Questions about masteries and ranged attacks

[Solens]

OK, so Fire Mastery only applies for ranged Enchanted attacks, right?

What I'd like to know is if Fire Mastery will affect fire damage from other sources like from the weapon or armour for ranged attacks. Same goes for Lightning and Cold Mastery.

See, I'm planning a Gimmershred Enchantress, with points into Cold and Lightning Mastery. I'm not sure why Fire Mastery only affects ranged Enchant damage once, while melee Enchant damage gets affect twice, so I was worried that it has something to do with ranged/melee mechanics.

Thanks in advance!

[sirpoopsalot]

I've seen the FM-applied-twice thing explained before, but I don't remember the explanation. Nevertheless, the conclusion is that it's a bug and for some reason only does get applied twice for melee (and only once for ranged attacks).

Also, there is a possibility/probability that LM and/or CM do not work with elemental damage from ranged attacks. It was discussed recently here (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=603322) by DH Amazon and myself, as well as in the link DHA provides. However, I don't see that any 'proper' testing was made to confirm or deny the assertions that it doesn't (or does) work. I've thought of downloading an editor just to test this, and I still might, but I haven't done so yet.


PS. If you're on the realms, get a Rogue merc with a Faith bow to help your attack speed and AR. I've looked at this build and the slow-arse speed is just too much of a drawback for me, but I don't have access to a Faith. If I did, I'd be more likely to try it.

[Solens]

Well, I'm on SP, so no Faith for me. And yea, the speed looks terrible, doesn't it? I'm going to partly solve it with Treachery+Laying of Hands. That is going to make her a Ranged Avenger of sorts. If the masteries work, that is.

I'll see if I can somehow use my Lightning Sorceress to test it.