Mark_GGG

Mark_GGG



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    Mark_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct

I fixed a bug with Blazing Salvo forking in 3.23.1 (the projectiles did fork on hitting enemies, but then didn't travel any distance, just fell straight to the ground and exploded). Chain was working fine at that time.

I have tested in-game just now and both chain and fork do correctly work. They require one of the projectiles to hit an enemy (chain can occur from terrain if you have a stat to allow it), which is not guaranteed due to the randomness of the projectile's trajectories, but does reliably occur when they do collide with enemies.


20 Mar

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    Mark_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct

This does not actually happen.

Ice Nova of Frostbolts has a special behaviour explicitly described on the gem, where if cast on a frostbolt, the spell will not repeat, but the nova will occur again from the same frostbolt. When not cast on Frostbolt, it repeats normally.

Repeating means a single use of the skill plays the cast animation again, causing all effects of the skill to happen again. Ice Nova cast on frost bolt does not do that, instead you play the animation once and then after the nova happens, it just happens again without your character repeating anything.

What's actually happening in the linked video is you're spending mana more frequently when casting on the frostbolt because you are no longer repeating - rather than paying the cost and playing the animation twice, you're paying the cost and playing the animation once, but each animation is still giving you the second nova after the first from that cast. So you are spending more frequen... Read more

11 Dec

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Those modifiers specifically apply to Reservation Efficiency of Skills. Midnight Bargain is an item, not a skill. Aspect of the Spider is granted by an item, but is itself a skill.


07 Dec

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Storm Brand inherently deals area damage, the transfigured gem does not change that. It sends beams to some number of targets, including the branded enemy), and deals damage in an AoE around those targets hit by beams.

Storm Brand of Indecision only hits one enemy (the branded enemy, if it has one) with a beam, but that beam still causes damage to that enemy and those around it, just like the base skill's beams.


21 Oct

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This is not a bug. Summoning a totem is not casting a spell.


18 Sep

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" a_z0_9 wrote: Either the skill description or its mechanics is wrong:

" Modifiers to the skill's duration will also affect the delay between these strikes.


The line makes me think the skill should perform 6/.25 + 1 = 25 instant hits against single target if its duration is scaled down to 0.

What is expected:
  100% reduced duration Vaal Storm Call hits target or a group of targets
  fixed amount of times (s...
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12 Sep

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    Mark_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct

The behaviour is correct. Links are one-way. If you link to another player, they are the linked player, you are not.
If another player links to you, but you don't use any links of your own, you are their linked player, but you do not have any linked players.


06 Sep

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    Mark_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct

This is not a bug and is not new.

Different character models have their own entirely separate animations. The Ranger's AoE spell animations happen to generally have the contact point (the point during the cast time when a spell "goes off") later in the animation compared to the Witch (roughly 56% through the animation compared to 34%).

This makes very little difference in general, but in cases of very specific timing such as this, the difference will matter - the Ranger would need more cast speed for their cast curse to be applied before the cascade from the triggered one, compared to a Witch.


24 Aug

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We're aware of the bug described here and it has been fixed.


23 Aug

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" Thistimeyoudie1990 wrote: If I step into a map with a floor degen stepping on this normally stops energy shield recharge rate right?

lets say I step on it without petrified blood and with full life the degen reserves my life and I lose life equal to the difference but my energy shield recharge from eternal youth is not interrupted.
I tested in-game and this behaviour with damage-over-time specifically is as you describe currently. This is a bug.

The reason for the bug is that internally, taking damage from a hit and taking... Read more
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" Thistimeyoudie1990 wrote: When using Dissolution of the flesh and Eternal youth combo no damage should be able to stop your energy shield recharge since you are reserving life not actually taking damage.
This is not and has never been true.

You are taking damage, and the result of taking that damage is changed from losing life to reserving life. But reserving life can still make you lose life - if your maximum unreserved life drops below your current life value, you inherently lose life equal to the difference,... Read more
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"Damage Types" in path of exile are Physical, Fire, Cold, Lightning & Chaos (there's also technically Darkness, sort-of).

Attacks, projectiles etc are ways damage of any or all of these types can be dealt, but they are not damage types.

The Ngamahu passive skill transforms modifiers that apply to damage types other than fire to instead apply to fire damage. It does not change anything else about those modifiers, such as being restricted to attacks, or other conditions for getting the bonus to apply.


21 Aug

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" Gobi_Senpai wrote: If I have Righteous Fire enabled, a monster ignites me, and then the ignite goes away, do I stop taking damage from righteous fire if I have Kaoms Binding equipped?
No. You were consistently taking burning damage from Righteous Fire the whole time, so never stopped taking burning damage - the mod on Kaom's Binding only does something if you stopped taking burning damage; i.e. you change from taking some amount of burning damage (fire damage over time) to taking 0 burning damage.


27 Apr

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Skills triggered by CwDT target the object that dealt the triggering damage to you. It looks like in your case, you're dealing damage to yourself with Heardbound Loop ring to trigger these, so since you're the origin point of the damage, the skills will target your location.


20 Apr

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No modifiers to Mana Cost affect the Life Cost. They only affect the Mana Cost
Modifiers to Cost affect both parts of the cost.

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    Mark_GGG on Forums - Thread - Direct

I don't see anything here that definitively appears to be a bug.

Fireball's projectile explodes only in the case where it can't continue onewards - this is not new. Fireballs that hit a target and split, pierce, fork, chain or return do not explode. That was the case before 3.21 and is still the case. Fireball's explosion is the projectile itself exploding, it can't do that and also continue on.

In the video with the boss, the returning projectiles are travelling through the boss, which would indicate they're piercing it, which is why they don't explode there. IF there is no pierce on the projectiles then something else is happening, but the non-pierce case seems to be working correctly for me in-game.

The Kinetic Blast projectile itself never explodes, but it creates explosions randomly around it each time it impacts something/stops moving, regardless of whether it continues on with one of the afformentioned behaviours.

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18 Apr

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This is technically correct - the reaper is told "do this dash attack" and then immediately told "do this dash attack". It can't do two actions at once, only one, so one of these "inputs" is wasted.
It's the same case as if you click once to use a skill, then immediately click a second time while starting that skill, you'l do the skill once.


16 Apr

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This is not a bug. Impending Doom doesn't do anything at the caster's location, only at the target location. Triggerbots overrides the origin - where the spell is cast from, not where it's targeted.


05 Apr

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Originally posted by foundashoe

Wouldn't "chance to avoid stuns" be clearer? "Ignore" could imply that you're still being stunned and just unaffected by it.

That is a different mechanic which already exists, doing a separate roll at a different time. This necessarily has to be distinct.

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Originally posted by Ail-Shan

Okay. I posted this in the other thread I linked too but I still don't think this tech will work. I think cast when stunned would go off because of its extra line of being triggered if you block a stunning hit. But if you don't have block, you won't be considered to have been stunned if you avoid the interruption.

Yeah, this stuff was broken in some weird ways because of internal details about how blocked and unblocked hits deal with stuns.

This is actually being fixed in 3.21.0 now, the following was recently added to the patch notes, under Miscellaneous Player Balance:

Previously, modifiers providing a "chance to avoid Interruption from Stuns" worked in an unintuitive and inconsistent way. These cancel out a stun entirely, preventing effects that happen when Stunned. However, due to an oversight, they did not do this if you blocked a hit that would stun you. T...

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