Rapid Decay + Righteous Fire Interaction

I know it's early but I'm hoping to get some information regarding Righteous Fire's interaction with Rapid Decay.

There's been some exceptions built into the game recently with support gem interaction, i.e., Spell Echo + Flameblast, Multistrike + Ice Crash.

Given that Righteous Fire isn't actually a duration DoT like Puncture or Caustic Arrow or even Ignite, I'm a little bit concerned that Rapid Decay won't work with RF given RD's tags (Support, Duration).

Can we get confirmation one way or the other on whether RD will function with RF?

Thanks,
Serleth

Good question which only the devs can answer currently.

I don't think it will work, and wouldn't allow it myself even if RF was a much weaker skill than it is. There are some instances where the drawback from support gems can be avoided (Molten/LS/FB and PPAD comes to mind) but that's due to specific execution of the skill, it could be fixed easily so I assume they like to have little quirks like that. However, applying a duration support to a skill with no duration would be a serious bending of rules.

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raics wrote:

Good question which only the devs can answer currently.

I don't think it will work, and wouldn't allow it myself even if RF was a much weaker skill than it is. There are some instances where the drawback from support gems can be avoided (Molten/LS/FB and PPAD comes to mind) but that's due to specific execution of the skill, it could be fixed easily so I assume they like to have little quirks like that. However, applying a duration support to a skill with no duration would be a serious bending of rules.

Added Chaos Damage is just a Chaos Support gem. It doesn't mean that it only supports Chaos gems, it means that it, itself, is a Chaos gem. Similarly, Rapid Decay is a Duration gem, but that doesn't mean it can only support Duration gems.

Rapid Decay will probably support Righteous Fire just fine.

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XCodesLIVE wrote:

Added Chaos Damage is just a Chaos Support gem. It doesn't mean that it only supports Chaos gems, it means that it, itself, is a Chaos gem. Similarly, Rapid Decay is a Duration gem, but that doesn't mean it can only support Duration gems.

Rapid Decay will probably support Righteous Fire just fine.

I'd say that depends if its tag is descriptive or conditional, Proliferation has a descriptive 'AoE' tag and Generosity has a conditional 'Aura' tag.

If it will support RF then this will be the 4th support gem that can be used with RF, which means we need to get 5links and maybe HP based RF becomes somewhat good again without legacy gears c:

Mark has answered it definitively here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1480460/page/2

Too lazy to go to link?

Answer is that it won't work.