Molten Blast does it Even Melee hit? + Support Gem interactions

[PuppYofDOOM]

I been trying it out and it feels like it does not hit at all with a melee attack only the Orb hitting and doing damage?

Im looking to confirm with other players.

Also to not waste a gem anymore.

Ive been playing with Fork passive maxed. Splitshot which gives two extra projectiles. And my ritchochet from terrain is 80 using a gem and passives. It seems the orbs themselves never ricochet just explode

So far the orbs dont bounce back at a single enemy at all and mostly wasted on single target. As the majority of its damage is splash that goes backwards as the orbs fly past the initial target that was hit.

I just want to confirm my experience with other players.

[Drake]

molten blast is a ranged skill. It doesn't even have the melee tag. You're shooting fire orbs from your mace.

Molten blast build is essentially the same as a bow or crossbow build, you're just using a mace and mace passives instead.

You want scattershot to maximize the number of orbs, not fork.

The best way to use molten blast though is to use it with ancestral totem to make the totem shoot the orbs.

I built an infernalist witch (for infernal flame) 3 molten blast totem. Works pretty good in T10+ maps.

[PuppYofDOOM]

Originally posted by Drake:

molten blast is a ranged skill. It doesn't even have the melee tag. You're shooting fire orbs from your mace.

Molten blast build is essentially the same as a bow or crossbow build, you're just using a mace and mace passives instead.

You want scattershot to maximize the number of orbs, not fork.

The best way to use molten blast though is to use it with ancestral totem to make the totem shoot the orbs.

I built an infernalist witch (for infernal flame) 3 molten blast totem. Works pretty good in T10+ maps.

Ahh thanks for confirming. If you go Dual 2h will the Totem toss orbs like the character would?

I tried molten with scattershot fork and ricochet. I was hoping it would be awesome as explosive shot but nope. Horrid damage as almost nothing returns to single target with a bounce back.

Might be worth using in the totem like you said.

Im trying to figure out things to do besides magma barrier and shield charge which is hitting like a brick

[Drake]

Just use scattershot, most of the projectile stuff only work on either the orb or the shrapnel, so fork chain pierce and ricochet are mostly useless.

About ancestral totem, it doesn't usecyour weapon, the totem has its own base damage, so dual wielding 2h maces is only good for one thing, stacking 2 "increased % elemental damage with attacks" mods, because it's the only thing working on the totem.

I use mace/shield with magma shield in addition to totems. Actually, I also use a second set with wand/focus to shoot fire spells, because once you pop totems, you can safely switch to something else, the totems with conserve their damage with their assigned set, not the set you're currtly using.