Increased curse effect doesn't affect non-skill curses

Tested with Atziri's hex reflection and items below.



Curse Enemies with [Hex] on Hit items allow the player to curse without a curse skill. However, likely because these curses aren't skills, they are unaffected by % increased [Hex] Curse Effect available from helmet enchants or cluster notables.

Helmet enchants make a degree of sense, because enchants are supposed to grant stats directly to skills, but the fact that % increased Frostbite Curse Effect on the Blizzard Caller cluster notable does not affect a ring with Curse Enemies with Frostbite on Hit is, if not a bug, at least very unintuitive.

I also was surprised when I found this out. They worded the same

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% increased Frostbite Curse Effect

and they work the same.

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Seikah wrote:

Helmet enchants make a degree of sense, because enchants are supposed to grant stats directly to skills

Yes but not only enchants do this. Theoretically, someone who understands why the encahant doesn't affect hexes applied via such items can conclude that Blizzard Caller won't affect it either since the wording is identical.

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MonaHuna wrote:

Theoretically, someone who understands why the encahant doesn't affect hexes applied via such items can conclude that Blizzard Caller won't affect it either since the wording is identical.

It's good that it's consistent, but it's consistently unintuitive.

The fact some curses are skills and others aren't is already a fairly arcane mechanic. No average player is going to look at a Despair Hunter ring, then look at Mark of Submission socketed with Despair, and conclude that these two functionally identical curse-on-hit rings scale in different ways.

Additionally, identical wording doesn't necessarily guarantee identical function. There are both local and global % chance to poison on hit stats on weapons, though I'm aware I'm cherry-picking an outlier there.

Unlike poison chance though, the player cannot quickly check a number on a skill's advanced stats when it comes to curse effect, precisely because some curses aren't skills. They have to bribe someone into PvP or disturb the queen of the Vaal just to confirm whether or not a stat does what it seemingly claims.