A Physical Detonator Would Be Nice

Title.

Rapid Assault has this mechanic where you stick spears into monsters and you can pop them for big damage. However, Rapid Assault is a physical attack and both Spear detonators are elemental. For that matter, every detonator in the game is fire based except for Thunderous Leap. It feels really weird from a scaling standpoint where Rapid Assault incentivizes a bleed/physical focused archetype to also be incentivized to randomly use an ele skill. It would feel a lot more natural imo if there was either a physical option for detonation, or a support gem that allows other skills to be turned into detonators. I'm already popping bleeds with Blood Hunt and it would be great if I could also use it to pop the spears too.

hey, i wrote a whole ass book about this skill.

check out the thread.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3754948/page/1#p26073107

+1

I had the exact same thought.

I think a ranged physical detonator would be good, as the spears don’t have any ranged physical/bleed skill beyond ranged basic attack.

True.