Coated Blades (Rogue base passive) consumes mana twice when used with charged Puncture or charged Detonating Arrow

[Tomagathericon]

The Coated Blades Rogue passive gives melee and bow attacks that already cost mana more damage in return for higher mana cost. The Penumbral Ambush Puncture specialization gives Puncture a mana cost, allowing it to work with Coated Blades. However, when using the Stay of Execution specialization, the mana cost for coated blades is consumed twice per puncture shot - once at the start the charge and a second time at the end of the charge.

[Tomagathericon]

After testing, this problem also occurs with the “Aimed Shot” Detonating Arrow specialization which causes Detonating Arrow to get a similar charge-up.

[Llama8]

Yup, known issue, since it’s (I believe) coded as a “use” when you start the channel & when it fires.

Wrong mana cost for charged Puncture with Coated Blades

Coated Blades mana cost is paid four times instead of once when you make Puncture a spender with the Penumbral Ambush node and take the Stay of Execution node to make it charged. You pay the skill mana cost and one instance of the Coated Blades cost upon starting a charge, but then the cost is paid three additional times when the charge is released. It seems to me that the releasing of the skill counts as a ‘use’ of the skill as far as Coated Blades is concerned, and it counts as three uses sin…

[Flintler]

I thought this was fixed in a previous patch after I had reported it in the linked thread.

" * Fixed a bug where Puncture with Penumbral Ambush would trigger the mana consumption of Rogue’s Coated Blades passive multiple times."
from the 0.8.3b patch notes. Beta 0.8.3b Patch Notes

[Tomagathericon]

Apparently, it was not. And Detonating Arrow has the same problem.