Barrier generation stat has no effect

PC Bug Report
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The barrier generation stat doesn’t seem to have any impact on barriers generated by the sorc passive that activates a barrier when using a cool down.

Tested using both an item that provides a bonus to barrier generation and the Lionheart malignant heart. First test was with no bonus. Second and third tests were with one of the bonuses each, and the final test was with both on.

In all cases, the amount of barrier generated by activating the cool down was exactly 30% of my health as stated in the tooltip. The amount of barrier generation my sorc had had no effect on the amount of barrier generated.

This makes the Lionheart malignant heart effectively useless and any barrier generation bonuses from skills, paragon, or item affixes useless as well.

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I tested also with the sorcerer and I have the same conclusion. The barrier generation stat of the cage heart of the lionheart doesn’t work with the protection passive of the sorcerer. The healing works. It Makes the heart useless.

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I’m seeing some commentary that barrier generation works for skills that are cast, like Ice Armor.

This would suggest that the stat is only bugged and useless for the Protection Passive, which procs the barrier when casting a cool down.

Narrows the scope a bit, but still bugged…Unless that was an intentional design decision? Blizz? I’d doubt it was intentional though.