Mahuxotl's Machination with the new Vaal Pact

The new Vaal Pact bricks the item for most people using it. I think the easiest way to fix this would be to remove the mod from the item. Please don't forget us!

Excuse my ignorance because I don't have much experience with it, but doesn't the new instant leech vaal pact make Mahuxotl's even better? Faster and more uptime on the +5% max resist. That's the only change I can see....

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jsuslak313 wrote:

Excuse my ignorance because I don't have much experience with it, but doesn't the new instant leech vaal pact make Mahuxotl's even better?

New VP is melee only and thus cucks bows and wands

Edit: Prolly also proj based melee skills

^yes but, as Mahuxotl is a shield.....it isn't being used with bows anyway. And at least from a quick peek at poe ninja, the most pwoerful builds that use Mahuxotl are melee skills.

Perhaps this removes SOME builds from the mix, but significantly buffs others right? Or are we saying that ONLY projectile skills used Mahuxotl?

projectile skills are fine anyways because the projectile hit just uses normal leech. the only leech effected by instant leech is melee leech. molten strike and lightning strike will still function just fine with mahuxotls

Mahuxotl is dead with new VP like everyone who play Mahuxotl builds understand it. I beg you GGG do something with it b4 league start coz is rly interesting mechanic

Tala moana, Exiles!

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RecentlyAskedQuestions wrote:

"The rework to Vaal Pact significantly changes Mahuxotl's Machination. Was this a targeted nerf or oversight?

Neither. The shield is designed to be a collection of all the Vaal-themed keystone passives on one item. If one of the keystones changes then the shield's function will naturally change in turn, and we don't have any concerns with that as long as the item can still function."

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In 3.25 one of the six Vaal Keystones from Mahuxotl's Machination
might get bricked by the new Vaal Pact: - Eternal Youth (Energy Shield Recharge instead applies to Life)

As the new Vaal Pact (Cannot Recover Life other than from Leech) prevents ANY Life Recovery,
i assume this might prevent the converted Energy shield Recharge (into Life Recharge)
to work properly – making the Keystone non-functional.

This kinda seems a bit buggy to me, because both Keystone derive from one Item and contradict each other.

I understand that the theme around Mahuxotl's Machination is based around the six Vaal Keystones – so removing one of em (e.g. the new accursed Vaal Pact) doesnt seem the right way to go.

Contradicting modifiers in one item are fine, as long as all components/mods of the item still work properly as u can see on the example below:



A simple solution to the "1 of 6 Keystones is bricked - issue"
might be an "exception" to the frase "Cannot Recover Life other than from Leech" for the "Life Recharge".

As there are other exceptions alrdy in play (e.g. Life recovery via Levelup; entering Town, and so on.)
this doesnt seem too inconsistent.


Best regards

ArC

Please make this shield work again!


/Forbidden Rite Pathfinder

I mean Vaal Pact shouldn't only work on melee, pls let it also work for me as a spell user... It's almost discriminating.

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Glassigt#6235 wrote:

I mean Vaal Pact shouldn't only work on melee, pls let it also work for me as a spell user... It's almost discriminating.

Just think of the possibilities..! :) All the new cool builds it would create/enable..!

I wanna try it on my Forbidden Rite Pathfinder :)