Snapshotting

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SorakPoE wrote:

Question about Righteous Fire (post 1.2.0):

Suppose your cast an Aura linked to the Blood Magic support gem to go the low-life, and you have Redbeak equipped. You then cast RF. RF would then get the benefit of 100% increased damage.

If you then un-cast the Aura, such that you are no longer low life, does the RF damage scale accordingly? You are not changing any equipment, gems, or passives, so it does not meet the damage recalculation conditions that I think you mentioned in the OP.

Yes. Low life -> not low life is another form of stat change, equivalent to changing gear or passives. It was not explicitly called out in the article for sake of simplicity. Low life bonuses will only apply so long as you're on low life.

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KoTao wrote:

Might want to take another look at tempest shields many self-disable bugs/issues too. It still turns off at seemingly random zone transitions

It will turn of if you transition without enough current mana to recast the skill on entry to the new area. This is fixed in 1.2.0 by a separate change to how percentages are handled on reservations, along with some other issues.

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KoTao wrote:

turns off when it levels, will sometimes turn off in some gear pieces if other gems in that gear piece level, and is extremely clunky to use in a build with an alt weapon/shield swap as swapping also turns it off.

It must disable if your shield is unequipped. The changes in 1.2.0 to snapshotting however change it from actively watching and disabling as soon as the shield goes away to having a "blind spot" until gear modifications are finished - so it will no longer disable for levelling a gem in the shield (which temporarily unequips and re-equips the shield as part of the process). I believe this will also allow it to weapon swap between two sets if both have shields, but I haven't tested this specifically - I'll test now and report back.

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robmafia wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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robmafia wrote:

that's... my point? how/why are the gems gaining experience if you're saying the items are unequipped?

Because the rules for gem xp say that gems gain XP if they're either in an equipped item or in one of the inactive weapon set items.

i get that, i asked WHY it's that way. it doesn't appear to make any sense.

Sorry, missed this one before.
The reason for this has nothing to do with the items being mechanically equipped, and everything to do with us a) wanting to let people have some space to level gems that they're not actively using, and b) wanting not to penalise characters who genuinely use weapon swap - while only one set of items is equipped at any given time, such a character, overall, can be considered to be using all the gems (just not all at the same time), so it's more fair if they all gain expereince.

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Veruski wrote:

What if I do something like cast Poison Arrow, then swap my weapon? What happens with the cloud damage?

The cloud damage isn't dependant on your weapon, and will function as normal.
If you change items with damage modifiers that affect the cloud, these are currently still locked in, similar to how I explained curses earlier. As I said there, we can potentially extend this system to other skills should it prove necessary.
If you change to a non-bow weapon while the arrow is in the air, it will fail to hit anything, rather than hitting and dealing non-bow damage, but that's not part of this change - it already does that.

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Promo1987 wrote:

Since a lot of current builds will get 'broken', I am going to assume a full respec is in order?

1.2.0, like our other major expansions, will include a one-time optional full passive reset. That's part of why 1.2.0 is a good time to release this change, since this will be occuring then.