Doedre's Elixir Greater Mana Flask. 5649 Health. Lv.1 CWDT not firing?

When I use , shouldn't my level 1 CWDT activate? Because it doesn't on the first flask use, but will on the 2nd use.

CWDT should activate at 528 damage. Doedre's flask takes 10% of my health (564) on use as chaos damage (I don't think it matters, but I have -36 chaos res).

My last character it worked fine. Has this changed or am I missing something?

The Chaos res DO matter. :)

Then I should be taking even more damage (I meant it shouldn't matter because it's in the negative)

You should look at the guy who made a build in the shadow forum. It says that the -60 chaos res was mandarory. I don't know how it exactly works, but I'm pretty sure he tried as well and he finally found that chaos res does actually matter. :)

Chaos resistance matters for damage calculation, but with a negative it should not be the issue.

My other character has 5300 health with -20 something chaos res and Doedre + CWDT works fine. That's less health and more chaos res than the one Im working with now (5649 health, -36 chaos res).

Just tested with no chaos res and its still the same outcome - not firing on first/every use.

Nope, Ive tried CWDT with a variety of setups same thing.

I just logged in my other guy and it does not work like it did, again needed 2 shots of the flask to activate my CWDT.

What's changed?

I did more testing, first of all:

1. The damage model is definitely off, not sure how/why but the elixer should be taking more than enough health to trigger the CWDT. It wasn't until I got to 5738 health that it triggers right away.

So that's annoying... but not a game breaker.

What IS a game breaker is the timing of Enchants and Phase Run.

2. When I'm wearing that has a "word of reflection enchant" on, any attempt of using Phase Run on a CWDT is nullified, as this enchant always "goes off" after any Phase run in the chain (Regardless if its last in the 4 link) and shuts off the phase run.