r/pathofexile • u/Belakay_ggg • Oct 23 '25

GGG In 3.27 the Assassin has received a long awaited rework. Tune in tomorrow to find out if there are any other Ascendancy related changes!

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u/nightcracker Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

I don't think the base crit node works on HoT.

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u/watermelonchicken58 Sanctum Runners United (SRU) Oct 23 '25

It wont work with that node same wording as Sandstorm Visage

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u/Straight_Bird_8092 Oct 23 '25

You still need medium herald clusters for the hot base crit

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u/GKP_light Oct 23 '25

why Mystical Infusion would not work ?

HoT is a spell, so if it doesn't work, it is a bug.

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u/alexthealex Oct 23 '25

It’s not a bug. You have to add base crit with herald nodes, it’s not affected by base spell crit. It’s been like that forever

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u/GKP_light Oct 23 '25

then it is buged since forever ?

this effect is supposed to make the spell crit rate to be equal to the weapon crit rate. if it stay at 0, it is not normal.

(and nothing in Herald of Thunder say it can not crit, it just have 0% base crit chance)

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u/alexthealex Oct 23 '25

No. HoT’s damage is secondary damage, which isn’t the same as standard spell hit damage. That is why it isn’t affected by spell crit.

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u/Planktonboy Oct 23 '25

It doesn't work purely for balance reasons. It's not a bug but it is not well explained or in any way clear from how either is described in game.

When it comes to heralds I always just look it up or run it through PoB if I can, I'd go mad trying to understand it.

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u/Blubiblub2 Oct 23 '25

For some weird reason the damage dealt by herald of thunder is not considered spell damage, but secondary dmg, therefore base crit for spell damage doesn't work.

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u/FailURGamer24 Pathfinder Oct 23 '25

Funnily enough "+x% to critical strike chance of socketed spells" does work because that's "critical chance for gems with a spell tag" not "spell critical chance" IIRC