Arakaali life recovery rate modifier no longer work on slayer leech anymore

This bug was first noted by Reddit post: https://redd.it/7t22fx
However, his testing condition was not very controlled.

So I did the following test:

3.1: https://youtu.be/Oqb_IELiZnY

My Slayer character have +240% leech rate and 52% Max leech cap (with Vaal Pact). So 7.6 hit is sufficient to reach the cap, I use 2 Writhing Jar which produce 8 worms in total, with Slayer 20% over-killing leech, it's grantee that I remain at leech cap after the kill (leech duration will be very long).

I spawn and kill the worms immediately after the Righteous Fire have stopped at 1HP, which fulfill the requirement to proc the pantheon(stop taking DOT recently). In my first run I use other pantheon(The Brine King) as control, and second run using Arakaali. As you should see in the video, the life recovery speed at leech cap have no difference with or without Arakaali (You can slow it down in youtube), in contrast to how it was in my old 3.0 testing video.

3.0: https://youtu.be/8pun1HbLIWE


Also noted that I do the test on Taiwan Garena server, so it's not the latest patch, but I never saw any mention about this in patch note and the reddit post also encounter the similar bug, which happend in the latest patch on Global GGG server.

Updated:

Vaal Pact is the cause of this bug. Taking Vaal Pact seem to make the "increase life recovery rate" no longer interact with leech mechanic, which make zero sense since VP leech is no longer instant in 3.1.

Here is testing video showing that without VP, Arakaali can still work.

https://youtu.be/QAnlT7gtoLs

I also remove most of my regen nodes to make life regeneration irrelevant in this test (~70hp/sec left). Without VP I have 26% Max leech rate and +120% leech rate, the hit numbers to cap leech remain the same(7.6).

Would be very nice to get a comment from GGG on this issue. I don't think it is an intended change and probably just caused by leftover code from Vaal Pact when the leech was instant.

Edit: just saw that they put this on High Priority ... good to see they know.

Any update on this matter?

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shaq69 wrote:

Any update on this matter?

Patch 3.1.4 on February 15, 2018:

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Fixed a bug causing "increased Recovery Rate of Life and Energy Shield" to have no effect if Vaal Pact was allocated.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2088858