Lightning strike projectiles and melee damage

A few questions about the lightning strike projectiles. Do they get benefit from passive nodes that adds % increased dmg to melee physical dmg? Do the projectiles do my weapon phys dmg at all, or is it just the lightning portion?

I dont know where to go with my skill points atm. I know ill be using LS onward, so is it any points in increasing 1h physical dmg?

I believe the projectiles have the same damage profile as the main attack, they just have their damage reduced by 20%.

So if your LS tooltip says:
main hand does
20-100 physical damage
30-150 lightning damage

projectiles should do 80% of this or
15-80 physical, 24-120 lightning

%physi dmg nodes wind up being pretty huge dps boosts for LS.

But "melee damage" includes my weapon, right?

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Mark_GGG wrote:

The projectiles are not melee, and do no benefit from any melee-specific bonuses. They are dealing your weapon damage, and do benefit from bonuses to your weapon type, or categories which include your weapon.

I must admit, I am confused by this. I thought the projectile damage was based on your melee weapon damage (70% of it), and thus would benefit from any Increased Melee Physical Damage because the initial attack does. I take it this isn't the case?

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UristMcDwarfy wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

The projectiles are not melee, and do no benefit from any melee-specific bonuses. They are dealing your weapon damage, and do benefit from bonuses to your weapon type, or categories which include your weapon.

I must admit, I am confused by this. I thought the projectile damage was based on your melee weapon damage (70% of it), and thus would benefit from any Increased Melee Physical Damage because the initial attack does. I take it this isn't the case?

Well, he does say they *do* benefit from bonuses to your weapon type or categories which include your weapon.

He also says that the projectiles do not benefit from any melee-specific bonuses. But Increased Melee Physical Damage is included in "categories which include your weapon".

At least I'm not the only one confused.

Interesting information; It does make prety good sense though.

General melee physical damage passives are quite rare though (generally only like 20% per character), so that part is not a big deal.

However, strength can be a pretty huge factor, as well as supports such as increased melee physical damage.

I am guessing that Melee Physical Damage also does not help the projectiles if I am using Iron Grip, because Iron Grip specifically says "the increase from strength".

Can anyone confirm that? Or is "Melee Physical Damage" treated as a strength bonus equivalent?

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DeF46 wrote:

I am guessing that Melee Physical Damage also does not help the projectiles if I am using Iron Grip, because Iron Grip specifically says "the increase from strength".

Can anyone confirm that? Or is "Melee Physical Damage" treated as a strength bonus equivalent?

That is logical. Iron Grip only gives you Str bonus to projectiles.