Molten Strike

Molten Strike is an attack skill consisting of two parts: an initial melee attack hit and a projectile attack.

Skill functions

An attack with Molten Strike consists of two parts:

• An initial melee hit with the keywords Fire, Attack, Melee
• A projectile attack with the keywords Fire, Attack, Projectile, AoE

Modifiers that require the keywords Melee, Projectile, or AoE only apply to the appropriate portions of the attack. For example, supporting Molten Strike with will increase the damage of the melee hit but not the projectiles. That said, passive points that grant Increased damage with one-handed melee weapons for example will in fact affect the projectile attack as well if one is using a one-handed weapon, since it is still an attack that is dealt with a melee weapon (though the damage you're dealing is not actually melee damage).

Magma projectiles: Unmodified projectiles will deal (72 to 87.96)% of full weapon damage, of which 60% of physical is converted to fire damage. Supporting Molten Strike with or will increase the number of projectiles fired while reducing their damage, but will not affect the initial melee hit in any way. Since the projectiles are not a melee attack, Strength's melee physical damage bonus does not apply (unless the player has Iron Grip). It is possible for more than one projectile from this skill to hit a single enemy, including the one that was already hit by melee attack, although the chance to hit the initial target is considerably reduced because of deadzone around it.

Damage conversion: Like all converted damage, the fire portion of Molten Strike's damage will be modified by both fire damage and physical damage increases.

Tooltip damage: Damage per hit and DPS displayed on the skill tooltip show only the melee portion of the attack, with that of projectiles dependent on the average number of hits expected from the skill. An estimate to the area DPS and total single target DPS of the skill can be obtained using the calculator on the link

Skill interactions

Dual Wielding: Dual wielding attacks with Molten Strike will alternate the weapon being swung.

Gain on hit: The stated amount on hit will be restored for both the initial hit and for each projectile that strikes an enemy.

Area of effect: Projectiles are spread randomly over a 270 degree circular area within a radius of 5 to 20 units around the target struck. Increased AoE bonuses affect both the explosion area of individual projectiles and the area they are spread over, resulting in similar degree of coverage over a larger area. Increased AoE bonuses only affect the outer radius; the inner radius is always 5. Unlike other skills such as Firestorm, Molten Strike ball landing positions are sampled uniformly over the arc's angle and radius rather than over the area of the circular arc.

Piercing, forking and chaining projectiles: Molten Strike projectiles cannot chain, pierce or fork, since they are ground-targeted.

Point Blank: Projectiles are affected by Point Blank even though the melee attack is not. While the description of Point Blank doesn't make this exactly clear, the damage multiplier received from it is proportional to the distance it has traveled from the melee target's location at the time the projectile was created. The maximum travel distance of Molten Strike is based purely on modifiers to Area of Effect.

: The Projectiles will receive the damage multiplier, however Molten Strike attack speed will not be lessened because it is a Melee Attack that triggers a Projectile Attack, and is not a Projectile Attack itself.

Projectile Speed: While Molten Strike can be supported by and only the damage modifiers will have any effect. Projectile speed modifiers from support gems, gear or passive skills do not alter the delay between the projectiles being created and their ground impact.

Gem level progression

Level			Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	110%	110%	0	0
2	2	0	114%	113.9%	70	70
3	4	16	118%	117.9%	308	378
4	7	22	122%	121.8%	1554	1932
5	11	31	126%	125.8%	6667	8599
6	16	41	130%	129.7%	26047	34646
7	20	50	134%	133.7%	49725	84371
8	24	58	138%	137.6%	95714	180085
9	28	67	142%	141.6%	169595	349680
10	32	75	146%	145.5%	283759	633439
11	36	83	149%	149.5%	453996	1087435
12	40	92	153%	153.4%	703128	1790563
13	44	100	157%	157.4%	1061223	2851786
14	48	109	161%	161.3%	2065870	4917656
15	52	117	165%	165.3%	2507110	7424766
16	56	125	169%	169.2%	5798936	13223702
17	60	134	173%	173.2%	15083919	28307621
18	64	142	177%	177.1%	27792735	56100356
19	67	148	181%	181.1%	43869739	99970095
20	70	155	185%	185%	242081556	342051651
21	72	159	189%	188.9%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	193%	192.9%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	197%	196.8%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	201%	200.8%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	205%	204.7%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	209%	208.7%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	213%	212.6%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	217%	216.6%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	221%	220.5%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	224%	224.5%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	226%	226.4%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	228%	228.4%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	230%	230.4%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	232%	232.4%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	234%	234.3%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	236%	236.3%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	238%	238.3%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	240%	240.3%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	242%	242.2%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	244%	244.2%	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Molten Strike:

Note that the jewels may be drop disabled and only be found in the permanent leagues as legacy items.

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats	Drop Enabled
WildfireWildfire Crimson JewelLimited to: 1 Radius: Medium(10-15)% increased Fire Damage With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Molten Strike Projectiles Chain on impacting ground With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Molten Strike Projectiles Chain +1 time With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Molten Strike fires 50% less ProjectilesNews of Kaom's victory in the south spread quickly. Those in support of the coming rebellion bided their time. The rest fled like rats from a fire.Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.	1	Medium	(10-15)% increased Fire Damage With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Molten Strike Projectiles Chain on impacting ground With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Molten Strike Projectiles Chain +1 time With at least 40 Strength in Radius, Molten Strike fires 50% less Projectiles	0

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Molten Strike.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Molten Strike Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Molten Strike Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Molten Strike Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Molten Strike Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Molten Strike Num Of Additional Projectiles 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Molten Strike fires an additional Projectile	helmet 100
Enchantment Molten Strike Num Of Additional Projectiles 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Molten Strike fires 2 additional Projectiles	helmet 100
Enchantment Molten Strike Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Molten Strike Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Molten Strike Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Molten Strike Area of Effect	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	Now grants 1% increased fire damage per 1% quality (was 0.75% per 1% quality).
1.1.3	Molten Strike has been added to the game