Static Strike

Is the crit chance and multiplier for SS AOE calculated like for melee attack or for magic skill?

SS isn't listed here: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Critical_Strike
But I'm not sure if the list is taking AOE to the account?

And will the SS AOE dmg increase If I improve magic dmg, or just melee dmg has impact on AOE?

Another trick with this skill(as other area skills) is to use Increased Area of Effect to do massive AOE, while keeping an alternative Concentrated Effect to switch for single target. I do this to Reave, Storm Call, Cyclone and Firetrap.

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Incompetent wrote:

The damage this skill does to single targets seems a bit strong: 110% on the first hit, then 77% on the AoE, and that's with no supports. Throw in Concentrated Effect, and even truly single-target setups will be struggling to compete even against lone targets

Concentrated Effect shouldn't apply to the initial hit, so it's actually bottom tier on this skill, sitting down there with Added Fire Damage. (Increased Critical Damage, prenerf, was another of those over-rated support gems.)

The actual single target damage effectiveness on this attack after resistance is ~130.9%. And of course your life and mana leech are slashed down like crazy. This and Molten Strike are about where elemental conversion attacks need to be to be any good.

It is the POEiest kind of skill, granted. That one and only one attack skill on your skillbar kind of thing. Whether that's good or not is really all there is consider.

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Bring the other trash tier skills up to this level. There's a reason the ladder isn't dominated by melee people.

I don't think this is too good. The AoE is 77% effectiveness, 53.9% after resist. Cleave is 100% effectiveness. This skill just has more zazz to it. Zazz!

Melee is just a victim of power creep. There weren't enough support gems to fill out a 5L with pure damage in the old days, now there are for some skills. And the rule of ranged damage supports only doing +35% more damage in general has been violated with stuff like Spell Echo.

In short, the effective life on enemies has been going down over time. If you can kill everything in one hit anyway, why would you want to engage in melee? Even if crit were brought down into the ground to only be 2x damage at a soft max, there'd still that feeling of having "enough damage".

If there were more single target loot pinatas with act boss levels of HP (like exile used to be before their life totals were lowered), melee granting superior damage could be moderately attractive from a min/max perspective.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Early on, it's just entirely too strong. Wiped the floor with Brutus

That's just par for the course, whether you're using Heavy Strike or Firestorm. Normal Brutus takes at most a single minute to kill.

At the theoretical max of dealing damage 33.5% faster than Double Strike, that's what? 8 seconds shaved off?

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

A single minute vs 3-5 seconds. Come on.

If it took you "5 seconds" with Static Strike, it would have taken you exactly 6.666 seconds with Double Strike. That's just math.

You're getting better at the game or got a good weapon for the fight. Or used any twink gear (Sadima's Touch trivializes act 1 for example; the thing DOUBLES your damage at that level. And of course Brutus expects you to have 0 support gems). Grats.

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Why one-shot trash with Cleave if you can one-shot more trash with Static Strike?

Right, and that's a more than fair criticism of the game in general. I mean, why one shot trash with Static Strike when you can do the same thing 4 seconds earlier with the best skill in the game, Split Arrow? Still, at lower levels and gear quality, the damage difference matters.

PoE is definitely not a meritocracy, like Monster Hunter is. It's a lewt grind game, not a game about skill and learning monster patterns.

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Assuming you're not using the best available Support, I guess? :/

They're base multipliers so they're relatively comparable, considering the supports for either are on the same level.

Of course, Physical To Lightning + Penetration + Melee Phys + Multistrike + Weapon Ele should be a bit better since you're not getting as much free leech from gear.

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Vipermagi wrote:

(Multistrike on Static Strike? *shudder* )

I know, it's just asking to die ain't it?

Even Cleave gives you some range.