Got lucky and “Bloodless Scream” dropped for my Necro.
But the affix for Chill and Freeze doesnt work at all, tried it with Corpse Explosion and Blight.
Sad… Fix asap pls
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I also recently got this and spent a bit of time trying to test this (very annoying without a target dummy…). What I’ve found is that it does work…kind of, but the wording is terrible and raises more questions about how chill in general works.
The hardest part was finding a fairly passive mob with enough life to test on because it would take upward of 10-15 ticks of decompose or reap to finally trigger a freeze. Most other things die before then. I know it’s a scythe, but I don’t particularly want to use reap / sever, and in practice the chill effect wears off if not spamming reap / sever.
Additionally, if you spam click decompose rather than channel it, you will stack the chill effect roughly 2x faster for some reason.
You are correct however that any periodic shadow damage such as blight and shadowed corpse explosion does not seem to be functional. I say seem, because I could not ever trigger a freeze by these methods but they do get chilled / slowed. Additionally, a boss with a stagger bar indicates some sort of CC is being applied periodically at a slow rate (spec’d out of other random CCs). This makes sense for the observed chill effect but conflicts with lack of evidence of freeze via shadow dot ticks as well as shadow skeleton mages (the mages not working might be expected as it does say “your” darkness skills, and there are other passives like shadowblight that do work with minions though they are mentioned specifically; would be nice if they inherited the effect though…
So overall, the unique is very, very bad and/or bugged in some manner unless you are really hard pressed for a constant CC effect to trigger other damage bonuses.
A better question however is, how the heck does chill work?? The item says “Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 40%.” Is the chance based on damage, % of enemy health, or what? It can’t mean it only applies chill up to 40% without ever achieving a freeze as I have managed to observe it trigger a freeze on high health enemies after many consecutive hits.
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well i tried and tested some things with the bloodless scream in combination of blight and corpse explosion (shadow dmg) it takes a huuuuugge amount of time to get targets frozen (nearly every mob is dead by the time it would get frozen).
in addition i got the “penitent greaves” which leave a chill area behind u. even with this. it takes a massive time even with bloodless scream i described before. so pretty useless items. especially bloodless scream also doesnt have any good affixes.
one to mention if i explode multiple corpses on a target, it doesnt get faster frozen.
if everything work as intended, this “super powerful UNIQUE items” are really useless.
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