GG, new unique chest and CI.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/12056/page/266

This is even better than CI because you can use % auras with blood magic AND use righteous fire AND benefit from low-life bonuses like Pain Attunement.

Make CI reduce your HP to 50, make it never be affected by hp% so it will forever stay at 50 hp. This way it can actually COMPETE with this new chest.

Chaos res on gear with CI = 0%
Chaos res on gear with new unique = ??%

LOL



OP chest



what is the drawback for the no-bypass-special?

compared with other uniques that grants special things (Volls protector, or the bloodmagic uniques etc) there has to be some drawback!?

looks like the second rare-beating-designed Unique after that OP 2h Mace

My biggest issue with it is it makes ES function exactly like life. What's the point of having two names for something that works the same?

I really don't like how similar they have become in the last few months.

Well, now at least I have a purpose on PoE - to get that unique. lol.

Good luck!

That unique "does" look really strong. Perhaps it should just be 50% of chaos damage is redirected to ES. It is true that with CI, you don't have to worry about chaos res - but quite frankly I didn't have to fear chaos that much with 2K HP and -34% chaos res. Shavronne's Wrappings basically means that you can be fine with just a tokenistic amount of CR.

No item wipe means this thing will become extraordinarily valuable, even if they do change it.

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DrowCrusher wrote:

Chaos res on gear with CI = 0%
Chaos res on gear with new unique = ??%

L2gear.

Grab 24% chaos resist near witch. Grab 300% ES from passives. Get a high ES shield/boots/gloves with chaos resist. This also means high INT (even more ES%). BOOM! 9k+ ES, -34% to 75% chaos resist, able to use 3 40% aura with that blood magic unique chest + reduced mana, get pain attunement (30% MORE spell damage), get ghost reaver + zealot's oath + Inner Force + Righteous Fire (lvl 18 RF = 81%*1.3(IF) = 105% MORE spell damage). Worried about reflect? Bring x3 Ruby/Topaz/Sapphire flask + 2 granites. Or go dual totem.

There right there beats the crap out of every other build. Period.

They've been able to rework some stats on existing items retroactively thus far (at least according to the patch notes), but not on others. Given that uniques are something that could be a little imba sometimes, I would have thought they may have had special systems in place to adjust those more deeply.

I see one problem with that build idea.

I'm not going to lie, I looked at that and lost all incentive to go CI. All.

In a way that's a good thing -- uniques should be badass, and that chest is indeed. However, I think there should be some incentive to take CI other than Blood Rage combo.

Still, I'm not going to hop on the "needs fixing" wagon just yet. Maybe this item needs to stay, and it's CI that needs fixing. Maybe everything's just fine. I'll be thinking about it.