Diamond Flask interaction with Spell Totems
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What is the interaction of Diamond Flasks and Spell Totems?
My understanding of Totems is that generally they snapshot your stats and use them for the duration of the totem. Has anyone confirmed this to be the case with the buff effect on Diamond Flasks/Spell Totems? EDIT: Turns out it's not a snapshot: http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hteik/diamond_flask_spell_totem_interaction/ IGN: Manthra_Ackbars Last edited by Jshaw995#7796 on Jul 7, 2013, 3:38:18 PM
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"Totems do not and have never "snapshotted" anything. They are using your skills, which are inherently affected by your current stats, not your stats at some past point in time. Last edited by Mark_GGG#0000 on Jul 7, 2013, 11:35:19 PM
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" I recently was doing a map with the chilled ground affix, which made me wonder: if I am on chilled ground but the totem isn't, does it cast slower? What if it is on chilled ground and I am not? Does the effect "double dip" as it were if both are on chilled ground? |
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bump for answers
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" If you are on chilled ground, the totem casts slower. It really is just using your stats/buffs/etc, not the totem's. Totems even use your movement speed for lightning warp. Face it, all of your suggestions are worse than this idea:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/657756 |
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"Not for chilled ground, as that's not affecting the skill in any way (being chilled affects an object rather than it's skills). Rather than modifying the cast speed (which is in the skill and would be passed to the totem), chill modifies the speed at which an entity's animations play. Since the totem is playing the animation, and is not chilled, it plays it at the regular cast speed of the skill. Any animations you perform, are slowed. | |
" I apologise for the number of times you have had to give almost this exact statement over the course of the last few weeks. I have absolutely no idea why everyone thinks Totems snapshot your stats. 99% of suggested changes would make the game easier. Thats why only 1% of suggested ideas are even worth considering. Last edited by arual#2184 on Aug 13, 2013, 5:31:47 AM
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And if the totem is hit and sittin on the frozen ground, then will it be "chilled" and react accordingly or are totems just immune to status effects like they are to curses?
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I think the snapshot thing comes from info from people using power charges, I.E. the totem gets the extra crit chance while the caster has power charges up. I didn't think of it as a snapshot but I can see why people see it that way.
That said if you pop a Divination Distillate and cast a totem (assuming the flask is active) I'm guessing you get the extra rarity/quantity for the totem, does the totem lose the bonus if the flask stops working? (this would be what I think people are referring to as a snapshot, from my understanding even if the caster loses power charges the totem keeps the extra crit chance, that said I might be misunderstanding this which is why I'm asking) Or is this incorrect and the totem doesn't benefit at all with the Divination flask? |
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FOr instance this thread (where I think I found my answer)
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/469938 'now the support rarity/quantity gems work in snapshot mode and only on the minions in question because they are explicit supports for a skill, not your own stat on gear.' So people are referring to an already cast items as snapshot mode in that sense. |
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