Why would anyone use this?!?

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kasub wrote:

That 1-180 lightning thorns is worth the 400% increase in damage taken.

LOL.

The worst thing about that item is that you can't even use it situationally or for leveling.

look at wanderlust shoes or fairgraves tricorne.

my CI build is using wanderlust to keep from freezing, just a little cheaper than dream fragments.

fairgraves turns the ebony barracks into a rofl-stomp. i'm in ambush right now and wishing i really had one.

but that helm...

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tinko92 wrote:

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You dont understand the unique effect of this. You get zero res, thats better than a minus to all res. At least in cruel you can run around with this for a while not caring about your res, then you put on res gear in merc.

Behold, the very first person who defends this piece of shit item.

If you have resists in minus in cruel, then you've either started playing the game on that very day or you have no idea about playing PoE.
And, if you've just started playing, you're likely not going to have even a Redbeak or Crown of Thorns, let alone some other unique.

First RIP on my ambush char happened against cruel lightning thorns. That and pretty much everything else with extra projectiles shotguns 0 elemental resistance chars.

Spellblock < Elemental resistances.