[GUIDE] Corrupting Boxes for Fun and Profit

So I was actually incorrect about corruption behavior with the "of Wisdom" mod; turns out that boxes with this mod do actually allow for the corruption of rares and blues within. This has been edited into the guide along with my thoughts on when it's best utilized.

haven't found any godly items yet :/

i was wondering, what would you do to ornate boxes?

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Koldhearted wrote:

haven't found any godly items yet :/

i was wondering, what would you do to ornate boxes?

I'd treat them as normal strongboxes; maybe give them extra-special treatment if they're rare and come with the IDed affix, or if they show up in a high-IIQ map, but otherwise they're probably not worth the vaal orb.

The only combination of mods to never use Vaal Orb on is: Identified + mirrored, it will only corrupt the white items. (Had this and all the blues and rares dropped uncorrupted)

Can somebody else confirm this behaviour?

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RodentKing wrote:

The only combination of mods to never use Vaal Orb on is: Identified + mirrored, it will only corrupt the white items. (Had this and all the blues and rares dropped uncorrupted)

Can somebody else confirm this behaviour?

I can neither confirm nor deny at this point, but thanks for putting it up - I'll look into it as soon as I can.

Do you find it's worth rolling the boxes to get the more stuff modifiers or just should I just leave them as is and corrupt the ones that already have it.

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j33bus wrote:

Do you find it's worth rolling the boxes to get the more stuff modifiers or just should I just leave them as is and corrupt the ones that already have it.

It really depends.

Personally, I roll boxes until I get a decent roll of a desirable mod, then corrupt it if it's one of the mods that works well with corruption; but it's probably feasible to roll past things like %rarity in hopes of a mod that you can corrupt.

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j33bus wrote:

Do you find it's worth rolling the boxes to get the more stuff modifiers or just should I just leave them as is and corrupt the ones that already have it.

as long as you are spending alterations aim for ~7 additional items/mirrored
for me it is not worth alch/scouring or using chaos orbs on this


been using this on gamecutters for some time - you get jewels from time to time, but some maps are rippy



and so on. So i say jeweler's strongboxes with 7-8 additional items are the thing to vaal

Bump for another quality BLOW thread.

Thanks for taking the time to write the guide :)

just got these bad boys B)