Question about Diode + Unlimited Power + selfcast Lightning Blast

[Cilutan]

In the Static skill tree for Mage Sorcerer:

Diode gives +% base crit to Zap
Unlimited Power turns Zap into Lightning Blast

When using these two nodes, does the selfcast Lightning Blast also benefit from the added base crit or does it only affect the Lightning Blasts that are automatically cast when over 80 static charges?

[Taiji]

Logically? No. Zap is not Lightning Blast.
In practise, I have no idea.

[Cilutan]

BUMP

Anyone out there who has tested it? It would save me a lot of time to not have to respec and test this myself.

[stylez]

I'm using this build but I have no idea how to confirm one way or the other. I would assume/hope so just based on the fact that Unlimited Power requires Diode to be maxed.

[Cilutan]

Originally posted by stylez:

I'm using this build but I have no idea how to confirm one way or the other. I would assume/hope so just based on the fact that Unlimited Power requires Diode to be maxed.

I'm not assuming anything when it comes to this. I mean, my Static right now hits for like 50k dmg and I would have to respec all skill points in order to just try if the increases to base crit applies to when you cast lightning blast yourself (essentially, I would try to make a rough estimate of how often lightning blast crits, then apply all points in Diode and see if that rough estimate gets significantly higher afterwards). It's just not worth the time and effort right now x'D

[Cilutan]

Still nothing?

[Cilutan]

bumping because still wondering.

I also wonder now if the Diode node even gives added crit to the auto cast lightning blast, since it doesn't specify anywhere that it applies to anything but "Zap". Is it just 5 wasted points if you convert it to lightning blast?