Impale Only Applies on First Hit with Empowered Attacks from The Anvil

Hi GGG team,

I’ve found a bug related to Impale and the Empowered Attacks granted by The Anvil in Path of Exile 2.

When I use a basic auto-attack supported by Impale Support, and I activate the Anvil forge which empowers the next 12 attacks, I’ve noticed that:

Impale is only applied on the first hit. The following 11 empowered attacks do not apply Impale at all, even though they deal physical damage and should be considered separate hits.

This seems to indicate that the whole 12-hit sequence is being treated as a single hit context for Impale application, which contradicts normal behavior — every hit should have a chance to apply Impale independently.

Steps to reproduce:

Use a melee character with a basic auto-attack and Impale Support.

Trigger an Anvil to empower your next 12 attacks.

Attack an enemy and observe the Impale stacks.

Only the first hit applies Impale — the rest don’t, until the Empowered Attacks are exhausted.

Expected behavior:
Each of the 12 empowered hits should behave like individual hits and apply Impale normally if the chance is met.

Let me know if a video or additional testing is needed — I’m happy to help.
Thanks for your continued work on PoE 2 — it’s been awesome so far!