% Damage to Mana Bug?

[Garet Jax]

I would guess this has come up before but I haven't seen it in my perusal of the forums. My understanding of this mod is that when you suffer damage (physical or magical) this modifier takes the % indicated of the damage done and subtracts it from your mana.

I have nightsmoke and tal's belts 50% and 37% damage to mana respectively, and when I get hit I don't notice any drop in my mana at all when I am getting huge drops in life. The character I'm using the belts on is a level 79 elemental druid, but I noticed the same thing with my cold/light sorc.

Either my understanding of this mod is flawed or the mod is bugged. Can someone please provide some explanation.

Thx.

[edit] I think I may have answered my own question. Please verify if this interpretation is correct. %damage to mana takes half of the damage you receive and adds it to your mana. For example, with nightsmoke belt on (50% dmg to mana) you take 100 points of damage, your life will still go down 100, but your mana will go up 50.

If this interpretation is right I still question exactly how it works because I seem to lose well over twice as much life as I gain Mana

[superdave]

"[edit] I think I may have answered my own question. Please verify if this interpretation is correct. %damage to mana takes half of the damage you receive and adds it to your mana. For example, with nightsmoke belt on (50% dmg to mana) you take 100 points of damage, your life will still go down 100, but your mana will go up 50."

the above is correct....you still take all of the damage but half of the points will go towards increasing your mana


"If this interpretation is right I still question exactly how it works because I seem to lose well over twice as much life as I gain Mana"

you have to remember that there are other modifiers like damage reduction and energy shield that will reduce the amount of mana you get from dam taken goes to mana....the amount returned to you is calculated based on the damage you receive AFTER ES and dam red

[Thrugg]

DR etc won't affect what he is seeing though, because that is all done before both damage and mana return. If you actually take 100 damage, you should get back 50 mana, regardless of the size of the initial attack and all the calculations in between.

However, it is important to note that DtM only works on physical damage. If an attack has both physical and some elemental, it will only give back for the physical part, and obviously for pure elemental attacks it does nothing.

[Garet Jax]

Thanks for the information superdave and Thrugg. My guess is the discrepancy I am seeing is because of elemental damage.

Thanks again

[helvete]

Diabloii.net has a .xls file with some sort of damage taken goes to mana calculator, but as far as I can see, the creator of this file couldn't have understood how this actually work... Or it is based on 1.09 or something, but why then is the telekinesis synergy there?