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In Path of Exile (PoE), the Claw Mastery passive skill offers a variety of powerful enhancements that significantly boost the effectiveness of claw-based attacks. These masteries are designed to maximize your damage output, improve survivability, and provide unique benefits for dual-wielding claws. Here’s a detailed breakdown of each feature and its strategic implications:
Feature: Gain 25 Life per Enemy Hit with Main Hand Claw Attacks. Feature: Gain 25 Mana per Enemy Hit with Off Hand Claw Attacks.
Analysis: These features provide substantial life and mana recovery whenever you hit an enemy with your main hand or off hand claw attacks. This enhances your sustain in combat, allowing you to maintain both your health and mana pools more effectively during prolonged encounters.
Feature: Inherent Attack Speed bonus from Dual Wielding is doubled while wielding two Claws.
Analysis: This feature doubles the inherent attack speed bonus when dual wielding claws, significantly increasing your attack speed. Faster attacks mean more hits, which translates to higher damage output and more frequent application of on-hit effects.
Feature: 60% increased Damage with Claws against Enemies that are on Low Life.
Analysis: This feature provides a 60% damage boost against enemies that are on low life. It makes your attacks more lethal when enemies are near death, improving your ability to finish off weakened foes quickly and efficiently.
Feature: 10% of Leech is Instant per Equipped Claw.
Analysis: This feature ensures that 10% of the leech you gain from hits is applied instantly for each equipped claw. Instant leech provides immediate life recovery, enhancing your survivability by quickly replenishing health during combat.
Feature: 50% increased Stealth if you’ve Hit with a Claw Recently.
Analysis: This feature increases your stealth by 50% after hitting an enemy with a claw recently. Enhanced stealth reduces the chance of being detected by enemies, allowing for strategic positioning and avoiding unwanted attention in combat.
Feature: Skills Supported by Nightblade have 40% increased Effect of Elusive.
Reminder Text: Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive.
Analysis: This feature increases the effect of the Elusive buff by 40% for skills supported by Nightblade. Enhanced Elusive improves your damage avoidance and movement speed, making you more agile and harder to hit in combat.
The Claw Mastery passive skill in Path of Exile offers a comprehensive set of enhancements that maximize the power and utility of claw-based attacks. By providing life and mana gain on hit, increasing attack speed when dual wielding claws, boosting damage against low life enemies, ensuring instant leech, enhancing stealth after hitting with a claw, and increasing the effect of Elusive with Nightblade support, these masteries ensure that your claw-wielding character is both powerful and resilient. Mastering these features allows you to build a character that excels in rapid, high-damage attacks while maintaining excellent survivability and strategic advantages, making you a formidable force in the dangerous world of Wraeclast.