Contaigon / Essence Drain Bug

Unsure what exactly is happening and its difficult for me to re-create as it seems to occur completely randomly.

Granted i am new to the game so maybe there is some interaction im unaware of.

But when i cast Contagion / Essence Drain sometimes, the mobs will get tagged, i see the debuff on them but literally no damage happens. When the debuff expires and i recast, it'll work like normal.

The only thing I have noticed this seems to be more commonly occurring when the mobs are frozen.

So, i've done a bit more 'testing' far as i can with my limited knowledge. But i think the bug occurs / is caused by "Quicksand Hourglass" / "Sands of Time" from the chronomancy tree.

Again, its really hard to tell as this only presents itself for a limited window. but I THINK it occurs when you are at 1% of either trigger for AoE or Cast speed. Would need someone else to have a look too.

Still been playing around with this, taken my build a bit further down chaos route and it is also affecting Dark Effigy. No idea of what the cause is but something with my build is stopping Chaos damage from being fully viable.

Again, all debuffs show up under enemy health bars. But nothing happens. I've had a dark effigy slamming a single mob (with no resistances to chaos) doing absolutely nothing

Just further confirming this does seem to affect any and all Chaos skills i am using.

Just fought the witch boss in the Asak bog area, i can sit here and watch Contagion, essence drain and dark effigy do no damage for an entire duration. Wait for all 3 to expire, recast them on the boss with no change to anything i am doing and watch the health bar start to go down. Might be a low priority fix but it certainly needs to be looked at.

So i've refunded Quicksand hourglass to see if that was the cause, this isnt the cause of it. Happens regardless. I'll try working through each support gem one at a time removing things to see if i can find the trigger from those maybe but im doubtful they're the cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xcM2_3-wYQ

In the mean time. Here is a video of the bug.

I've taken all the support gems off of my chaos skills and most of the rest of my build and the bug still occurs. I cannot for the life of me figure out the cause of this.

So, i've just tried this with 0 support gems. Just whatever passive skills i have in the skill tree and the spells themselves. It still occurs with a base loadout.

Nothing i can see in the passive tree should affect anything, the only things i have in there are +%dmg, +effect durations etc.

I cannot fathom what is the cause of the bug. Unless it is something to do with the spells themselves and the Sorceress class / Chronomacer ascendency.



PS: As a further note, the bug interaction still happens if i kill a mob that has a Essence Drain / Contagion on them by other means (Frost spells for example) the Contagion will spread to other mobs and continue doing 0 Damage until it expires and is recast.



pps: Nevermind. Disregard the thread as i have figured it out. Turns out it is just to do with my inexperience. Ice Archon causing the no damage as part of the effect it gives.