Issue with Runegraft of the Novamark - corpse keeps the mark

Video link. (Sorry for the audio, i was watching Tekken 8 Finals at CEO and didn't know that was going to be recorded too.)

So i wanted to see it the runegraft of novamark worked with pyroclast mine - it does, but there's this issue: the corpse keeps the mark, so the spell keeps being casted at the marked corpse.

I don't know if this is intended, i know there are workarounds for this but it feels unintuitive for the mark to remain on the corpse.
Last bumped on Jul 14, 2025, 11:46:06 AM
Bump, can confirm this behavior is weird as the corpse should not remain a valid marked target beyond the time it is alive. The time gap between the mark remaining valid on the corpse so all novas are redirected to it and when normal behavior of nova targeting returns makes it difficult to clear normally.
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Ehemyo#7259 wrote:
Bump, can confirm this behavior is weird as the corpse should not remain a valid marked target beyond the time it is alive. The time gap between the mark remaining valid on the corpse so all novas are redirected to it and when normal behavior of nova targeting returns makes it difficult to clear normally.


I guess this is a "leftover issue"; as curses and marks have a bunch of shared behavior, and curses stay on the corpse for the purpose of things like Asenath's Gentle Touch:

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Enemies near corpses affected by your Curses are Blinded
Enemies Killed near corpses affected by your Curses explode, dealing
3% of their Life as Physical Damage


But it is a bug because, when they changed marks to being permanent instead of having a duration back in 3.17, the patch notes also state:

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Applied Marks are removed when the Marker, player or monster, dies.
At least for me, (curse limit of 2) it only keeps the mark on the corpse *sometimes.* Which is even worse.
I have a similar issue with shockwave totems and the runegraft of the novamark. When the marked target dies, the totems continue to try to attack the dead, previously marked enemy's location until I mark a new target. It seems the override for "Attack Marked Target" is persisting even after the target dies including for totems.
Bump, feelsbadman

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