Mark_GGG

Is arcane cloak affected by global increases to mana cost such as indigon?

Technically yes in that it's possible to raise it's mana cost above zero and then modify that with % modifiers. That won't have any effect on what the skill does though. The spending the skill inherently does is not a cost, and it's other effects only care about the amount of mana spent on that, not on costs.

Does spending that mana count towards mana spent for indigon?

It is spending, so yes.

Totems make the skills cost no mana when they use them, so it wouldn't be able to work with them anyway.

Yes. The damage changes if the mana cost does.

This is correct. Current mana has no effect. Just that the maximum amount of mana you could currently, theoretically hold, would be enough to pay the cost.

No. Spellslinger does not modify the skills of minions.

If it did, the effect would have nothing to do with your wand - your minions don't have that. In that hypothetical case, the minions would get the stat saying that spells have added damage based on the damage of equipped wands. If those minions then had wands, their spells would theoreticall be able to gain damage based on that. The vast majority of minions do not have wands for that to interact with.

You are correct that only the wand's damage is looked at by spellslinger. If you look at your wand, it shows damage values in the section above the mods and requirements. Those values are the wand's damage, and those are the only thing Spellslinger looks at. Local modifiers on the wand will change those, nothing else can.

EB only applies to costs - Arcane Cloak has zero mana cost, it spends mana as part of it's effect when cast. This isn't a cost, so EB (and other cost-specific modifiers) will do nothing.

Blood Magic isn't restricted to costs, and affects any spending by skills, so would make that spend life instead. Given that the effects of Arcane Cloak are scaled specifically on the amount of mana that gets spent, this is a suboptimal build choice.

Spellslinger makes the supported spells have a mana reservation (base 20%), and mana multiplers, etc will apply to those.

It then works out it's own reservation by adding up all the (final) reservations of the supported skills, and using the total.

Modifiers don't apply to it's reservation because they already applied to the things it adds up - applying them again would be double-dipping.

It's done this way so that if you for whatever reason have a support that only apples to one of the skills, only the reservation from that skill will be affected by that support.

So for example if you want to use spellslinger to cast both Ice Nova and Frostbolt, and want GMP support on Frostbolt, GMP doesn't support Ice Nova, so Ice Nova will stay at 20% reservation, while Frostbolt is raised to 33% reservation by the 165% mana multiplier on GMP.

Spellslinger then adds those together, getting 53%, so turning Spellslinger on will reserve 53% of your mana.

Spellslinger works out it's reservation by adding together the mana reservations of each individual supported skill. Modifiers already were applied to those values, so they don't apply (again) to Spellslinger to prevent double-dipping.

Yes. The added damage is directly based on the skill's mana cost. Lowering that will lower the damage. Archmage wants you to be a big spender, and rewards that.

Yes.

Rewarding you for spending lots of mana is different from giving a modifier that lets you spend less mana. Just because both are related to mana does not mean they should work together.

This is not new - there are several effects in the game already that reward you for how much mana you spend and are better if you pay high costs than if you reduce those costs and pay smaller amounts.

The modifier in question is: "Supported Skills gain Added Lightning Damage equal to x% of Mana Cost, if Mana Cost is not higher than the maximum you could spend"

That only uses the word mana when describing the mana cost, which is a mana cost. It explicitly does not say mana when referring to what it can't be higher than - it says "the maximum you could spend". No mention of mana there at all. If you have blood magic, then you pay mana costs by spending life instead of by spending mana, so "the maximum you could spend" is life, not mana.

Yes. It modifies the mana cost. Archmage grants lightning damage based on the mana cost.

If the skill's cost is zero, so is the added damage.

So Archemage Support will also add damage if you're using Blood Magic or EB?

Yes

And it'll change the cost to 6% of the your max unreserved life or ES?

No.

Archmage Support does two different things.

1) It sets the base mana cost of the skill (before any mana multipliers from supports) to a value which is either:

• x% of maximum unreserved mana, or
• what it would have been anyway

whichever is higher. This explicitly checks your unreserved maximum mana. This has nothing to do with paying the cost, it's just determining what the value of the mana cost is, and using unreserved max mana to do so. Modifiers that change how you pay costs have no place here.

Nothing will make this modifier look at any other value. Just like nothing makes Omeyocan's "chance to Dodge Attack and Spell Hits per 500 Maximum Mana" modifier look at anything ot...

If you raise the mana cost of the skill above your maximum (unreserved) mana, such that it is impossible for you to ever cast the spell at that cost, the damage bonus stops applying.

It does not care about current mana, only maximum. It prevents you abusing things like indigon to raise the cost a spell after you cast it, way beyond the amount you could actually have paid for it, by no longer granting damage based on the cost if that cost isn't one you could have paid.

The does understand what you'll actually pay the cost with - if you have blood magic, it will compare the mana cost to max unerserved life instead, if you have EB it will compare the mana cost to max ES plus max unreserved mana.

Neither of those mods change the damage of the wand. If you equip that ring, you will see the displayed damage values on the wand will not change -those values are what Spellslinger looks at.

No other item can affect those values, only the wand's local modifiers.

They used to cancel each other out - when "taken as" stats were first added, there were only stats going in one direction, and they were used with negative values to indicate going the other direction.

But this meant if you had two opposing ones, instead of both applying, they summed to a total value where one would cancel out some of the other. Initially, this wasn't a problem because no-one had two opposing such modifiers, as they were very rare. But of course that didn't last.

That was changed a while ago so that this no longer happens, and each potential direction od "taken as" is it's own stat that applies separately. I'm afraid I don't have time to find a specific patch number at the moment.

No

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