[Resolved] Monsters randomly not taking any damage.

Possibly to help narrow things down, I am playing a chronomancer with Blackflame Covenant and Quicksand Hourglass.

It is most noticeable with fireball, but sometimes when attacking monsters with spells they seem to take no damage at all randomly. At first I thought maybe its just bad luck against passive resistance, but monsters with vulnerable to fire and chaos along with objects like the pillars during the chimera fight in act 3 seem to take no damage. The only consistent thing that seem to work was either adjusting my position or "retargeting"(take cursor off and back on target) to damage the monster. In the case of the pillars it seemed to depend how close and or what angle I hit the from. Like the northern most pillar took no damage when I stood at the bottom right and point blank but started taking damage as I moved more to the left.

I've experienced this with the above mentioned passives removed as well. I made a recording of an example of this too that I posted to Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1njbwcf/i_think_fireball_has_a_collision_issue/

I'm admittedly somewhat new to Path of Exile and unsure if this is perhaps just bad luck with resistance, but it seems to happen so much and with monsters and objects I feel it should occur with that it feels like a bug. Perhaps a collision issue? I'm not sure...but figured it can't help to report it or be corrected and learn more about the game mechanics.

EDIT: This can be ignored. Apparently I missed or misunderstood how conversion works in combination with Archon buffs; Once I took off Archon of Flame things seem to work fine.

Last edited by IMPress#2417 on Sep 30, 2025, 7:53:21 PM
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