The Retch

The Retch is a unique.

Mechanics
The modifier takes 200% of the actual life gained from leech and deals it as chaos damage to enemy that was the target of the leeching. Therefore, by default no damage is dealt if the player is at full health while leeching. This damage is not affected by damage modifiers as it is considered as reflected damage.

With Ghost Reaver modifier the damage is dealt based on energy shield gained from leech.

Using instantaneous life leech modifiers (such as ) causes chaos damage to be dealt instantly as well rather than over time. The damage dealt is based on the life gained before the character is at their maximum life total.

If Brutal Fervour is allocated, then the damage will continue as long as the leech lasts, even once at full life. If combined with instantaneous life leech, then the total amount of potential leech is dealt instantly, including that above the player's maximum life.

The Retch itself is not a league-specific item. However, the ingredients of the vendor recipe is tied to Talisman league. There are additional ways to acquire league-restricted items, see the article for the League-specific items for more details.

Version history

 * The vendor recipe for The Retch now gives a Relic version when vendoring a Relic version of both and.


 * Fixed various issues with The Retch's property that deals chaos damage. It is now also clearer that the portion of life leech that is dealt as damage is dealt as chaos damage.


 * Fixed a bug where the Chaos Damage dealt by the unique item The Retch was bypassing Chaos Damage mitigation.


 * changed to.


 * Fixed a bug with The Retch which caused monsters to not drop any items when killed.


 * Introduced to the game.
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