u/Mark_GGG Does Energy Blade completely replace your weapons? Ie. Am I right in thinking you will have 0% base critical strike chance when using attacks while you have this buff, and your attack speed will have base unarmed attack speed before any other modifiers?
Does Energy Blade completely replace your weapons
Yes.
Am I right in thinking you will have 0% base critical strike chance when using attacks while you have this buff, and your attack speed will have base unarmed attack speed before any other modifiers?
No.
Follow-ups for clarification, if you don't mind:
a) Is Energy Blade a reservation skill that reserves ES in order to give you Energy Blade weapons?
b) Do Energy Blades require that you use another attack gem (meaning that what we saw in the trailer was Spectral Throw with Energy Blades equipped), or does having Energy Blades equipped grant you access to a separate skill that does what we saw in the trailer?
c) Is hitting with an Energy Blade considered a spell hit (no attack block, no Accuracy required) or attack hit (attack-blockable, requires an Accuracy vs Evasion check)?
d) There's an image of the 1h and 2h Energy Blades available in another post. They appear to have a pretty specific base damage rating. Does the amount of ES used/reserved have any effect on the blades (presumably increasing the base damage)?
e) Does equipping 1h Energy blades: 1) replace only the main hand weapon, allowing for shields and off-hand weapons to be used as normal; 2) replace any active weapon, i.e. both dual-wielded weapons, but ignore shields; or 3), replace anything equipped in the hands slots, making shields/off-hand weapons unavailable?
a) Is Energy Blade a reservation skill that reserves ES in order to give you Energy Blade weapons?
No. Energy shield cannot be reserved.
b) Do Energy Blades require that you use another attack gem (meaning that what we saw in the trailer was Spectral Throw with Energy Blades equipped), or does having Energy Blades equipped grant you access to a separate skill that does what we saw in the trailer?
The skill just gives you the weapons. If you want to attack with them, you'll need an attack skill that's usable with swords.
c) Is hitting with an Energy Blade considered a spell hit (no attack block, no Accuracy required) or attack hit (attack-blockable, requires an Accuracy vs Evasion check)?
They're weapons. You attack to use them.
d) There's an image of the 1h and 2h Energy Blades available in another post. They appear to have a pretty specific base damage rating. Does the amount of ES used/reserved have any effect on the blades (presumably increasing the base damage)?
How much max ES you have affects the implicit mod on the blades.
e) Does equipping 1h Energy blades: 1) replace only the main hand weapon, allowing for shields and off-hand weapons to be used as normal; 2) replace any active weapon, i.e. both dual-wielded weapons, but ignore shields; or 3), replace anything equipped in the hands slots, making shields/off-hand weapons unavailable?
2) with the exception of not working at all with Bows (because quivers are weird).
How do sockets work with the energy blade? if we have a 1 hander before are we losing the sockets on the weapon? when we use energy blade?
The Energy Blade your weapon transforms into still has the same the sockets (and things in them)
Can we get confirmation whether someone being linked with the new link skill can also link back to other player as well? For example, when I play with my gf can we both link to each other? So I give her some block and she gives me damage. Obviously with the downside of killing each other if either of us die.
If so these are the most interesting and fun skill gems I can remember ever being added to POE. In the past the ability to support another player in group play felt so limited without the huge currency and knowledge investment of going the aurabot route. And even then the gameplay didn't seem very interactive or interesting at all.
Bravo GGG! This league looks amazing.
There can only be a single link at a time between two given objects. If A links to B, B cannot simultaneously be linked to A.
Can A be the source node of multiple links? I.e A To B with one link skill and A to C with another?
Yes, or with two uses of the same skill.
How does Energy Blade interact with buff effect (like Ichimonji)?
What happens to global stats on your weapons that affect your energy shield (like int or global increased ES)? Do these factor into the calculation for the Energy Blade damage or do the stats on your existing weapons get completely ignored?
The effect of the buff is a less energy shield modifier. You can scale that with buff effect if you like.
Your weapons are transformed into Energy Blades, which do not have the same modifiers.
So it's maximum? The description led me to believe it's current
"x% of Life/Mana/Energy Shield" in PoE is always a % of the maximum value. This is commonly used throughout the game for stuff like "Regenerate x% of Life per second" and similar. Any weird thing taking a % of the current value instead would be explicit about that difference.
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