Static blows works on all forms of damage?

Below is the original post I made, but had that question confirmed in a response. I'm editing the thread title to address the second part of the question here, while still saving the context of the original question.

Static Blows, and the other 10% and 5% shock chance nodes on the board either have had their wording changed, or we just all assumed it was only lightning damage, or the wording change doesn't effect how it works, but either way, looking at it on the passive tree simply states you get x% chance to shock, not with lightning damage.

Equipping a character who has static blows, with just a physical damage sword and nothing else has his info screen say that he has a 20% chance to shock with default attack. Does this actually work, or is it just there for if I had lightning damage?

--Original post below--

So the new unique bow deals a lot of lightning damage, but converts all lightning to chaos damage, it also gives chaos damage a chance to shock.

So my thought process was "static blows won't work with this since it will never deal lightning damage." but then I actually looked at the nodes, and the one with 5% in the shadow area and they never even mention lightning damage, they just say "10% chance to shock."

Does static blows, and other similar benefits, require lightning damage to happen? If it does, will this bow work with it?

That's interesting because I always remembered Static Blows referring specifically to Lightning Damage in the node text but apparently this has changed since last patch so I can only assume it will work with the new bow.

Mark_GGG confirmed in the 'unique items' thread that static blows/etc will work with the new bow.

Thanks for clearing up the first part.

Now, will this change of Static Blows wording make it effect all forms of damage? I'll need to go test on a character I hopefully have around lol.

Edit: Well I logged in a character with no gear, that has static blows, equipped a sword that has no lightning damage, and it says in my info screen I have a 20% chance to shock...

If this now works on all forms of damage, there is quite the difference in builds that needs to be discussed.

I'm going to change the thread title to this to attract attention to this new question.

Moved to Gameplay help? There isn't a better section for this?

I don't mind being moved out of general if it gets me a response from GGG, but this seems counter-productive at the moment when I'm sure many people will be wondering the same thing after seeing this.

Edit:

Also, looking at the character builder, the wording must have been changed, as on the passive tree on this site it says "on hit with lightning damage" but in game it does not.

I'm going to go see if I can shock something with no lightning damage.

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Dellusions wrote:

Moved to Gameplay help? There isn't a better section for this?

I don't mind being moved out of general if it gets me a response from GGG, but this seems counter-productive at the moment when I'm sure many people will be wondering the same thing after seeing this.

Edit:

Also, looking at the character builder, the wording must have been changed, as on the passive tree on this site it says "on hit with lightning damage" but in game it does not.

I'm going to go see if I can shock something with no lightning damage.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/475284/page/23:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

"hit with lightning damage" on the chance to shock stat is shorthand for "hit with damage of a type that can shock" because people were constantly complaining that, e.g. linking chance to ignite to ice nova didn't work.

If your chaos damage can shock, then chance to shock applies - it's effectively included as "lightning damage" for purposes of determining if you shock, and if so how hard.

This means static blows only applies to lightning damage and the damage from the new bow as that chaos damage also can shock. As long as you don't use a unique that says fire/cold damage can shock static blows won't work with fire and cold damage.

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Bada_Bing wrote:

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Dellusions wrote:

Moved to Gameplay help? There isn't a better section for this?

I don't mind being moved out of general if it gets me a response from GGG, but this seems counter-productive at the moment when I'm sure many people will be wondering the same thing after seeing this.

Edit:

Also, looking at the character builder, the wording must have been changed, as on the passive tree on this site it says "on hit with lightning damage" but in game it does not.

I'm going to go see if I can shock something with no lightning damage.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/475284/page/23:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

"hit with lightning damage" on the chance to shock stat is shorthand for "hit with damage of a type that can shock" because people were constantly complaining that, e.g. linking chance to ignite to ice nova didn't work.

If your chaos damage can shock, then chance to shock applies - it's effectively included as "lightning damage" for purposes of determining if you shock, and if so how hard.

This means static blows only applies to lightning damage and the damage from the new bow as that chaos damage also can shock. As long as you don't use a unique that says fire/cold damage can shock static blows won't work with fire and cold damage.

This is what I've assumed since I posted this, I'm just confused why you would dumb down the text on something to lead others believe it could effect other damages.

Read it this way: shock DURATION is based on lightning damage dealt. If you procced shock on a physical hit due to chance-to-shock, you dealt 0 lightning damage, duration is 0 and the shock gets dropped.