Istaryu wrote:Spell damage only works for spells, as the name advertises. Spell damage working on direct melee attacks (which whirlwind actually is, fast melee attacks) is a bug and i expect it to be fixed in 2.0.
This doesn't actually contradict anything I said. I was just pointing out the existence of the bug. Not sure it's much of an increase in damage for innate elemental since windform barbs with spell damage are usually either proc or poison focused, but it's a thing. I guess Hammer of Jholm builds could use it?
And I don't care that much to speculate on what'll happen in 2.0 before we get patch notes; the team's shown they're willing to take advantage of existing d2 engine bugs like the PDR one that makes QT cheesable, so I couldn't tell you whether or not they're going to keep it.