Fire Trap + Curse on Hit Broken?

I see that curse on hit isn't working with my fire trap. Is this intentional?

If it is intentional, then why does the tool tip for fire trap in my skill bar say "29% chance to apply linked curses on hit?"

Is this because the initial explosion of a fire trap does not meet the definition of "hit?" Am I just missing an obscure PoE terminology definition?

Finally, if that is the case, wouldn't it be less confusing to the average player not to have that misleading descriptor added at all?

The initial explosion does count as a hit. Does it work with other traps/totems?

Don't forget that 29% isn't a very high chance. You'd need to do atleast 10-20 hits before you could be reasonably sure you weren't just unlucky.

I've done at least 100. Probably close to a thousand. In all that time, I've never noticed the curse trigger, and I've been paying close attention for the past 100 or so hits.

To answer your question, it doesn't appear to work with Shockwave Totem either (which, by the way, *does* use the word "hit" in its attack description). Yet Shockwave Totem also claims in its tool tip to be able to cast linked curses on hit.

Am I doing something wrong? Here's how I have it equipped:

Edit: Nevermind.

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Vipermagi wrote:

Curse on Hit is linked to the Skill that creates a Fire Trap - not to the Skill that deals Fire Damage and creates Burning Ground.

Perhaps it is the tooltip descriptor that is broken then. And/or the description of the gem itself.

Or both of the above are correct and it's merely buggy. I'm seeing a lot of complaints on the COH gem feedback thread as well, in relation to both traps and totems. Perhaps this is something that will be fixed in the next patch.

It's the same reason reflect doesn't hit you when you use fire traps...you are not hitting anything with the fire trap. You are throwing a trap that and the trap is doing the hitting.

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mark1030 wrote:

It's the same reason reflect doesn't hit you when you use fire traps...you are not hitting anything with the fire trap. You are throwing a trap that and the trap is doing the hitting.

Yeah, that's what I assume as well.

If it's intentional, then hopefully they'll fix the inaccurate tooltip, and misleading description, in the upcoming patch.

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mark1030 wrote:

It's the same reason reflect doesn't hit you when you use fire traps...you are not hitting anything with the fire trap. You are throwing a trap that and the trap is doing the hitting.

That's pretty stupid. Why does it work with shockwave totem then, if that's the case?

It doesn't work with shockwave totem. It merely is described as working (both description and tooltip).

I'm assuming it's a mistake, but oddly no one from GGG has chimed in on the official feedback thread despite multiple requests to do so and clarify on this question.