Bear Trap of Skewers - Impale explosion bug with The Impaler keystone + No hit damage randomly

Odd behaviour regarding the reflection of impales to nearby enemies on killing blow. When not using "the impaler", this reliably triggers on using a trap on a non-impaled monster and killing it in one hit.

However if I skill "the impaler" keystone node, instead of triggering an "impale-explosion" on one-shot kill on a non-impaled target, no explosion happens and the impaler applies the impale stacks on nearby enemies. The explosion occurs correctly using a trap on a target that was already impaled.

I attempted to see if the Great Old One's Tentacles gloves would fix this interaction, but there is no change to the behaviour described above with the gloves on.

In addition to the above, I notice that infrequently the bear trap of skewers will trigger and do no hit damage to the target. I'm not sure what causes this and cannot reliably replicate this bug but it happens during gameplay occasionally. Feels somewhat similar to the old Torchwood bug causing issues with accuracy. I have not tested using RT to see if this will fix this due to a lack of regrets, apologies.

Cheers.

Getting the same issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXEkyTmn4jg

The first pack of monkeys I have to use two traps - first one to prolif impales via The Impaler (in which the mob that dies to this first trap incorrectly does not reflect any of its impale stacks), second one to actually kill a second already-impaled mob to trigger the "impale-explosion".

Compare that to the second pack, which did not have The Impaler specced, where the first trap was able to properly kill the entire pack due to the "reflect impales to surrounding enemies" line.

Bug #3,542,954,570 (not the same exact instance as the one shown in the video, however the interaction was still tested the same way [pull pack, throw trap w/ Impaler, wait for impales to expire, unspec Impaler, throw regular trap])

Personally, I haven't encountered the 0-damage bug though, but I was testing in really low level areas so I can reliably one shot the first mob that hits the first thrown trap.

Hopefully, this isn't intended and is fixed soon - was looking forward to playing meme builds, especially Bear Trap.

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Jatin_GGG wrote:

Thanks for your report, I'll pass this on.

When?

36 days ago, I spent 40 div, bought whole set of gear and kept pobing for a week, just want to know how bear trap could work with impaler.

And found out it was bugged since launch.

When?

Did this glitch get fixed?

Nope.

Bump.

Not going to lie. We deserve an answer from GGG. Its been what, 6 months since it came out? Report got passed on but no answer. Its not even listed as a bug anywhere. It's clearly a bug. So frustrating.

Bumping again as there has been no update; was very disappointed to see this bug after buying the gear for this skill.