Trying to do the new Arcane Rift quest, and suddenly rifts are doing tick damage...

[MESeele]

WHY. I have checked everything. No upgrades, no traits or items would do it, on Sage. Rift is the only skill. What the ♥♥♥♥ is going on. The quest SHOULD have been easy, but now the rifts are doing 38 tick damage the moment they appear, ruining everything.

This might be the first time I feel an update is completely broken. The new quests are easy, SHOULD be easy, but they don't work.

[Ulyaoth]

Hi,

if i would guess, you either used Iron Ring (+10 Base Damage) or
Sage - Weapon Proficiency II+IV (+25 Base Damage)
(Or any other sources that increase Base Damage, which have no specific Tags)

Dont do this, since this will raise the Base Damage from Rift Auras above 0 and makes this Quest very hard and RNG dependent to pull off.

Cheers!

[MESeele]

I feel like it started after checking the book at the start of the level, 10 minutes in. I accidentally walked over it, but both upgrades feel like they'd make the quest harder, so I backed out for the 50% EXP instead, and suddenly, 38-39 damage a tick to everything in the rift's AOE. The rift still works if I walk over it.

I hope this is a weird bug, because otherwise I have no idea.

[MESeele]

I just noticed another new update. Hopefully this fixes something.

[MESeele]

Originally posted by Ulyaoth:

Hi,

if i would guess, you either used Iron Ring (+10 Base Damage) or
Sage - Weapon Proficiency II+IV (+25 Base Damage)
(Or any other sources that increase Base Damage, which have no specific Tags)

Dont do this, since this will raise the Base Damage from Rift Auras above 0 and makes this Quest very hard and RNG dependent to pull off.

Cheers!

Oh, I thought base damage was for the eruption. That's egg on my face I guess. Thanks for always being super helpful!

[MESeele]

Phew. Glad that's done.

[Error404]

Originally posted by Ulyaoth:

Hi,

if i would guess, you either used Iron Ring (+10 Base Damage) or
Sage - Weapon Proficiency II+IV (+25 Base Damage)
(Or any other sources that increase Base Damage, which have no specific Tags)

Dont do this, since this will raise the Base Damage from Rift Auras above 0 and makes this Quest very hard and RNG dependent to pull off.

Cheers!

Wait, this is actually a thing? I avoided this because I didn't believe Base Damage would help at all, considering it already does 320 Base damage.

I saw the other part that did 0 damage and thought nothing of it.

[Ulyaoth]

I was surprised myself.
Either it went in with the latest patch or was like this before, dont know.
But when i tried the Arcane Rift Quest, it didnt worked because of this.

Was dropping a bug report, then it hit me while looking at the stats^^

[CY13ERPUNK]

aside from the fact that +base dmg makes this new single/specific quest impossible to do , in general i rly like the idea of +base dmg giving the arcane rifts a 'dmg aura' tick , its a pretty neat addition imho and opens up some different build ideas [fwiw tho this isnt Path of Exile, as most builds become afk ezpz mode by 15 mins]

[MESeele]

I agree with it being neat, y'know, barring this quest. Dunno if you can get the damage high enough for it to be useful, but yeah, it's a cool addition.

I wonder if multiple overlaid rift AOEs would stack the tick damage. Probably does, but I was too grumbly to notice.

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by MESeele:

It does
Multistrike Attack Speed Duration Rifts and the floor becomes lava...
for enemies XD

[Error404]

I just did a run with this and got 23k+ kills and Chambers of Dissonance. Will upload Screenshot later, Stream Screenshots isn't working for me.

While I still couldn't normally, I found a way around it, so now, Bear Witness!:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3182383551

I died twice to the final boss, this build is practically incapable of fighting bosses and thus I need to add stuff like Transfixition and Phantom Needles in to fully make it work.

It's not of much importance, but the Uncommon Echoing Band that applies to Magic damage, works for this ability.

[fromage_enrage]

Glad I found this thread. This tick damage has ruined everything. It's kind of stupid TBH. Should be worded more clearly.

[Error404]

This has to be the strongest thing in-game as of right now, it's so strong, it's not even counted on the any of the in-game DPS tables(I like Pest Ring+Broker's Cape):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3182452658

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

Originally posted by Error404:

This has to be the strongest thing in-game as of right now, it's so strong, it's not even counted on the any of the in-game DPS tables(I like Pest Ring+Broker's Cape):

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I hate it 😭 😭 😭

[mcrsdm5]

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