Flame whip intentional or bug?

[Terrorkoiz]

when i proc ignite overload flame whip casts once and then never again, like, it does one single whip then its gone. is this how its supposed to work? no mater what i cast it just pops up once.i thought it procced for the whole duration. i saw a Aarons showcase of the passive tree and when he used it, it seemed to cast every time he stopped to use chaos bolts.

[stebobibo]

I’m a necro using that same node (if indeed you’re talking about Infernal Lash). From how it reads, you should get the whips every time you cast a fire spell and there is 25 instances of ignite among near enemies. And you should get a new instance of Fire overload every time this happens. And the node says nothing about this having a cooldown.

I, like you, only notice myself getting the whip once, and I also notice I can’t refresh the instance of Fire Overload. One issue is that I’m usually demolishing the mobs almost instantly so it’s hard to get the 25 ignites for the next proc, but still… I do move to other mobs but I don’t notice myself getting more whips or the buff refreshing.

Soooo… looks like it’s either bugged or they worded the skill poorly.

[Terrorkoiz]

ive even tested it on the boss target dummy where ill have like 80+ stacks and it still only goes off once, if you look at the “actionrpg” channel and look at his passive tree reveal video for warlock you can see his going off like 4 or 5 times in just a few seconds instead of once like ours currently does.
so im gonna assume a bug, its just wierd literally nobody is mentioning it from what i could find, nobody on the discord is even responding to me about it, thought that may be due to nobody wanting to waste their 5-10 minute cooldown on chatting to respond to me lol.

[goldenjoyer]

this is why i respec off ignite and went for damned necrotic, flame whip does seem bugged.

[stebobibo]

I haven’t seen actionrpg’s video, but he may have 5 points in the “Scorched Reach” node. That node also gives you a flame whip ability and it triggers every time you kill an ignited enemy or hit a rare or boss.

So if he does have that passive, we still don’t know. If he doesn’t have that, then it’s a bug that was introduced with 1.0 (unless there’s some other mechanism for generating flame whips I don’t know about)

Probably the reason others aren’t responding is there would be few % of people with a similar build to you, and also few people respond to questions/reports about bugs anyways.