Wintertide Brand shows added spell damage in tooltip

I noticed today that my Wintertide Brand tooltip shows "6-11 fire damage"

As far as I know, flat spell damage can't be added to a DoT and the skill never actually "hits" so showing this added spell damage in the tooltip seems like an oversight.

It's also possible I'm totally misunderstanding how the skill works and it does actually apply the damage somehow but if that's a case then I think the skill description could use some work.




I just discovered that Wintertide Brand also suggests that it's supportable by Cold Penetration Support, which is supposed to require hits:

I've also noticed a ton of people using Elemental Focus to support Wintertide Brand, but the text on the support gem implies it requires either hits or burning to work. I'm wondering if this supportability is also unintended.

I think it's just a tooltip bug.

It definitely isn't hitting, even with the flat added damage on the tooltip.

To test this for yourself, link Wintertide brand, curse on hit and enfeeble.

Cast a single brand on something, and you'll never see the curse icon swirl around the monster.


Likewise, I'm not convinced that elemental focus is actually doing anything.

But can't think of a way to test it.

Yeah it's definitely just a tooltip bug but can be misleading so I wanted to report it. Looks like GGG is aware now though - I just found this reply from Mark on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/he4a0o/winteride_brand_can_be_add_cold_damage_support/fvp474v/

Although I haven't found any mention of the ele focus portion from GGG so yeah no idea on that one.

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