In the following picture:http://puu.sh/gtZPZ/902925e182.jpg
In Cascade, you can see my refraction emitter is distorting my sparks emitter quite heavily.
However, as seen in this picture: http://puu.sh/gtZSw/f9e1622d5b.jpg
The refraction seems to only affect everything that’s not the sparks emitter, meshes and such.