Infernal cry - explosions - damage is reflected

After leveling awakened ele dam to 5 I've tried running some ele reflect maps with my tectonic slam. I run avatar of fire, so I deal no non-fire damage.

I found out I still take chunks of damage after slamming, not immediately, but as it travels further along with ignites (I have glove implicit for spreading ignites), which eventually can kill me.
I've tested what could be causing the issue and it appears to be infernal cry.

I run infernal cry for the damage buff usually so normally it's not linked to autoextersion and provides full value. Without casting it the observed reflect chunks did not occur. I have a bunch of autoexterted warcries, so I tried swapping infernal cry gem with seismic (seismic for manual, infernal - auto), and the issue did not occur in this setup neither.

Infernal cry has 2 side effects that deal damage, one for exterted attacks - combust, and another for taunted enemies - they explode on death. It also has a line 'damage cannot be reflected'. Since attacks are exterted when setup with autoextersion I assume combust works fine, thus this leaves explosions as being bugged and it would explain why the reflect damage occured in chunks as ignites traveled further.

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Bulletstormer wrote:

Since attacks are exterted when setup with autoextersion I assume combust works fine

Damage from Combust is very much able to be reflected.

For a better test for checking if Combust is the issue, try swapping Infernal Cry with one of the supports in your attack setup and see if the reflections still happen--Combust is an attack, and its damage shouldn't be reflected when linked to level 5 Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support.

Alternatively, you could check by setting up Tectonic Slam so that its attacks cannot be exerted by linking it with Multistrike Support.

Both of these tests would neutralize Combust's ability to interfere, so if you were still taking reflected damage, it would have to be Infernal Cry's explosion.



I wasn't able to replicate being damaged from Infernal Cry's explosions with an RF character (no chunk of damage from using Infernal Cry then activating RF, or from using Infernal Cry and throwing a Fire Trap).

Indeed looks like I was wrong and combust is the culprit, did some more testing and I was able to proc some noticeable damage even with infernal cry on autoextersion. I guess 11 end charges & all res + DoD all getting into play made it unnoticeable without the extra fire dam buff from infernal.