Tested and replicable: "Punishing Storm" for ability "Ice Storm" does not allow the ability to persist when switching weapons

I was wondering why my icestorm would suddenly stop sometimes and I realized it was happening whenever I switched to my fire staff. Then I stripped down only equipped the weapons only, cleared my talent tree and casted ice storm. I was able to switch weapons and ice storm persisted. Then I went through one by one until I reached “Punishing Storm” talent and the issue occured.

“Punishing storm” is arguably the most important part of that ability’s tree so please fix this! I’ve also tried this with other weapons like the rapier and spear and they same issue occured.

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  • What is your character name in New World: polq
  • What server/world did you experience your issue on: morrow
  • Is this a bug or an exploit: bug
  • (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay: Gimps an ability to be less effective
  • (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue: Described above
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  • What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced:
    To replicate:

Clear spec
Spec into ice storm → punishing storm
switch weapons.

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Confirmed this bug as well.

I am assuming it has something to do with how most passives/perks get flipped off when you weapon swap. So essentially the “Punishing Storm” passive is getting flipped off during weapon swap, which is also causing the Ice Storm ability to stop.

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That’s definitely the working theory!

bump

Please take a look at this one… breaks the best talent for ice gauntlet.

Has been like this since closed beta, reported and ignored since then.

can we please get a clear answer from dev team or what?
10 days without any replay???

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