Righteous Fire in weapon or shield and weapon swap

So it seems that if you place Righteous Fire in a weapon or shield, activate it, and use weapon swap, you retain some-but-not-all of the effect: graphically, it remains, and it continues to burn you and those around you. But you lose the 40% more damage. Then when you swap back, you regain the 40% more damage, but the burning ring indicating the size of the effect disappears (the "aura" graphical effect on you remains).

Some pictures:


Righteous Fire socketed in my shield


I activate it: no problems.


Weapon swap: scepter and shield (where I socketed RF) go away, but Righteous Fire effect remains in part. It burns me and monsters, but does not give me the damage bonus.


Weapon swap again: scepter and shield return, and so does the damage bonus. But the graphical indication of how large my enemy-burning effect is disappears.

You're not supposed to be able to turn it off like that. It does not in fact burn those around you. But you keep burning until you reach 1 life or use a dousing flask. No bug here.

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mark1030 wrote:

You're not supposed to be able to turn it off like that. It does not in fact burn those around you. But you keep burning until you reach 1 life or use a dousing flask. No bug here.

There are at the least graphical bugs, because it definitely shows enemies around me burning, and it definitely loses its radius-indicator when I swap back.

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Raye wrote:

To add to the matter:
What OP describes is the love child of the unique properties of RF (can't be turned off, only doused, except at 1 life) and the fix to snap shotting.

Before you could snap shot RF in various ways, now it updates the damage etc constantly, but still doesn't turn it off.

Wouldn't know, just thought the behavior was weird. I can kinda see disallowing weapon swap as a way to turn RF off, but the behavior is nonetheless bizarre.