unarmed question

[Tartarus]

planning on unarmed build; just wondered, does unarmed affect "melee physical"- nodes or only "physical"- nodes.. one- handed or dualwiel propably no?

[Sojiro]

Unarmed attacks are Melee and Physical, so Increased Melee Damage and Increased Physical Damage will both work. But be careful, Increased Damage with Melee Weapon will NOT work.


one-handed damage nodes are all weapons node and will not work. I'm pretty sure that Unarmed isn't dualwield either (you can check by looking at your Block chances, dual-wielding gives a bonus).


If you are going to go Unarmed, you will need a Facebreaker. You can get one for relatively cheap if you don't already have one. Also, note that the base crit chance for Unarmed is 0%, so you'll want Resolute Technique if you don't go Dex.

[Doomy4Life]

I have a fealing he found a Facebraker... Which is why hes asking...

[Sojiro]

Yeah, that's what I figured, but I thought it needed to be said just in case.

[Tartarus]

yeah, have it :)... thanks, i'll go planning passive skill tree :D

[Sojiro]

OK, it's confirmed that Unarmed is neither One-Handed nor Two-Handed:

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Modifiers#Skill_types