Bug with Scold's Bridle and Soul Taker's "Your Physical Damage Can Chill"

I have a character with scold's bridle, soul taker, auxium, and winterweave equipped.

Spending mana to skills deals physical damage to myself with scold's bridle.

My physical damage can chill from soul taker.

My chill threshold is very low from auxium.

Each time I use a skill with a mana cost of 36, I take ~10% of my max energy shield as physical damage. This should result in a chill of ~20%

However, I do not get chilled at all.

I have tested, and I am able to chill monsters with physical damage. And monsters are able to chill me with cold damage. Additionally, I have confirmed that I am taking damage via scold's.

Let me know if there's any additional information I can provide which would be helpful in getting this bug fixed.

Boneshatter has the same behavior of not chilling me even though it should. It appears that Soul Taker's modifier only applies to damage dealt to enemies, not to self-hits.

Hope this can get resolved soon! :)

I have now also tested this with an elementalist with shaper of winter ascendancy. Neither boneshatter, nor scold's work with that source of "damage can chill" either.

It appears that self-chilling with hits is broken.

I have now also tested with eye of innocence and shaper of winter.

Additionally I tried adding kaltensoul to the eye of innocence and shaper of winter combo.

Still no self-chills.

This is pretty disappointing, I'd love to play a self-chill build. Hopefully this can get fixed.

I do have an idea why it is how it is, I am by no means sure about it though.


"Your" Physical damage can chill ,if it only works on "You" and not "Your Skills" - as stupid as it might sound



"Your skills" deal damage not "You"

Thanks for the reply! I wouldn't have thought that there would be a difference between "you" and "your skills" but if there is, that might be it for the specific soul taker + siege axe combo.

I don't think it explains why self-chilling with shaper of winter doesn't work though, because that ascendancy says "all damage from hits can chill" and that should apply to you, your skills, your items, etc.

Additionally, I've tried doedre's elixir and replica frostbreath. Which also doesn't work (take a chaos damage hit, your chaos damage can chill)

I think that there might just not be code to allow for your hits to chill yourself. Which is a shame, because it would open up cool potential for builds.

heh cheer up, even if by chance my conclusion is correct - it doesn't mean it even is intended.

That interaction chain feels logical but weird at best.

Thank you for the clarification, Mark! Keep up the great work!