Path of Exile Dev Tracker

1) No. The loss of life over time is very low due to being based on your max life of 1, as such it can be trivially countered by a small amount of flat life regen

2) You cannot. You can be losing life over time, and this is tracked, but the loss is only applied to your actual life value once it reaches at least 1.

3) Blood Rage deals physical damage, and most CI characters chose to have energy shield because they are cowards. Ususally they recover this shield faster than the damage and thus it never gets applied to life.

In the case of a CI character with no ES, it does kill them in pretty much the same way, but at least this character dies knowing his ancestors are proud of his actions, instead of surviving as some snivelling wretch who needs to hide their life behind some blue mess to feel confidant.

4) As noted above, minimal amounts of life regeneration. If you regenerate at least as much life as you're losing, then you'...

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/u/Lluga is correct. You are on 1 life. However, the game does still track partial degen (it has to for any of it to really work), and actually subtracts 1 life when the total taken reaches at least 1 total life.

If you turn on the display of life numbers, you will see that you are at 1/1 life (and thus on max life) until the enough time has passed that the total life you have lost is 1 - at which point it can be applied to your life total. This kills the exile.

The visual display in the life orb is displaying this progress so that you are aware that this is still being tracked, so that you aren't lulled into a false sense of security.

Because you're losing life so slowly, only a very small amount of life regeneration is necessary to counter it. However, since your maximum life is 1, any perc...

This is intentional and flasks have worked this way for seven years.

Life and Mana recovery from flasks queue up (with higher-speed recovery effects going to the front of the queue), with the 'queued up' flask effects not ticking down until they come off the queue and becone active.

But bonus effects from the flask's mods operate on standard rules where only the strongest of each type takes effect, but all are ticking down. They are removed either when their associated flask effect ends, or when the duration of the flask has passed.

Originally they only ended when their specific flask effect did, but there was an abuse case with this behaviour where a player would have, say, curse immunity bonus on a slow mana flask, and then constantly use other mana flasks to ensure that the slower flask granting the curse immunity would stay at the back of the queue, and thus never expire (as well as spending lots of mana to prevent reaching full). So we added th...

Thanks for the kind messages everyone!

As some people seem curious: I am very happy (and proud!) of my time and work at GGG. The founders and staff at GGG are some of my favourite people in the world, and I think you will all enjoy the upcoming ExileCon event and 3.9.0 (& 3.10 etc) and 4.0.0 releases.

I like to think that my departure won't change the quality of anything, the last few months I have been focused on passing on what I do to other people, and the last few weeks got to focus on a seperate interesting minor thing. Game design and balance has been essentially in other hands for few releases while I have had a more bird's eye/production view.

I am going to work at another company, (much smaller than GGG), focusing on game design.

I plan to play some Path of Exile and see what the game brings and community gets up to. One of my favourite things is to see the interesting unexpected things that occur when a large dedicated community interacts...