Mana cost yikes

Skill one with supports:
Lightning Tendrils‌    Infused Channelling Support‌    Arcane Surge Support‌


Skill two with supports:
    Blight‌    Lifetap Support‌    Void Manipulation Support‌

I have a heretic character and, in this situation, I just acquired the passive tree skill "The Agnostic". Now I can't tell you if this happens before getting "The Agnostic" as I only tried these combos of skills after I got the passive tree skill.


The problem comes from the mana.

After 2-3 seconds of using blight, I will switch to lightning tendrils to get the arcane surge buff to keep my mana flowing.

Yet the moment I switch usage of skills, my mana goes down by about 100 instantly. Literally the exact opposite of what I was going for lol.


Now, the agnostic: While not at 100% life, sacrifice 20% mana per second to recover that much life.

So, when I use blight with life tap support, I lose life for the cost of the spell.

The thing is I lose about 7 life per second, which with my regen, goes between 626 to 615 back to 626 every second and while using blight my mana goes down by about 12 each second and recovers about 9 each second, so the mana jar just wiggles up and down while slowly going down.

But the second I switch to lightning tendrils, all of a sudden, I go from having 380 mana to having 240 mana.

Like, even if what's happening is the 20% mana for life passive is activating, shouldn't 20% be around 60 mana?

I mean dmn 1/3rd of my mana jar just leaves to go get milk.

I'm sure the agnostic is activating but it should activate once a second.

Idk, I'm a novice coder so I know code goes haywire, a lot, most of the time, always.

Are you using your flask in the second slot when switching?

This mana flask has "Removes 15% of mana recovered from life when used", which doesn't seem very conductive towards using The Agnostic.


I can't really think of anything else that would be causing it. I might have to test this later to see if I can reproduce.

Hey thanks for the reply. No, I don't use flasks much and the ones I had equipped were standard ones.

I just took off the life tap support skill but just thought I would mention the original bug.

I feel like the coders replaced the use of Arrays with Lists to reduce code size, but that comes at the cost of unregulated list looping.

Basically, one is fixed as in (0,1,2,3,4) or (4,3,2,1,0)
While the other is more fluid and can go either way without extra coding.

Only problem is the program won't know intrinsically when to stop running through the numbers which causes a loop (as in the numbers processing repeating themselves).

I'm thinking they did that to reduce coding size for the port mechanic of the new league, but now all the skill gems (passives specifically) are using the new method.

Thanks again for the reply.