Embrace the Darkness bug - Damage bypasses ES

I am a level 35 Monk with the Acolyte of Chayula ascendency and the Embrace the Darkness node.

When fighting the Mighty Silverfist his slam attacks are removing darkness and life but NOT Energy Shield. I have no reason to believe the damage would be chaos damage (I assume it's physical) so I believe this is a bug with Embrace the Darkness.

Here is a screenshot taken immediately after being hit by a pillar slam. You can still see the dust on the ground from the shockwave of the attack. My Darkness is completely gone (0/418) and my life is almost half gone (436/735) but my ES is full (110/110). I don't think I was hit by the other mobs so that damage should all be from that one hit from the Mighty Silverfist.



This bug has repeated upon multiple failed attempts to beat this boss.

I relogged and tested this with a white quadrilla and the first hit that finishes off the Darkness, the damage carries over to life and skips ES. I just got hit and my life (721/735) lost some but my ES is full (110/110) and Darkness ran out. It's hard to notice on small hits but has a big impact on one shots like the Might Silverfist attacks or if you have a sliver of life but full ES as darkness hits 0.

Bump. This bug is not fixed yet.

Just tested on cruel silverfist and his damage definitely seems to bypass ES on the big slams. 700 darkness, 1.2k es, 1k life. My life pool is dropping to nearly empty while most of my ES remains.

went CI and instantly died to the slam while ES still showed over half-full.

I can't get it to replicate on other enemies yet, might be slam related? or silverfist specific? Needs more testing.

Bump, good work

bumping cause i can't play my HC monk more until this is fixed lol.

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jstiller30#3012 เขียน:

Just tested on cruel silverfist and his damage definitely seems to bypass ES on the big slams. 700 darkness, 1.2k es, 1k life. My life pool is dropping to nearly empty while most of my ES remains.

went CI and instantly died to the slam while ES still showed over half-full.

I can't get it to replicate on other enemies yet, might be slam related? or silverfist specific? Needs more testing.

Any specific unique items you have equipped?

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Upload it to https://imgur.com/upload then share the link.

Have you allocated the notable "Heavy Buffer" on the tree by chance?

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7ekken#2619 เขียน:

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jstiller30#3012 เขียน:

Just tested on cruel silverfist and his damage definitely seems to bypass ES on the big slams. 700 darkness, 1.2k es, 1k life. My life pool is dropping to nearly empty while most of my ES remains.

went CI and instantly died to the slam while ES still showed over half-full.

I can't get it to replicate on other enemies yet, might be slam related? or silverfist specific? Needs more testing.

Any specific unique items you have equipped?

Want to screenshot your passive skill tree?

Upload it to https://imgur.com/upload then share the link.

Have you allocated the notable "Heavy Buffer" on the tree by chance?

Here's a video, skill tree included. https://imgur.com/a/eb4fMZj

And here's a video without darkness allocated to show that the bug is clearly caused by darkness and not the slam itself. (in this case ES works as intended) https://imgur.com/VXzeXvJ

The only unique I use is "dancing mirage" but I have removed it and gotten the same effect.

I do not have "Heavy Buffer" allocated.

I should note this doesn't happen on most hits, and in all cases with the current setup the remaining ES was the same (715, so perhaps that could be an insight into what's causing it). Its hard to test most hits aren't enough to fully deplete darkness, and those that do don't always seem to cause it.

I don't have the currency/gear to do major respects and testing, but I think I've shown that I can replicate the bug, and that this is basically game breaking for anyone who wants to use darkness, especially if you're also going CI where a single instance of this is instant death.

edit: ignore the black rectangle in the top right corner of the first video. that's from my webcam overlay that I left on during recording by accident.

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bump

Bumping one Acolyte of Chayula's Darkness bug report until it is bug-free, thank you for your efforts GGG.