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DPS preview when swapping out lynchpin gem shows output for next default skill, sometimes misleadingly
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Description
- What happened?
Messing with supports for a minion, I had their Infernal Legion DPS selected for Main Skill. When I then moved to the dropdown for picking a different support in the Infernal Legion slot, the preview tooltip claimed that changing to Elemental Focus would give me an unrealistic +1M DPS boost.
If I select the gem previewed, it changes my Main Skill to Minion Instability, with the resulting DPS matching the "+DPS inc. Poison" part of the strange preview. I'm not sure where the +1M Total DPS comes from.
- What were you trying to do?
No clear use case here--you typically don't want to be swapping out the gem that gives you your "Main Skill" DPS anyway. It was an accidental encounter while exploring gem options. But in a less obviously-wrong case it could mislead someone about their DPS prospects!
- What steps will reproduce the bug?
- Create a new build
- Add a minion skill and Infernal Legion support
- Go to the dropdown from Infernal Legion and hover over a different support. Note the possibly strange preview numbers
- Select the new gem. The Main Skill changes, with its numbers resembling the preview.
- Does it reproduce every time? If not, why so?
Yes, although the specific numbers vary wildly depending on the rest of the build's setup.
- Additional information:

Suggested fix would be to have any such preview say that it's removing all the DPS, making clear that you're effectively deleting that source of damage.
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue by creating a new build, adding a minion skill with Infernal Legion, and hovering over another support in its dropdown. Trace the preview and gem-selection entry points to see why the Main Skill changes, then verify that the preview clearly reflects removal of the current DPS source and no longer reports misleading totals.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100