Cinder strike bow conversion ***QUESTION***

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https://imgur.com/a/77pmUYS

I’m curious for cinder strike when it becomes a bow attack why does it keep the melee tag. This screams to me either visual bug or a case of being so off meta i made a wacko unforeseen issue.

I’ve tried equipping melee attack speed while it has both bow and melee scaling tags and it seems like i attack faster (as a bow attack), issue is i already attack so fast its hard to tell. I tried the best i can to control as many variables as i can and it seems like melee speed is helping my bow APS.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/legionone/character/legioneleven
There’s the current set up. its just a hodgepodge old failed gear put on a tester.

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Not sure what you mean by “it becomes a bow attack”. As far as I can tell (unless I missed something), you’re not converting or limiting anything on Cinder Strike. You’re just choosing to use a bow, but you could also just use a melee weapon. Thus, it keeps both tags.

As for melee/bow stats, I’d assume they only apply if you’re using the relevant weapon type. So melee attack speed would only help you if you equipped a melee weapon. But since they’re tags on the skill, it’s quite likely that all of them add up together, though I would think that’s either a bug or just an oversight of the devs.

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if you look at imgur photo cinder strike has both bow and melee tag. it auto happens when u put on a bow i believe. And cinder strike now shoots an arrow to as far as at least the edge of the screen.

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im dumb cinder strike always has bow and melee tag, still though melee attack speed on gloves seems to help the bow version attack speed.

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Yeah, that was what I was going to point out next. It’s one of those rogue skills that has both tags all the time.

Letting melee stats help when using a bow seems like an oversight, but that would be because it has the tags. The only way to prevent it, given how the game currently works, would be to add/remove melee/bow tags depending on which weapon you’re using.
Then again, it’s not like it’s a broken skill this way anyway.