Path of Exile 2 Monk Tempest Bell Untargetable Bug

Hi,

I play in a weird way where I don't know anything about the game and just play blind HC SSF. I chose to play Monk and have been trying to use Tempest Bell as part of the build.

The bug is that the Tempest Bell is untargetable by the player. Couple of examples:

1. If you put a skill such as Ice Strike in your move/left click slot, the character will path around the Tempest Bell and not use the skill as if you gave a move command, because it doesn't recognize the Bell as a target.

2. If you put a skill on a slot other than left click and try to attack a Bell that you've placed, the game has an inherent monster targeting system that can brick you out of hitting the bell at times. So, for example, say I'm fighting a pack of monsters and drop the Bell and use Ice Strike. The Ice Strike will auto-target the monsters adjacent to the Bell, but it won't target the Bell itself. Using the 'Concentrated Effect' support gem, which I feel would normally be very good, Ice Strike constantly completely whiffs the bell and it doesn't go off. You end up hitting the monsters near the Bell and the Bell does nothing with no ability to switch to your intended target (the Bell) as the auto-target forces you to strike only the nearest monsters.

It's unbelievably annoying at bosses where I'm already playing a blind Hardcore & SSF run because you get a heavy stun and drop the Bell and then you waste your stun timer because your character is hitting the large hitbox of the boss and not hitting the Bell. The giant bone boss near the end of Act 2 has this problem constantly because its hitbox is huge. But it happens every fight basically. The damage is so much less if the bell is not being struck with every swing of the attack.

This may sound like small potatoes but its massive for the build/gameplay I am doing. Please add it to your small fixes to make as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Thank you for this post. I thought I was going crazy.

Every time I use the bell, the game gets incredibly buggy and I can't click the bell or the enemy. Seems the bell hitbox is messing with targeting but still doesn't activate attacks. I am forced to hold shift and attack in a direction behind the bell.

Very frustrating.