Lightning Arrow

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rain_star wrote:

I Have some questions about Lightning Arrow

Elemental Damage Nodes( near the shadow starting area) is that only for spells? does it effect Lightning arrow? Does it affect Auras like Anger/Wrath/Hatred? Does it affect the 3 bounces off of the initial hit from lightning arrow?

Is the node Catalyze good for lightning arrow? Or is that only if my bow has elemental damage affixes
Weapon elemental Damage nodes-Does it affect Auras like Anger/Wrath/Hatred

Yeah, it does affect all you stated, but if you dont focus on base elemental damage (from anger, wrath, Voltaxis Rift, etc) and use bow with high physical DPS, then you should focus on physical damage nodes, and skip elemental ones, even if you use things like Hatred and Lightning Arrow (because their potency will be lower).

2.0 massively buffed Lightning Arrow, so it can now compete with TS! I think this is good news. It's not OP, it's just powerful - but requires investment/gear, as it should.

it was VERY VERY good in 1.2 and in 1.3

now - with the +shock on quality (amazingly powerful bonus for a quality perk..)

and it did not really need 'good gear' for that: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1096271

works wonders in 2.0

I used a lightning arrow build a few leagues ago, and I was trying it again in warbands. It seems lightning arrow no longer explodes when hitting obstacles. I used to use it with frost wall, or just hitting obstacles on the screen to help generate some extra damage. Is this a bug or nerf? I went through patch notes for the last 6 months with ctrl + F "lightning" and didn't see anything.

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Vipermagi wrote:

Its AoE triggers against walls and objects just fine for me. Been using it this league and the past.. three or so. No differences.

I went back and tested after your post. You are correct, that it triggers on obstacles in the maps.

It turns out, what I was observing was that it does NOT trigger on frost wall if the arrow pierces. I tested for a few minutes with 100% pierce chance, and as best I can tell, the effect does not trigger. It will trigger just fine if the arrow is stopped by the frostwall.

When I used to play this build, it would trigger on frostwall whether it pierced or not. Do you know if that is a bug, or a change much older than I searched for? I think the league I used the build in was Ambush.

Skill not as fun without its wall/object impact sounds and visuals.

can someone tell me if Item Quantity and Rarity gem is effective with this gem ?

basically wanna use lightning arrow for mf build but not sure the IIQ and IIR affect the drops when using on lightning arrow