Fire Trap

Hello Devs at PoE

I was wondering if its just my computer or a bug in the game.

When im in places with spiders crawling up walls (i dont like spiders, too real)
im used to throwing down 3 fire traps and spamming lighting trap and i hold shift. And my game crashes.
it happens very frequently.

I was using this as a Witch for a while, since the burst damage of 3 at once on a single spot + casting other stuff as they go off is very effective (and theres is a lack of other fire spells). However, I was unhappily surprised when the gem levelled up to 5, I think, and suddenly required dex when before it had no requirements. I think it should either not require dex as it levels or there should be a token dex requirement at low levels just so people know you won't be able to continue using it later on with an int build.

Well it is a dex gem(green) so it will need dex.

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Regarding the mana cost vs DPS:

I'm not sure this skill was designed to be used as a primary damage skill. If you search for "trap" in the passive skill tree there are only 6 nodes.

I agree. I am only in normal so this may be a bad tactic soon but using decoy totem and fire trap has worked well for me as a support skill because it keeps health and energy shields from regenerating and the damage over time is in general a nice complement to my main source of damage.

The frequent resetting of the number of the number of traps is pretty annoying however.

Have been using fire trap as support spell since I got it in normal act 1. Great "cast and forget" skill for my dual wand CI shadow. It is useful against monster with high es recovery as well as when I need to kite a group of monsters. The damage scales pretty nicely, and with the dot I find the total damage dealt from a single trap laid is very satisfying. Only complain is probably that the burning ground does not receive any support gem effect at all, so I can't use added cold damage to chill enemy that passes through it. (not too big of a deal)

Fire Trap also does not benefit from concentrated area support. I wonder why.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Targuil wrote:

Fire Trap also does not benefit from concentrated area support.

Fire trap has been fixed to work with area-based supports for 0.9.11.

Yea I posted this in bug report too and I guess that would've been the correct place. Anyway thanks for the fast fix, can't wait to be able to boost already killer damage to completely new levels. :D

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Targuil wrote:

Fire Trap also does not benefit from concentrated area support.

Fire trap has been fixed to work with area-based supports for 0.9.11.

Will this cause the DoT to increase in damage with Concentrated Effect, or will it just decrease in size?

That's a good question, I want to know this too.