Passive skill idea - corrupted life/mana bars

The numbers you can already turn off in settings?

Terrible. Would make ES basically mandatory. Armor/Evasion classes would cease to exist. Just an awful idea.

I have an ability idea where a snake sprouts out of your head like a constricted/entangled enemy and acts like a minion centered on your player. It would strike at enemies in a radius and deal physical and poison damage. Probably not too useful considering a lot of endgame builds focus on exploding everything ASAP, but I like snakes and think a snake buddy would be cool.

If this is an idea you are interesting in pursuing, I would suggest a corrupted *aura*, where every target in range gets it, not just the player. This is along the same idea as you suggested, just implemented better. It also adds a use for presence aura of effect, perhaps, which might be converted to aura *magnitude* by some keystone/unique.