Mark_GGG

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

No - this is already handled because other items with an int requirement could be granting str/dex you need to equip Actum. Actum will be disabled in this case.

Devotion is not an Attribute (nor is Omniscience).

A lot of things would break if being put on passives somehow prevented modifiers from being modifiers.

I don't know the context for that wiki quote, but you might be reading it wrong - I think it's saying that modifiers apply to one of those things (and including players as monsters) - i.e. modifiers affecting one item are specific to that item and don't affect other items, a monster's modifiers are specific to that monster, etc.

I believe so, yes. I was pleasantly surprised when I looked through all the attribute modifiers to see what weird stuff we'd have to support and only found that one.

We can but hope.

No, neither this item (which does not do any conversion), or actual conversion work that way. Modifiers in PoE can never apply more than once to the same base value. A modifier either applies or does not apply.

As written, neither of those. Omniscience doesn't do anything with your actual values of attributes, just the modifiers to them. If you have 100 Strength, then 32/23/20/14 of that (depending on class) is base Strength, which you innately have and isn't from any modifier.

If you actually have total modifiers of +100 to Strength, 10% increased Strength, +200 to Dexterity, and 20% increased Dexterity, (which I think might be what you meant, but the distinction is important) then those modifiers will not apply to any attributes and will instead apply to Omniscience, so they'll effectively grant +100 to Omniscience, 10% increased Omniscience, +200 to Omniscience, and 20% increased Omniscience respectively. Assuming no other sources of Omniscience, that results in 390 Omniscience total.

Modifiers in PoE cannot apply multiple times to the same base value. A modifier either applies or it does not. "10% increased Attributes" is one modifier, and it's effect is a 10%...

"the maximum" in this case means the maximum which is capping that resistance, which as of 3.17 may not be the one with the matching name.

If cold resistance is capped by maximum fire resistance, then that's the maximum that is used for working out overcapped & missing resistance.

Multi-line descriptions are harder and more confusing for players to read than single-line. They are thus avoided unless necessary. Allignment isn't something I can mess with at the description level.

nothing ever talks about your resistance to damage cap as being "limited". So seeing "Is limited by" means basically nothing.

This is a valid point, and after discussion with one of the designers we're changing this to use the word "capped" rather than "limited", as that is a much closer match to existing terminology in the game (uncapped resistance & overcapped resistance).

I'm not 100% sure what you're saying even with your clarification, but I think you're off-base with regards to how the game works.

Stat descriptions have no effect on functionality. I could whip up a script to go through and edit every stat description in the game to say "You are likely to be eaten by a grue", and the the game would still work the same way, but it would be much harder to play, due to having no idea what anything actually does. (EDIT: I didn't do that - much faster to edit the code that loads the description files to just use that string instead of the ones re...

That would not be the same mechanic. This does not change the values of maximum resistance, which is important for interactions with other game mechanics.

There are significant differences between the mechanic proposed above and what the item does. The actual values of maximum resistances matter for several game mechanics, so setting those to be equal to a value is not the same thing as making resistances be limited by a different maximum.

It is impossible to for the item to work in a way matching the wording proposed above, for the reason that I already explained in the previous post.

Therefore the item uses wording that actually reflects what it does, rather than describing a different thing that it doesn't and can't do.

How an item works mechanically has no relevance to how a description is read and interepretted

Having the item's description be different to what it actually does would be more confusing, not less. How the item works mechanically affects what the description can be, because the description has to accurately describe how the item works, not lie to the player...

"Maximum" would make no sense there. Maximum resistances are not limited by maximum resistances, they are maximum resistances.

Normally, each resistance is limited by the matching maximum resistance - fire resistance is limited by maximum fire resistance, cold resistance is limited by maximum cold resistance, etc.

This item makes it so all elemental resistances are limited by the highest of your maximum elemental resistances, instead of the normal behaviour where each is limited by it's own maximum. So your (non maximum) elemental resistances are limited by the highest maximum elemental resistance, which is what the item says.

That's impossible for multiple reasons, the most fundamental of which is that you can't have a modifier both affect the value of a stat and depend on that stat's value.

If something cares about which maximum resistance is highest, it fundamentally can't be evaluated until after the values of maximum resistances are calculated, and if it affects the value of maximum resistances, it has to apply before then.

It's been there a long ass time already. But it's also pretty hard to really notice, because you have to hover over the socket without hovering over what's socketed inside.

Anytime you're hovering over the jewel, you're also hovering over the socket passive, so can see the popups for both. Hovering over the edge of the socket only (and thus not the jewel) is only needed if you want to see the passive popup for the socket but not the item popup of the jewel for some reason.

Jewels have always done this. Jewels don't give you stats directly, they apply stats to the passive which is the socket. You get those stats in the same way you get the stats of any passive - the jewel socket is allocated, so the stats of the socket are granted to you. So you're seeing stats in the passive popup for the socket passive, just like any other passive you hover.