Smith of Kitava's 'Temper Weapon' skill seems to do zero damage when triggering Combust.

Did some pretty extensive damage testing on Act 2 Kabala, and from what I can tell the empowered Combust does zero damage to enemies. I deal the same average damage over a solid sample size with or without the Anvil Empower despite the fact that it should be roughly doubling my per hit damage in the test.

In addition, the AoE seems to trigger on every hit of an empowered attack, but only on the 1st anvil-strike empower, i.e the last one to be removed in a 4 empower sequence. The 3 other empowered attacks only trigger on the 1st hit. I'm not sure of the intended design balance here, but it triggering on all sub-hits of the empowered attack would be consistent with how Warcry and Mantra of Destruction empowerment currently function.

Bump because I'm not sure people are aware of this.

I am having the exact same issues with this! It is very easy to tell the other 3 empowered attacks aren't working correctly when using Spearfield. On the last empowered attack, all spears trigger Combust (which as you said doesn't seem like it does much), but on the other attacks it only triggers one or a few Combusts.

i had the same problem! i thought i was going crazy, but it really does not function correctly.

let's just hope they hotfix this.

Confirming this. Tested in various ways - besides the fact that no one in a group of enemies besides the actual target takes damage when I use a basic attack empowered by Temper Weapon (and evidently only the damage from the basic attack), I also tested by using Leap Slam w/o Brink support to confirm that it consistently stuns in one hit (it does), then added Brink support + empowered it with Temper Weapon to see if enemies get stunned from the combust. They don't.

Please fix this asap, I felt frustrating when I figured it out that it has 0 damage, It ruin this ascendancy.

Bumping for visibility

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Combust triggered by Temper Weapon does 0 damage.

I have also tested this extensively, very carefully to make sure I'm not triggering some hidden mechanic.

I am using no support gems, no auras, no damage conversion. My weapons are flat physical damage weapons.

It is very clear that combust is not doing ANY damage.