Latent Power

[侍Kage]

How exactly this skill activates? It just says when conditions are met. I don't understand, thank you!

[Popcorn]

Hp loss at 180, activates
Time in hunt lasted to 5min, activates
Lasts for 130s(?), deactivates

Idk about zinnys set bonus, or more like dont remember

[Washing Machine]

Googled about it, all the set bonus does is reduce the Hp loss requirement to 150, in addition to giving it extra levels.

Not exactly worth.

[EvilShuckle]

I happen to have researched it just now.

Latent power is a skill that has two conditions that work independently. 1) When you take an X amount of damage, 2) When 5 minutes pass.

At level 5 the damage is 180. At level 7, requiring zinogres set bonus to be able to reach 7, it is 130 damage.

When it triggers, it gives you a 2 minute long buff that increases affinity with 50 (or 60 with 7) and reduces stamina loss with 50%.

After the 2 minutes, you can trigger it again without a cooldown in between (tested it this morning), for another 2 minutes.

Now this damage taken does not mean that you need to remain below a health level. It is seperate from healing. You just need to take damage over as long a time period as you want and you can just heal up right after.

The set bonus reduces the damage taken required from 180 to 130. And increases affinity with 10%. It isn't the most useful thing.

In general, latent power is very useful because it is a reliable 50% affinity increase and stamina halved. Any damage you take can be used to trigger it. Damage you take from blocking, burn damage, self damage. All of it. I would only recommend it if you use stamina a lot, though.

[Grottowalker]

It's a non meta skill but if you know a monster well then you can pair it with healing augment for a decent payoff.

Be more reckless taking the minor hits and chip damage, and avoid the big one shot moves.

Or get hit by one big move and get ready for the buff to proc.

I like using the acrobat earing with latent power secret cause it means I can keep my weapon out to sustain dps after I take a big hit.

[Xedhadeaus]

I hate the skill.
But I cannot wait until the transmog mod updates so I can use the helms. They're pretty nice.

[Snes64]

by the way you can add Zinogre secret to a safi weapon, then take stygian waist and zinogre chest with 3 safi armor on the rest. the self harm let you get LP very fast and you need 15% aff to get 100%crit (augment once + one crit jewel)

[Fregi]

I use a health regen lance, and my build accidentally comes with 2 levels of latent power. Feels nice when my affinity randomly gets buffed out of nowhere.