Is there a reason Zealots Oath and Patient Reaper don't work together?

"60% increased Recovery Rate of Life, Mana and Energy Shield if you've Killed an Enemy affected by your Damage Over Time Recently"

Seems like that would give the Zealots Oath the extra 60% recovery rate... but i guess not after getting to level 40 and seeing huge lost potential.

Have you ever heard of the "Lying Character Sheet"?

Because Recovery Rate can be adjusted by your stats and environment (aka Map Mod) stats, tooltip has trouble accounting for it - so it pretends it doesn't exist.

Zealot's Oath and Patient Reaper do work together - it just doesn't show in your character sheet.

Grab a stopwatch and timer to test it yourself if you're still skeptical.

(Either that, or you're not killing enemies affected by your Damage over Time)

I'll try it out, and I know I'm using Damage over time because my build is RF with Scorching Ray haha

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Soarinsin wrote:

I'll try it out, and I know I'm using Damage over time because my build is RF with Scorching Ray haha

Aha - in that case, there's the possibility of a bug :P New skills are sometimes buggy, and Scorching Ray is relatively new.

GGG is usually pretty good about this stuff, though, so it should be a real-recovery bonus that doesn't show on any tooltips.

From what I'm seeing just using Righteous fire, it also doesn't give the +60% because if it did I would certainly go from the loss of health per second to gaining health per second due to already having enough life regen/sec, so I think it might just be bugged as a combo, or they might not have expected a RF build on ES?

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Soarinsin wrote:

they might not have expected a RF build on ES?

It's possible you might have miscalculated something - RF burns for 90% of your maximum life and 70% of your energy shield, which means that you're taking much more burning damage as an ES build than a Life build, unless you have a ton of ES.

I mean, I guess I could try again when I have alot more Energy Shield, but right now I'm able to almost fully sustain the ES burn with just a ruby flask, so I assumed that with a boost of 60% I would see a positive gain on the ES

Will try again after getting more ES gear though, but the current stats are just 789hp, 816es.

I rushed for the %life/sec nodes and have the 2% life/sec necklace to be able to sustain it fairly well early on, as well as consecrated ground for getting the ES to stay almost stagnant when fighting a boss

Alrighty, I wanted to make sure is all because it doesn't seem like much happens but again I needed alot more ES to fully see it it seems, thanks for the help