[Keystone] Arcane Potency

It could be called Arcane Life... or anything.

The idea is that this would be the exact opposite of Blood Magic. Removes all Life and Mana now becomes your Life Pool.

It would give a huge synergy to Eldritch Battery for one, would be the anti-blood magic for another, and be awesome for three.

Eldritch battery might get a use now to, since you can't run 8 auras anymore.

While I'd absolutely love this sort of thing, I'm not too sure that would be entirely balanced (see Eldritch Battery) - you can scale your mana up ridiculously high for very few points of investment. Mana Regen is also muuuuuuch easier to come by than life regen; this would effectively render Blood Magic obsolete, much like Iron Reflexes does to Evasion.

Also, you can technically run 8 auras still, but you'll have no slots open for offense options!

I agree, Evasion is also really affected by IR because of it`s location but obviously more from the actual mechanics of it.

I rarely see this in games (if ever) but think it would be awesome, everything has it`s opposites except blood magic (armor to evasion, blood magic to mana life or w.e).

I think it could be done effectively but would need a much bigger tradeoff than just losing a life pool, something like increased spell cost and reduced mana regen rate because of what could be possible with this.

It could be behind elcdritch battery like phase acrobatics, or could render your armor useless(evasion might become more useful??)..

Lots of little things that can be adjusted

With a hard to reach location and large trade offs (but also a huge benefit) i think its possible in the right hands.

Everything has its opposites except Blood Magic? I'm not sure what you mean by that - as I see it, very few things in the game have opposites, and thank god for that.

I'd be behind this idea if it was thematically opposite to Blood Magic but provided markedly different gameplay consequences in an elegant fashion (ie. not by tacking on a bunch of arbitrary pluses and minuses to the keystone's effect). But this is less an opposite of Blood Magic and more a sequel. Blood Magic 2: Blue Blood. The gameplay consequences are basically identical: you now have one bar for both health and skill use, and you only have to manage one kind of restorative flask instead of two. The only difference is what flavour of nodes that ball is increased by.

I think Blood Magic should stay unique. I think all keystones, and as many spells and effects etc etc as possible, should stay unique. This is like suggesting GGG add three more Minion Instability keystones to cover ice, chaos and lightning damage, or that there should be direct armour and ES equivalents to Acrobatics just for evenness. I mean no great offence, but I think such evenness is a recipe for a bland game where each character is just a different coloured version of the others.

On the other hand, trying to get people to pick Eldritch Battery more is a noble cause. :)

While I don't think there should be a mana version of Blood Magic (Chaos Inoculation is thematically opposite enough), Eldritch Battery does feel underused to me.

Something that converts extra mana to damage perhaps?

Opposites was a bad way to put it.

I am only trying to convey the concept.

Yes it`s the exact same as blood magic; theoretically.

It would also not be directly beside blood magic giving it different utility.

Location plays a huge role in these types of things.

Anyway just because it`s the `same` doesn`t make the two the same.

Depending on distance the utility would (could) be dramatically different.

It's possible, think about it for a minute guys. It can work.


You know the movie scarface?

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"The world is yours".

Well thats this keystone.

You are pretty much discussing Mana Shield.
There is this nice topic about it: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/49039