Erupting Lava is consuming flame shock ticks/timer but not giving you the correct stacks of Erupting Lava. If I consume flame shock ticks is should build the Erupting Lava more quickly.
For that matter, it would also count those ticks towards my lava surge procs, which I don’t think it is doing either.
This talent is already very annoying to play with, the least you could do is make it actually function.
What exactly are you saying here? Erupting lava doesn’t stack to anything, it just increases the duration and damage of flame shock by 50% and allows lava burst to consume 3 secs of flame shock to do extra damage. So what do you mean it isn’t giving correct stacks of itself?
Do you mean that when you consume 3 seconds of flame shock with Erupting Lava, it should contribute to Magma chamber stacks? And it should potentially proc lava surge as well?
I don’t think it would work with Magma chamber that way because it isn’t flame shock doing the damage (magma chamber requires flame shock ticks to do damage in order to stack), it gets consumed by lava burst and is considered a separate damage event. The damage of Erupting lava doesn’t come from flame shock itself. It is not consuming 3 seconds of flame shock to do that flame shock damage upfront, it is consuming 3 seconds of flame shock to do a -separate- damage event from lava burst.
edit 2: I could also be wrong and maybe it is supposed to add onto magma chamber stacks and proc lava surges since it technically is consuming 3 seconds of FS to deal that damage upfront. Only concern is that its a separate damage event but idk, could be a bug like you said though.
That’s kind of the problem with Erupting Lava, it just consumes the dot for the buff. It’s nice that it is dynamic efficiently converting duration into damage, but it’s just damage.
Unfortunately, none of that process feeds into other aspects of the kit. It doesn’t provide stacks for Magma Chamber or feed potential Lava Surge procs.