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Originally posted by SpyzViridian

Are the Aegis Aurora unique mod "Replenishes Energy Shield by 2% of Armour when you Block" and rare shield mod "Recover x% of Life/Mana/ES when you Block" affected by the "Less Recovery" map mod?

No. The map mod gives less recovery rate, and these are instant recovery which has no rate to modify.

I believe this not entirely true. Tinkerskin has the same wording (Recover 50 Energy Shield when your Trap is triggered by an Enemy), yet if you throw traps with Eldritch Battery the Energy Shield recover IS affected by map mods. I know this because I ran out of Energy Shield way faster in maps with Less Recovery :/

Originally posted by sergeantminor

How does this interact with Immortal Ambition? While on full life, Immortal Ambition makes life leech instances recover ES instead of life. This means that, while on full life, your "total life recovery per second from leech" is zero (provided that you have no life recovery per second from mana or energy shield leech, which doesn't exist yet). Thus, Strength of Blood grants no damage reduction while on full life if you have Immortal Ambition. Does all that check out?

If it does, then I'm curious how these worked prior to 3.14. Did these two keystones always have this anti-synergy? In other words, prior to 3.14, did Strength of Blood grab your "total recovery per second from life leech" value before or after it was turned into ES recovery by Immortal Ambition? I used this combo back in Heist League, so it would be interesting to find out that it wasn't working as I thought.

Originally posted by sergeantminor

Okay, I'm nearly done with the script for this video now, and I have a couple more questions.

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If I have Ghost Reaver, 1% of damage leeched as life, and 1% of damage leeched as energy shield, does this function the same way as 2% of damage leeched as energy shield? Or does it create two separate instances of energy shield leech? I'm pretty sure it's the first option, but I just want to make absolutely sure.

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My understanding of how leech worked prior to 3.14 is that "maximum total recovery per second from life leech" was simply a cap on the "total recovery per second from life leech" value. Now, in 3.14, "maximum total life recovery per second from leech" does not directly cap this value. Instead, it considers life recovery from all types of leech (life, mana, ES), adds them together, and caps the result. (Currently neither mana leech nor ES leech can grant life recovery, but theoretically this could change in the future.)

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Originally posted by Educational_Fun6048

Can just forked projectiles hit the same target if up close? I ask because I'm trying to setup a slivertongue barrage build with hydrosphere to fork the projectiles and want to know if it's a useless setup for more single target damage.

Originally posted by Kaelran

If the amount you're trying to leech with a given instance is higher that the maximum per leech instance, raising that maxumum will allow that leech instance to recover a higher amount

But raising the amount you leech with recovery rate modifiers so you reach the maximum faster does not cause the instance to end sooner.

If I have 400% increased leech/life recovery rate I recovery 10% from an instance in 1 second, which is the maximum, but it can go for 5 seconds and recover 50%.

That's why I say it doesn't do what it says it does.

Maybe it should be called "maximum base recovery per leech" or something.

Originally posted by Kaelran

Does "maximum recovery per leech" not function exactly the same as leech duration?

I mean I guess you could say it doesn't because the leech could run out before that point, but "maximum recovery per leech" doesn't even do what it says it does, and for people who understand how leech works it's pretty much synonymous with leech duration already, making it just confusing for new players.

Seems like leech duration but you have to understand that leech can run out before the maximum duration is less confusion than maximum recovery per leech but it's not actually maximum recovery per leech and you have to fully understand how leech works and hidden numbers like 2% per instance base with 10% maximum recovery base to get what that means.

Originally posted by Kaelran

I always find it weird that the leech duration stat isn't just called "leech duration" because the "maximum recovery per leech" is always based off of 2% and doesn't change with mods that makes the leech hit 10% faster. Just seems to be a confusing name.

Originally posted by sergeantminor

"Total Recovery per second from Life Leech is doubled" from Vaal Pact makes each leech instance recover life twice as fast but halves its duration (since it doesn't change the total amount recovered by that instance). The result is that your leech duration is shorter, but it takes fewer hits to reach the leech cap. Never mind!

Originally posted by sergeantminor

Hi Mark! I'm working on a similar video explaining leech mechanics, and I'm wondering if you can clarify some things for me so that I don't spread misinformation.

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First of all, the wording on "increased total Recovery per second from Life Leech" was changed in 3.14 to simply "increased Recovery per second from Life Leech." Does this reflect any actual change in the calculations?

My interpretation of the previous wording was that worked like this, where it figures out your total recovery per second first, then increases that:

T = total recovery per second
M = maximum life
N = number of active leech instances
I = increased total recovery per second

T = M * 0.02 * N * (1 + I)

Does the new wording imply that it's now directly multiplying the 2% recovery per second, before the number of active leech instances is factored in? Given that multiplication is commutative, there doesn't seem to be any practical difference between t...

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Originally posted by schmidlidev

Thanks for the reply Mark!

This indeed does make a lot of sense.

"your Hits" means any hits from your skills or your character's stats in the rare case of non-skill hits.

Is there any reason then that Blast-Freeze shouldn't just say "your Freezes"?

Also I think this an unrelated mechanic but it technically involves totems, why can't Ancestral totems trigger Cospri's effect Trigger a Socketed Cold Spell on Melee Critical Strike.

Originally posted by hfok

So If I have a pure physical damage skill and have 50% phys to cold as well as 50% phys to fire and nothing else, trinity will do nothing for this hit?

EDIT: Another question on the same line is, if I am using Doomfletch's Prism, I will not proc trinity at all if I have no other extra/conversion going on as the game rolled how much I do make it as an extra to each element base on that roll?