Ancestral Bond + Monsters Explode

(I did a search but didn't see this mentioned. The real bug may just be that my search skills are disabled.)

Bug: With Ancestral Bond allocated, Monster explosions from the unique boots Beacon of Madness do no damage.

Ancestral Bond states: "You can't deal Damage with Skills yourself"

The "monsters you kill explode" line on the boots is not a skill.

The explosions still go off when the monsters die from damage over time, as they should, but no damage is done.

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Either:

A) The Keystone should be changed to read: "You can't deal damage yourself"

Or

B) The "monsters explode" should be attributed to the "embrace madness" skill instead of being a line on the boots

Or

3) The monster explosions should do damage

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Disclaimer: I haven't tested this with other sources of explode.

The explosions are an effect from being debuffed by Glorious Madness, which you get from casting Embrace Madness...which is a skill. It's just provided by an item rather than a gem. There's no bug here.

I'm actually surprised Ancestral Bond wording contains "with Skills", never paid attention before. Damage from explosions and effects like Decay are also restricted by this keystone, this is intended. Rewording would make sense, yes.

"Embrace Madness" is a skill provided by the boots. The skill gives you stacks of touched debuffs. This information is on the skill itself.

The line "Enemies you Kill while affected by Glorious Madness have a 40% chance to Explode, dealing a quarter of their Life as Chaos Damage" specifically doesn't say that the skill does it. It's written in passive voice, which means the exploding doesn't have a cause.

It does have a condition, which is that you have to be affected by the debuff. But the modifier is on the boots, NOT on the skill.

There is precedent for modifiers that change skills. The wording would be something like "Embrace Madness gains: Enemies you Kill have a 40% chance to Explode..."

In a game like POE that is so specific about wording this does make a difference. Of course, until they reduce the touched debuff durations this will stay just a meme item.