Spark skill questions

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can spark shotgun ?
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does pierce work with it ?
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if pierce works , can same projectile hit same target more then once from single cast

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totalenigma#3156 wrote:

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can spark shotgun ?
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does pierce work with it ?
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if pierce works , can same projectile hit same target more then once from single cast

Pierce works, the other stuff is more complicated - see here: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Spark

From the wiki.
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Spark

"A single cast of Spark can hit an enemy once every 0.66 second"

So there is cooldown on how often the cast can hit. It would be possible for multiple projectiles from the same cast to hit, but they would need to collide at different times spaced out further than the cooldown.

So if you are in front of a enemy and fire all projectiles into it, they will not shotgun. One will hit, and the others will pass through, but will still potentially be able to collide at a time later after the cooldown.

The projectiles can pierce.

I believe it can hit the same target again after the pierce and potential pierce the same target again, but the wiki mentions it needing to bounce off something, such as terrain, first for this to happen. Also there is a 1 second cooldown between that happening before it can happen again.

This is my understanding, largely from reading the wiki, it could be that my interpretation is not completely accurate.

If you are looking for more information, there may be some in the spark feedback section for the skill gem.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/13732/page/1

eg.

Mark_GGG Nov 9, 2012-

"If spark hits a target, that projectile stops, because it hit something. It doesn't go on unless you've given your sparks a chance to pierce. In that case, they follow the same piercing rules as any projectile (can only damage each target once), but because of spark's unique nature, it clears it's memory of pierced targets each time it changes direction. So each time it pierces through a target it'll damage them once, then forget it has when it changes direction and can then hit them again."