Unique CI chest: Sovereign Spirit

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Xikorut wrote:

As someone who used to love CI, I already don't like this chest because it only works if you choose one of the two keystones that ruined CI.

From an unbiased point of view, it's not a bad chest. In general, most CI players wouldn't want it because it's a chest that involves having a high intelligence and offers mana, which makes using mana easier, yet eliminates mana use. In terms of using this with life leech over mana leech, it could be the enabler for ignoring mana like life builds tend to. However, most CI builds involve multiple unique items, and having no resists on chest can often be a big issue. The ES of the item is fine, though I'm not sure GGG would appreciate the immunity to one of the glaring flaws of CI. Then again, since I came back to the game, I've seen that items like Soul Taker and Shavronne's Wrappings were made. In this case, I'm sure you could ask for 1200 ES instead.

What keystones?

CI isn't ruined, it's very strong.

CI is good as it is; maybe just needs a LITTLE tiny buff (12% -> 20 more ES in the nodes after CI)

Still some points people dont see:

You remove _all_ life+chaos ress needs from gear, for this you loose 2 slots for frags and chayula (1 if you take unwavering) + elemental dmg can be more harmfull. Reomving even frags from ringslot would be too much..

And here's the problem... CI is okay as it is when you drop all your nodes. But now you need to life leech like everyone else with your new "life" pool because the game no longer wants it to be viable for you to play differently than a life build.

At that, reaching Unwavering is literally across the tree. I'd wager it can fight with the amount of life nodes you remove in favor of ES nodes. Chaos res most people avoid anyway unless they use Blood Rage. Always taking full duration freeze/chill/shocks is kind of annoying, though Dream Fragments has pretty much always been used.

Chayula... Well, that's fine and dandy if you aren't a crit related build. Pretty much "if you are a summoner" given that almost everything around CI is related to crit. When you start talking removing the potential for an amulet that has spell damage, elemental damage, critical chance, critical damage, cast speed, and to top it all off, mana/mana regen to sustain the stupid mana costs per second after infinite nerfs to mana regen with a nerf to mana leech recently cropping up, you're not only talking a massive loss in damage but a loss in further nodes to mana sustainability.

Honestly, CI isn't even a thing like it used to be. It's simply life for rich people now. And even then, why would you go CI if you were rich? You could just buy a Shavronne's Wrappings and get the same effect with having the benefits of low life, free auras, and slightly less node commitment. And to top all of this off, the way you make CI even viable these days involves adding life leech, which means casters lose another support gem, losing more damage. I'm pretty sure cold crit needed to lose more damage after the massive nerfs to multiplier on gear and on Maligaro's.