Righteous Fire Bug (Unable to activate after switching which item the skill gem is in)

When Righteous Fire is active, if you unsocket the skill gem and place it in another piece of armor/weapon, you are unable to reactivate the skill. If the gem is then placed back in the original sockets, RF becomes active again.

Steps to Reproduce:

1) Place Righteous Fire in a skill gem slot
2) Active Righteous Fire
3) Unsocket Righteous Fire
4) Place Righteous Fire in a new socket in another item
5) Attempt to activate Righteous Fire (noticing it doesn't work)
6) Unsocket Righteous Fire
7) Place back in the original socket
8) Notice Righteous Fire turns on automatically

Workarounds:

Place Righteous Fire in the socket it was in when originally activated.
Go to a new zone to deactivate Righteous Fire and re-socket it.
Leaving Righteous Fire in the new slot and changing zones.

Not a large bug but it did take some time for me to figure out what was going on haha. Thanks for reading!

is your degen from RF still on when unsocketing the skill?

RF should be designed so that it cant be turned off easily, this behavior might be a consequence of this design.

Great question. No the skill is not active after switching the gem to a new socket. There is no visual effect or degen and using the skill does nothing at that point. It's like it becomes stuck "on" but only becomes "active" once you place the skill gem back in the original socket it was turned on in.

If you unhide your characters, we can see your gear.
I just tested this in STD and it does the same thing, weird.

I think unsocketing the skill should remove all the effects except degen on you

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Ludvator wrote:

I think unsocketing the skill should remove all the effects except degen on you

and since you can't get "double debuff" from the same skill, then I assume that this is why it happens like that.
If you left the RF gem in the "new" position and change instance, then you would be able to turn RF on.

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HanSoloDK wrote:

If you left the RF gem in the "new" position and change instance, then you would be able to turn RF on.

Correct, sorry for not including that in the original workarounds.

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DoubleU wrote:

If you unhide your characters, we can see your gear.
I just tested this in STD and it does the same thing, weird.

I unhid them (I think it's taking a bit to update the settings). The character is FelixBurninShift.

I can't cast RF no matter how I try. I'm totally confused

RF deactivates when you have 1 life left.

With Chaos Innoculation you have 1 life max.

Result: you can't cast RF while you have Chaos Innoculation.

Bug still in the game 2024. Start of Necro league.