The description of this item in game may probably mean it’s increasing the damage of Seismic Slam to slow and chilled enemies.
But actually this damage increase is not limited to seismic slam. but to all skills. At least for Hammer of Ancients, which I have tested it.
So it’s acting similarly like Band of the Trapped right now.
Not sure if it is a bug or just my misunderstanding of the in-game description of the legendary power.
Also have put this in bug report but I’m afraid that won’t be read until the end of next season.
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I ran this on the WWR build with Ambo’s and it certainly is adding 150% damage to all chilled or slowed mobs from all sources, WW, rend, etc.
The description reads as such to me “also adds 150% damage to all chilled or slowed enemies” not specific to SS at all.
I do not know that the intent was intended for only SS.
It is additional damage to all mobs meeting those requirements in game…
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Nice find. I will check it out next time as well. I wonder if dyal wielding echoing fury and fjor in wwrend coukd amp up the dmg
I ran this with Furnace cubed, Fjord in MH with WM passive, Ambo’s.
WW rune Wind Shear, Phy on bracers-ammy.
Tried EF, fury issues and In-geom was ok for lower stuff.
BoM and obsid.
Used charge to move, GS would work too.
Just did a few 100’s and it was fine there, didn’t try to push it up.
I think it is a bug. According to patch notes, SS deals increased damage. Hotfix patch c may fix it.
New Legendary Power: Seismic Slam attacks 50% faster and also deals 100-150% increased damage against Slowed or Chilled enemies
This is the key words and that is exactly what it is doing.
May be a bug but it is increasing the damage a lot…
But it says SS deals the damage. It must be a bug. I think developers may have some language issue there as well as in
Seismic slam hits 50% faster and seismic slam deals ------------
So let’s drop the common subject
Seismic slam hits 50% faster and deals ---------
We might ask Free comment on this lol
ya I get it, what I think they intended is SS damage but…
Should we keep it under the hood? I can delete it and ask the OP reporting the bug to edit the content by erase
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Let’s see if they can read, they have “phones” right…
Its been reported in the bug forum already…
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Why do you think it should be kept under the hood?
Actually some (or lots of) people are intending to use this bug in pushing after season starts.
But they are not publicly discussing it or use it in gr right now in order not to let BLZ notice this bug.
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Good report, using bugs is not ok.
What they intended may very well be the damage to SS only or maybe it is working as intended.
They will address the issue or not, it is their issue now that it has been reported as a possible bug.
Thanks for the info…
Don’t worry, Dev’s will look to it.
And as a result they will nerf Seismic slam or whatever else.
You never know with blizz.
Shouldn’t we get a bit smarter not to report such things?
Or is it so importantant that that skill mustn’t be used by other builds?
If it is used, it may artificially make another build look op and not address an issue.
From the wording, it is obvious that it is a bug.
But I have a feeling it shares a code with Trapped and making it get considered in Trapped gem’s damage calculation category.
Most likely reason
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Best to report this and let the devs fix; this is the sort of thing that abusing it would qualify as an exploit and they do drop ban hammers for using exploits. Good catch though.
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I also post this to reddit. And requested more buff in exchange
With these devs perhaps it’s working as intended? This was always a great weapon of choice for LON WW builds so it would be great if they left it alone.
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Yeahh it would be nice if this is intended. Then i would cube EF, put fjord in mh and ambo in oh then use the fury passiv and voila. The wind shear passiv would be great with rend.
So Bane of the Trapped procs it? Does this become 2nd Hand weapon to Remorseless in IK HoTA?
The wording means it’s 100% not intended.
I just ran a 133 with Fjord + Pig Sticker and cleared it in 10 minutes. The Fjord Cutter I’m using is +140% damage. The rift was average.
So a 150% Fjord Cutter would put Whirlwind close to what it’s supposed to be, which is 138+ with super heavy fishing.
Lamentation was 200% but did not occupy your weapon slot. Lamentation at 200% + Set bonuses from weapons easily put WW at 142+.
Anyway, this doesn’t say much about WW because this is just a bug.
For reference, without the Fjord cutter WW does a lot worse on 133 for obvious reasons.
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