Buff Eye of Malice

This is such a cool item, but literally nobody uses it as it's already hard to make a build around it, because curses suck vs bosses and its radius is 30, which single-handedly ruins the item for pretty much all builds that would want to use it. The nearby mod should work for at least 50 radius to make the item viable.

And while you're at it, please remove the exposure mods from this item and replace them with something useful. Maybe a synergistic mod such as

"exposures you apply have 50% increased duration", or

"your exposures debilitate enemies for 2 seconds", or

"exposures you apply reduce all elemental resistances instead", or

"modifiers to effect of non-damaging ailments also affect exposures you apply at 50% value", or

"enemies affected by your exposures deal 10% less elemental damage",

or anything really. I could list a hundred possible mods that would fit this item's concept. The item could also have a "cannot deal lightning damage" mod for compensation, and it would fit as well.

No player who wants to use this item will rely on its default exposure mod to make use of the last mod, since default exposure is only -10%. Exposure is also easier to access now, compared to when this item was released. Additionally, EE is gutted, which was great for this item but it's not even worth using malachai's artifice or pathing towards EE for it anymore.

The main problem with the unpopularity of this item in the current patch is Archnemesis.
You can meet a mob with 3 fire resistance mods, and despite all your Curses, Exposure, Combustion and so on, you can not overcome +185% fire resistance, and increase its resistance even more to your detriment.
In addition, do not forget the very strange ideology "unique items with increased damage do not provide defenses." It is more profitable to take the Crown of the Inward.

its an animate guardian item so its held hostage (like many items) by animate guardian, really isn't anything else to add :p

On a side note almost every item that offers exposure needs updating to a more important stat, exposure has become so ubiquitous It doesn't count as much of a feature on an item anymore.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

its an animate guardian item so its held hostage (like many items) by animate guardian, really isn't anything else to add :p

On a side note almost every item that offers exposure needs updating to a more important stat, exposure has become so ubiquitous It doesn't count as much of a feature on an item anymore.

some curse bots use this item but it doesn't really see any play other than that. I think it's a very cool item if you stack elemental weakness with flammability, legacy of fury/leaderships price, combustion and enhanced exposures with stuff like mastermind of discord. obviously it can't compete with doryanis prototype in its current state but I expect that item to be gutted by ggg if kalandra jewelries are to stay. I just hate it when such cool items are forgotten by ggg when it's so easy to make them viable

Agree completely mate its one of my biggest frustrations, they leave so much on the table by leaving many item types in a bad state and some of them just need straight numerical bonuses.