PoE Grants level 20 Affliction

The Selfish Shepherd is a unique Nameless Ring. It grants level 20 Affliction.

Affliction permanently Afflicts any of your damageable minions in a targeted area, causing them to take physical damage over time, at an accelerating rate. Each such minion causes you to regenerate life at a rate based on the current damage of it’s Affliction debuff. Afflicted Minions explode if their life is lowered to a fifth of maximum.

  • Base radius is 3 metres
  • You Regenerate Life per second equal to 20% of total Affliction Damage per second on all Afflicted Minions
  • Afflicted Minions Explode when reduced to a fifth of Life, dealing 50% of their Life as Physical Damage to surrounding Enemies
  • Afflicted Minions take 8% of their Life as Physical Damage over Time, increasing this value by 100% each second

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PoE Affliction: Mechanics and Effects

Affliction is a minion skill granted by The Selfish Shepherd that targets your own minions, causing them to take physical damage over time and granting you life regeneration. Affected minions explode when their health drops below 20%.

Key Mechanics:

  • Affliction: Permanently affects minions in a targeted area, causing escalating physical damage over time.
  • Life Regeneration: The caster regenerates life based on the Affliction’s damage.
  • Explosion: Minions explode below 20% life, but this cannot trigger simultaneously with Minion Instability.

Interaction with Other Skills:

  • Conversions from gems like Absolution or Physical to Lightning Support affect the explosion.
  • Inherent minion conversions (e.g., Summon Raging Spirit’s physical to fire conversion) also apply.

Advanced Tactics:

  • Achieving the explosion effect without triggering Minion Instability requires reducing minion life from above 50% to below 20% using items like Coruscating Elixir or Doedre’s Elixir in combination with Umbilicus Immortalis.

Affliction adds a strategic layer to minion management, allowing for powerful life regeneration and explosive damage under the right conditions.

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