Impale & totems

so i've been working on a build ensuring to pay attention to wording and i've come across a few things that i'm unsure and confused about. So regarding RaT's any damage and chances to inflict ailments affecting my bow affects the totems, that being said secondary effects from things like herald of ash's overkill aoe ignite do not affect the totems yet.... herald of purity allows totems to summon sentinals.
intended? not intended? the main thing im confused about is wording and whether or not one specific thing works with RaT, impale. lets start with master of metal

If you've Impaled an Enemy Recently, you
and nearby Allies have +1000 to Armour
Impales you inflict last 2 additional Hits
20% chance to Impale Enemies on Hit with Attacks
You and nearby Allies deal 4 to 8 added Physical Damage for
each Impale on Enemy

so there are a few key parts with the wording here stating that they only come into play if you directly are the cause not your totem, makes sense. then there's the chance to impale with attacks, the wording implies that it is a direct and permanent effect on your attacks, like bleed chance this should transfer over to totems due to the fact that your totems use your bow, and your bow now has a chance to apply said effects. Lastly additional flat damage per impale, clearly states you and nearby allies. totems (as stated on the wiki page for allies) are allies just like party members and minions.

when it comes to dread banner it makes sense that you don't get stacks when your totems impale because it is your totems applying impale but the chance and increased impale effect should still apply because they are allies and on top of that it is affecting your bow....

beyond all wording and the fact that similar effects are applied by the totems like bleed, im not visibly noticing impale, nor am i seeing a chance to impale in the character screen for my totems nor my basic attack. does it even work? and if not why.

some may say that auras do not affect totems only you and yes this makes sense but if thats the case then the parts from master of metal that i outlined earlier should work.

thoughts?

i did some extensive testing with a friend and found everything is exactly as i theorized it to be. impale does work, dread banner works exactly as i thought it would. the impale stacks are just extremely hard to see on enemies. i believe that impale should be a displayed chance in tooltip or character screen like bleed, tracking its dps increase is impractical due to the fluctuating nature of impale but knowing the chance your skills have of applying it would be nice ggg.