POE 2 - Charged Staff stops working after shapeshifting.

If you have Charged Staff buff active and shapeshift, then turn back into human and use a Staff attack you will no longer benefit from Charged Staff buff.

- Buff will remain active, but will do nothing
- Re-casting buff does not fix the problem
- You have to let buff run out and then re-cast it to make it work again

My recording of the bug: https://youtu.be/Jwg5DxBFxDs

Last bumped on Jun 2, 2026, 5:20:20 PM
+1
+1 RIP my Pounce Monk
Can confirm this is still happening with both Charged Staff and Staggering Palm.

Based on how weapon switching otherwise works (both charged staff and staggering palm triggering) I would assume this is a bug related to how shapeshifting works.

Bumping this in the hope for an update on a fix or at least to get it on the devs radar!
Any update on this bug getting fixed?
Still happening, making me not want to play this build for .5 :(

Hopefully it gets fixed!
First report of this was in January, seriously not fixed in mid-May wtf?
IGN: Eso_Es
I don't know what's more insane. The fact that this is 100% repeatable, (literally just use the buff and shapeshift) or the fact that this is one of the most widely used combinations of monk abilities with one of the most widely used shapeshifting forms and this topic has barely any comments.

Thousands of players don't realize that the little blue waves of light... just stop?

We're not talking about some insanely niche interaction, this is used by SIX percent across the ENTIRE poe.ninja repo of 124,057 characters. This would be like you walking down the street and every 16 people you saw, one of them would have a missing head, except NOBODY mentions or notices it.

Wild!
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still bug in 0.5
Bumping. I did this in .4 and and it bricked my build idea. Thought it would be fixed in .5 and it bricked my build idea again. have 0 clue how this hasn't been fixed

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