Short Questions Thread

Anonymous: wrote:
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1. Leader of goats has voodoo shot (xbow necro skill) on death. Helps if you have many summons, minions around - it can target them instead of you. Also moving fast and a lot of defense helps.

2. It gets better with better gears, charms and each signet eaten. Just play.

3. I don't. Some people do.

thanks a lot, and to mr stealthmaster too!

i just pop pagan rites and so far it seems to work, the voodoo shot thing seems to be timed a few seconds after death

right now, i am going through a4 destruction, and its fascinating how different the areas are when it comes to difficulty. first 3 stages are ezpz. river of flame almost undoable. well, i will get through it inevitably, but damn am i dying. and i dont even realize from what mechanic exactly. still fun tho. upped to about 170 mf so its farming sets at the same time, at a good rate too! every run has at least 2 set items and around 4-8 uniques.

ok, short question:
how do you guys manage lifeleech? i went for it (besides life after kill, ofc) to sustain longer boss fights. its rather negligible tho. am i right that i need insane amounts of life leech (way above 60-70&) to even recognize the effect?

In general 60-70% LL is enough for Terror, but not for Destruction if you have low AR. However, if you have 95% cth (im sure, you do, because of dex-based build) with a trap rat, I see no reasons why this shouldn't be enough for you. Quills will always hit, so 70% LL should be fine. Note that you cannot leech from physical immune monsters. What kind of boss fight were you talking about?

just a general idea, for bosses without add spawns. which would be the "classic" LOD bosses. then i noticed that they are laughably easy (compared to some trashmob groups). it would be really neat to have a constant leech up and running but it seems nigh impossible (sacred weapon = 10x2% lifeleech and thats pretty much it for my char right now). i have no clue how to reach 70. life after kill is much easier to increase so i am running with that atm.

Stealthmaster wrote:In general 60-70% LL is enough for Terror, but not for Destruction

And for Destruction one need....? How much LL?

Depends on char/build but at least 100 to notice effect. IIRC penalty on life leech in Destruction is 1/100. Crafted jewels with 2%ll and if possible double orbed weapon can easily get there.

Playing a totem necro and just got to Act 3 Terror and have some questions. I've been using fire and frost totems, is stormeye better than either? I seem to have a lot of extra points, is it a waste of points to invest in a third totem element for a little more variety? Is 1 point void archon enough or is it worth maxing? Should I max shadows (right now it's 1 point)? Right now I've maxed death lord, embalming, and frost/fire as close to 20 as I can.

Thanks!

Stormeye is the worst of the totems IMO. Maybe you could ditch Deathlord and invest on Malice tree? I just recently built a necro using only Frostclaw totems and Funeral Pyre.

Jampula wrote:Depends on char/build but at least 100 to notice effect. IIRC penalty on life leech in Destruction is 1/100. Crafted jewels with 2%ll and if possible double orbed weapon can easily get there.

I think 1% is a little much. From what I remember, its 100% in Hatred, 50% in Terror, and 25% (or something around that) in Destruction. 1% would make ll completely useless...

Warren1001

From LFAQ:

Q: I just finished Hatred/Terror, and my Leech stopped working!
A: Normal difficulty has a 1/4 (25% effectiveness) penalty on leech.
In Terror, your leech effectiveness is lowered to just 1/50 (2% effectiveness) penalty.
Destruction then pwns it completely, to 1/100 (1% effectiveness) penalty.

Example: You have 25% life/mana leech.
On the Hatred difficulty you have an effective leech of 25*25% (since there's a 1/4 penalty) = 6.25% effective leech.
On Terror, 25*7.5% = 1.875% effective leech.
On Destruction, 25*2% = 0.375% effective leech.

Wow ;-;