Aiming with Spells (Contagion / Essence Drain)

Hi there,

first of all: I know poe2 is different from poe1 and i appreciate the increased difficulty.

Yet i have some trouble hitting spells. Especially Contagion doesn't behave as it SHOULD as i think. I hover over a monster, cast it, and it hits a minion 3 rows further back. That happens EVERY cast.

Anyone else has a similar problem?

i've also been experiencing this so frequently i had to google to see if there was an explanation or fix for this, bringing me to your post

stand still, dont move your mouse, press essence drain. Notice how skill flies ~5cm higher of ur cursor. Yepppp :D

Looks like a 'fix' was implemented yesterday~ish. On launch Contagion would not be able to target the monster you have highlighted if too many monsters were on the screen.

The 'fix' seems to be if you use Essence Drain on a monster the Contagion will have a higher chance of targeting the monster hit by ED. The problem with this is now its a semi-auto target and a bad fix. Just make Contagion do a Small AOE similiar to PoE 1 and the skill is actually fixed.

Essence Drain also has a strange targeting feature or hitbox on monsters. The skill combinations are acutally incredibly bad. Im still using it but it I had to go to trade and buy a better wand as I couldnt kill Viper.

The game itself is horribly unbalanced and quite sad that they sold this to people for $30.

i dont use essence drain first because it rips through enemy health so quickly i can't get contagion to hit the correct enemy soon enough. i throw out contagion to set up the drain, but yeah if i aim at the closest enemy it instead targets an enemy farther away. it's been very frustrating. i also wish i could have contagion hit multiple enemies

good i am not alone with that problem

+1, needs to be fixed

i am hovering over the minion in the front of the group to cast contagion (cause i need to hit it with ed afterwards), and contagion targets a random minion in the back of the pack...

please fix

I'm having the same issue. Aiming with essence drain to the left or right causes the spell to shoot above your cursor. Contagion just locks on to a random mob in the pack instead of the one you're aiming at.

It's a terrible feeling having to stack two debuffs on mobs that are swarming you, when your spells aren't hitting the ones your cursor is on.

I have the same issue.

Feels really weird while targeting. Maybe reverting Contagion (AoE in PoE 1) solves this.

Or we need better and more accurate targeting system for sure.

I do think this should be addressed by GGG, chaos feels in a super bad place right now and the inconsistency of being able to land your combos it incredibly infuriating.

the weird thing is I can cast on the minion directly infront of me and it lands on one 3-4 meters behind it. (not even directly behind)

Its not intuitive at all.

Please GGG just make it a small aoe on the cursor, it would make it so much more enjoyable to play.