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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masteraleph" data-source="post: 7852366" data-attributes="member: 6694750">1) Note that it doesn't make it a Burst- it makes it up to 9 ranged attacks.2) RAW, no, you do not need a weapon attack.  That's difference between "attack with a weapon" vs. "weapon attack power".Weapons are always weapons, and if used as an implement, they're still weapons (see Weapons as Implements and vice versa in the Rules Compendium).  But using a weapon as an implement does not confer the Weapon keyword onto an attack.  The only thing where changing something changes the keyword is damage type.  That's why using a sword- or a staff, for that matter- doesn't make an Implement attack a weapon attack.  It's also why a Weapon of Speed can fire off Elemental Bolt as a minor action.3) The thing that makes Divine Bolts questionable is not that it's an implement attack; it's that Rapid Shot requires a "ranged basic attack," and it's not clear that Power of Skill makes Divine Bolts a "ranged basic attack" vs. a ranged attack that is also a basic attack.4) One interesting Rapid Shot combination- if you have two enemies that could both be targets of Elemental Bolt, you could Rapid Shot, then use Elemental Escalation off of one of the two attacks in order to actually make 2 attacks against one enemy and one against another (because each of the Elemental Bolts are separate attacks).</blockquote>