Atziri's Mirror, what is the point?

Soul Mantle + Atziri's Mirror Tri-totem = Total Fail

Things bounce off mirrors, not absorb.

1). Decent looking Skin Transfer item

2). Most expensive Alternate Art this game will ever see.

Necromancers, so powerful, resurrecting the dead to give an answer to a question long ago forgotten

^ ye, but to be honest, problem still remains. And honestly, curse immunity for shield slot is fair trade. Curse immunity isn't even all that great in the first place. :-S

Double Necro FTW!

Just found this one...and I agree on the Reflect part. a simple change to "Curses cast on you affect the caster instead", and it's now a shield worth the slot. right now its in my "Skins" tab, and will probably stay there. Curses are not the be all end all, especially when cast on you. curses rarely are what kill me...bleeds and chaos damage for sure, but curses? I rarely even blink at them unless it's a nasty group of double cursing whatevers, and then it's just a flask away.

I even stretched my imagination to see if some oddball unique makeup would make this interesting, but to no avail (my imagination is limited, I'll admit that. but nothing in my inventory made a difference.)

so bump for the sake of a cool looking unique and a cool idea. this item should be put on the list for review...

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elyxthaxzus wrote:

Double Necro FTW!

Just found this one...and I agree on the Reflect part. a simple change to "Curses cast on you affect the caster instead", and it's now a shield worth the slot. right now its in my "Skins" tab, and will probably stay there. Curses are not the be all end all, especially when cast on you. curses rarely are what kill me...bleeds and chaos damage for sure, but curses? I rarely even blink at them unless it's a nasty group of double cursing whatevers, and then it's just a flask away.

I even stretched my imagination to see if some oddball unique makeup would make this interesting, but to no avail (my imagination is limited, I'll admit that. but nothing in my inventory made a difference.)

so bump for the sake of a cool looking unique and a cool idea. this item should be put on the list for review...

"Curses cast on you, also affect the caster"

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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elyxthaxzus wrote:

Double Necro FTW!

Just found this one...and I agree on the Reflect part. a simple change to "Curses cast on you affect the caster instead", and it's now a shield worth the slot. right now its in my "Skins" tab, and will probably stay there. Curses are not the be all end all, especially when cast on you. curses rarely are what kill me...bleeds and chaos damage for sure, but curses? I rarely even blink at them unless it's a nasty group of double cursing whatevers, and then it's just a flask away.

I even stretched my imagination to see if some oddball unique makeup would make this interesting, but to no avail (my imagination is limited, I'll admit that. but nothing in my inventory made a difference.)

so bump for the sake of a cool looking unique and a cool idea. this item should be put on the list for review...

"Curses cast on you, also affect the caster"

??? What is the point of you post, again?
This is how this shield works now, and thread is about it being useless, and making the shield reflect the curse, and making you curse immune.

Just found out about this shield... JUST now as I was all excited to use it and had blown 40 chromatics, several jewel orbs and link orbs to get it ready. Let me re-iterate. This shield is a massive load of crap. Now let me help those who need it. REFLECT means exactly what it means. It's quite simple really and evidently as much as I love this game and while it is fantasy, the one common thing that we should all agree upon is English meaning and to help with that, here is the English def. for reflect "(of a surface or body) throw back (heat, light, or sound) without absorbing it.
That is why Nasa uses reflective gear. Imagine if it reflected WHILE simultaneously absorbing. Well first that's an oxymoron and furthermore all the astronauts would burn to a crisp... THEREBY making reflect entirely useless.

But crazy me for a basic grasp of science and English, back to the game now.

1. What good is a shield in which you sacrifice stats... to get cursed anyway?!
2. what good is a shield when 50% or more endgame maps are curse immune... you get cursed anyway!?

Ingame the shield should clarify by reading "Atziri's mirror - A great idea from the creators of the
game to show we all make mistakes on occasion. Due to the fact that we can't just clean out people's inventory this broken shield must remain in the game but should only be used as decor over your fireplace next to the $200 Katana you bought but will never use."


As an end note, I hate curses in this game. They are a useless waste of space, gems, passives and mechanic that is sloppily implemented and very poorly executed. The ONLY benefit they serve is if you have the gem that buffs your melee by 12% (or so) for every curse you have on you. 100% of the games out there make most bosses immune to stuns, freezes and curses and thereby introduce difficulty and balance. I LOVE this game but the only curses that will last are for the programmers that continue to have them in the game... but those curses are ineffective as well, the programmers are also immune.

This shield was garbage forever , nothing new .

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Perq wrote:

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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elyxthaxzus wrote:

Double Necro FTW!

Just found this one...and I agree on the Reflect part. a simple change to "Curses cast on you affect the caster instead", and it's now a shield worth the slot. right now its in my "Skins" tab, and will probably stay there. Curses are not the be all end all, especially when cast on you. curses rarely are what kill me...bleeds and chaos damage for sure, but curses? I rarely even blink at them unless it's a nasty group of double cursing whatevers, and then it's just a flask away.

I even stretched my imagination to see if some oddball unique makeup would make this interesting, but to no avail (my imagination is limited, I'll admit that. but nothing in my inventory made a difference.)

so bump for the sake of a cool looking unique and a cool idea. this item should be put on the list for review...

"Curses cast on you, also affect the caster"

??? What is the point of you post, again?
This is how this shield works now, and thread is about it being useless, and making the shield reflect the curse, and making you curse immune.

He's saying they can word it so that people don't think it does something it doesn't do. I understand your suggestion to change the behaviour but I'd also like to see the wording change to more accurately match the behaviour while they decide on how to change the shields functionality.