Mechanical Questions Thread

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Alexlulz wrote:

just to go 100% sure if u corrupt a white/blue/rare viridian jewel u can get sac harvest or does it have to be unique?

anyone know??

Ive been toying with a dead reckoning build and Im really enjoying the skeleton mage mechanic. Im not sure where to take the character in the late game or how to maximize my skeleton mage damage output. Im pretty set on dual cursing with elemental weakness and projectile weakness, but im not sure which support gems will work on the mages themselves. They seem to work with most spell and projectile supports, but not all.

My original plan was to reroll the char as a high strength templar and summon them from a Doon Cuebiyari. Even in a 4L this setup was the highest spell damage boost i could find, but from my testing iron will has no effect on the mages dps whatsoever. Is this true?

I am also wondering if i spec into necromantic aegis and use a spell damage shield slot item will it buff the mages damage?

Are they spell casting or using elemental projectile attacks?

hmm i guess you could argue adding +0 is "having an effect" lol is there some way of giving strength to minions im not aware of? Maybe someday we'll get a shield with a mod like Meginord's Vise.../shrug

Hello , Im interested if im buy legacy Vinktar Flask (Adds x to x Lightning Damage to Attacks during Flask effect) and use Divine orb i can rereoll same legacy flask better or lowest roll ?
or if im use here divine orb im got no legacy version ? ty

I was told I should post here.

As I understand the essences should work like an alch with 1 guaranteed property.

So I spent some ex and got a 5L Harb Bow with 218% to phys.
Then I spent 2 ex to lock its prefixes because I wanted to keep the 218%.
Then I hit it with a deafening essence of contempt.
Now I have a worthless bow after blowing ~50% of the currency I have made since the game was new (I'm po, but just learned to buy things off POE trade this season so next should be better).
Shouldn't I now have a very nice bow instead of a worthless one?

If an essence completely rewrites a wep even if you lock stuff I'm trying to figure out the point of essence or locking? Did I completely misunderstand something?

I have 2 merciless 6L coronal mauls I do not want to wreck but at this point I'm too scared to do anything to them... It would also be nice to be able to craft a nice bow.

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Painsponge wrote:

So I spent some ex and got a 5L Harb Bow with 218% to phys.
Then I spent 2 ex to lock its prefixes because I wanted to keep the 218%.
Then I hit it with a deafening essence of contempt.
Now I have a worthless bow after blowing ~50% of the currency I have made since the game was new (I'm po, but just learned to buy things off POE trade this season so next should be better).
Shouldn't I now have a very nice bow instead of a worthless one?

If an essence completely rewrites a wep even if you lock stuff I'm trying to figure out the point of essence or locking? Did I completely misunderstand something?

This Development Manifesto post from August explains that "Our solution is that Essences will ignore master metamods when rolling an item."

I... I thought they would have put that in the grey text below each Essence. I didn't play Essence leagues, so I never checked?

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I have 2 merciless 6L coronal mauls I do not want to wreck but at this point I'm too scared to do anything to them... It would also be nice to be able to craft a nice bow.

Don't use metamod + essence on those, it won't work, as I stated in answer to previous quote :P

Thanks for the info. This mistake was rather painful.

I do not read threads and stuff generally. I read what the game tells me.

Once essence stuff (insanity for example) is applied I can mod to my hearts content?

If I have two different spells on a Mjölner do they share the trigger cooldown(250ms) or do they have separate cooldowns when they are cast? What if its 2 gems of the same spell on the same Mjölner?

If I dual wield Mjölners and have an arc gem in each will both arc gems have the cooldown every time one of them gets triggered even though they are in separate Mjölners?

If these questions are true(except the one about 2 gems of same spell on the same Mjölner) can I assume the cooldowns for all trigger stuff(gems triggering spells and items triggering spells) work similar to Mjölner and CWDT?

just to go 100% sure if u corrupt a white/blue/rare viridian jewel u can get sac harvest or does it have to be unique?