Multi-hitting skills

Okay, so I’m a little curious how +Skill levels effect multihitting attacks like Storm/AA. Do the number of strikes increase similar to charged strike? If not, roughly how many strikes are we dealing with?

Additionally, I’m wondering if anyone has made a successful Charged strike build and wishes to comment on its effectiveness. I tried it out on SP with pretty decent gear but never twinked the bitch so I’m not sure how viable it is. I did notice, however, that not all charged strike bolts were hitting the initial target. Was this intentional?

What, no mention about Fire Elementals?

Afaik +skills won't matter unless mentioned like in Charged strike.
About not hitting the initial target, have you ever played javazon on vanilla, I think it's exactly like the vanilla skill only with lesser bolts: bigger the target more likely most bolts hit. So I think it was intentional.

Primarch wrote:I’m wondering if anyone has made a successful Charged strike build and wishes to comment on its effectiveness. I tried it out on SP with pretty decent gear but never twinked the bitch so I’m not sure how viable it is. I did notice, however, that not all charged strike bolts were hitting the initial target. Was this intentional?

i've made a few builds around Charged strike (1 for each class) , they are working great for ubers like Duncraig or Fauztinville . indeed the initial target is not taking all hits , the reason is the one stated by Jampula . it's more of a crowded place farming skill to use with procs on striking and after kill , not something to use vs a single target . For single targets, the bigger the target is , the more bolts are hitting it . i first thought that was a bug too , but i think it's working normal . in any case, it's efficient even if you are not maxing the number of bolts (you can use just 2 or 3 sources instead of all 4) if you got enough procs .

I actually found on my Stormzon i had to use Charged Strike from my Endless Loop Belt in order to get Astrogha down. It worked.. Felt a little cheesy by it worked none the less. No respec so i was happy with it.

For clearing it seem pretty decent. But it doesn't multihit the initial target i noticed. Thunkcrack still out performed it with Battlemaiden though. But i didn't get around the getting Akarat's Trek Boots that may have changed that. Was litteraly the last thing i needed to have the builds pretty much fully completed. Maybe Different Rings and Ammy but the Dyers Eve i found Served me well. Rings i just run whatever i had never did find anything mind blowing in those slots really though.

what is storm/aa

Crash wrote:what is storm/aa

Stormblast / Ancients hand*****

used to give more range on the projectile (not sure if this is still true or if its static) and more mana cost. stormblast might gain some %ar to the skill.