Blight Chest-Focused Atlas Skill Nodes Do Not Function In Blight Maps

I have restrained myself to a constructive post, but I have many, many choice words for whoever designed these nodes.

Edit: While writing this post, I actually found that one of these is definitely a bug, as even "Blight Tower Cost", which does not specify "Maps", does not work in Blighted/Ravaged Blight Maps. it is clearly an oversight burgeoning on bug. The Atlas Skills are not all created equal, but in this case the skills may as well not exist at all.

By precise definition, Blighted and Ravaged Blight maps are not "Maps" nor are they "Blight Encounters" so they do not benefit from [..."in Maps"] nor ["Map"] nor ["Blight Encounter"] nodes.

This affects 36 of 36 Blight Nodes. Why, when many of these are focused on Blight rewards? The only (maybe) unaffected Blight lines are:


Blight, as a content, is already focused on never entering a normal map, and buying Blighted Maps to only run Blighted maps. As a player who often does Blight until the end of the League, it makes these nodes completely worthless after finishing the Atlas Skills, and it makes me wonder why even bother in the first place when the Skills won't affected the Blighted Maps. These skills can only be even remotely used via Gilded and Winged Blight Scarabs, and this is only adjacently useful for people running Blight, and more useful to players selling Blighted Maps to players who are actually running them.

For example, the most egregious nodes are as follows:

(Notable) Blightspawn


(Notable) Distilled Fungus


(Notable) Epidemiology


Blight Boss Additional Reward [Unclear, no change in testing]


(Notable) Immune Response [Unclear, no change in testing]


(Notable) Spores on the Wind

I ran over 20 Blights yesterday and found over 100 maps, I am specced into 3 different Enchantment Modifiers and 0 of the maps had a special Modifier on them

I do not even spec into this node, but it seems like for some players it could be the worst by far:

(Notable) Sturdy Construction

This entire ring focused on Blight Monsters taking increased Damage DOES NOT FUNCTION IN BLIGHT MAPS. It is clear this was added with the intent to function in these Blighted maps, as if you cannot clear the Map in a normal Map, you cannot reach Cassia in the first place.

Follow up:

A friend I mentioned this to pointed out that Blighted/Ravaged maps actually are "Blight Encounters" despite many of the "Blight Encounter" nodes not helping at all.

Their basis for this is that Violet Oil's map modifier is:
"Lanes of Blight Encounters in Areas have 20% chance for an additional Reward Chest"

This does not directly implicate a bug due to all wording deliberately being "Blight Encounters in your Maps", but this adds to the misleading nature of the description of these nodes by blurring the line on what "Blight Encounter" means, as the description given by, for example:

Blight Encounter Chance
Your Maps have +4% chance to contain a Blight Encounter

--is referring to the Cassia master encounter in a Map as a "Blight Encounter", which is a distinctly different event from a Blight/Ravaged Map which Violet Oil refers to as a "Blight Encounter".