Curse + Decaying Hex not compatible with Chaotic Freeze/Hinder

Gem description
Chaotic Freeze:
"Supports Spells that deal NON-AILMENT CHAOS DAMAGE OVER TIME. Enemies taking damage over time from Debuffs caused by supported skills will suffer Freeze build up from Chaos damage Hits from any source."
"Chaos damage contributes to Freeze buildup for hits against targets taking damage over time from supported skills."

Decaying Hex:
"Supports Curse skills. Cursed enemies' bodies decay, taking CHAOS DAMAGE OVER TIME."
"Supported skills inflict Decay, dealing 30% of Intelligence as Chaos damage per second for 8 seconds."

This is very unintuitive, and should be fixed. I planned my entire build around this interaction from wording very clearly should work together - and now it doesn't.

Guess i'm ditching it for now, and just going back to playing Cold build instead.

Edit: Add Hinder to the list

Last edited by Rammune#1434 on Dec 11, 2024, 5:05:45 AM
Last bumped on Jan 9, 2025, 11:33:33 AM
I think you got confused, chaotic freeze only enables freeze build up from chaos hits, not damage over time.
The chaos totem, essence drain, chaos bolt and hexblast would work, oh, and probably impending doom.
Last edited by Lanasa#4101 on Dec 12, 2024, 8:38:08 PM
"Supports Spells that deal NON-AILMENT CHAOS DAMAGE OVER TIME"

I think you got it confused. It supports skills that deals DoT damage, so that Chaos hit damage FROM ANY SKILL will build up Freeze.
Can confirm. This doesn't seem to work on most of my Chaos Damage over Time abilities. This includes both Contagion and Profane Ritual.
I was originally planning my build around this idea, but after carefully reading the skill interactions, I realized there's a limitation. Chaotic Freeze can only support spells that inherently cause damage over time, like Essence Drain or Contagion. Unfortunately, curses like Despair don't inherently deal damage over time. Even if you add the Decaying Hex support, Despair itself still doesn't qualify as a damage-over-time spell. Because of this, it can't be supported by Chaotic Freeze. This seems to be the intended behavior, though it's a bit disappointing.

My initial plan was to combine Despair with Decaying Hex and Chaotic Freeze, using Chaos Bolt to freeze everything and then detonate the curse once the monsters were frozen. However, it seems this approach won't work as intended due to the restrictions on Chaotic Freeze.
Bump.
Would be nice to know if this is a bug or an intended behaviour.

If chaotic freeze could work with decaying hex, that would be great for pure chaos builds (like acolyte of chayula with original sin).

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