shavronne's wrappings imbalanced

Hi, I would like to know what makes the new unique armor(Shavronne's Wrappings) balanced. As far as I can tell this new armor makes all rare ES chests obsolete.

Almost every other unique has some downside or sacrifice to it, there is no reason not to wear this chest. For example Kaom's Heart gives +1000 hp but has no sockets.

Flavor text reads "her body and soul became ever more corrupted" - maybe this means the armor could give a -20 or so to all attributes (which is still next to nothing when paired with Astramentis, but atleast requires a sacrifice and wont let every witch in the game plan towards this armor)

Edit: Another way to balance the armor without adding a -20 all stats would be to add a passive that does a similar thing to received chaos damage, but even this would almost be too strong.


Edit: Apart from all the obvious benefits this armor provides, it provides for the viability of on-low-life builds. This is a good step for the game, but there should be more than one way to achieve this, namely a passive that does a similar thing(maybe 75% of received chaos damage converted to fire or.. something). All other uniques with such abilities have a corresponding passive (ex. bloodmagic, conduit, pain attunement).

With this armor equipped I can activate an extra 3x40% auras supported by bloodmagic and reduced mana and always be on low life without spending any additional passive skillpoints on HP and having no real threat from chaos damage. We all know its way easier to stack ES than HP... So it's almost like having CI(since the only threat from chaos damage is that it penetrates your ES), you get an extra 3x %based auras, get all the benefits from on-low-life and it cost no passive skillpoints :)____


Edit: Ok so many people are comparing this armor to CI..

Main thing I find imbalanced about the armor is that it gives such great benefits without having to spend any passive skillpoints on it. For example, since CI does no longer give 50%ES, you need to spend about 7 extra passive skillpoints to get that same 50% bonus(which basically means your build is a few levels behind where it would normally be). Maybe this armor could be nerfed to give -20% Energy shield cooldown recovery (which would force you to invest into ES recovery and put some pressure on your build since high ES recovery is required for a pure ES caster build), but the real question is not how to nerf, it's more like how could this chest be considered balanced when it has no drawbacks?

It makes the other uniques look like a joke, for example compare Voll's Protector to this new chest...

oups misread

Well... you still get damage from chaos. But you're right, I think it makes Redbeak/Pain Attunement Totem Builds so much safer that it is probably overpowered.

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epicusdingonious wrote:

As far as I can tell this new armor makes all rare ES chests obsolete.

This unique is indeed awesome but I don't think anyone should move to soon to say that its OP and should be nerfed. Its amazing for specific builds but rare chests with much more ES, better resists etc.. will still trump it on most other builds. You will STILL have to stack plenty of chaos resists in order to use it effectively.

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epicusdingonious wrote:

Almost every other unique has some downside or sacrifice to it,

There are a lot with downsides but there are also plenty without downsides. Off the top of my head, astramentus, the new leu hoop ring, meginords, magnate, Aegius Aurora, Prism Guardian... etc etc.

this armor renders chaos innoculation obsolete even more, there no point of going CI anymore when you can just use this new shiny unique armor and go pain attunement without any risk anymore..

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Nukerdeath wrote:

this armor renders chaos innoculation obsolete even more, there no point of going CI anymore when you can just use this new shiny unique armor and go pain attunement without any risk anymore..

1) If you want to stack chaos resistances

2) Assuning that you can get your hands on this expensive chest piece.

3) Assuming you benefit more from that chest more versus chests with much higher ES/resists that aren't as expensive compared to this unique.

And that new chest.

Mwaha...MWAHAHAHAH!
I WILL BE INVINCIBLE!

Edit: This would also allow me to drop all my hp regen nodes, and many of my HP nodes for more armor and energy shield.

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colexian wrote:

And that new chest.

Mwaha...MWAHAHAHAH!
I WILL BE INVINCIBLE!

Edit: This would also allow me to drop all my hp regen nodes, and many of my HP nodes for more armor and energy shield.

Bad Idea even if chest is bad ES(not really true), you still need get enough ES to justify taking it. So good rare focus is better. But pretty much yes this best item in slot. Chaos damage doesn't care how much highier ES on rare chests. It ignores ES completely. So let's say 1k Extra ES against all damage types vs 3k extra only to non chaos, first option would be prettymuch always too powerfull.(if you don't needyou just putthat awesome yellow gear untill you meet chaos damage in abundance.
Infact it was way too good unique even if it had on it's own 1ES (just as matter of fact).

I think it is quite OP if used correctly. Just found it btw. Refer to my post for more info


http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/236441

It does seem "strong" if you are an ES user, but yeah, CI still makes you immune to chaos damage, this doesn't.

Thus, if people use chaos on you, your ES will still keep going down and down and down

Still plenty of incentive to take CI