Piercing Spike double explosion removed?

[KillianQ]

Hi...not sure if this is intended or not but apparently the double detonation of Piercing Spike (Piercing Spike 4x > Spear Hand left+click > Poking Beehive) has been removed and the spikes will only explode on the first detonation

(Also TKN stage 2 attack indicators are buggy...shows where the wolf will strike but instead does the opposite)

[alanine]

It is removed by the time sb gets awakening (or in our case half-awakening ). Its intended but its okay since ps damage increased twice as much anyway. We cannot do double deto now, but you can still explode spikes by either using spear hand or beehive. But, since spear hand (unexploded version) can also be detonated by beehive, its better to detonate it along with the spikes instead. I also think spear hand exploded by beehive is crazily OP.

So by now, my rotation goes this way: Piercing Spike (2x or 4x depends on cd) > Spear Hand (unexploded) > Poking beehive. This set-up is also a bit faster since Spear Hand has faster animation now.

I think this will change a bit by the time full awakening comes. There will be another detonator skill which is Flag Sign. *waiting*

[Nimmienaticz]

Yes its removed.
But you will notice that all explosion gets doubled or I can say really buffed up.
My piercing spike exploded with PB around 180-250m, now become so wow 450m++
My spear hand exploded with PB around 250-400m, now become 750m++
Also notice Spring Haze's retracting spears damage, gets almost tripled dmg.
* these data are from my sub char sb with town stats : 375k avg matk / 88.6% light atk / 67% crit / 5.1k fd *

All i can say is got almost par (but not never been equal) with my co-guildies' Black Mara DPS.

And as friendly advice before Awakening, try these simple stuffs since you will still get much more wasted with mobile bosses.
1. Piercing Spike 2x > (get close on thrown spikes) then DETONATE it with Spear Hand
2. Piercing Spike 2x > (get close a bit on thrown spikes) then DETONATE it with Poking Beehive.
3. Spear Hand (full cast) > (let spear hand lingers around 2-2.5 sec on air) then DETONATE it with Poking Beehive.

Why try these? Notice Piercing Spikes & Spear Hands COOLDOWN. (insane cd @_@ even if u are using cd skill plates)

[KillianQ]

i literally forgot about exploding spear hand with PB :/ but yeah i did notice that the explosions deal a lot more damage now even though it's just one detonation