Lightning Strike

Well I kinda figured out everything about this skill. The main thing I was looking for in my last comment was I wanted to know where other element conversions could be found. I want to spread the types of damage around.

Also if I got 30% physical converted to fire would this hurt the damage on LS?

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Spazbie wrote:

Hi, quick questions regarding whether or not some passives work with lightning strike.

Will the +x% lightning damage + shock passives right by the Shadow starting area increase lightning strike projectile damage?

Does Arcing Blows (%30 increased lightning damage with weapons) only apply to lightning damage (when its a mod) on weapons or does it also apply to the lightning strike projectile damage?

Thanks

TTT

Anyone knows if point blank affects the projectiles from lightning strike?

hey guys, i dont know if i can ask this here,but
im playing a 2h sword with LS

right now i have this gems supporting LS



so my question is, its better to keep using light pen, or drop it for an added melee/added fire gem

Does Lightning Strike benefit from Life and Mana leech? The skills say Physical Dmg so I'm to guess it would work with it? The melee and the bolts?

just physical, unless you are using the support gems, then everything of it.

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soul4hdwn wrote:

just physical, unless you are using the support gems, then everything of it.

Alright Thanks. So basically 50% of all the damage will leech. Good to know

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Morathia wrote:

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soul4hdwn wrote:

just physical, unless you are using the support gems, then everything of it.

Alright Thanks. So basically 50% of all the damage will leech. Good to know

Not entierly true as, for example, the lightning portion of the damage is further increased by weapon elemental damage.

Best thing is to just hover over your skill and read the tooltip for how much phys dmg you do. Average this and multiply by your attack speed and the you get your base for leech per second. For example my LS templar has a listed dps of 14.5k but only does about 150-450 phys dmg per strike.

Why is this skill even listed as melee? Anyone using the ability for single target would just stand back a little and try to hit it with all 3 projectiles. Nobody gets lightning strike for the melee.

I just made a CI lightning strike spec that is now pretty gimped because it can't use the two melee physical gems, as the lightning strike ranged portion is a "projectile" and not melee.

Please make the skill more intuitive and change the projectiles so they base their damage off of the melee attack. Nobody expects the projectiles to hit for less than 35% of the tooltip DPS. Either change lightning strike into a fully ranged skill or fix it to be fully melee.