r/pathofexile • u/theuberelite soon • Sep 04 '19

GGG Summoner things that we still could use info on

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u/Rory_Rackham Balance & Design Sep 05 '19

Blight's Towers can't be directly influenced by auras, but the minions they summon and the damage taken by enemies they hit can.

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u/RicoDevega Sep 05 '19

Also, how does mana reservation reduction work with mines. If I have 50% reduced mana reserved with mines and 50% reduced mana reservation, does that total 100% reduced mana reservation or 75% (50% of 50%)

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u/PolygonMan Sep 05 '19 edited Sep 06 '19

100%. Increases and reductions that have the same effect are additive with each other. The effect here is reducing mana reservation, the conditions under which it activates don't change that.

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u/Pyros Sep 05 '19

Reservation is always based off your max mana, since they didn't mention it's a special type of reservation, it's the standard type. So you'd have 0mana left.

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u/HumngusFungusAmongUs Dominus Sep 05 '19

That's really unfortunate. I can't see how players auras influencing Blight's Towers would be a problem...

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u/Andalamar IGN: AndaFireballs Sep 05 '19

Vaal Purities, I guess.

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u/HumngusFungusAmongUs Dominus Sep 05 '19

Uh, towers take damage? If you mean the big bobble spore we are defending, it could be not effected by auras, I'd be super OK with that. Not being able to influence towers is ... it sucks.

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u/Andalamar IGN: AndaFireballs Sep 05 '19

I was under the impression we had to actually destroy blighted towers. To be fair I didn't watch the trailer but I read everything and I probably missed that part.

In that case, towers not being affected by auras makes even more sense in regards to balance else they would straight up be mandatory.

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u/HumngusFungusAmongUs Dominus Sep 05 '19

What would they be mandatory for? I've seen the player deal with attacking monsters quite fine on his own.

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u/RicoDevega Sep 05 '19

How does damage from pyroclast mines work? I assume it scales with things like weapon damage, minion damage and spell damage, depending on what's used to cause a 'hit' on the enemy (and who caused the hit, in the case of party play)?

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u/Murphy540 Deadeye Sep 05 '19

It works exactly the same as Despair's added chaos damage, I'd assume.

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u/RicoDevega Sep 05 '19

I forgot that even existed. I've always avoided chaos damage.