Path Of Exile Flame Wall infinite damage exploit to finally be addressed, confirms developer

Path Of Exile is a popular ARPG-MMO developed by Grinding Gear Games. The game has been available since 2013 in a free-to-play format.

Path Of Exile is currently available on older-gen consoles (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One), Windows OS devices, and even macOS devices.

The game offers a huge world with a ‘medieval dark fantasy’ setting. However, there is currently an exploit that has the potential to break the game.

More specifically, the exploit causes the Path Of Exile Flame Wall spell to deal infinite damage (1, 2, 3, 4).

‘Flame Wall’ is a Path Of Exile spell that, as its name suggests, deals damage to the enemy by creating wall of flames. Also, the Flame Wall spell will add ‘fire damage’ to projectiles you shoot through it.

However, a bug currently allows players to deal ‘infinite damage’ by taking advantage of the ability to add fire damage to projectiles.

PSA: Eye of winter mines with flame wall seems to be bugged

Straight from the Korean community, there is a conversation going on about eow mines and flame wall’s weird interactions. Currently it seems to be multiple projectiles from eye of winter can apply multiple instances of the flame wall debuff. When used with eow mines, it results in ignite “shotguns.” Just saying 😉
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Is flame wall gonna get fixed?

Apparently there is a bug where flame wall can apply infinite stacks of ignite i watched ventrua doing all bosses to showcase it he inflicted ignite on shaper for so long in first phase that when he reached second phase the shaper was still burning from ignite damage you can basically inflict ignite for few minutes logout from game wait for bosses to die and log back in.
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A Path Of Exile player offers a more detailed explanation of how the exploit works:

for whatever reason, the projectiles from eye of winter (and cremation but its less good) mines with blastchain mine and only if you have all of those things combined will all apply the dot and increase the duration of the dot from when a projectile goes through the flame wall instead of just refreshing the single instance of the dot like normal.
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A member of the Path Of Exile development team reveals that they are already aware of the game-breaking issue. Also, the fix is expected to arrive today (May 9).

Our intention is to not nerf or buff any builds. This generally includes not going out of our way to aggressively fix bugs that do benefit those builds. However, there is a point where something is so insanely game-breaking that it warrants an immediate fix regardless. We will fix it as soon as possible, ideally today.
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We will update this story once new details about the matter emerge.

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