Darkness

Mechanics

Damage

Darkness stacks every 0.25 seconds up to a maximum of 5000 stacks. Each stack deals 2% of your eHP per second. (0.5% at 75% darkness resistance). 4 stacks deal 8% of your eHP per second. This is not a progression, formula is linear.

Hidden november's 2018th change: there is now a cap of maximum stacks that one can handle with sufficient amount of flat regeneration.

At 0% of the darkness resistance if regeneration applied to Life pool it will produce (eHP / 1516) of degen per stack. The cap will be at 1516 darkness stacks with 1 eHP so.

If regeneration is applied to energy shield instead, the degen will produce (ES / eHP / 1516) of degen per stack. The cap will be at 1137 stacks with 4 eHP (3 ES) character.

In order to calculate number of stacks which you can handle with your regeneration use formula: "maximum stacks = (darkness resistance multiplier) * regenetaion * 50 / eHP "

Note: the new hidden degen cannot be mitigated by any % life regen. But it can be mitigated by reduced damage taken over time modifiers (Arakaali's pantheon, Leo's craft); by Mind over Matter keystone (*1,3) and Kintsugi body armour (*1,25).