Gore spike

Gore spike is not working. Tool tip is not updating and after killing crux boss several times with significant life differences to test, the damage is not increasing either.

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squireyork#4729 wrote:

Gore spike is not working. Tool tip is not updating and after killing crux boss several times with significant life differences to test, the damage is not increasing either.

PoE 2 Bug Reports:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/2214


GGG posted that the tooltip not working is known. This was posted back in January so while something *may* have happened to break it, you need very specific conditions to truly very not working. 100% crit, low enough crit damage that the crit damage from Gore Spike is noticeable, and non-wide damage ranges. Using any of the lightning spells, for example, is not a good test. I think Impending Doom (when only used from full mana) and maybe some attribute stacking skills are the only consistent damage skills atm.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3635409/filter-account-type/staff#p25823061

If you're still sure it is bugged beyond the tooltip, include exact conditions with and without Gore spike, including a bug report number and possibly multiple video kills to show a noticeable difference. Otherwise it sounds like you maybe low rolled consecutively with either non-crits and/or low damage. Or maybe some other conditional skills like curses weren't up. There's quite a lot of variables that can result in lower damage beyond Gore Spike not working.

I tested by exclusively using Reap as my damage source. I ran the crux with my life total at 5k wearing kaoms and veiled crown of the night Martyr. Ran it again with those off at 2k life total and there was no noticeable difference to damage dealt using Reap. Ran a third time with gear off and with gore spike off and still no noticeable difference to damage from reap. Crit chance was 95% for each run and tooltip remained at 190k dps for each configuration and appeared to be an accurate number for the damage I was actually doing. Crit damage bonus without gore spike is %477
With gore Spike and gear to make life total roughly 5k on, crit damage should be at least %577 which would be a noticeable difference

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squireyork#4729 wrote:

crit damage should be at least %577 which would be a noticeable difference

1% crit dmg per 50 life
3000 life difference
60% crit damage between the 2 tests with Gore Spike
100% crit damage overall with Gore Spike

Going from 477% to 537% crit damage between the Gore Spike tests. Which is roughly a 12% crit dmg increase. 12% is not going to be noticeable. Even the 20% difference from the full 100% crit dmg not working won't be noticeable when you have that much crit damage already due to diminishing returns.

Especially when level 30 Reap has a base damage of 1432-2148 damage. My math sucks, but that's like a 50% damage difference comparatively between low roll and high roll? 20% more damage from a low roll Reap is still well below the damage of a high roll Reap without 20% more damage. So on a dozen tests, you probably won't notice it, especially if you miss a few crits consecutively.

If you still want to test further, I would still recommend less crit damage on gear/tree (more noticeable crit damage from Gore Spike), a skill with less of a damage roll, video if possible, and bug report number in the correct section of the forums. Otherwise you're far less likely to get any eyes on this post from staff as there's hundreds of bug reports daily in PoE 2 bug reports already.