Upcoming changes to Leech

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Malone wrote:

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Darkaleb wrote:

Excuse a noob question: is there any difference with instant leech between old and new mechanic?

There is no mechanical change for the instant leech. But values have changed ( both vaal pact efficiency and leech value on passives/gear ).
At the end it's a very severe nerf to instant leech ( 50 % nerf )

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Vipermagi wrote:

The modifier on the item goes entirely unchanged; the item still has a "LifeLeech" affix with a value of "1". However, the effect of that value has been changed. Rather than value = %Leeched, the affix value is now divided by five to determine %Leeched.

Because they wanted to change literally every item with Leech, they can adjust the Leech modifier itself, and they don't have to change anything about existing items. On the other hand, if GGG decides that Garbage Heart should roll higher values for the Leech modifier, they would have to specifically hunt down each item - after all, they cannot simply change the Leech modifier to be 50% stronger because it'd apply to all items with a Leech modifier.

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Pretty much this. We changed what leech values mean. (it's actually a bit more complicated in that we also introduced new leech stats that actually use the values the way the stats say they will which will be used going forward so that the balance team doesn't have to always remember to multiply the value they want by 5 when adding leech to items/skills. And it was made more complicated again by grandmasters needing to still work. But this is what basically happened - we didn't change any values, we changed the game so when it sees the stat "life_leech_%" it treats it as though it was "this value is five times the life leech % value".

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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Qarl wrote:

For example we have a few big improvements coming for leech. We think you'll like them.

Why?

What on earth did you base this on?