I’ve been having trouble dealing damage with shatter strike even when attacking super fast, so I went to the dummy to see what was up. When you take the Whiteout node for multicast at the cost of attackspeed and mana cost, the recasts fire Frozen Shrapnel’s projectiles but only the first cast’s projectile in the sequence can hit an individual.
This isn’t normal behavior for recasts.
So, do all of the recasts from Whiteout fire shrapnel due to Frozen Shrapnel but only the initial cast’s shrapnel can hit anything? I would expect the shrapnel from all of the recasts to be able to hit, but given the wide spread, I wouldn’t expect more than 1 shrapnel to hit a mob (unless the target is a big boss & you’re close to it).
As far as your damage is concerned, do you have a decent weapon & much % increased melee &/or cold damage and int (or dex)?
shatter strike’s shrapnel fires out at specific intervals in an arc with each swing, they fire sequentially in a line from each of their arc points like fireball with ember when you pick the multicast node. First one hits, 2nd and 3rd in that line pass through without dealing damage.
Doing a spell damage focused build with frost lightning, spell shrapnel on shatterstrike and frozen ire (if the gambler will deign to give me one), using an on-level placeholder weapon with added melee and increased cold damage. Damage has been lacking because only 1/3 shatter strikes shrapnel are dealing damage to any single target.
It’s been a while since I used my shatter strike character, but I suspect that the shrapnel from a single instance of shatter strike (not counting the repeats) shouldn’t do damage to a single target (even if they could physically hit a single target) as Last Epoch doesn’t seem to allow shotgunning (Hungering Souls being a case in point, I don’t think that a single mob can be hit by multiple souls & therefore proc multiple poisons/ignites/etc) though shrapnel from different repeats should be able to hit the same target.
Hence the topic. 
Added a video to OP.
Oh, that doesn’t look right!!!
I agree that it probably should be able to hit the same target with recasts so I’ll flag it for review internally. Thanks!
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