Vixen's Entrapment no longer works with Bane.

Vixen's only triggers "curses". Bane is not a curse, it is just a hex... So it doesn't work with Vixen's any more. I don't know if this is intended, but... sad that my bane build died the instant I bought Vixen's.





Edit: in case it wasn't clear, the suggestion is to give Bane the tag "curse" so it works with vixen's again.

One alternative proposal would be to instead modify Vixen's Entrapment to only apply whenever the player casts a hex skill, which might be even better; as it stands, its function means it applies equally when a player casts both hex and mark curses, which is pretty questionable.

And yes, because this is changing the function of a unique, exclusive-to-one-unique-item script, a modification to this would retroactively apply to all existing copies of Vixen's Entrapment as well.

is there a alternative version of vixens?

This patch really hit my favourite characters and my overall enjoyment of the game hard:

RIP Bane occultist because of Vixen

RIP Frostpulse totem because of buggy (?) Soul Mantle

Cyclone Oni-Goroshi Scion nerfed for the third time in a row, this time by making "Assassin's mark" obsolete

The ice dancing queen not in a good state, either, because of changes to the staff "the whispering ice".

No more harvest, no more crafting, back to picking up crappy rares

Buggy Abyss (no reward)

Buggy Pantheon...

Greetings and have fun everyone who still can.

Haha I put a post about this a couple of days ago aswell: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2937613 but I'ma bump you too. If we can hold the top spots for a week it might actually get fixed :D

Success! Heard back from GGG:

"

Hey Joel, Bane was definitely one of the skills I was concerned about because of how curse balance would affect it so significantly. In 3.13 I plan to make changes to improve its interactions based on whether we’re making any further curse change. I’ll make sure we do something for it, which will likely include uniques like Vixens.

Obviously he didn't say "Yes we'll change it". Or "No it's staying the same" But it's on the balance teams radar and that's the best we can hope for.

"

ACGIFT wrote:

One alternative proposal would be to instead modify Vixen's Entrapment to only apply whenever the player casts a hex skill, which might be even better; as it stands, its function means it applies equally when a player casts both hex and mark curses, which is pretty questionable.

And yes, because this is changing the function of a unique, exclusive-to-one-unique-item script, a modification to this would retroactively apply to all existing copies of Vixen's Entrapment as well.

ya just change the wording to hex instead of curse on the gloves, if marks then need a different item because some mark builds used this then i guess thats room to make a new item for them. these are ES/int based gloves so i feel thematically they should really be with the hex side of things, im sure most mark builds would be happy to see a EV/dex glove base replace this for them.

hit 60 get some currency spend total 80 chaos for items...........and then i realize it DIDNT WORK -_- like OMG WHY u do that :( so saaaaaaaad

I heard from Reddit and YouTube videos that they essentially ruined curses from how they were before 3.12, so I had to try it out myself in Standard and it looks to be the case.

Before, I could have 4 curses in my Vixen's Entrapment, Enfeeble, Poacher's Mark, etc. and it would cast my Bane at the same time as the curses being cast from my Vixens and I would be dealing damage from the Bane and casting curses on top of the mobs. Now, when I cast Bane, it just casts the Bane and the Poachers Mark and Enfeeble does not cast at the same time anymore, it just doesn't cast at all. This is because for some reason, the devs took the "curse" tag off of Bane and it just has the "hex" tag instead. So the Vixen's Entrapment Gloves no longer cast the curses in the gloves. As if the Assassin's Mark nerf on rings was not bad enough, now this? They either did not think this through or intentionally ruined this mechanic working properly either to change the meta up or ruining people having fun as usual. I just don't understand these decisions anymore... Call it changing up the meta I guess but implementing these type of unnecessary changes on something that was not that OP to begin with, is really questionable in my opinion.

Basically the whole Curse/Hex/Mark changes are a big backlash, Bane is gutted af (it can't even cast curses on Hexproof enemies with Probane Bloom) and even so feels better skill than Hexblast, and the whole Doom mechanic is a kick in the balls.

Not to mention Occultist got so many problems making any sense with this new system.

Profane Bloom explosions with Void Sphere and Malediction are the only capable passives that are saving my starter from rerolling, I'm suffering so much on SSF right now, I had to waste an insane amount of Regret Orbs so that I can make this garbage work thru'.