Ice Gauntlet issues?

[Palad1n]

I am noticing that mobs are no longer taking damage in my AOE ice storm if they are just standing still. It seemed like it was random / touch and go, but now it seems to be happening all the time.

This a bug or a stealth change to how and when this skill does damage? The description clearly reads, anyone inside the storm is taking damage, so I presume a bug.

[Warspawn]

If you have the perk "Unending Thaw" on any of your gear, that will allow only one tick of your damage over time to register. Been that way since beta.

Also ... in the Ice Storm tree, there's a last passive for a 10% damage buff. If you take that and cast the aoe on targets, and switch to another weapon, the ice storm instantly ends instead of continuing on as before. Other dot's/aoe's/hot's from life staff, fire staff, bow, musket, ect....work normally, where you can switch after you've cast or fired and the effect will continue.

Ice Gauntlet has a couple of serious flaws/bugs that need to be fixed. Until they are, don't use any of the gear with 'Unending Thaw' (2 sec add to the effect) or put a skill point into the last passive in Ice Storm.

o7

~War~

[Palad1n]

Well that's interesting! Prior to the patch update, I was seeing a stream of dmg from every target caught in the ice storm, regardless if they were moving or not. I haven't changed any skills around since and just started noticing this issue today.

I do not have unending thaw on any gear and I do not have the last passive in ice storm either. Might try respec and play around with it to see if it continues.

[Lunacy]

Certain tall mobs like bears or gators are too big for ice storm as well.

[Warspawn]

Originally posted by Palad1n:

I do not have unending thaw on any gear and I do not have the last passive in ice storm either. Might try respec and play around with it to see if it continues.

I was waiting to see if they would fix it in the patch, but I didn't see any notes for that. Then again, I didn't see any notes to become immortal by crouching repeatedly while in Sacred Ground from a Life Staff.

I may just pay to respec my Ice Gauntlet to remove that last passive skill in Ice Storm and see what happens. The extra damage from having a large number of enemy targets in the area of effect sure sounded nice, but my plan break out my melee weapon when they got on me and hit them while the storm was going didn't work out too well with the bug

o7

~War~

[Dyeshan]

The unending thaw is an old bug. The new bug is that the ice storm isn’t applying the chill affect for starters so the skill to root with heavy attack is not doing anything and subsequently because no chill effect you get no boosted damage from shooting chilled targets. So mobs just walk through the ice storm as if nothing happens.
The ice gauntlet requires the chill effect to be able to bring damage up to compete with other weapons so this is a really big deal. You can’t cc with the storm at all and do subpar damage to everything as a side effect.
The ice wall thing still stops them and is the only was to get your damage back up to normal, but last only a second or 2.

Devastating to me when I rely on keeping some distance from a tough enemy to lay some damage down and it just doesn’t work at all

[Lyno-Vess]

https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/qhr7bi/take_on_me_i_dare_you/

[zMyriad]

Yup. It's broken. I know about the weapon swap cancelling the ice storm issue. That is not the case.

[tore.offshore]

this is some new bug. not the same as b4 with the perk and the last point in storm. they did something in todays patch/fix. its unplayable now:(

[SyniKILL]

Ice storm does no damage as of today for me
https://youtu.be/MsEC9niXtwo

[SyniKILL]

Also anyone have a fix for or work around for pillar of fire? 50-50 if it just lands at your feet or where you want it to land. Bloody useless at the moment

[Zathris]

I'm certain Ice Storm is bugged. I made a thread about this the day after patch. Before .04 everything in Ice Storm took damage for the duration of the spell. Now I am lucky to get damage for half the duration of the skill. Mobs just stand in it and take no damage.

I don't have the thaw perk on any of my gear and all of my passives/skills were working prior to patch.

I was particularly disappointed with this bug because I level gauntlet specifically because of the ice storm skill. Now its broken and because so many people think its the passive/thaw perk causing the issue. It will likely stay broken for a long while due to lack of people using gauntlet because of all the other issues the skill tree has.

[Itachi Llianen]

if you check the list of Known Bugs:
https://forums.newworld.com/t/known-issues-new-world/238068

And on the weekly bugs "Megathread":
https://forums.newworld.com/t/megathread-weekly-update-bug-megathread/461620

You can read this was reported and recognised by AGS:
"Inconsistent Ice Storm spell effects. Does damage sometimes, does no damage sometimes, does damage initially, stops, then starts ticking again." - Luxendra Community Manager

[Mepho]

Originally posted by Dyeshan:

The unending thaw is an old bug. The new bug is that the ice storm isn’t applying the chill affect for starters so the skill to root with heavy attack is not doing anything and subsequently because no chill effect you get no boosted damage from shooting chilled targets. So mobs just walk through the ice storm as if nothing happens.
The ice gauntlet requires the chill effect to be able to bring damage up to compete with other weapons so this is a really big deal. You can’t cc with the storm at all and do subpar damage to everything as a side effect.
The ice wall thing still stops them and is the only was to get your damage back up to normal, but last only a second or 2.

Devastating to me when I rely on keeping some distance from a tough enemy to lay some damage down and it just doesn’t work at all

This explained to me why the root wasn't working, I thought the root itself was bugged, never noticed the chill wasn't being applied.
Expectations subverted, GJ Amazon.

[AllOutWar76]

Originally posted by Itachi Llianen:

if you check the list of Known Bugs:
https://forums.newworld.com/t/known-issues-new-world/238068

And on the weekly bugs "Megathread":
https://forums.newworld.com/t/megathread-weekly-update-bug-megathread/461620

You can read this was reported and recognised by AGS:
"Inconsistent Ice Storm spell effects. Does damage sometimes, does no damage sometimes, does damage initially, stops, then starts ticking again." - Luxendra Community Manager

Thanks for sharing. Good to know that they are aware of this.

[Palad1n]

Seeing as this really destroys many users ability to even play with a build they worked hard to get, and we still have no hot fix for it, I can understand why so many folks are walking away from New Worlds at this time and taking a break.