Storm call/spell echo.

This post is mostly just venting because I wasted 2 damn hours and there was nothing warning me that this might happen. I don't really care if you have some oh-so-useful advice for me in the future. I'm just documenting what happened.

There are certain things in this game that are hard coded to not work, for example, I tried to hook up storm call to spell echo and trap. Nowhere in game does this say this won't work, I checked the wiki beforehand, and it seemed to be ok. I spent hours getting my character to 40 today, and then when I linked up everything for what should have been my build's core mechanic and expecting a damage spike, and got nothing. Echo wouldn't link to storm call. I got a meager ~10% damage boost for double the mana cost on a 3link. I'm really tired of having to spend ages leveling characters only to find out that there's some hard coded block the game NEVER warns you about keeping you from progressing. I wish that these hard coded blocks were better documented ingame. I'm the kind of person who would love to get dozens of characters to endgame but every time I do it takes 4 days of playing just to get to maps and something like half the time I find out that the mechanic that should be giving me massive damage just DOESN'T WORK.

Oh well, back to leveling my RF totem character to 100 I guess.

This is why you test your skill combo ideas on high level chars before rolling up new ones.

Storm call DOES work with Spell Echo. I tried it myself, it works really well. The damage is calculated per Storm Call, not per second.

Not sure whether it works with Traps. Probably does.

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Char1983 wrote:

Not sure whether it works with Traps. Probably does.

The OP specifically said it doesn't, why would you think it does?

Also, Spell Echo doesn't work with traps or totems. It should say that on the gem, but it doesn't, which sucks.

OK, but then it is not a Storm Call issue, and both title and text make it sound like Spell Echo doesn't work with Storm Call, which is incorrect.

Keep in mind the wiki isn't always up to date on things.

I have gone ahead and made note of the Spell Echo and Trap support gem interaction on the http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Trap_(support_gem) page. I'll get to other pages that should note that combination shortly.

And sometimes the information is in the wiki but it takes a bit of digging. This link specifically shows how Spell Echo does not works on traps: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Traps_and_Mines#Interaction_with_player_stats_and_support_gems