I’ve sent in bug reports from PTR and on live about this issue over the course of about 6ish months with no signs of fixing so figured I’d post here. This is a report in regards to Arcane Mage, and a talent interaction (and more detailed explanation)
The Talent Concentration, a talent on the right right above Arcane Harmony.
“Arcane Blast has a chance to grant Concentration, which causes your next Clearcasting to not be consumed.”
Clearcasting makes your next missiles channel 20% faster, or Arcane Explosion echo for 40% extra damage.
If you end up getting the Concentration buff, and use Arcane Explosion with it, it will not echo, and it will not consume Clearcasting or the concentration buff. This is either poor wording on the talent, meaning to be only missiles, or there is some serious problem here.
Even worse, if you use explosion with the concentration buff up, your character will still have the Clearcasting buff, but when you try to use missiles it ends up being regular missiles.
Using explosion with the concentration buff will “ghost” consume the clearcasting effect despite showing on your buffs, and when you try to press missiles, its regular, no amp- no precision buff and same for explosion. If you manually click off the concentration buff after doing the ‘bug’ its still regular explosion so you essentially are deleting an entire clearcast.
If you end up with the concentration buff you have to cancelaura or manually CLICK off the buff to begin doing AOE as explosion will no longer be able to consume clearcasting, and not only that it ghost consumes so you cant even use it on missiles anymore. You’ll have the on screen proc effect yet when you try to use it, it does nothing.
This results in you having a dead clearcasting stack that you cannot actually use until you get another clearcast, which it being an RNG proc can result in some annoying situations. This even greatly effects M+ runs with the 4PC tier set of amidrassil. I’m farming clearcast on packs with explosion, dont realize I have concentration up. I go to use my 4pc on my missiles, its a regular missiles- and clearcasted missiles you can usually move while channeling with slipstream. Since it didnt actually get clearcasted, it instantly cancels essentially consuming the 4pc effect, bugging the clearcasting so I cant use it, and explosion wont echo. This hasnt been this game breaking until this tier because of the important it has with the 4pc effect that now its huge dps losses.
This isnt a random occurrence, this has been happening since DF beta and is 100% consistent interaction; try it for yourself. Proc Concentration, (Make sure you have a clearcast stack ready), press arcane explosion, and then try to press missiles. So heres my hope that they bug fix this as someone who loves doing high keys with Harmony, this singular bug I’m having to constantly play around and use a cancelaura macro just because its rotation breaking. Thanks <3.