The Amulet Problem (Ashes + Omniscience)

These items are not "too easy" to get. They have a 25% chance to drop from their respective bosses, which take 28 T14+ maps to attempt. Some builds (mine) need a good deal of time just to get the invitation.

As for the ubiquity of the items, I'd guess that it's because they're good at what they do and that they are unique items - they're named the same thing after all. And even though I dropped Ashes the second time through Eater of Worlds *and* blew through a bunch of divine orbs to get +19 reservation efficiency and +29 gem quality (so close!), I'm still running my self crafted +1 skills amulet for the time being. I suppose that I could reduce the amount of reservation efficiency I've taken on the tree to balance for the life and AoE mods on my current amulet, but the benefits are likely to be marginal in my case.

I would love to see particular unique items to be more easily obtained by fighting certain bosses more generally. Even something like "[X] has a 1% chance to drop from fighting [boss]" would be fantastic.

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ciel289 wrote:

we might have a different definition of chaseitem

for me a chase item is what you really prefer over other items

i.e. you would prefer a mageblood over any rare belt regardless of how good it is

would you prefer ashes over a good crafted endgame amulet ? no you wouldnt

We probably don't I was splitting hairs about the fact most players won't actually aim for chase items because they are too hard to achieve.

I think both would classify if they were rare enough though but ashes at least isn't the perfect amulet, but not everybody will aim for the perfect amulet and the usage stats kinda show that.

Like i said cant have anything good and affordable according to these people.

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Bosscannon wrote:

Like i said cant have anything good and affordable according to these people.

You can, and that's what makes PoE such a great game. There's so many good, great and underrated uniques to be used.

But good and affordable is like, idk, Belly of the Beast.

Ashes and Omniscience are simply too good for their current availability.

No, belly is 1c item and it performs like 1c item. Ashes is 50c at league end and it performs like 50c item.

Anyway I am now bored of this thread.

Whenever I attempt to do some Chaos skill based build, I always get stuck at Amulet slot.

Odds to craft either +2 skills or +1 skills and dot multi are abysmal.
I really hope Ashes will survive. It gives at least some QoL.

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Bosscannon wrote:

No, belly is 1c item and it performs like 1c item. Ashes is 50c at league end and it performs like 50c item.

Anyway I am now bored of this thread.

Belly performs WAYYY better than a 1c item. And Ashes performs way better than a 50c item...

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Marxone wrote:

Whenever I attempt to do some Chaos skill based build, I always get stuck at Amulet slot.

Odds to craft either +2 skills or +1 skills and dot multi are abysmal.
I really hope Ashes will survive. It gives at least some QoL.

I ain't advocating for changing the item, I think it's nice the way it is and it enables alot of skills. Just its rarity.

I got Ashes at level 96. I don't have (or much care about) Omniscience. It's fine. People should be able to get some build enhancing items without having to grind 1000 maps for the *chance* to get an insanely lucky drop.

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Marxone wrote:

Whenever I attempt to do some Chaos skill based build, I always get stuck at Amulet slot.

Odds to craft either +2 skills or +1 skills and dot multi are abysmal.
I really hope Ashes will survive. It gives at least some QoL.

I think +2 amulets can be forced in 3.17. +1 with dot multi though is much more luck based.

Don't you worry your sweet little sado-masochistic heart op, it will be nerfed to bland trash in 3.18 or gated behind the uber supreme ultimate aspirational version of the boss.

These are the people who destroyed all unique bows and gave us Sirus a9, after all. Have some faith!