Mechanical Questions Thread

Tukohama's Vanguards no longer summon multiple totems at a time while spectred, and the duration of their totems has been lowered to 5 seconds (from 10). They are less likely to place additional totems while they have at least one totem.
Wickerman Righteous Fire damage has been lowered while spectred. These monsters were using a version of Righteous Fire not intended for spectres, and were dealing significantly more damage than intended as a result. This change brings them in line with other spectres who use Righteous Fire.

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I need to fix my Necro build for next league, and have some questions in air with this infos.

- If I have 4 Vanquards, every 1 of them will cast 1 totem (Total of 4 Totens!) Or 4 Vanquards will have only 1 totem up? (Total of 1 Totem!).
- Time of Vanquards cast a new totem are the same?

- About Wickerman explaim plz how much is this fix for dps! Need numbers to analise if I need find another Spectres for map clean or end game boses.

If I have 47% crit chance, assassin's ambush and a level 20 assassin's mark, do I have

(47%*2)+9% = 94%+9% = 100% crit chance, or is it (47%+9%)=95% capped ?

Thanks in advance :)

When you equip Essence of Insanity, you summon Spectral Spirits, and
when you swap the weapon out, you can kill the summons, creating a
caustic cloud worth 10% of their life.
I have been leveling and theorycrafting a build for a long time,
testing multiple hours in game with different setups but it seems that
only 4 support gems work with the Spectral Spirit + Caustic Cloud.

Could I get an explanation to why area gems, such as Concentrated
Effect, and Duration gems, such as Lesser Duration do not work with
Spectral Spirit's Beacon of Corruption?
As far as I know, concentrated effect and increased aoe, and lesser
duration work alongside with 'Raise Spectre' gem's Beacon of
Corruption. (And also "Golem" skills)

The two have the same minion tag and aoe tag from the Beacon don't they?
Is this a bug? or an intended feature?
If Spectral Spirit do not work with AOE gems and Duration gems, could
you tell me which gems would work with Spectral Spirit?

From what I know, only Void Manipulation/Minion Life/Minion
Damage/Efficacy work with Spectral Spirits when AOE/Duration/Swift
Affliction all work with other summon skill's Beacon of Corruption
(Golem/Spectre)

Can we PLEASE get an answer from a GGG employee on the new Vaal pact and it's interaction with energy shield?

Anyone please confirm that new Vaal Pact is like 100% more leech rate and maximum rate, OR just double the original rate which means 20% to 40% maximum life leech rate ?

Hello! I wanted to ask how Endless Hunger and Vaal Pact interact now. Does overlich work? or is it considered as hp regen and gets disabled by Pact?

Does Scolds Bridle not work with cwdt anymore?

Hello. I know that GGG staff have already replied to requesting for mobs' armor values list, but, can you please tell at least some examples for endgame bosses? like Shaper, Uber Atziri etc. This will be very valuable info, cause it can't be found anywhere. Thank you!

I would love to have a confirmation of the interaction between Winter Burial and Impact (hopefully before 3.1 hits but I understand it's not likely).

My question concretely is whether the '50% less Splash damage' of the Impact node also reduces the Splash damage from Winter Burial. This would mean that taking that ascendancy node actually halves your AoE damage, which I would find pretty stupid.

I understand the wording seems to imply that and I'm probably in denial. But from what I've found it seems that people are not completely sure, so I'll wait for confirmation before I go cry in the corner.