I see a lot of damage calculation topics on the forum but couldn’t figure some things out.
Since tempest strike is tagged with both spell and melee, does it benefit from casting speed? I know melee speed for that skill is converted to crit chance.
Tempest strike tooltip lists 4% scaling from strength and 4% from attunement. Do these add or do they multiply?
Does strength apply to the elemental damage procs from tempest strike?
Does melee base damage and flat damage bonuses affect the procs from tempest strike?
Is there anything special about flat damage bonuses from other sources when it comes to procs from tempest strike? Or can northern winds get fire damage added to it if you were to get + melee fire damage on a weapon? It seems like people focus on damage types that match their skills and I couldn’t tell if that was just because they tend to have more % bonuses to those damage types.
Effectively no, since the spells being cast are based on your (base) melee attack speed.
They’re “increased” damage so the get added in with every other “increased” modifier.
Not sure, depends how they’ve coded it.
No, just the melee hit.
No, there’s nothing special. Any flat spell damage or adaptive spell damage gets added to the proc to calculate the damage. Flat melee damage won’t benefit the spells at all. If you had flat lightning spell damage & the earth spike proc’d then it would still do more damage & any % increased lightning damage would buff the damage it does (because you’ve added flat lightning spell damage) but it would only apply to the flat lightning damage you’ve added.
TLDR - added damage retains it’s damage element (unless the skill has a conversion that converts all of the damage, not just the base damage) & will benefit from any % increased damage relevant for that damage regardless of what the damage element tags the skill has. Skills tagged with spell won’t benefit from flat melee damage & vice versa.
