Iskandra's Elemental Exchange

[rolypoly]

I'm a bit confused about this ability, can someone explain please?

It affects basically your weapon hits, right? So you swing your weapon and that swing will have some magic damage added to it, correct?

But what is this "Energy Leech Per Second"? Does that mean with this ability enabled, I will leech energy from enemies around me? Or does it leech energy from me? Or does it only leech energy when I hit someone?

[KG]

Mostly right - keep in mind that converting physical to elemental won't be helpful if your character is stronger with physical damage. But it applies attack that deals a % of weapon damage, not just actual swings, shots, etc., and the listed flat damage (not phys -> elemental conversion) is based on dealing 100% weapon damage. 50% would deal half as much flat damage, 200% would do twice as much, and so on.

Energy leech per second - when you hit something with an attack that deals a percentage of weapon damage it will also deal that percentage of energy leech per second, meaning the target loses that much energy and you gain that much energy for the duration of the leech. Since IEE doesn't have a duration listed it just has a 1 second duration I think. Or 0 seconds. Might not matter - I don't know of anything that buffs energy leech duration.

[rolypoly]

I see, thanks! So mostly not very useful if I plan to focus primarily on spells. Probably more useful if I took Arcanist as a second class to augment something else?

[KG]

Eh, either way. The last node of the IEE line is pretty good at endgame no matter what you're doing since it offers crit damage. Lots of caster players say they like IEE for the energy regeneration bonus on the base skill but I've never found it to be that important compared to the energy regen bonuses you can get elsewhere.

[rolypoly]

Gotcha, thanks for the tips!