Leaked 3.0.0 unique belt. It's causing a shitstorm on Reddit; they can't decide if it's good or bad

On the first look, this belt seems garbage.

You are sacrificing an extremely valuable belt slot for 6%es as life. On top of that you won't be able to use blood rage, as the degen stops you from reaching full life.

Now that you get the belt you start leeching some es. assuming you have 7k life, which means you have some really good gear, you gain 420es. Es leech rate is capped at 20% of max es, and you lose 4% of that due to degeneration. 16% of max es per second.

So even if you manage to gain 1k es in total you would regen 160 es per second on top of life leech. You will probably be a slayer for the broken overleech. and with 7k life and 30-40% leech rate, you will be leeching 2.1k to 2.8k life per second.

160es leech on top of ~2.500. if you went on a life belt instead of es, lets say 130 life, with around 220%inc life, you would get ~420 life and 150 life leeched per second.


so yeah, on the first look the belt is really weak.

This belt is complete and utter trash. LMAO. gonna be less than 1 alteration after like a day. Can;t believe people are even talking about it.

Even ziggy D's shitty vanguard belt was better.

bad

You have a very low threshold for "shit storm". This one doesn't even rate "heated".

Ultimately I think this is going to fall by the wayside like so many other "interesting" items in the game, at least until some streamer makes a build out of it (assuming that's possible).

But, for argument's sake, if I were to do something with this belt I'd probably go with Slayer for the near-constant overleech that would keep the ES barrier on full almost all the time. Then in my main skill setup I could use Melee Damage on Full Life somewhat reliably. Maybe there are some other full-life bonuses I could find to make use of as well.

I think it would be pretty easy to get around 1000 ES without too much investment, so you effectively get a 1k buffer against whatever your life pool is. Sounds decent enough to me.

All in all, I don't think this belt is going to be OP and it could very well be trash, but I would like to give it a test someday.

It's a good belt for life/ES hybrid build.
It would be OP before 3.0, but in 3.0, i dont think so.
First, instant leech doesnt work with Ghost Reaver, so it cant be a "free buffer" for instant leech. Second, if you take (small) chaos damage, you will leech life, not ES.
Third, your ES will "decay" over time.
Fourth, to get decent ES pool AND life pool, one should have "unorthodox" build...


I still think it can be strong with following items:
Shaper's Touch (str gives %ES)
Geofri's Sanctuary (str gives ES, though ZO will be detrimental)
Brutus Lead Sprinklerx2 (str gives major damage)

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Maswasnos wrote:

Ultimately I think this is going to fall by the wayside like so many other "interesting" items in the game, at least until some streamer makes a build out of it (assuming that's possible).

But, for argument's sake, if I were to do something with this belt I'd probably go with Slayer for the near-constant overleech that would keep the ES barrier on full almost all the time. Then in my main skill setup I could use Melee Damage on Full Life somewhat reliably. Maybe there are some other full-life bonuses I could find to make use of as well.

I think it would be pretty easy to get around 1000 ES without too much investment, so you effectively get a 1k buffer against whatever your life pool is. Sounds decent enough to me.

All in all, I don't think this belt is going to be OP and it could very well be trash, but I would like to give it a test someday.

I wouldnt go this belt for Slayer, because the main advantage of Slayer is ability to leech life even while being on full life. This belt takes it away from you (you will leech ES, not life, on full life), so you actually waste your potential.

Hybrid is pretty much the best way to get lots and lots of EHP, and this is a great hybrid belt i think, after all you're going to get a good bit of ES from your life and then you get to leech both when you need it, seems pretty swanky.

As per most uniques its missing key stats like resists and life, though it does somewhat have life for hybrid builds.

I don't think the belt is bad at all. It gives an additional buffer to life builds.

There are a few problems with this belt:

1) Belts slots are highly contentious: There are tons of good belts. Primarily a dual-res/flask stat belt seemingly would be better than this.

2) This belt requires you to build around it to some extent. This belt obviously works best with full hybrid slots. This also means stacking the appropriate amounts of life and es on the tree. People are already complaining about 3.0 being path of life/es nodes where most of your points are going to be drained into stacking defense. With that in mind, i think this belt will lose a bit of flavor. The bonus es% of life is nice but not enough for the buffer to be meaningful.

3) This might be the belt that many hybrid aegis builds fall too. That alone is a very niche crowd of people. So they will love this belt.

tl;dr: It's a good belt for it's very niche function, but will probably not get much use out the diehard aegis type players.