Rigwald's Curse does not work with Claw Specific damage from Abyss jewels

I'm not sure if this is an oversight/bug or the game being overly pedantic about wording.


"Modifiers to claw damage also apply to unarmed"


"Adds[Modifier] 5 to 61 Damage to Claw Attacks."

Jewels with added damage to claw attacks do not add damage to attacks while unarmed wearing Rigwald's curse.

It seems odd that "damage to claw attacks" would not be a "modifier to claw damage" given that claw damage can only be something added to an attack.

I understand that something like "Critical Strike Multiplier with Claws" would not count as a "modifier to claw damage" because it's not directly affecting "Damage" but just modifying another statistic used in the damage calculation.

But "Damage to Claw attacks" being excluded strikes me as maybe being an oversight considering "Increased Physical Damage with Claws" is just as far off in terms of wording from Rigwald's curse.

I've notice this post by a few people now and have yet to see an official response to it.

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Wolf_Man_Jack wrote:

I've notice this post by a few people now and have yet to see an official response to it.

Yup.

Didn't see anything about this in the most recent patch notes, bumping. Hoping this is another bug that will be fixed in a future patch.

I f***ed up too, guys. Bought two of this for 2 ex each, with flat phys and flat phys to claws. Because it was two mods on one jewel it wasn't obvious at first, that mods on jewels don't work, before i got flat fire to claws and saw it didn't change my damage at all. So I went to google, found this tread and wiki page that says "The Modifiers to Claw Damage, Claw Attack Speed, and Claw Critical Chance are only affected by Claw-Specific Passives. For example, One Handed Melee Damage Passive, will not add any damage to unarmed attacks; However, the Claw Damage Passive will add damage. The leech rate increase will apply too, because it is a global passive."

are only affected by Claw-Specific Passives.

So as it states it affects only passives on the tree ((( I hope ill sell that junk i bought atleast for what i bought it for...

You're wrong here, and it's easily testable.
Jewels with increased physical damage with claws and claw attack speed work. When I equip a 14% increased physical damage with claws Viridian jewel, I go from 3-9 phys damage to 3-10.

My Jewel:

Before Equiping:

After Equiping:


The wiki is just pointing out the differences between global passives, claw passives and one handed passives, just because it generally refers to passives doesn't mean that's the only thing that works. It's just drawing a distinction between the passive types, not redefining the wording on Rigwald's curse itself. It's saying "Claw Specific Passives Only" not "Only Passive claw modifiers" this distinction may be hard for a non-native english speaker, but it's just talking about what kind of passives work, not that only passives work.

In that case i would be happy to see it fixed.

Would really like to know whether or not this is intended as "with claws" and "with claw attacks" seems to be a bit of an arbitrary distinction and doesn't seem to have any impact to overall balance outside of this exact item which already has a gated rarity.

Oh look at what i found. its a BUG REPORT for an obvious BUG that ggg ONCE AGAIN doesnt give a damn about. NICE !
Keep going GGG just ignore every single Bug report and hope ppl will just forget this shitty and often times completely WRONg wording.
But hey at least this BUG REPORT didnt get moved into SUGGESTION Forum like my BUG REPORTS always do :)

Lots of people want an answer on this.