I read they did (or at least people discuss their pve use as if they do), but they clearly do no graphical effect. I’m kinda suspecting they also deal 0 damage or armor break too, which makes them buggy useless, but no one has reported it as a bug for over a year.
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its hard to say, there are a lot of gems that work but the graphics don’t trigger due to too many happening at once. My Mourneskull would never show activating but I could see it in the buff list
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Yeah, that’s what makes it so hard when there is no log and no debuffs shown on the bosses. And clearly all those new gems like Hilt and Storms aren’t putting aoe circles all over. But my pet attack does seem to apply despite no graphic, so some do actually trigger.
I ask because I’d been relying on Maw for armor break all this time and in the process of testing something else I also tried auxing over the Maw and my damage went up. 18% armor break 1/3rd the time should be a noticeable buff, it sure is visible on the dummies. I wonder if all this time I’d never been getting the Maw armor break? Then that got me wondering if my Starfire was also not triggering the ground aoe which I like for helping ensure 2pc Banquet and Painclasp uptime…
edit: oh, and to be clear, I didnt have a different armor break pet or skill running during that test. I know most don’t stack.
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this is another reason for a full sandbox mode for testing these things
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I agree that a sandbox mode for testing would be very worthwhile. It doesn’t surprise me that other gens are NOT working as described. I recently reported a bug with the Ironbane gem, which was only registering with the dummy on certain classes and with certain gear modifiers (despite the gear/skills explicitly being of ‘Channel’ type). Various gems definitely are NOT working as they should. Blizzard didn’t even acknowledge my bug post. They just don’t care about such things, just so long as players continue to spend money.
Ironbane is an odd one because it can easily become overwritten by other buffs.
Only can talk about starfire shard and it is working in pve, there are maybe better options but i love this gem at pvp.
working in helliquary raids or just pve in general? I love starfire vs trash, but there’s 100% no graphical effect in raids.
A semirelated one that a disc convo just remind me of: 4pc Seeds set bonus. On the dummy this does huge bonus damage when specced for it. In raids I never once saw that 30% bonus damage explosion go off. I think it’s been bugged useless on raid bosses this entire time.
It seems a pretty big omission that the large pve damage effects that we most want vs large HP single target bosses do not actually work in helliquary raids.