Asphyxia's Wrath is Pretty Durn Good

I haven't heard many people talking about this unique. But I'm finding it extremely good so far. Sure you give up DPS, life, crit, etc. But you gain perma-chill, perma-freeze. I put this extremely cheap to buy quiver right up there with Drillneck in terms of effectiveness, and that's comparing it to my old one which was only 1 point from perfect.

So far I'm just using it split arrow with Thousand Ribbons / Aesnath's Gentle Touch. Basically if you happen to freeze one thing, you freeze half the screen. I'm finding it really powerful and fun. But not only that, it's GREAT for parties.

I also have shockwave totem as support so that as the enemies, freeze next to me, the totem just politely asks them to back the fuck up plz =p

I've recently found this in Necropolis map. Dropped from the boss.
I'm glad that unique quivers are finally getting attention.

Anyone know what level of Temporal Chains is on Gentle Touch?

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Ceryneian wrote:

Anyone know what level of Temporal Chains is on Gentle Touch?

The enfeeble on Chernobog's Pillar seems to be lvl 1 so i assume this is a lvl 1 curse as well.

It is a pretty good unique imo, I even vaaled this,



Good for a ice shot bow user or hatred user i think, though i think it would have been better if it was mana leech xD.

I can't think of a better quiver for Invasion League than this. When enemies are chilled/chained/frozen all the time, their damage output goes down the drain. Even RearGuard looks bad in comparison to my eyes.

hmm, I acquired this one in a trade but never did anything with it, you have me intrigued now Bear... time to reroll an archer.

I have leveled up to Merciless with the quiver and here are my thoughts:

a) Overall, a great item and very underrated. One of the best things about it is that it provides great support during parties when you chill/freeze/temporal chain everything that you hit. I also think it would be simply one of the best items for someone in whatever the next Invasion league is due to it's great defensive ability.

b) To get the most out of item you should probably build shadow, and wear the Aesanath's Gentle touch which will be a big DPS/resist/life/ES sink, but it's the most accessible way to ensure that whenever you hit an enemy off screen, which happens a lot, that temporal chains will extend the duration in which they are frozen. Which is definately what you want.


c) You're going to want a six link if you wish to move it to end game and maximize freeze time. You can simulate a six link with a 5 link Voll's or even a 5Link Thousand Ribbons. Because power charge on critical strike and elemental prolif are two supports you want to add to your main attack.


d) One of the best things about the quiver is that it allows you to switch from bow user to an elemental wonder without having to use any regret orbs. I think this is the most natural, safest way to build up to an elemental wander if you are going to play in a new league especially a hardcore league.

I'm not yet sold. it feels like if you go crit, you're just better off relying on the asenath's gloves along with hatred and/or Ice shot if you want to get that prolonged offscreen freeze, bypassing the quiver itself for one with increased crit chance and some survivability. it's also really nagging me that the chance to freeze is not really useful if you went with a crit build. that's just me though.

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enveratise wrote:

I'm not yet sold. it feels like if you go crit, you're just better off relying on the asenath's gloves along with hatred and/or Ice shot if you want to get that prolonged offscreen freeze, bypassing the quiver itself for one with increased crit chance and some survivability. it's also really nagging me that the chance to freeze is not really useful if you went with a crit build. that's just me though.

Which is why I think it's good for hardcore leagues/ new leagues / or for leveling up a character until you're ready to switch to a wander. I didn't get crit nodes while I was leveling and enjoyed a I think 23% chance to freeze with each normal attack. I'm also pretty sure it applies to the shockwave totem I used as support which also benefited from hatred.

Once again I think with GG gear + 6 Link, it's completely endgame worthy. As you should have enough passives and a good enough bow to make up for its lost damage. However if you don't have GG stuffs, then I think it's one of the most effecient ways to level until you switch over to some kind of wander at end game, particularly a CI wander as you don't need to use a single regret orb in order to maximize this quiver's freeze effect, and then switch over to wands later.