PoE2 'Withering Touch' Support Gem Bug

Report Reference Number: 1,907,755,749

The support gem 'Withering Touch' does not seem to apply its debuff when attached to the spell 'Unearth', presumably because it is a ground effect AoE. It works fine with 'Chaos Bolt'.

Also, this support gem 'Withering Touch' does not seem to apply its debuff when attached to the spell Glacial Cascade doesn't do anything or apply any debuff? Am I missing something?

Hi, from my testing, I do believe that it only works with things that cause "chaos" damage.

Thus, the "chaos" tag.

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saucythighs#6405 wrote:

Report Reference Number: 1,907,755,749

The support gem 'Withering Touch' does not seem to apply its debuff when attached to the spell 'Unearth', presumably because it is a ground effect AoE. It works fine with 'Chaos Bolt'.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/2214

Also interested to know whether this is a visual bug or actually the debuff is not applied. But it's a bug either way because it clarly says that it should work with unearth

Does not seem to apply with Envenom and Gas Generate.. so not sure it works..

It's strange because it used to work on my rain of arrows then all of a sudden stopped working. I've made sure i have enough INT for it to activate, tried multiple different skills that its compatible with and it still doesnt work.
the weirdest thing about it is that it did work orignally. Somethings changed, maybe an update, or my stats, to stop it from working.

I tested this. It only works if the weapon/spell does chaos damage. For example, Rain of Arrows will only trigger the effect if the bow does chaos damage. This would be possible with a cultist bow. I think the text should say that it only works on chaos damage.

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xixosoad#4323 wrote:

I tested this. It only works if the weapon/spell does chaos damage. For example, Rain of Arrows will only trigger the effect if the bow does chaos damage. This would be possible with a cultist bow. I think the text should say that it only works on chaos damage.

You're right! i just added chaos infusion to my rain of arrows to force it to do chaos damage and withering touch now works again!!! Excellent. Thanks.