Mana drain ring on rare drains life on bloodmage

I don't know if this is intended or not, but when a rare monster spawns with the blue ring to leech mana, it instantly drains 100% of the life from my blood mage. I've played other characters that have skills that use life for skills and this never happened to them before.

This is a brutal mechanic if its intended. Just rolling into the ring at full speed to get past the initial drain effect takes about 1200hp in under a second.

What's your Lightning Resistance like?

My lightning resist is -116. I wear Doryani's Prototype. Armour is stacked up to reduce lightning from hits by 62%. 68% when leeching. The armour has an explicit that states lightning resist has no effect on lightning damage taken.

Do you suppose that's the problem?

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Daikano01#2348 wrote:

reduce lightning from hits by 62%.

Mana Siphoner is lightning damage over time, not a hit. Meaning the armour does nothing unfortunately by default.

I don't know how PoE 2 Prototype builds mitigate lightning DoT, but it's a common issue in PoE 1 builds using the chest without specific PoE 1 ways to mitigate it (or just accept Siphoner will 1-shot them).

Thanks for the info. There are no builds that I've found that use this tech so I've been developing one of my own. The blood mage has been working out nicely with spark and frost bomb/flame wall, but this mana syphon thing is pretty awful.