How does "curse on hit" work?

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Wooser69 wrote:

I guess the only real use for this trigger gem is for reave. Is that really the only reason it exists? Such wasted potential.

Yeah, well the only uses for decreased duration and slower projectiles new gems I could think of were:
Lightning warp for faster travel and ice spear for faster crit version, respectively.

So I guess each is for a specific skill/spell to improve?

It would be so ridiculous broken if it was 1.

imagine getting endurance charge and cursing enemies each time you crit all while using a 6 linked skill.

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Nephalim wrote:

It would be so ridiculous broken if it was 1.

imagine getting endurance charge and cursing enemies each time you crit all while using a 6 linked skill.

Nothing special. You are basically sacrificing slots for convenience and a faster application of both endurance charges and curses.

Using enduring cry and curses currently doesn't make it MUCH longer.

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Kadajko wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

It would be so ridiculous broken if it was 1.

imagine getting endurance charge and cursing enemies each time you crit all while using a 6 linked skill.

Nothing special. You are basically sacrificing slots for convenience and a faster application of both endurance charges and curses.

Using enduring cry and curses currently doesn't make it MUCH longer.

Yeah, plus if it were balanced to have mana reservation I really don't see why it couldn't be a possibility. God forbid I'm able to use an extra hotbar slot and save 0.3 seconds every time I come across a pack.

Can't believe GGG is implementing this without acknowledging that it's my idea...

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/510019

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AnimalChin wrote:

Can't believe GGG is implementing this without acknowledging that it's my idea...

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/510019

what if they thought of it prior or independent of your thread?

tbh its a rather obvious skill gem direction.

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PanzerSoul wrote:

You guys fail to realize that many players have a significantly higher attack speed than cast speed, and the few moments that they stop attacking could completely ruin them.

e.g.

1)life steal

2)frenzy/endurance/power charge countdown

3)reave timer

4)Blood Rage (for both the timer, and the life lost)

5)Incinerate (is a spell, but still a valid point)


Imagine also, linking more than one curse to it, with Doedre's Damning

personally i will be using this skill along with critical weakness on my flicker strike, but the only reason is that i don´t have space on any item to put another skill gem

So, curse on hit has to be linked with the attack skill? That's kinda disappointing. I was looking for a more versatile version of Asenath's TC curse on hit :(

well this at least explains why it wasn't working for me in the configuration I had it in -- but I had gotten somehow the mistaken impression that it cast the curses when *I* was hit, not when I MADE a hit with an attack skill --- I must have temporarily tied it to an attack skill inadvertently without realizing what I had done, due to availability of slots at that moment and only later realized it wasn't firing off on me.

Will have to rethink things a little but I think I can still see a use for this

All this having been said, however, I think the gem should have been named Curse on Strike, so it was more obvious that it was to be tied to an attack gem, rather than casting these curses when you take a hit from a monster.