Expnantion needed for the new Archmage passive

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For the new archmage passive: does the doubling/tripling affect both the chance of mana refunded and the amount refunded or only one of these?

So if I have 1000+ mana and max rank of the passive, does it refund 60% mana every time, or 20% every time, or 60% with 35% chance?

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Every passive is structured such that the effect is on the left side and value is on the right side. In case of Archmage passive:
Effect is “chance to refund 20% of mana cost”.
Value is “7% per point”.

The doubling and tripling affects the values:

Therefore, it will always refund 20% of manacost. The chance of a refund happening gets doubled/tripled, and the spell damage gets doubled/tripled aswell.

This means that at 1000+ mana, your spells will have up to 105% chance to refund 20% mana cost, and you get up to +15 spell damage.

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Big Thanks! Very comprehensive explanation!

BTW, will extra 5% from 105% do anything?

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Something like the refund proccing twice from a single spellcast? That would be awesome :smiley: No info on that unfortunately, so someone will have to test that once the patch goes live.

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It could go either way, depends how they’ve coded it, but I’d be surprised if it did proc twice.

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I wouldn’t personally be surprised, any instance we’ve seen of above 100% chance in ailments results in multiproccing, unless there is a stack count. So in my eyes multiproccing would be the default. Not guaranteeing it of course, just saying that it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

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Except it isn’t an ailment. There are other instances of things going over 100% that don’t do anything extra.

I have a feeling it’s just that 6% would have put the 3x at 90% but they wanted the triple effect to have a 100% chance to refund so they rounded up because while 6.66% per point might look cool :crazy_face: it would look a little clunky in the interface.

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