Blade Vortex unlimited support gems

It's possible to add the properties of some Blade Vortex to another one. If you have three Blade Vortex with the following setups:

1 - Blade Vortex - Added Fire Damage - Poison
2 - Blade Vortex - Physical to Lightning - Power Charge On Critical
3 - Blade Vortex - Spell Echo - Increased Critical Strikes - Increased Critical Damage

First of all, you cast 1, then 2 and after that you keep 3 up. All properties from 1 and 2 are active. In a clearer way: you only have to cast 3 since that moment and keep Blade Vortex up in order to add all support gems to 3. It's not necessary to have identical copies of Blade Vortex, they can have different level and it works at the same way. Using this method it's possible to have linked more support gems to the main Blade Vortex keeping a very low mana cost. It can be done with a lot of support gems. The list of support gems that work like this way is (tested):

- Added Fire Damage
- Added Cold Damage
- Added Lightning Damage
- Poison
- Power Charge On Critical
- Ice Bite
- Physical to Lightning
- Item Rarity (not sure 100%)

The list of gems that not work in this way:

- Life Leech
- Mana Leech

There are a lot of support gems not tested and it will be possible that it could work with Blade Vortex.

Imagine what can do a Blade Vortex linked to five support gems and another copy with three more in a high character with good gear. It will be amazing.

Report reference number: 2.329.390.468

Can someone from GGG confirm if this is a bug, or perhaps this is an intended change of mechanism along with the 2.5 patch?

I tried BV before but gave up, can't be bothered to constantly need to "recharging" the stack and at the same time keeping track of multiple different BV links for different effects, but this new "cast once then forget, until stack goes 0" mechanism will save me a lot of trouble, so perhaps I can stand playing it from now on, if this mechanism will stay.

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Jeff_GGG wrote:

Thanks for your detailed report. This has been passed along to be investigated.

@UnknownGst, this is NOT the intended behavior, sorry to disappoint you ;)

D: , but appreciate your confirming, otherwise a lot of time would be wasted theorycrafting.

could be a 'similar' issue like with the fuses on explosive arrow, where only the first fuse determines the 'load', and all following fuse extenders can (could?) be as cheap as possible without the need of expensive supports?

The Skill should be renamed to: Vortex Momentum, added spinning blades Gem.