Ignite Devouring Orb Miner, A Fun Way To Melt Enemies In A Bug Free Way | Patch 8.3

[Llama8]

@perrythepig

I haven’t made bug posts, but here is the gist of it. I cover this in a handful of YouTube videos.

If nobody’s posted them as bugs then the devs probably won’t have them on their internal tracker.

Basically, hit vs ailment is a mess, and “Devouring Orb” is a phrase that points not only to the Skill Tree, but also to a subskill (which is the “Explosive Impact” node).

Cosmic Impact isn’t a subskill, it’s a modifier to the base skill. Generally anywhere a skill node says it applies to the skill (which is ~99.9% of cases) it applies to sub-skill that procs as well. Otherwise ailments wouldn’t inherit any damage from the proccing skill.

Extinction node - should only apply damage to the “Explosive Impact” hits, but scales Abyssal Orb damage and also Void Rift damage

There’s nothing in the node that says it should only apply to the preceding node (Cosmic Impact) since it says “Devouring Orb hits”.

Edit: here’s the patch notes when they changed it:

@Sarno

Devouring Orb

• All Void Rifts created by Devouring Orb or its sub-skills (such as Abyssal Orb) now benefit from the Void Rift nodes on Devouring Orb’s tree.

Which is why I’m saying it’s not a bug. Though I’ll agree that the nodes that refer to hits need to be tightened up, since the descriptive text says hits but the modifier text doesn’t.