When using craze of the dead god gloves and the touch of lightning variant, the skill does not do the same when cast manually. The gloves change the infection color to white/blue indicating that the damage is lightning or something else than poison. But does not spawn the spirit storm. When cast manually it does cast the spirit storm. Just using gear with some dot multis, no paragon board. The infection by gloves does 10K ticks, while the storms cast manually did 20M ticks. It seems like the gloves cast and old version of the skill.
This is still the case, there are white orbs that look like normal Touch of Death swarms. but They do hardly any damage.