Low Lvl R/O Trap Not Showing Red. Bug?

I start my game with a grade 3 orange and red. I combine then to make grade 4 r/o dual gem. Only orange stat shows up? I have to add about 5-6 grade 1 reds to get it to show the red stat. Whats up with that.

you have to have at least 15 tower splash radius before red will work in a trap.

however, if you max out red (and bring orange to 9), you can combine the grade 3 red with a grade 3 orange, and you will only need to add one red gem to activate the splash.
have fun :).

You’re talking about in a trap, right?

If you look closely, it is a “dual orange-red”, but you’re not getting multi-hit.

The reason is simple – before a gem will hit more than one target in a trap, the splash radius needs to be 15 or greater. You can’t see the splash radius while it’s in a trap, only tower or inventory. If it’s in a trap and you keep adding red gems to it, then (for example) it will go 8>9.8>10.9>12.3>14.1>15.6 and bam you get multi-hit.

Cheers, I thought it would be something like that.

actually red does work in a trap regardless of it showing up on display, if you have at least 1 level in red mastery skill, I’ve tested that. But if you have none, then having red component below 15.0 splash radius outside traps will result in 1 target for the gem while it’s in a trap.

oh? really? I’ll have to test that myself…
:O it does…
I tested it on map 27, by combining the grade 6 O gem with my grade 2 red gem, and angering to get the monster density up.
it hits 4 targets/shot at that point.

I was going to compare mana using some red to mana using just the orange, but since multiple monster hp bars dropped every time it fired, this was unnecessary.

It does seem strange that it would jump from not showing up at all to 5 hits. I wonder if it was still hitting 2 or 3 whilst not showing. I have red and orange both maxxed out. im lvl 180 somthing at the moment.

Interesting finding… I wonder if we can get a slightly faster start by getting 3 grade 3 and 3 grade 4 R/O gems for traps at start? Probably not enough mana to deploy all of them in traps right off the bat, but it could help getting some extra traps…