Can someone explain Wings of Lightning in Gathering Storm?

Primalist
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The tooltip is obviously wrong, but I’m not sure what the actual interaction is supposed to be.

“Whenever you directly use Gathering Storm and hit at least one enemy you gain a stack of Wings of Lightning” - this implies you always get a single stack of Wings of Lightning regardless of points invested, leading me to assume it’s scaling how many crows benefit from Wings of Lightning per stack.

Yet, the next line is: “Each time one of your Storm Crows attacks it consumes a stack of Wings of Lightning…” - which directly implies whichever crow attacks first consumes the stack, and it’s not scaling how many stacks are consumed because it says they consume a stack.

By way of comparison, Firebrand’s node “Exothermic” reads: “Using Flame Reave consumes stacks of Firebrand to gain Ignite chance per stack consumed.” this is very clear even if the “per point” section was as vague as Wings of Lightning and said “Firebrand: 3 per point | Ignite Chance: +100%” you’d still say "oh, it’ll consume up to 3 stacks per point for a +100% chance to ignite per stack consumed just like the skill description said.

So if anyone has any idea how this node is supposed to work, I’d appreciate the explanation

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That tooltip is very weird. I have searched the discord and found what it’s supposed to do, including the mislabelled “extra crows”.

So the lines in the tooltip do what they say they do. Hitting with Gathering Storm generates stacks and then each crow will consume one stack per attack to get 2 more bolts.
Putting points into it will increase the number of stacks gained per GS hit. If you put all 4, you gain 4 stacks per hit, so you can get 4 crows with 2 extra bolts each.

Which means that if you have 4 crows, each hit will always generate 2 extra bolts for each of them. If you only have 1, then it generates extra stacks which it will use over time, probably useful for when you’re evading or not attacking for some reason…
If you have 5 or 6 crows, then only 4 of them will use stacks and the other 2 won’t, unless you can hit faster than they can and can generate extra stacks.

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Ok, that’s how I assumed it would work, logically, but sometimes logic doesn’t apply to LE tooltips so I wanted to make sure. Thanks DJ!

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