Mark_GGG

The concept that eventaully became the Historic jewels was originally concepted as a way of corrupting the passive tree - Something a bit like Glorious Vanity, but with no way to know what effects it would have. It being non-removable once socketed in the tree was discussed.

It wasn't used at the time, but Hrishi and I liked the core idea enough that we kept discussing and refining it, and eventually Hrishi found it a home in Legion, and we expanded the concept so each civilisation could change the tree in different, usually more predictable, ways. I think this has ended up better than the original concept, personally.

The passive explicitly gives you a skill - like all skills, the detailed information for this skill can be seen in the character panel, including duration, and the in-depth description of the skill's mechanics.

Your point about the skill-specific modifier the node adds is a good one, though. This happened as a side effect of how the Aegises work - they have a stat to determine how much damage they can take, and a separate stat to determine which types of damage they can take - this only affects the former, so uses a description which matches that. But in this context it could be changed to be more clear for players who don't look up the character panel for the skill's fuill description. I've adjusted that for 3.14.

I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting that, but for PoE we've always had what I thought was a pretty clear division of trying to give all relevant details where possible for aspects of your character, and not doing that for other objects acting on the character - the shrine is a separate entity that applies it's own effect to you, just like a monster using a skill, and we don't show all the stat values the shrine uses in-game for the same reason we don't show those for monsters.

I've proposed this a couple of times (including while we were building the alternate quality gem stuff), but it hasn't made it into the game. Yet.

I'm not sure what part of that would need an explicit in-game explaination. Those things, at least, work really intuitively for the most part - in the case of skills, and buffs granted by skills, pretty much all of those list a duration, outside of cases where the base duration is variable based on some non-predictable element, and those still explicitly use the term "duration" to make it clear those modifiers apply.

Modifiers referring to "skill effect" modify values which are a) on skills, and b) called "duration". In addition, in almost all cases you can see a total duration on the relevant skill popup, and observe whether it changes.

Modifiers to buff duration come in two kinds - the one that applies to the character as a whole explicitly says in modifies "Duration of Buffs and Debuffs you create with Skills". This in almost all cases applies to things created by skills which are shown on the relevant skill popup as "buff duration" or "debuff duration". There ar...

Shrines are intentionally mysterious - they aren't supposed to be things the player knows exact details of.

Some alternate qualities were intentionally chosen such that the "best case" may not just be geting as much quality as posible - while standard quality stats are intended to (at least almost) always be good to raise, the alternate quality system, since no-one has to use an alternate-quality gem if they don't want to, gave the opportinuty to experiment with stats that have more interesting tradeoffs, which appeal to certain segments of the playerbase.

The alternate quality stats were also considered in light of how they might interact with any potential future content that allowed getting higher values of quality on gems than are currently possible. It's cool when something new gets added to the game that makes people go back and re-examine some older things because new interactions open up.

This is correct. The buff texts are just little hardcoded strings to give a quick idea of what a buff or debuff is doing. They're not intended to be comprehensive, and trying to make them be so would be a large amount of work for little gain because most people never read them, and that information is already available to players in easier-to-read forms in more appropriate places. That information is part of the skill, which is a separate thing from the buff, and only really connected on the server (buffs are entirely server-driven). Having buffs not only able to insert values into their texts, but do so with values that aren't even part of the buff, but need to be accessed from individual skills would be an extra system that needs to be implemented, takes effort to maintain, and would require buffs serialising more values to the client in a lot of cases - which is bad because buff serialisation is already something we have to keep working to reduce for performance.

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It was not a nerf, the stat never actually did that. This was only a description fix.

This was a description fix with no mechanical impact. The previous description incorrectly gave players the impression that hitting an enemy while it was ignited would permanently change it to a state where it would then be destroyed when killed, regardless of what killed it, which has never been true. The new description more accurately communicates what the stat has always done - destroying ignited enemies if your hits kill them.

Also, the original version of Diamond Flasks was always crit during flask effect, rather than making crit chance lucky. Totally balanced.

No.

1) No, each instance of movement travels 150 units, unless something else interferes.

2) No, projectile speed has no interaction with this distance, it only modifies speed. On specific projectiles which are limited to only travel for a set time, such as freezing pulse, increasing speed means they get further by the time they stop, but that has no interaction with the projectile movement only taking them a maximum of 150 units, and has no impact on most projectiles - only time-limited ones.

3) No, see 1.

4) Yes.

5) No, outside of specific skills that explicitly provide an exception to this, such as Shrapnel Ballista.

6) Yes. Barrage makes arrows be fired sequentially rather than at the same time.

Yes, that modifier is included as part of the multiplicative modifiers that was not being applied (because it was reapplying the additive one in it's place).

Something is unaccounted for, yes. I don't know what.

With exactly 110% increased effect of chill (or increased effect of chill on you, or any combination of those stats that totals 110%, because they're addiive), using Icefang Orbit, Winterweave, and The Golden Rule, when I hit and poison an enemy, my character gets a chilled, with a base magnitude of -10 (reversed from 10) and an effect modifiers of +110%, resulting in an action speed modifier of +21%, exactly as expected. Other values also give corect results. I cannot reproduce any other result in-game without something else that modifies the effect of the chill. Could be a modifier to ailment effect, elemental ailment effect, cold ailment effect, etc.

I can only conclude that the character either has some other modifiers to the effect of the chill applied to them than the 110% claimed in this thread, or has some other source of increased action speed (unlikely based on the screenshots, since it ...

A single use of a channelling skill is one action, no matter how long you channel for.

Engine limitations only limit you to starting one action per frame. An action which repeats x times is still all one action.

The first is a support effect, which is directly adding a stat (more attack damage) to the skill. All stats of the skill itself are copied to any minions that skill creates, so they get more attack damage in their base stats. Anything that is affecting socketed skills specifically works this way.

The second is a stat on your character which affects the damage of Vaal Skills they use. This changes the damage that skill deals, but isn't add stats to the skill itself so there is nothing to copy to the minion.

I have made a note to find that second description and update it to the more modern format ("x% increased Damage with Vaal Skills") for clarity.

Yes, the Golems are specifically described as "Resummoned" because this is summoning them.

This is incorrect. Supreme Grandstanding causes all allies and enemies in range, including minions, to share charges with you (which is defined as when they gain a charge, you also gain a matching charge).