Druid - Hive - A lot of Bugs, Tooltip Issues, Unreasonable Passives

  1. The default limit of the hive is 3, the passive tooltip doesn’t have any description about its default limit change, but it changes to 2 after becoming thorns spell form, it looks like it wrongly invokes the default limit of thorns totem limit.
  2. According to the tooltip, the upper limit of the number of thorns in the hive is equal to the maximum number of locusts it can summon, but it is actually not the same. For example, a hive that summons 14 locusts can only cast 8 thorns.
  3. The base damage of the hive will be converted to cold type due to the Frost Bites node in the tree of Swarmblade Form (even though Frost Bites does not mention the hive), and the damage conversion effect is more like (due to being given by the Frost Bites node a cold tag thus triggers) the Ice Thorn Totems node from Thorns Totem , since only half of the Hive’s base damage is converted to the cold type (I’ve strictly confirmed that).
  4. Any changes to the tree of Swarmblade Form and Thorns Totem will re-cover the damage type of the hive. For example, if the hive has a Frost Bites node(now cold type), if you change any node in the thorns totem tree, the hive will refresh to the damage of the current thorns totem. type(now physical type), and vice versa.
  5. There is information about the scaling of the strength attribute in the tooltip of the hive, but in fact the damage of the thorns of the hive is not affected by strength
  6. The Hive’s default has a 35% more damage effect (for thorns), but there is nowhere to get this information
  7. The hive is not regarded as a totem after being transformed due to the Spiked Vespiary node. Personally, I think this is very unreasonable, because the thorn hive itself has a serious defect of “the number of casts is limited and extremely low”. The hive is not considered a totem, and is extremely pointless and awkward in a totem-themed build (full of totem-specific buffs)
  8. Same as above, the casting speed of the thorn hive is not affected by the “Locust Summoning Speed” provided by the Hive Mind node. If the hive can’t be a totem it is indeed due to some balance considerations. Would that at least allow the thorn hive to gain some casting speed from the Hive Mind node in the tree? Again, the Hive has a very low cast limit.
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