Crown of the Pale King better than Aegis Aurora? Video's inside

Yeah but unlike Aegis your life gain on block varies because of the reflect damage (80 - 390 per block) :\

Also there is the price of using 3 specific uniques rather than just 1, which makes gearing a lot harder seeing as the shield has no resists and neither does the helm and amulet.

And last but not least, the damage reflected is physical, monster armor and +x% monster physical damage reduction / endurance charges will all diminish your life gain on block.

If you could properly scale the reflect damage, then it would be really a fun unique.

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https://youtu.be/QeAYB5FUN3I


Preliminary Summarization:

Scaling:
Crown - does not scale
Aegis - scales better above ~10k Armour

Damage leeched back
Crown - varying between 72 - 390 Max
Aegis - allways 2% of Armour flat, for example 230 at 11550 Armour

Item Slots needed:
Crown - 3
Aegis - 1 or 2 (Anvil!)

Skill Point Requirement:
Crown - 0
Aegis - 0 - ? depends on Gear maybe some for Armour + Energy Shield

Item Requirements:
Crown - good Life + good Resists + Armour ( 1-2 Item Slots less !)
Aegis - Life + Resists + high Armour + medium Energy Shield

Small Hits:
Crown - works good
Aegis - works good

Big Hits:
Crown - Fills up completly (but maybe slower)
Aegis - Fills only up Energy Shield (but maybe faster)

Chaos Damage:
Crown - works
Aegis - does not work (exception: CI ?)

Cost:
Crown : Low-Medium (on Perandus) high (on Standard)
Aegis : high

Gems :
Crown : nothing ?
Aegis : can use Melee Damage on Full Life for More Damage

Ascendancy Class :
Crown : only Gladiator
Aegis : varible, more possibilities

Missed something / something wrong ? correct me.

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thormida wrote:

To LightningStars
Let's say you have 1000 ES and 5000Life
If you take 2000 Damage, Aegis fills up 1000ES leaving you with
1000 ES and 4000 Life, and then stops working !?
Melee damage on full life doesnt work in this case when you need it most !?

If you're running aegis you're running an armor build, average 10k armor. 10k armor mitigates most hits to the point where short of a crit+added damage+??? on a rare, nothing is gonna scratch you more than 500 per hit. Practically everyone running aegis takes advantage of melee damage on full life. Anvil also returns hp on block, so your hp gets topped up. And then you can just flask/leech or whatever else to fill your hp. We assume 78% block, so even against something that can potentially do 2k damage to you, you're gonna block 3/4 hits on average, even more if you have a swarm of small enemies doing scratch damage to you.

To LightningStars

Ok, added it to the summaritzation :-)

I actually think both are worse then lionseye or any +1k armor shield generally.
The amount of extra armor you can get taking shield defense nodes and a lionseye.

Aegis imo is better because it works with ES based builds.

Main problem I have with crown is your giving up your helm slot.
My other issue with it is life on hit reckoning does almost the same thing.

It's not a bad alternative but there is a reason it is called the poor man's aegis :)

Everyone pretty much hit the nail on the head here.

-streaky leech on block (ranges instead of flat 2% everytime)
-forced into more unique items
-can't scale reflect damage
-can scale leech on block with aegis (grace, granite flasks, jade flask w/ IR)

With a supreme spiked shield + leo mod you could get a higher average block damage with less variance, and roll some resists on it. Downside is less base block and the implicit probably doesn't apply to spellblock, but the block chance can be augmented with Advancing Fortress.

Wrong, totally wrong.

Look carefully. On Melee Block.

thousand teeth temu reflects on block.
Btw i dont know if it works for spells , it specifically says "attackers" and spell aren't attacks.

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Geisalt wrote:

Wrong, totally wrong.

Look carefully. On Melee Block.

thousand teeth temu reflects on block.
Btw i dont know if it works for spells , it specifically says "attackers" and spell aren't attacks.

Judging from the video where the guy was afk-ing Temple Piety, it probably works unless I'm missing something. I suppose it's just another case of ambiguous wording.

I tested it with Residence Dominus Ranged Attack:

https://youtu.be/szFJ1t1Fwl4 2 extra Projectiles, 18% ele. Reflect

and also only with Temu equipped on a single Galvanic Ribbon in Solaris Temple.

It seems to work, if i dont oversee something.