Path of Exile 3.0.0: The Fall of Oriath Patch Notes

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Nephalim wrote:

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Path of Exile 3.0.0 - The Fall of Oriath
Kinetic Blast can no longer deal explosion damage to the target it hit with its initial projectiles.

Can someone please explain what this means? Are you saying the subsequent 4 explosions no longer damage the lone target or that the initial projectile (not tagged with aoe) no longer hits the lone target?

Each time a Kinetic Blast projectile hits a target, it spawns a series of explosions. That series of explosions cannot hit that same target, since it already took damage from the projectile hit. Other explosions, caused either by other projectiles, or by the same projectile hitting something else (chain, pierce, etc) can still hit that target.

EDIT: To expand more, this changes very little for existing content. The minimum spread on the explosions meant they could only hit the target that triggered them with extreme values of AoE, on large targets.
Fall of Oriath introduces several bosses that are much larger than the previous maximum object size of the game, making this necessary to prevent KB always hitting them with the projectile and every explosion.