Firestrike + WPS

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
1

I’m wondering if Firestrike’s damage procs still go off when Nightblade WPS procs or does the WPS proc take precedent and then you go back to getting Firestrike damage procs again. I can’t tell with so much going on in the screen to see if it’s one or the other.

2

FS is just like a passive damage bonus for melee so they stack quite nicely.

Same with Mistborn, Beronath, Savagery.

Only cadence would overwrite (you don’t get it) WPS on the third hit.

3

Was just wondering because I’m literally melting through mobs to the point where I almost just walk by and they drop, but when I took whirling death and had 3 WPS at 20% I noticed a drastic decrease in melting same said mobs. Since I have so much AE with explosive strike and flame torrent I decided to drop whirling death for now…

4

This is cuz WD has lowest %weapon damage (<100%, which decrease you FS damage) and longest animation. I use it only in a bleed builds as additional source for bleed.

5

Don’t take WD. The only good thing about it is that the animation isn’t as slow as Belgothian shears and hits more enemies. But %wp dmage is too low. AQQ and Execution are the ones

6

Could someone please explain to a new player how exactly those WPS procs work?

For the sake of argument let’s assume I have maxxed out lvl 22 Fire Strike which gives:

125% Weapon Damage
76 Fire Damage
+124% Physical damage

And lets also assume I have level 1 Whirling Death which gives:

50% Weapon Damage
20 Piercing Damage
14 Bleeding Damage over 5 seconds

Further lets assume for simplicity’s sake the weapon I wield constantly does exactly 100 physical damage and that I have no other damage buffs in place.

A regular Fire Strike then should do 1001.251.24 = 155 physical damage and 76 fire damage, correct?

But what happpens when Whirling Death is procced?

  • Does the 50% weapon damage from Whirling Death replace the 125% from Fire Strike?
  • Are the two multiplied resulting in 62,5% weapon damage?
  • Added together for 175% weapon damage?

What about the constant fire damage from Fire Strike and piercing/bleed damage from Whiring Death?

7

Whirling death and firestrike’s WD will be multiplied together to 62.5%. The skill damage will just be added on to the attack.