Removal of Anomalous mana leech destroys mana stacking builds. Please remember to re-add

The anomalous mana leech gem before its removal provided 600-1000% increased damage to mana stacking build, this build type is completely dead without this interaction as it provided nearly all of the damage to such a build.
Since the statement during the reveal interview was that only active skill gems get transfigured versions I am very worried that this build type has been forgotten, so please consider adding something to keep this style of builds alive.

Just in case, as people always assume cyclone, this is not a cyclone build, please do not bind this style to cyclone.

I came here to post this same thing.


Default qual mana leech essentially does nothing while the anomalous quality is build enabling. Would love if we could get the default quality for mana leech going forward to be the current Anomalous version.

Change this:
Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Damage while Leeching Mana

to become:
Supported Skills have (0–10)% increased Damage for each 200 Mana you have Spent Recently


Thanks GGG - Excited for the new league!

don't forget about the entirely new set of altered gems....I'm sure some of these things are going to be on them (at super-powered levels).

totally -- if a mod is showing up somewhere else that gives you increased damage / mana spent recently then we're cooking.

However, if that doesn't exist elsewhere, implementing this change feels pretty 'cost-free' from a dev standpoint.

If this was super intentional for game balance/health reasons, that could be merited/reasonable, but if that's the case would strongly prefer nerfing the mod vs. removing it. (e.g. 0-10% dmg/200 mana spent --> 0-5% dmg/200 mana spent or w/e)

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jsuslak313 wrote:

don't forget about the entirely new set of altered gems....I'm sure some of these things are going to be on them (at super-powered levels).

That is why I posted this, so that it hopefully isn't overlooked/forgotten. Especially since this interaction was on a support gem and they said they are only doing active gems.

Maybe it is make sense to post it on Reddit. Is full.list of changed gems posted anywhere?

problem that might make it NOT return is simple:

that one gem, one line of quality gave like 2000%+ increased damage

it is unhealthy number, no matter how you look at it

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Huntersyava wrote:

Maybe it is make sense to post it on Reddit. Is full.list of changed gems posted anywhere?

I did, but it doesn't seem like they have any presence there for the last few leagues thus I hoped by also putting it here that there would be a bigger chance of it being noticed.

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sidtherat wrote:

problem that might make it NOT return is simple:

that one gem, one line of quality gave like 2000%+ increased damage

it is unhealthy number, no matter how you look at it

It might be a lot of dmg for one gem, but it is also nearly all the damage of the entire build type. It is not just the gem doing this damage, you need to invest crazy amount into gear to stack enough mana, to also sustain that mana cost to actually get those damage numbers from it.
The build type is essentially this support gem, it doesnt work without it. The actual number it gives isn't up to me, thats for the balance team. Without this alt quality an entire build type has just been deleted and I was very excited to play it this league which has now turned into immense sadness that I can't.

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sidtherat wrote:

problem that might make it NOT return is simple:

that one gem, one line of quality gave like 2000%+ increased damage

it is unhealthy number, no matter how you look at it

i didnt even know this gem and these builds existed because ive not been keeping up with the everything going on in game like i used to many years ago.


but that sounds absolutely broken beyond all sense.





i get that in the context of the builds maybe the builds are fine and needed something that broken to bring them up to par. ok, i can sympathise with that and how removing it kills the builds. but that coming from 1 gem is stupid, thats really bad.

if i were the devs and i wanted to keep these builds i would absolutely remove that gem from the game and then whatever its doing, split it down into 10 smaller versions of the same stat and put them on the passive tree, on gear.

what is it? % increased damage per mana spent? can that be a prefix mod and then have a second hybrid prefix of mana + damage per mana spent on rings, int gloves, weapons, have some mana nodes for it on the tree, have a mana mastery for it. allow people to get the power back with interest build and itemisation options that are a reasonable investment?


surely thats the way to go and having a gem with 4 figure increased damage on it is just an absurd abomination?