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 Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Melee Physical Damage" 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% of full weapon damage, of which 60% of physical is converted to fire damage. Supporting Molten Strike with Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Lesser Multiple Projectiles" or Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Greater Multiple Projectiles" 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
Area of effect: Projectiles are spread randomly over a 270 degree circular area within a radius of 5 to 20 units[1] 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.
Skill Interactions
Dual Wielding: Dual wielding attacks with Molten Strike will alternate the weapon being swung.
Life on Hit: The stated amount of life on hit will be restored for both the initial hit and for each projectile that strikes an enemy.
Piercing Projectiles: Molten Strike projectiles cannot chain, pierce, or fork.
Point Blank: Projectiles are affected by Point Blank even though the melee attack is not.[2]
Physical Projectile Attack Damage: Projectiles get the damage multiplier but your attack speed stays the same because projectiles are triggered using a melee attack.
Gem level progression
Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 20.00% | 0 |- ! 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 21.40% | 70 |- ! 3 | 4 | 16 | 6 | 22.80% | 378 |- ! 4 | 7 | 22 | 7 | 24.20% | 1,932 |- ! 5 | 11 | 31 | 7 | 25.60% | 8,599 |- ! 6 | 16 | 41 | 7 | 27.00% | 34,646 |- ! 7 | 20 | 50 | 7 | 28.40% | 84,371 |- ! 8 | 24 | 58 | 7 | 29.80% | 180,085 |- ! 9 | 28 | 67 | 7 | 31.20% | 349,680 |- ! 10 | 32 | 75 | 7 | 32.60% | 633,439 |- ! 11 | 36 | 83 | 7 | 34.00% | 1,087,435 |- ! 12 | 40 | 92 | 7 | 35.40% | 1,790,563 |- ! 13 | 44 | 100 | 8 | 36.80% | 2,851,786 |- ! 14 | 48 | 109 | 8 | 38.20% | 4,917,656 |- ! 15 | 52 | 117 | 8 | 39.60% | 7,424,766 |- ! 16 | 56 | 125 | 8 | 41.00% | 13,223,702 |- ! 17 | 60 | 134 | 8 | 42.40% | 28,307,621 |- ! 18 | 64 | 142 | 8 | 43.80% | 56,100,356 |- ! 19 | 67 | 148 | 8 | 45.20% | 99,970,095 |- ! 20 | 70 | 155 | 8 | 46.60% | 342,051,651 |- ! 21 | 72 | 159 | 9 | 48.00% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 74 | | 9 | 49.40% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 76 | | 9 | 50.80% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 78 | | 9 | 52.20% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 80 | | 9 | 53.60% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 82 | | 10 | 55.00% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 84 | | 10 | 56.40% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 86 | | 10 | 57.80% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | 88 | | 10 | 59.20% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | 90 | | 10 | 60.60% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}
Quest reward
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Vendor reward
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Version history
| Version | Changes |
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| 2.0.0 |
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| 1.1.3 |
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References
- ↑ Mark_GGG (May 7, 2014). "Molten Strike & Point Blank interaction". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
- ↑ Mark_GGG (December 3, 2012). "Mechanics Thread". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved October 21, 2013.