How To Better Use Slayer Leeching in Path of Exile?

Posted by Richard Betts on January 19th, 2018

Leech recovers an amount of life, mana or energy shield over time, relative to the damage inflicted on an enemy. Leech cares about the damage taken by the enemy, not the amount of life removed. The Slayer Leeching build is one of the most satisfying builds in Path of Exile, as there’s something about seeing your character slam the ground and have icicles stick up from the ground. Aside from that, the Slayer Leeching is easy to play and prop with gear, deals lots of damage, and can easily do much of the game content.

A single hit creates a single instance of leech that regenerates a base value of 2% of your life per second for a duration determined by how much total health the leech stack is worth.

How much damage you did in that single hit multiplied by your leech (“damage leeched as life”) is the ONLY factor at all in the DURATION of that leech instance. It has no effect whatsoever on how much life per second that leech hit gives you, ONLY how long it lasts.

If you have 1000 life, hit for 1000 damage, and have 100% leech, you will regenerate 2% of your life (20 hp) per second for 50 seconds.

If you want to regen more than 2% of your life per second for every hit you do to a mob, you need to get the “increased life leeched per second” stat. This value increases the regeneration of each leech stack by the percentage of the stat you have, but does NOT affect the duration. It makes you leech more health from the same damage you did. Large values of this (like in the Slayer talent Brutal Fervour) help a lot if you attack slowly or just don’t do much damage yet. Vaal pact doubles whatever your value of this stat is.

If you have 1000 life, hit for 1000 damage, have 100% leech, and have 100% increased life leeched per second, you will regenerate 4% of your life (40 hp) per second for 50 seconds.

Finally, these single leech instances stack until you have enough to reach your maximum leech rate. The base max leech rate is 20% of your total life, but this can be increased up to 29% on the tree and Vaal pact can double that to a maximum of 58%.

I hope this Slayer Leeching Guide brings you a better understanding to Slayer Leeching and how to maximize it to suit your play style. Furthermore, there you will find the path of exile items you want, to get more information from U4gm.

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