Upcoming changes to Leech

I like it!

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tr1gg3r3d wrote:

So literally you destroyed leech and dps based melee characters. congrats. Cheap builds like dualclaw and such are no longer viable against bosses. no more cheapgear atziri facetank, no more endgame map boss facetank.

"this is intended as a buff" How the freaking hell is having 1/5 leech inteded as a buff?? For gods sake if you nerf something to oblivion at least don't try to tell us it's a buff. I dislike when devs think people are stupid.

I have to agree there. Even if you got Vaal Pact for free instant leech (technically, unlimited leech rate and leech limit), nerfing life leech by 50% is really harsh. And if you dont got instant leech, you got the 20% pre-nerf, WTF?

Why GGG cant bring the change, that would make leech viable for both uber-geared characters and budget ones?

And what about reflect? If it remains at the same 18%, that will be ridiculous! You can barely get 10% leech, and you'll have to deal with 18% reflect somehow???

Yeah, before 2.0, i could easily compensate reflect which is one of the reasons if had chosen resolute technique.
With the changes, it looks to me like RT won't provide any security against physical reflect anymore, aura and/or map mod.
Of course, i'm talking about decent phy dmg builds there.
RIP VP, but RIP RT as well =[

I'll try dual-claw build in the Awakening.

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAAAYA7gW1DY0PqxUgFewV9hX9Fr8ZtCLiI_YkiyT9JpUqCyo4Kk0s6S2DMHEwfDGeNZI2PTpCOuE_J0X0R35H4kp9SshLHEt4TZJN41FHUUxVS1boW69fsGBBYeJieWKsY3Bkr2VNZ4BsjG1sbbRuqm9XcFJ4GX1bhMWE2Yazh3aJ04o4ivCMNo19jYGNv4_Bmy2btZ2qn4KkOaZXqAesR7GztMW1SLXyuR29Nr6nwaDC7MM6xILKSsqQ1CPWB9i93Q3dqOCV45_nVOlG7UHyRfPq_gr-j__e


If IT wont be able to sustain with leech, then leech is techically dead.

80% nerf to all leech effects wtf kind of crack cocaine are you devs smoking.

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80% nerf to all leech effects wtf kind of crack cocaine are you devs smoking.

Not to all, actually (claws implicits got 33-66% nerf, Leech gems got around 75%), but yes, that was too harsh.

go hard to leech on elemental pur build...


all go full phys build ? (new gems get a large buff increase phys dmg... )

The new node in the passive tree called "Hematophagy" gives "15% increased Damage while leeching". I'm guessing this doesn't work if you're attacking while on full hp? Thoughts?

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g0aky wrote:

The new node in the passive tree called "Hematophagy" gives "15% increased Damage while leeching". I'm guessing this doesn't work if you're attacking while on full hp? Thoughts?

I think it applies to mana leech too. So you can get the bonus while leeching mana, too.

However, it's just 15% increased (not more) damage.... not a big deal.

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g0aky wrote:

The new node in the passive tree called "Hematophagy" gives "15% increased Damage while leeching". I'm guessing this doesn't work if you're attacking while on full hp? Thoughts?

Due to how they try their best to make descriptions accurate (for what it's worth), i'm pretty sure you have to be actually in a leeching state to get the bonus.
I guess it will be quite easy to verify that soon, as long as the character window or tooltip tells the truth.