[Item} Voll's Protector not worth it
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Unavailable I have been unfortunate enough to have this drop for me twice on the same character. First one got vendored before I realised you could try and trade them on the forums. To me it just doesn't seem worth the 50% reduction in mana. Perhaps add that reduced amount to armour and energy shield or something to try and make the item worth while? IGN: Annassassin
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The fact that it isn't worthwhile to you doesn't mean it's crap. That's the beauty of PoE. Different builds, different items. It's not impossible to build a Blood Magic character with good critical strike chance. For such build, Voll's Protector is gold. And no, definitely don't change niche items like this to make them "worthwhile". Stuff like this is precisely what the cool builds are made of *nostalgia of the "useless" Kuko Shakaku* |
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" Thing is though, this item actually IS complete garbage. |
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"Except for the fact that it's not complete garbage at all. You do realize that the reduced mana stacks additively with increased mana mods right? |
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The reduced mana isnt why the item is garbage, its just not a good chestplate.
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"And that's your opinion. There are plenty of threads and videos discussing or showing off builds utilizing Voll's as well as numerous trade threads with people looking to buy the armor that, in my opinion, would prove you wrong. Not that you've given ANY reason whatsoever to support your claim. I will say that Voll's isn't as useful as it used to be due to the nerf to charges, but it certainly is not useless. Last edited by FaceLicker#6894 on May 31, 2012, 2:48:33 PM
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In my opinion it's not useless, as previously stated, it's a niche item for very specific builds.
Useless, to me, would be the low level uniques that don't even hold up in normal difficulty, like Silverbranch. I think the devs really have something neat going with the niche uniques and should make all of them this way. |
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"It's not the low level uniques that are the problem, it's the unique weapons. The special mods on unique armors and accessories are quite often worth it, but giving up the damage on a weapon is never worth it. |
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" and again, for most uniques you can come up with a build that utilize the special mods. You said its never worth giving up damage on a weapon, i say no. Take Death's Harp, directly compared to a thicket with 2-3 elemenatal damage mods or any other high end rare bow, its damage is shit. Take Poison Arrow and build your passive arround it, and you will never reach the resulting damage with any rare bow. |
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I think that the devs said that they don't want the uniques to be the best items in game, so that late rares should always be better than uniques (the reasoning behind that is that they don't want that the player is forced to find a (very rare) unique to be competitive), TBH it doesn't seem so bad for a lvl35...
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