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That chest is pretty nifty - it offers a huge effective boost to armour, as long as you can cap your lightning resists. I hope it is cheap because people cannot see the potential, so I can get my hands on one to play around with.

If you take a physical damage hit with that, is the damage taken reduced by your armor, then converted, and then reduced again by your lightning resist? If so, I could see how it would be useful as long as you build around it.

Would use as a pure eva char so when youndid get hit you still have 30% or so damage reduction. But other then that the downsides are pretty huge.

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Hodari wrote:

If you take a physical damage hit with that, is the damage taken reduced by your armor, then converted, and then reduced again by your lightning resist? If so, I could see how it would be useful as long as you build around it.

yes thats the point

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JohnNamikaze wrote:

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Gulruon wrote:

It's actually extremely powerful if you can work around the negative resists and shock, as you will be reducing the converted damage by up to 91% (or even more with that unique flask), and of course any armor you have is MUCH more effective.

I think GGG had a typo with the new unique item, I think they forgot to add another 0 to add lit dmg.

Everyone would die for it then, lol

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Guioki wrote:

Would use as a pure eva char so when youndid get hit you still have 30% or so damage reduction. But other then that the downsides are pretty huge.

The downsides are big--and honestly, I am afraid they might not be big enough. Phys damage conversion only seems weak to those who don't understand how damage mitigation in POE works, especially on a chest with non-trivial quantities of life, armor, and evasion (not the amounts you would get on a good rare, but still non-trivial amounts).

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Gulruon wrote:

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Redblade wrote:

Really not worth the downsides of -40 life -500 or armor/evasion and -60 LR for 1-30 lightning damage. =/

The lightning damage was suggested by the folks at GGG as a flavor addition. It was not even in the initial design I proposed, and is definitely not the "power-point" of the item.

Then I really fail to see the point of the chest at all...

Your typical evasion or armor/evasion chest for end game will have around 1500 armor/evasion 90-109 life and have 1-3 resists between 20 and 45. This one has not only no resists at all but negative lightning resists less life and less armor/evasion...and on top of that makes you take physical damage as lightning.

All I can see are drawbacks for the only gain of 1-30 lightning damage, perhaps it's just me being a cynical bastard but somehow I doubt it.

To be honest, the thing I'm worried about is that this will become for non-ES like Rainbowstride is for ES - the default item you want in the slot if you don't have a good reason to use a different unique. I'm not absolutely 100% on the maths, but it seems like it might end up that way.

(Edit: That awkward moment when you haven't played Standard in so long that you forget Kaom's exists...)

ya that chest should be cannot be shocked too.... but its not so........