Does spell damage % gained work on monk skills

[Hexton]

Does spell damage nodes gained in passives up the damage of elemental melee attacks for Monks, such as Glacial Cascade or Falling Thunder etc?

[Hexton]

No POE1 players know answer to this?

[Bimjee]

Haven't played monk but if the skill gem got the tag spell it should work

[UnhappyCLOWN]

If you look at the skill, it will be tagged. Things like AOE, Spell, Attack, etc. If it says "Spell" it will work. If it doesn't, it will not.

[ministrog]

make sure if the skill says "Attack" or "Spell". then you have your answer

[RSR]

I had a similar query and i tested it with falling thunder and it seemed to increase the damage, overall just press G and check the tooltip, it will say spell directly under the name of the ability

[wulfster42]

Monk skills are skills not spells, so sadly you can't use support gems for spells on them. You also don't gain from spell damage nodes, but you do from damage modes, and elemental nodes if it's the same (or all) elements.

Elemental nodes will also boost any elemental bonus damage applied from items etc, so they can be quite useful.

[Diminutive]

You need to look at the skills they have tags saying what they are at the top, so if the monk skill has a tag with spell on it, things modifying spell damage would affect it, if it doesn't have the tag then it won't.

Once you grasp tags, you can start to stack your modifiers to pump your build, basics of poe1 that pretty much have stayed the same in poe2 from my time with it.

[Grimbor]

You are obviously new to the dynamics of PoE. May want to consider either sorc or a bit worse, merc. Monk is almost unplayable even for veterans and it gets worse later game.

[Hexton]

Thanks for all the replies.

Seems like frost stuff n electricity nodes. Monk skills don’t seem to say spell so far on skills. Tags are cold electricity etc.

I guess I’ll look at monk builds and just look at the nodes for ideas and understanding.