A question for those who use Raging Spirits about "Damage to Attacks" application.

I play blind, Hardcore SSF. I don't watch videos, read anything about builds, nor look at underpinning formulae explaining how anything works, tactics, strategies, and so forth. I don't even read the patch notes, much less the forums.

But then something happened around the first few days of June and now I am losing my mind a bit. Apparently the devs radically changed how Raging Spirits work such that it is greatly reduced in its usefulness.

Before then, "Damage to Attacks" would apply from gloves, boots, scepters, and rings to the skulls produced by Raging Spirits. You could see the damage itemized in the Raging Spirits info panel as well as demonstrate it to yourself with a few experiments.

Then, sometime around the first five days of June, there must have been an update that completely obliterated all "Damage to Attacks" application to Raging Spirits, as well as removing any damage information about the attack whatsoever.

I presumed it was a nerf that the devs decided was appropriate, but given I don't look stuff up, I decided to try to use Grok to get a basic confirmation that "Damage to Attacks" had been disassociated from Raging Spirits, without accidently seeing any type of spoilers or advisory information.

Grok said that no such thing had been done that it was aware of. In testing, it is demonstrative that "Damage to Attacks" is no longer applied, at least of the types I know about so far--physical, cold, fire, and lightning. I made a post about this a few days ago and and individual told me that it was 100% certain that nothing had changed but rather that I had forgot some combination of equipment I was using that led to the effect and now that I am not using it, the effect is not working.

This may very well be the case, but now I have spent many hours trying all the different types of equipment that I had previously used in my builds, as well as different combos of support gems, hoping I might find some hidden additional quality on a piece of equipment or support gem that granted the additional damage capabilities. I have found nothing.

In addition, I did a search for "Raging Spirits" in the patch notes forum and found nothing germane. I realize I might be able to dig deeper and find the information I am looking for divorced from the term "Raging Spirits", but I cannot do that without seeing things I am sure I don't want to know, given I enjoy playing games blind.

Can anybody simply confirm that either "Damage to Attacks" has been purposefully disassociated from Raging Spirits or that they are certain it still works because it works in their game.

Maybe I need to uninstall and reinstall the game.

I suck at the game thus far (my current run is my best and I am at level 32 and about to go see something called the Dreadnought for the first time), so if there is a method to establish "Damage to Attacks" to Raging Spirits with more advanced gameplay or methods, that is not what I was doing. This worked for me with no support gems on Raging Spirits when it did work. It worked without elemental gain damage or damage conversion.

If anyone can confirm that "Damage to Attacks" has been removed from affecting Raging Spirts--at least early on in a run--or can confirm that it does work for them, I would appreciate it. If it does work, just tell me that and nothing else and I'll let this neurosis pass until I stumble upon the solution again or have a eureka moment.

My apologies for my longwindedness.

This game is awesome. I am enjoying my stuggle up the mountain.