Iron Will(keystone) + Battlemage's Cry(skill gem) works?

Hi!

Im talking about of the Strength->Spell->Attacks (plus "Every 10 strength grants 2% increased melee physical damage" from the Strength)

I looked at some posts on reddit but some people thinks its works and some dont, have some of you tested it?

Here is one of the posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/owhepi/can_anyone_confirm_if_battlemage_cry_and_crown_of/

yes, it certainly works (I mean Iron Will + increased/reduced Spell damage applies to attacks), Ive used it many times over past few years

but you will not get the damage from str twice, of course

Hi, thanks! But im acctualy still a bit confused.

Iron Will gives spell damage based on strength.

Battlemage's Cry gives more damage to Attacks based on bonus to Spell Damage

Strength by itself gives increased melee physical damage

So, if i have Iron Will and Battlemage's Cry activated the following will happen? Considering im using a "Melee Physical Attack" Skill:

The Skill damage will benefit from Strength + the Spell damage applied to Attack Damage from Iron Will -> Battlemage's Cry?

I think this is not acctualy a double-dip(damage from strength twice), because Strength is applied to melee physical, and the combo is applied to attacks. Sure Every melee physical hit is a attack, but not every attack is a melee physical(can be elemental) hit

As Ive said, the same bonus will not apply twice.

however, you should get the extra increase from Battlemage Cry, if it gets enough power

In general, this method (I would prefer Crown of Eyes because warcry is not reliable) is very effective in scaling flat elemental or chaos damage, but close to useless when you deal physical (or converted from physical) damage.

btw, it used to work well in the past too but costed a lot of trouble because of Repentance gloves. Iron Will keystone was a huge buff to these builds, with the nerf-QQ community hardly noticing..

Ok, now i fully understands how these works, Thanks!
"but close to useless when you deal physical (or converted from physical) damage"

And yeah, i also loved some of the "new" keystones, help a lot to build some fun but strong builds.

And im new here on the forum, what you mean by that? "with the nerf-QQ community hardly noticing.."