I noticed today playing the chain lightning sorceress that in the Earthen Wound dungeon, the aspect on the Axial Conduit unique pants, which changes the effect of chain lightning, doesn’t work on Corpse Barriers.
For reference, here is what the aspect does, and some additional information:
-Axial Conduit aspect: “Chain Lightning alternates between orbiting you and seeking up to 3 enemies. When it returns, it drains 6 Mana from you for each active Chain Lightning. After draining 66 total Mana, the bolt explodes for [225 - 900] Lightning Damage.”
-Character Level: 57
-World Tier: 3
This basically means that out of one cast of chain lightning (regardless if you miss the target you intend to hit or not), you get multiple hits, since the CL comes back to you like a boomerang and then seeks out the next target. But, in this dungeon, it seems like the aspect just doesn’t work with the Corpse Barriers. As soon as the bolt hits a Corpse Barrier, it stops there. It can bounce between enemies around it, but not off of the barrier.
This means that if you have this build, it takes around 30+ seconds to take down the barrier as you’re constantly out of mana and waiting on cooldowns.
This is extremely problematic for this dungeon since the Chain Lightning build relies on CL seeking and hitting multiple times. The Axial Conduit aspect is completely negated by those barriers and they have way too much health. For reference, my character is level 58 and I experienced the issue in a nightmare dungeon level 15, which I’m clearing with absolute ease.
Note: I did not think of testing this without the Axial Conduit pants, this very well might be affecting the regular Chain Lightning spell as well.