Is Curse On Hit + Traps not intended to work?

Direct spells and attacks trigger "on hit" effects, as well as totems.

Traps and minions do not trigger "on hit" effects like curse on hit (or elemental equilibrium).

What some players are doing is putting an elemental spell on a totem with curse on hit, to trigger both elemental equilibrium and a curse with the same secondary skill. Then they use direct attacks or casting to get their main damage done, with one or two different elements.

For example, an arc totem with curse on hit and elemental weakness will trigger elemental equilibrium and curse mobs with elemental weakness, allowing cold and fire damage to hit much harder.

did some digging and found this:

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VoxelSquid wrote:

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tinghshi wrote:

Does this mean that fire trap is completely irrelevant to EE? As in it won't increase or decrease any of the enemies' resistance?

Fire trap does trigger EE

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Theoclymenus wrote:

EDIT - Another question!
Do minions (or totems) that you create trigger EE?

Minions - No. Minions are completely separate and are doing their own attacks. They don't have your passive tree.
Totems/Traps/Mines don't have their own skills - they're linked to you and cast your spells, with your stats, just like you would, so they'll inflict EE if you have it.

Also, Fire trap only "hits" with the initial explosion. The DoT damage from the burning ground is not considered a hit, so it will not continually trigger Ele Eq.

so, there seems to be an inconsistency here... i guess i'll wait on word from ggg about this one.

Spells that are made into traps/mines by the use of the Trap or Mine support gems cannot be triggered by any trigger gem but will still be disabled when linked to an applicable trigger gem. Traps, mines, and totems cannot trigger curse on hit.
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from wiki