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Ectopsychic Echo's duration not affected by intellect

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Ectopsychic Echo's tooltip indicates it has a fixed duration, not affected by intellect or other bonuses/maluses.

 

While this could be intentional, it doesn't make much sense in context... unless the goal was to nerf ciphers. 

It was same in PoE1. And I'd say it's one of those bugs that turned out to be a feature, because it enables 3-int cipher build.

 

P.S. Actually I think it would be great to have beams duration be affected by INT (for consistency) by default, but only if there was a talent, some kind of Beam Mastery: you can have now 2 beams of the same type active at the same time, but their duration is no longer affected by INT.

Edited by MaxQuest

That would be pretty interesting!

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It was same in PoE1. And I'd say it's one of those bugs that turned out to be a feature, because it enables 3-int cipher build.

 

So that basically leaves... Disintegrate, Mind Blades, and Soul Shock, and that (usually underwhelming) lance power? But in PoE 2 casting time is too long to spam lower tier abilities, and focus gain is too slow to rely on multiple Disintegrates.....

 

The malus from Powder Burns also has a fixed 10 second duration, so 3 int won't undo that... Edit: after more testing it turns out Powder Burns doesn't build focus.

Edited by SaruNi

 

It was same in PoE1. And I'd say it's one of those bugs that turned out to be a feature, because it enables 3-int cipher build.

 

So that basically leaves... Disintegrate, Mind Blades, and Soul Shock, and that (usually underwhelming) lance power? But in PoE 2 casting time is too long to spam lower tier abilities, and focus gain is too slow to rely on multiple Disintegrates.....

 

Disintegrate damage was affected by INT.

And also INT affected Soul Shock AoE.

 

But yes, a 3-INT cipher could use: Echo, Antipathetic Field, Mind Blades, Mind Lance and Amplified Thrust without problem.

And agreed on long casting times.

  • 3 weeks later...

Hey SaruNi,

 

Thanks for your post! This issue is currently already in our system from our QA team :) We'll see how it all turns out!

 

You the best,

 

-Caleb

I like big bugs and I cannot lie...

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