Elemental type strengths and secondary effects. Any reason to ever choose lightning?

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Agilaz wrote:

^ Pretty much. No crit = no status effects, at least not from your attacks.

Im basicly this guy at 0:30 atm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYqHeH_Pk8

MAJOR BUMMER!

How can the devs expect elemental melee hybrids to be viable if we have to soak 20+ points into crit alone to make them effective -.-

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Ouroboros226 wrote:

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Agilaz wrote:

^ Pretty much. No crit = no status effects, at least not from your attacks.

Im basicly this guy at 0:30 atm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYqHeH_Pk8

MAJOR BUMMER!

How can the devs expect elemental melee hybrids to be viable if we have to soak 20+ points into crit alone to make them effective -.-

It's kind of a WIP. There are more skill gems on the way, AoE skills for claws, for example.

SirHarlow is a melee hybrid, and he's clearing just fine. :<

This has probably been said multiple times but I just have to make sure. If my hybrid deals elemental damage with elemental hit active and infernal blow dealing AOE with elemental profilation support skill. Then I dont need spell critical at all, ONLY weapon criticals?

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecB_wMnBg4IsQn2C6oNMBHbEmkSvBQgFHEVUBZvFvkXHBiRGS4ZhRo4GmwfAiSLJKolrSftKS4pTzKJNDg2xTbYNug26TrYPQ89_D_8RtdQR1BQVcZXDVfiWGNdxl8_Y_1mT2e9ah5xeXYRdud35Xy4fLt99X6vgUmCm4cph2WIOIuMjAaMz49GkFWboZwtnYqdrp6hns2krKcIpzCnhKgYr5uyOLMxtQS4k7ndwBrEFcT2xtjPZdDQ0iHYJNlh2t3hc-Nq5CLoZuw47FXtIO5v7w7xbPIv83H2SPe-

This is my new build. Kinda OT I guess but oh well. Just incase some fellow theorycrafter can spot something that is off.

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Ouroboros226 wrote:

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vondalv wrote:

Lighting gets Shock, a debuff that increases damage recieved, which can stack with itself up to three times. Its quite good also.

wow! Didnt know that. So lightning sure as hell is viable? Does it increase lightning damage sources or damage from all sources? And is the damage stack flat like X/X/X or percentage based %/%/%?

It is percentage based, so if you build heavy crit on your character, and AoE lightning of some kind, it's pretty hilarious if it stacks 3 times then you just 1 shot everything with the amp'd damage.

couple quick questions.

1) if a target is already burning and you crit lightning, does the existing burning increase?

2) was the bug with burning not applying "increased rarity" fixed?

3) where are my shoelaces?

4) if a target is burning, and you crit fire again, does it have 2 burning dots or just the most recent?

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Ouroboros226 wrote:

This has probably been said multiple times but I just have to make sure. If my hybrid deals elemental damage with elemental hit active and infernal blow dealing AOE with elemental profilation support skill. Then I dont need spell critical at all, ONLY weapon criticals?

AFAIK spell critical is irrelevant for this build. The direct strike of infernal blow is a weapon attack. The explosion is neither an attack nor a spell, and I don't even know if it's capable of scoring a critical strike.