Best links for melee elemental hit

If I use elemental hit with elemental equilibrium is it better to go attack speed based or penetration based?

Something like for a 5 link

multistrike - fast attacks - weapon elemental damage - crit chance

or

Weapon elemental - fire pen - ice pen - lightning pen

Penetrations are great supports for one slot, but getting the same amount of dps for three slots is too low. You're using EE anyway to reduce resists on a cure-immune resistant opponent so I'd go for the multistrike version.

when using damage supports you usually want to chose a gem which affects all parts of your damage. the second variant setup has three gems and each supports only one part of your damage, effectively merging into one hypothetical support gem only (elemental penetration)

Makes sense. I guess EE + elemental weakness is pretty over kill anyway.

EE would not be good as you would have no other elemental damage on any of your gear, which for an melee ele char you would want a high aps ele weapon and ele dmg on rings/amulet/gloves

The gem just isnt in a good spot as it needs melee splash and life leech for bosses which reduces your dps

something like ele hit - multistrike - faster attacks - life leech - meleesplash?

going crit would be a must imo as you want the status effects and with such a high attack speed even 20% crit chance would be effective enough for some shocks and freezes

You gotta put empower in there. The flat damage from Ele hit scales really well with it.
Elemental hit + level 4 empower in a +1 gems item ought to give you a level 25 elemental hit.
Rough math but, a level 20 elemental hit would be on average, 236 damage per hit before passives and supports. A level 25 elemental hit would be on average 341 damage per hit. Might not seem like much but with damage passives and support gems it would add up to a lot more damage.

Pretty sure +2 gems to melee/bow gems apply as well, if you have that affix on your weapon, allowing for a level 27 gem?

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Extreme_Boyheat a écrit :

You gotta put empower in there. The flat damage from Ele hit scales really well with it.
Elemental hit + level 4 empower in a +1 gems item ought to give you a level 25 elemental hit.
Rough math but, a level 20 elemental hit would be on average, 236 damage per hit before passives and supports. A level 25 elemental hit would be on average 341 damage per hit. Might not seem like much but with damage passives and support gems it would add up to a lot more damage.

Pretty sure +2 gems to melee/bow gems apply as well, if you have that affix on your weapon, allowing for a level 27 gem?

It's interesting that you bring up gem level. I'm not exactly willing to invest the currency to get an empower but there may be some unique combo that could accomplish almost the same thing. Since elemental hit has fire, lightning, ice, and melee key words I think I could theoretically slot it into a +2 item with all 3 prefixes for a +6 gem. That would more than likely require me to find a really amazing 2 handed weapon or a unique I don't know about to accomplish that without sacrificing links though.

I haven't really decided on weapons or gear yet outside of rings and a necklace. The easiest(cheapest) thing right for me is going to be focusing on scaling elemental hit by attack speed and crit then deciding how I can manipulate gem levels.

Elemental Hit is just not meant for melee + AOE clearing ATM. The +2 Melee rolls completely suck compared to 2xflat elemental damage + WED.

This gem is a mandatory 21/20 right now.

Bows and wands can abuse mechanics of the skill.

I took this 2H max T1 with some crit and several (6-7+)3 stat 2h crit jewels. With the right party or solo it can do nice damage. But everything generally can while not taking several exalt investment on every item, and clear 100%+ faster for melee.

You would be better served with wild strike for clear or static/heavy strike for single.

+The animation sucks.

The best 5 link for elemental hit is Reave Multistrike Fortify Melee Physical Added Fire

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Extreme_Boyheat a écrit :

Pretty sure +2 gems to melee/bow gems apply as well, if you have that affix on your weapon, allowing for a level 27 gem?

Only for bows and 2H.
Ele hit is legit on bows.
2H it sucks...
trust me....>>>>