Regarding Mana Leech /Recovery

The change to not let leech stack has not only affected life leech but also mana leech. Many builds use fast attacks and not all can afford to get the Mind over Matter keystone or +150% mana regeneration to get a sufficient mana gain.
Life based builds can link their attacks to Blood Magic to support their cost but certain and even more so CI builds cannot do so. The Clarity Aura can also not always compensate for that and should not be mandatory for such builds while mana leech is almost useless for builds that rely on many fast but small physical attacks.


Therefore i suggest to Change all passives with +Mana Regeneration to +Mana Recovery.

This would not affect the total amount leeched per attack but the speed at which the leech is applied and therefore the effective maximum leech speed.


Example and some Numbers:
lets take an attack that deals 1000 physical damage every 0.4 seconds (2.5 APS -> 2500 physical DPS) with 2% mana leech
Pre Change:
Leech of the individual attacks was stacking up so you would end at an effective 50 mana/sec leeched after 3+ attacks
Current State:
Leech does not stack up but is queued so you just get 20 mana/sec making it hard to sustain attacks
With the suggested Changes:
Lets now assume that the character has a total of +80% Mana Recovery /Regeneration which leads to 36 mana/sec loosing only 14 mana/sec to the former value.
To leech the same amount per second as pre change, this character would require +150% Mana Recovery. If it had an attack speed of 5.0 APS it would require +400% Mana Recovery to not loose any recovery to the queuing and so on.
If we now look at the initial example with 2.5 APS with an increased mana recovery of +300%, it will not gain more mana/sec total but the leech of each individual attack will just apply four times faster in only 0.25 secconds.

I believe that this change would be a very simple way to address the current mana issues whithout requiring extensive rebalancing of nodes/skills.


edit:
gave it some more thought and the recovery should obviously not affect flask mana so that should probably be mentioned in the pasive description.
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Last edited by vargorn#6259 on Jun 3, 2014, 5:23:10 PM
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