Forking projectile spells?

Hi All,

Not sure if this is the right forum to be posting this in, apologies if it isn't.

So, I started a Domination Shadow recently, loving Domination so far (haven't been playing in a while - started up again when the game came out of beta), but I have a question about the support gem 'Fork'

Is it possible to fork abilities that are both projectiles and spells?

I've linked fork to both Ethereal Knives and Freezing Pulse, but there doesn't seem to be any forking going on.

I'll be pretty forking disappointed if fork isn't compatible with Ethereal Knives, but it would be nice to hear from someone who knows more about this than I before I throw the towel in and reroll a ranger

Cheers in advance

It'll only forking fork if the forking spell is labeled as a "projectile." For instance, Ice Spear will not fork while it's in its close-to-mid range form, where it has 100% chance to pierce. But once it enters its long-range increased crit form, it will then fork. It shouldn't work for EK or FP as these are forking cone-based AoE spells and not individual projectiles.

Fork off.

Fork is known to work with EK. Fork will not work with Freezing Pulse. Fork will not apply on any projectile that pierces (which is why it does not work on FP, which is a 100% pierce projectile).

Make sure that you have not supported your EK with Pierce at all and you should see some Forking going on.

EDIT: To refute bad information in above post - EK is NOT an AoE. It fires a "fan" of projectiles in an arc pattern, and no mob can be hit by more than one projectile (without the use of Fork or Chain) from any single EK casting.

Fork will work with any projectile (doesn't matter if attack or spell), BUT there is one rule:
-a projectile can only either pierce or fork or chain (only one at one enemy!), thus fork will never trigger on e.g. freezing pulse, because it has a 100% pierce chance.

Aha, I see

In that case, I'm not so sure about EK as I'm fairly sure it is a piercing attack. I could be wrong, but it seemed to hit everything on the Ledge when I was there, even without fork

Then again, other times I've been convinced that EK is forking, especially in the caverns of anger where I was able to hit mobs round walls.

I guess I'll just keep it supporting fork for now and pretend it works

So, you can only have one support gem out of fork, chain, and pierce, right?
Does this mean that I could get multiple projectiles for EK and get maximum coverage?

Ta muchly for the advice so far, all

You should not use LMP or GMP on EK because it only adds 2 or 4 projectiles respectively but lowers the damage of each projectile fired. It is a common misconception that LMP/GMP doubles or quadruples the amount of projectiles fired.

Fork and chain work with EK but can not be combined.

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Victo wrote:

You should not use LMP or GMP on EK because it only adds 2 or 4 projectiles respectively but lowers the damage of each projectile fired. It is a common misconception that LMP/GMP doubles or quadruples the amount of projectiles fired.

Fork and chain work with EK but can not be combined.

Fork and Chain can be combined.

(Unless you meant they shouldn't be combined because it's shit)

That would be news to me!
How would it be determined whether the projectile chains or forks?

Guess I will have to check when I get home :-)

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Victo wrote:

That would be news to me!
How would it be determined whether the projectile chains or forks?

Guess I will have to check when I get home :-)

cant find the post for it,but it works like this

when you use a projectile the first thing that gets checked is pierce,
if it pierce it cant for or chain (on this hit)

if it didint pierce,it runs through a check for fork
if it forks it cant chain (on this hit) projectiles only fork once

it it didint pierce or fork on its hit and has chain,it chains

that means all skills that have a 100% chance to pierce can be supported with fork and chain,but they will never fork or chain since they dont reach the point where fork/chain is checked

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Victo wrote:

That would be news to me!
How would it be determined whether the projectile chains or forks?

Guess I will have to check when I get home :-)

If it hits, it checks if pierece -> if yes else fails
if no -> check if fork or chain (can't say which one first) -> if yes else fails
if no -> check if chain or fork (which ever was not in step 2)