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Skouros wrote:

Ah, another closed mind, its alright if you don't enjoy a challenge, or enjoy items that create unique circumstances within which to play the game... there are many of us that do.

If you don't want it, don't get one, let the price drop way down so people like myself (who actively avoids farming for currency whenever possible) can easily afford one.

Get a load of this guy.

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Ah, another closed mind

That insult is uncalled for.

Please enlighten me how you can make this work. Getting 75 spellblock is an option with this but that still isn't enough. You'd still be taking far more damage.

Not even going to mention its complete lack of stats being a downside since it simply hurts you in every way. Obviously you could just make a glass cannon with all offensive uniques that have no res but many elemental enemies will onehit you.. so it seems pointless.

Its not an insult. You're specifically stating that the helm is useless for end game and leveling purposes... why are you stating that?

It certainly has use, or it would not exist. Its very existence should OPEN your mind to more possibilities, create ideas with which you can take characters in whole new directions...

What do you do instead of that? Call it useless, because it does not fit your existing requirements for "good" or "useful".

Closed mind is not an insult, its simply the truth. Open it and you have nothing to be "insulted" by.

Edit: Perhaps you won't agree but I believe this item has Koam's like potential. It has serious huge downsides, but it is also VERY powerful in its own way. Have you considered the math behind what 20% more global defenses will do for a well geared character?

Characters exist NOW which are successful and able to play with very little or sometimes no physical defenses. The same can be accomplished with spells, I am sure, moreso with this item.

I'm very open minded. Just tell me in what kind of build would it not harm.

I know the game mechanics. No such build exists. Your options are focusing on max spellblock(and even phase acrobatics?!..) or going full glass cannon. The first option will be the most fragile block build in the game and the 2nd option will be onehit.

The only way for it to be viable is for a method to increase the spellblock cap which does not exist currently.

Yes, it's a great unique to use

with.

Too bad Crown of thorns is a helm too.

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Skouros wrote:

Its not an insult. You're specifically stating that the helm is useless for end game and leveling purposes... why are you stating that?

It certainly has use, or it would not exist. Its very existence should OPEN your mind to more possibilities, create ideas with which you can take characters in whole new directions...

What do you do instead of that? Call it useless, because it does not fit your existing requirements for "good" or "useful".

Closed mind is not an insult, its simply the truth. Open it and you have nothing to be "insulted" by.

Edit: Perhaps you won't agree but I believe this item has Koam's like potential. It has serious huge downsides, but it is also VERY powerful in its own way. Have you considered the math behind what 20% more global defenses will do for a well geared character?

Characters exist NOW which are successful and able to play with very little or sometimes no physical defenses. The same can be accomplished with spells, I am sure, moreso with this item.

This item is even worse than immortal flesh and has no use in even as a leveling tool.

Even with 100% spell block, a single attack from any elemental enchanted monster will instantly vaporize you.

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Skouros wrote:

Its not an insult. You're specifically stating that the helm is useless for end game and leveling purposes... why are you stating that?

It certainly has use, or it would not exist. Its very existence should OPEN your mind to more possibilities, create ideas with which you can take characters in whole new directions...

What do you do instead of that? Call it useless, because it does not fit your existing requirements for "good" or "useful".

Closed mind is not an insult, its simply the truth. Open it and you have nothing to be "insulted" by.

Edit: Perhaps you won't agree but I believe this item has Koam's like potential. It has serious huge downsides, but it is also VERY powerful in its own way. Have you considered the math behind what 20% more global defenses will do for a well geared character?

Characters exist NOW which are successful and able to play with very little or sometimes no physical defenses. The same can be accomplished with spells, I am sure, moreso with this item.

SUCH LOGIC

WOW MANY SMART

WOW SO EINSTEIN WOW

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Have you considered the math behind what 20% more global defenses will do for a well geared character?

Yes I have. It's a few points worth of ES nodes so that's nothing special and it's even worse for purely armor/evasion. Seeing how enemies can also do party elemental hits you'll have to focus on evasion/block/spellblock and maybe combined with dodge/spell dodge which results in a very low HP build. The global defenses is most significant with the dodge/block mechanics since that does not exist in the passive skilltree.

After all that's done it still won't matter. Your HP will be abysmal if you decide to also go for dodge. Without dodge there is a spellblock cap meaning you still get hit by spells 25% of the time.. for 300% increased dmg. You would die very fast.

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Characters exist NOW which are successful and able to play with very little or sometimes no physical defenses. The same can be accomplished with spells, I am sure, moreso with this item.

No, the same can't be accomplished with spells. Physical defense can be 100% mitigated by evasion, block and most importantly immortal call. There is no immortal call equivalent for spells and you can't evade spells(outside dodge mechanics).

Spells are also balanced around 75% all resist. Big hits mostly ignore armor values under 20k so it's not like onehit mechanics are affected by armor. Resists reduce by a flat percentage. You can't survive endgame without resists. There is a reason -15-25 max resist is the toughest map mod.

The helm is useless because it has no real upside to justify the huge downside
22% increased block and stun recovery: garbage mod nobody wants
-40% light radius: another garbage mod
1-2xx lightning thorn: could somewhat niche in pvp.
19% global defense: considering you lose a shit ton of defense on the helm, 19% global defense might not even be able to make up for that so still a shitty saving grace
And then the huge zero resistance
Don't worry about price, this helm will never go for more than 5 chaos, I assure you that, you can buy one for you, one for your mom and 2 for your dogs without breaking your bank. So this helm at least got that going for it, which is nice.