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TL;DR: Storm Secret procs Anomoulus Artic Armor, but Eye Of Innocence doesn't when they have the same wording? What is the proc condition for this gem?

I was really excited to see the new Anomoulus Artic Armor. I thought I would work really well with this new build idea I had for Eye of Innocence cwdt triggering. So I bought the stuff I need to make Artic Armor strong, and a couple ex later, the build failed. This is pretty normal for me, cause GGG is super particular with interactions and wording. On to the next one I thought

Until... A couple days later I was a video from Empyrian with a cool autobomber where he uses the Anomoulus Artic Armor to prema freeze bosses. I was so interested. It turns out that Storm Secret works to trigger the Artic Armor. I wondered what the difference was, and when. I looked at the gem the wording was exactly the same... GGG is normally extremely particular about their wording, so I would really like to have some explanation on why these two interact with that gem differently.

Please @GGG

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over 4 years ago - /u/Mark_GGG - Direct link

Both Arctic Armour's inherent chilling when hit and the alternate quality freezing when hit specifically apply when an enemy hits you, and apply the ailment to that enemy. I will be updating the descriptions on both those stats in future to make that more clear.

Storm Secret is not an enemy hitting you (it's technically you hitting yourself), and thus should not interact with either of those stats in any way. Unfortunately the way it's currently implemented actually causes the enemy that Herald of Thunder hits to be the source of that damage, which is incorrect.

We will be fixing this bug in 3.13, because a bunch of people have built around this interaction now so we don't want to fix it mid-league.

about 4 years ago - /u/Mark_GGG - Direct link

Originally posted by ConradOCE

Hi Mark, regarding your above post about fixing this bug with storm secret.

I just wanna confirm if it is also a bug with the unqiue Hiltless as it also works like the storm secret currently does. Hiltless's wording "enemies you attack reflect 100 phys damage to you" could almost be taken as the enemies are actually hitting you? and thus Hiltless could be the only way of forcing enemy hits? (would be awesome if so for example cheiftons passive Tasalio, Cleansing Water, which gives 50% life recovery when hit by an enemy's fire damage recently). If this is the case than the interaction is still bugged for Hiltless because the reflect damage probably shouldn't apply with on hit effects of arctic armour.

Or is the Hiltless just bugged same as storm's secret and that it's not actually considered an enemy hitting you?

Thanks for your time!!

Hiltless causes enemies to reflect damage to you, as you correctly interpreted from the description. The Arctic Armour stat(s) should not be applying ailments when hit by reflected damage, and this bug is also fixed in 3.13.0.