Path of Exile Dev Tracker

We will have an announcement later today that has all of the information you need for launch day. The realm goes down at 6am NZT and you should be able to begin patching around 30 minutes or so after that. The realm comes up at 9am NZT at which point Synthesis will be live. (Or the realm goes down three hours before the countdown ends and comes up when the countdown ends)

We don't know yet if we will be able to provide a torrent this evening but if we do it typically becomes available at around 8-9pm NZT.

Yep, Energy Leech Support alongside Soul Tether provides both more recovery and makes it very easy to get the leeching damage multiplier from the support.

Minions get all of the stats from the Arcane Surge support, but most don't spend mana so they can't grant themselves Arcane Surge. There are a few spectres that do spend mana. If your minion did somehow get Arcane Surge, they'd get the spell damage multiplier from the support. If you get Arcane Surge from another source, you'll still get the damage multiplier from the support.

Each element's exposure is a different debuff, so you can add all three with different casts.

Storm Burst explode aoe while channelling: 16 units Storm Burst explode on release: 22 units The +radius stat on the gem adds to the radius of both of these.

Yes, they are.

There is some strange behaviour I'll have to investigate further with weapon swapping, but Icestorm appears to share an unleash count between weapon swaps, so you can't swap between two Whispering Ices to get a double unleash. Non-item skills seem to reset their count to 1 seal.

Edit: Okay, we've found the reasons, if the same skill is socketed in the same socket position in the item (or is granted by the item) then it won't reset seals when you switch, so they're effectively shared. We're going to fix skills starting at 1 seal when socketed or switched to, just in case there was something funky you could do with that.

I’m thinking Unleash Arc, see if I nerfed it too hard!

Soul Tether and Energy Leech Support both count as Leeching Energy Shield, and their effects will stack, so you can be leeching 20% of your max life as ES and 10% of your max ES as ES, and either of these sources will count for the conditional damage bonus of the Energy Leech Support.

Yep, Divine Ire can't be affected by fork/chain.

Yes, Curse Effect Duration affects Bane's duration.

It's also worth noting that the increased area of effect from the Hex Master notable applies to Bane.

I'll see what we can do!

Radius 21 at gem level 1

Yep! Hence why the skill has such low base hit damage.

The buff it gives is a damage multiplier, so it doesn't care about skill tags, only damage dealt. The buff granted is based on the four damage type tags, so a hypothetical fire/chaos channelled skill would give a buff that grants 10% more Fire damage and 10% more Chaos damage.

Divine Ire is definitely closer, because you want to release at the right moment for maximum damage, while Storm Burst's release is really just a bit of extra damage and some aoe when you're done dishing out focused damage.

It's not bad, but if every projectile acted that way fired by every monster, you'd start to feel it. Fast flying arrows, for example, would have to check enemies considerably more often than Ball Lightning, which doesn't have to check nearby as often as it is moving slower.

Just the Divine Ire zap damage.