Upcoming Unique Items

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twiz wrote:

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tacotiklah wrote:

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Orca_Orcinus wrote:

Stormcharger is straight up the worst item in the history of Poe, it's unreal how bad items just keep getting added to the game. I hope that's not a supporter unique...

By itself, yeah it's god awful. But in combination with a couple of other items, it can become amazing. Lemme explain why...

For starters, on the reddit a supporter revealed a unique chest piece called Inpulsa's Broken Heart: https://dd.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/7bla5r/here_is_a_teaser_of_a_new_unique_at_31_supporter/


Then of course there's an old "useless" unique belt that now suddenly becomes amazing with the chestpiece:
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Maligaro%27s_Restraint

Now what happens is that the shock you apply to enemies gets reflected back to you. But you don't take increased damage from it. You're still shocked, but no increased damage taken. This creates a safe "shock aura" where literally everything around you becomes shocked.
Why does that matter? Because by shocking everything around you, chest has the lightning equivalent of obliteration wand/gladiator bloodsplosion/occultist profane bloom/etc. (which btw, these explosion mechanics stack ;) )


But wait, there's more!
Now the changes to how shock work in 3.0 means that shock has a cap of +50% damage provided you chunked at least 10% of the target's maximum life in a hit with lightning damage. But if you stack increased effect of shock, this lowers the necessary threshold to reach shock cap. If you stack it high enough, even a tickle can apply shock cap. This is where the boots come in. Now they haven't shown the roll range on the increased shock effect mod on these new boots which is why I'm not getting TOO excited for them, but it would certainly help tremendously towards lowering shock cap threshold. That Inpulsa's chest piece ALSO increases effect of shock, so that helps lower the shock cap threshold as well. Assuming you get the threshold down low enough, it's basically a free +50% increased damage, even against bosses. This is where the boots become nice.


But wait! You can still go even more ham with this with other uniques in this combo...
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Esh%27s_Mirror
along with
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vessel_of_Vinktar_(Added_Lightning_Damage_to_Attacks) (or added lightning to spells one)

Or how about substituting the esh mirror/vinktar flask for one of these?:
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Starforge Because that item wasn't stupidly OP af without adding a shock based form of obliteration wand to make it's clearing even faster and bossing even stronger (if you stack shock effect), right?

Or what about possibly throwing this ring into the mix?
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Valako%27s_Sign





Point of all this being that sometimes a unique looks really shitty on its own, but becomes build-enabling when used in tandem with other uniques to create a stupidly OP build.

And 0 resists, so have fun getting dicked by anything that's not trash...
Unless you spend hundreds of exalts on every other piece to get perfect life/res gear.

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sidtherat wrote:

cooldown recovery on movement skills? so all movement skills now have a cooldown?

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id like that, but im sure im in the very very small minority here

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otherwise: lol at people measuring uniques by their sell value not utility