
I can't see it on my weapon stats, so I'm confused a bit.
Thx in advance.

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Is bonus from Weapon Elemental Damage skill(8% increased elemental damage with weapons) visible somewhere (as a value)?

Unfortunately not. Use some tool like Path of exile skill tree planner to see the overall breakdown of the stats.

All weapon attacks combine your weapon damage and elemental x-y modifiers.

For example;

Weapon 50-100 Physical / 1-50 Lightning / 15-20 Fire / 15-20 Cold

Rings 1-10 Fire / 1-10 Cold


Basic weapon strikes would deal 50-100 Physical / 1-50 Light / 16-30 Fire / 16-30 Cold

Increased Elemental damage AND/OR Weapon elemental damage of 50% will modify the basic attack

50-100 Physical / 1.5-75 Light / 24-45 Fire / 24-45 Cold


In the case of Lightning Arrow - I don't know completely how it works but I'm gonna go with this...

It has 70% Damage effectiveness so I guess the basic strike is all multiplied by 0.7

(Before elemental damage %)

35-70 Phys / 0.7-35 L / 11.2-21 F / 11.2-21 C

LA Converts 50% Of Phys to Lightning ->

17.5-35 Phys / 18.2-70 L / 11.2-21 F / 11.2-21 C

Added 50% Weap Elemental Damage/Elemental Damage

17.5-35 P / 27.3-105 L / 16.8-31.5 F / 16.8-31.5 C


Newer players usually mistake Lightning arrow for a pure Lightning spell - but if you have heavy fire/cold damage on gear and low physical damage on bow it's not necessarily true - LA is strong because of how it aoes, not necessarily dealing lightning damage.