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Originally posted by [deleted]

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We're not still writing them. It's 11,000 words in 7 languages. It takes a long time to simply prepare the logistics of the post.

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Originally posted by Bex_GGG

Thanks for the energy everyone! It's working.

Oops, I meant this image

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Originally posted by hurix

So, in 3.6, do you determine the leech recovery target for each network frame?

From the Wiki of Soul Tether:

The second example is when a player takes chaos damage while on full life, and partially full energy shield. In this situation, any previously-created leech continues to recover to energy shield, while new instances of leech are sent to life. This will have the appearance of both pools leeching simultaneously.

These two pools won't leech simultaneously, as previously-created leech will "swap back" to recover life? Basicly making sure, life is always full before life leech recovery is applied to ES?

So, in 3.6, do you determine the leech recovery target for each network frame?

No, that would be entirely unecessary. If you have Soul Tether, when the "on full life" stat changes, that causes the stats for total life recovery per second and total ES recovery per second to both recalculate - and one of them (but not both) will include the total recovery from life leech stat in that recalculation, based on whether you're on full life or not.

So not every frame, only when the "full life" state changes.

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Originally posted by td941

Taking leech nodes makes it better.

if you want to invest in leech its not hard to just take the nodes and not worry about it.

All well and good to say "just take the passive node and see how it goes" but fact is that it costs you regrets to undo a choice.

The problem isn't working out which nodes buff leech. As you acknowledged, it's working out which ones to prioritise. If I have three points but there are five possible nodes I can take, which ones will help my build the most? It's impossible to know without understanding how the mechanic works, and it is a complex mechanic to try and understand.

And there will be some situations where in order to improve the leeching, what the player should be doing is not taking more leech nodes, but instead taking more damage nodes to increase the size of each leech instance.

I appreciate that u/Mark_GGG took the time to explain...

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In his "simple" example, there are five input variables (Maximum Life, % increased Maximum Recovery per Life Leech, % increased total Recovery per second from Life Leech, % increased Maximum total Recovery per second from Life Leech, and % of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life) from which three leech-related variables are derived (Life Leech Recovery Rate, Maximum Recovery per Life Leech, and Maximum total Recovery per second from Life Leech).

This is because this example was fundamentally not intended to be "simple", it was intended to be comprehensive - it intentionally includes everything that could affect the leech calculation.

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Originally posted by Dolandlod

Your Life Leech Recovery Rate is 20 Life per second (2% of max life per second). Each life leech instance will provide 20 Life per second.

Where does this even come from? It says it can be derived from the following facts, but I don't see any relation.

All leech instances use a recovery rate that's 2% of the maximum of what they're leeching.

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Originally posted by ZiggyZobby

Can you confirm that

You now have six life leech instances, put together they grant a base total Recovery from Life Leech of 180. This is increased by 100% by the modifier stat, so total Recovery from Llife Leech is 360 life per second.

This value is subject to the Maximum total Recovery per second from Life Leech, which is 230. Since 360 is higher than this, you actually only gain 230 life per second in total.

this part of Mark's post is wrong and should read instead

You now have six life leech instances, put together they grant a base total Recovery from Life Leech of 180 120. This is increased by 100% by the modifier stat, so total Recovery from Llife Leech is 360 240 life per second.

This value is subject to the Maximum total Recovery per second from Life Leech, which is 230. Since 360 240 is higher than this,...

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I think he mistakenly applied the 50% increased Maximum Recovery per Life Leech which does not belong in this calculation since it doesn't affect the rate in any way.

No, I just still had 180 in my head from when I decided to add a range to the damage of the hits to keep it reasonable and calculated the (uncapped) life per leech at the low end of that at 180. The correct number is indeed 120.

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Originally posted by Cronax42

Thanks for the explanation. Does ES leech work the same or does it have its own mechanics?

ES Leech works the same except for the base value of Maximum total Recovery per second from Energy Shield Leech, which is 10% of max ES (Life/Mana use 20%)

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Originally posted by GingerWithFreckles

Dear Bex, I do not believe you or the office is real. Can you take a picture for evidence? I would only believe you if it has the most recent Patch Notes.. say.. 3.6 in the background.

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Originally posted by jronson

While I’ve got you on the topic of leech Mark, do you know whether modifiers to life leeched per second (now becoming total recovery per second from life leech) affects the amount of damage reflected by The Retch belt? Or do these modifiers only apply to your personal recovery from leech, and the retch only cares about the base leech rate and your number of instances?

Lastly, I’m pretty sure this is the case but just to check - if you are hitting one enemy and have leech which is far in excess of your leech rate cap, will the retch do damage based on the pre-cap or post-cap leeching? I do believe that the leech rate cap does not affect the Retch.

The Retch's damage over time is applied for each instance of leech, at the time that leech instance is created. So only things that apply to each instance of leech can affect it.

The new maximum amount per leech thus does limit it, but the modifiers/maximums that apply to total recovery from all instances do not.

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Originally posted by Loraash

Well I guess this might be a little late for this but is Soul Tether going to have legacy variants with 3.6?

No. We changed what the existing stat it has already does (and how it's described).

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Originally posted by Etzlo

hey mark, how does this interact with the new soulrend, and essence drain? is the leech on the DoT damage also capped at 10% of max ES/life, or is it a special case due to being a DoT?

There is no leech on DoT damage. Leech is caused by hits.

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Originally posted by Whiladan

You're not even my real mom

This world is an illusion, exile.

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Originally posted by jiblet84

So what should we do in the meantime?

Clean your room.

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Originally posted by Scholles

I just saw a "Patch Notes" thread with a GGG flair besides it and had a heart attack

It worked!