What increases blade flurry's damage?

I'm a big noob and I'm trying to understand how blade flurry works. I have some questions:


1. What damage type does it do? Is it physical?

2. What nodes in the tree increase the damage? Weapon physical damage nodes work?

3. Does it do elemental damage if your weapon has it?


I really like the feel of this skill and I wanted to make a build with it.

It does attack damage - both physical and elemental, which depends on your base damage taken from your weapon/other gear.

The choice of nodes you take and support gems depends on what you choose to scale and what weapon you have - either pick physical or elemental, scaling both is usually harder to do as a new player.

Generally in POE you want to pick one thing to focus on for your build and max out on that. Investing in too many separate things will not get you anywhere.

Simplest case: Get a physical based weapon and take the correct Physical Damage with X_Weapon nodes, generic Physical damage nodes and Physical damage with attacks nodes in the passive tree. Do not specifically bother scaling elemental damage, but running Hatred/Herald of Ash/Added Fire gem (which give you %of your physical damage as additional damage on top) can be beneficial.

Blade Flurry is tagged as a Melee Attack (gem tags are found under the gem name when you mouse over them). Attack skills will always use your Weapon (or fists) to deal damage, although there are a couple of Attack skills that have an additional non-Weapon effect (Blade Flurry is not one of them).

In a lot of ways you can just imagine Blade Flurry as scaling the same as Cleave.

1. Basically, yes. But you can make it deal fire via Avatar of Fire, and you will not deal much physical damage if you use Weapons that instead have lots of flat elemental damage, such as Hyaon's Fury.

2. Same as Cleave. Weapon physical damage will increase whatever physical damage the skill deals.

3. Yes.

Do note that this is a departure from the last two Blade X skills, which are tagged as Spell and NOT Attack and therefore you can't generalize Blade X to act like Flurry.