Quirks/features of Exploding Arrow (bows)

[Crystalion]

Raziel wrote:
and the answer from v1.10s pvp testing was no--the numbers I saw are consistant with the EA from Kuko damage being enhanced, not also the enchant adder (or, for that matter, the +fire damage from the Kuko).

and I replied

I did notice that some of the new high level uniques in v1.10 have +% fire damage as an attribute, but those are hard to find and have a high clvl req.

My recollection was that some players were building Sorcs with Lightning or Fire Mastery pre-v1.10 to enhance their melee/ranged +lightning and +fire adders (I seem to recall verifying this myself at some point also). So I got to wondering whether the new enchant includes casting Sorc's Fire Mastery would doubly benefit a target Sorc who also had Fire Mastery...

Nope, no "double" benefit. Fire Mastery is, for example (according to my empirical tests), enhancing the base fire damage of the skill exploding arrow (granted by item) but *not* any adders (including the other Sorc Enchanting you).

This is a bummer for +fire Melee Sorcs as they lose FM benefit on +fire from Items (they still get their own FM benefit now on enchanting themselves).

So I had to go test Lightning Mastery. In my test I used a -act 5 level 33 Sorc to barehand another character 10 times. I had equiped Tancred's Amulet and boots, giving +15 lightning damage. The damage delivered was as expected. I then put four points into Lightning Mastery and the damage went up (by % you'd expect).

So +lightning items for Melee Sorcs look like they will still benefit from LM as before.

I am wondering if the new v1.10 uber items that add +% fireghtning function in the same way as the Masteries? If so, then we are likely to see a difference in the effectiveness of the two (i.e. using adders, +% L will be more effective than +% F).