Basic Attack does more dmg than skills.

[Drôwnêd]

My basic attack as a ranger does way more dmg than my skill and im at lvl 25.
I do have Support Gems in skills and leveled up the skills but it seems my basic attack is always strongest by making at least 3x dmg

edit: with skills i mean lightning rod and strike combo.

[Witch]

You speak about dps in the skill window or when you actually hit enemys ? The dps showed in tooltip never been correct in PoE

[GeforceJoe]

It very well can be to an extent. I need my basic attack up on all my characters. But I find typically it is lacking on AOE and other things. It all depends on what your focusing.

[serotoninpack]

Originally posted by Drôwnêd:

My basic attack as a ranger does way more dmg than my skill and im at lvl 25.
I do have Support Gems in skills and leveled up the skills but it seems my basic attack is always strongest by making at least 3x dmg

You can't AOE with it.

[SK]

Its the same for warrior.
You are intended to basic attack.

Basically in PoE1 many skills were just a stronger basic attack, so in PoE2 they decided to just make basic attack a skill and remove those basic attack replacement skills.

The rest of your skills are for the most part better situationally, like more CC, Stun damage, AoE, or synergy with other skills.

The tooltips also don't show 2ndary attacks, for example on warrior Rolling Slams 1st hit is weaker than Basic Attack, but it's 2nd hit is stronger. The tooltip doesn't show that.
And you need to get both hits off for it to be better. Basic attack is better if you only have time for one.
Rolling slam is also AoE and has heavy stun damage to follow up with bone shatter.
But if you're not in a situation to do that, you basic attack.

[Blind]

what if you could support gem your basic attack :V

[serotoninpack]

Originally posted by Blind:

what if you could support gem your basic attack :V

you can.

[Drôwnêd]

i actually mean actual dmg

Originally posted by Witch:

You speak about dps in the skill window or when you actually hit enemys ? The dps showed in tooltip never been correct in PoE

[wererabbit]

Remember that like in WoW or Diablo or you name the game, white damage (your basic attack damage) is always your main DPS. Special attacks can provide DPS boosts but for non-magic characters, basic attack DPS always wins.

[Witch]

btw it's not clear at all about what you play. "my skill" => lightning, poison ? If you play lightning you need to stack lightning sticks on floor before land the lightning arrow or you won't dps

[Drôwnêd]

Originally posted by Blind:

what if you could support gem your basic attack :V

i have poison on it but nothing else, cuz everyone i talked to says athat they dont uise basic attacks and only certain combos or spells

[Drôwnêd]

almost any skill i tried, but do play lightning stirke with rod

Originally posted by Witch:

btw it's not clear at all about what you play. "my skill" => lightning, poison ? If you play lightning you need to stack lightning sticks on floor before land the lightning arrow or you won't dps

[JinxTheWorld]

That's to balance it out. If the basic attack did nothing then nobody would ever use it lol.

[Drôwnêd]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

That's to balance it out. If the basic attack did nothing then nobody would ever use it lol.

well now i am 90% basic attack and thats not what is fun

[sportakus1]

Merc basic attack/basic bolt (with poison support skill) does more damage than trying to use other skills. Likely exception is only on some scenarios like shotgun skill (spread shot) for enemy crowd that has low hp, otherwise just spamming blind grenade as that right away stuns them for couple seconds.

[Witch]

i use this build and it's effective but can't say if it's better than auto attack, i never used it after the first map https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lO8cfzEJpyY83XS8XCoyjjZoplURiqyNfN5PFBvmqN0/preview?tab=t.0#