Stormcaller Arrow with Pierce from Skilltree FIX?!

[cZ]

Stormcaller Arrow doesn’t rly work with these modifiers. If the Arrow pierces, it won’t call a Storm on first target, same as Chain. Might be intended but as soon as we have Pierce from gear and skilltree, Stormcaller is pretty much useless?.

Just fought against boss, used Stormcaller with Pierce and Storm was never called on boss, only on wall behind the boss

Any Solutions for this ?

[cZ]

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[Drake]

Don't use pierce. The projectile mechanic has an order, just like in poe 1. It's pierce -> fork -> chain -> return.

So a projectile will only chain if it has already pierced (or forked, if it has fork).

If a projectile pierces all targets, it will never fork, chain or return.

It's a mechanic you need to learn. Don't pick nodes that have negative effects for your build.

[NoSynrg]

Bump. Agree that the pierce mechanic doesn't work with this ability, but better solutions than "deal with it" would be for developer to 1) make the skill immune to pierce or 2) allow you toggle modifiers at a skill level.

A related problem is some of the decorative objects on the map have physical detection with character models but not with projectiles, so even if you want to intentionally lodge a stormcaller arrow into the nearest inanimate object, it can end up further away from the enemy than you would like.

[Drake]

You can technically toggle modifiers at skill level. It's the set passive points. You can put your pierce passives on set 1, other things for stormcaller arrow on set 2, and toggle Set 2 for stormcaller arrow, so that it uses the right set of passives.

For now you also have to use another bow for it, but an update is coming so that you can assign the same weapon for set 1 and 2, to make it more manageable.

[Edstyles]

I agree. Just make the arrow make a lightning strike on pierce. With reduced damage if needed