Sure! PoE lastly bought an replace after a 12 months, and we’re completely hyped about it. With all the brand new content material that Secrets and techniques of the Atlas has launched, there are additionally new uniques, which may show to be gateways into some overpowered builds.
Certainly one of these distinctive objects is the Seaglass Amulet, Whispers of Infinity.
ItemRequirementsBreakdownWhispers of InfinityLevel: 74(10-15)% sooner begin of Vitality Defend recharge(5-10) to (20-25) added Assault Chaos Harm per 100 Most Mana+(200-400) to Most Vitality Defend(60-40)% lowered Most ManaSkills value Vitality Defend as a substitute of Mana or Life
One of many newly launched pinnacle bosses, the Incarnation of Dread, drops this merchandise. And whereas the information minions nonetheless haven’t proven precise knowledge factors, the drop fee appears to be round 40%. And because the roll ranges are very giant, it’s good that you just get to farm (or maybe purchase) one which has near max rolls. Both that or strive your luck at divining it.
Word: One other factor that makes nice use of its excessive drop likelihood, or how low cost it’s, is how one can go for double corruptions on the Temple of Atzoatl. So that you’re in search of +% to all max resistances, further curse, aura impact modifiers relying in your construct, and many others.
The amulet provides flat added chaos injury per max mana. And when you go mana-heavy, that is going to translate right into a strong chunk. Particularly when you pair it with different sources that give injury based mostly on mana, such because the distinctive Thoughts of the Council, or the ability gems Arcane Cloak, Kinetic Blast of Clustering, Energy Siphon of the Archmage. Nonetheless, the injury you get from Whispers is chaos, which means you possibly can at all times scale it with Wither or Poison.
Do understand that the amulet additionally reduces max mana by a big share. This modifier is additive, which means that even when you get an ideal roll of 40%, you’ll nonetheless must spend about 2-4 elevated mana nodes on the passive tree to cancel out this impact. So, when you had round 5,000 max mana (after all of the calculations), you’d be getting 500-1250 added assault chaos injury – which is A LOT! And with excessive funding, your most mana can transcend 5,000.
The amulet may provide you with +400 flat most vitality defend, which is loopy good contemplating the slot. And to enrich this, and likewise what makes this amulet insane, is the road, “Abilities value vitality defend as a substitute of mana or life.” We’ll come again to how one can make the most of this impact.
So that you’ve bought two methods to go about this:
You both have sufficient ES, paired with restoration and leech, to maintain abilities prices, or
Make the most of the Eldritch Battery keystone to forestall incoming injury and take away your whole ES, which means you possibly can’t use your abilities anymore
Let’s check out each choices.
Choice A)
Some choices accessible to you when you go for this route are the Divine Defend keystone paired with self-damaging abilities akin to Boneshatter, which stacks up lots of ES restoration this manner, which means that even when you get hit by a robust hit, your ES will pop again up shortly, permitting you to proceed utilizing your abilities.
You possibly can additionally make the most of the Corrupted Soul keystone to get 50% of non-chaos injury taken to bypass ES.
Moreover, you need to use the Zealot’s Oath keystone in order that your life regen applies to ES as a substitute.
If none of those choices give you the results you want, you possibly can at all times take Divine Flesh, which causes all injury taken to bypass ES. Nonetheless, understand that this can stop your ES’s pure restoration, because you’re taking injury as life, the useful resource that ES is defending, so that you’ll want a dependable ES restoration technique with that one.
Choice B)
In the event you go for Eldritch Battery, the ‘earlier than Mana’ half doesn’t matter since Whispers already forces you to spend ES as a substitute of Mana. However, the large benefit of taking EB is that it’ll stop injury from stopping ES recharge.
In the event you’re stacking lots of mana to get that added chaos injury, you don’t wish to be caught with all that further mana that isn’t of any use. You possibly can take Thoughts Over Matter to get a few of the injury taken from Mana earlier than Life, however you then’d even be dropping the benefit of going EB within the first place.
You possibly can additionally reserve all of your mana towards auras/reservation abilities, since you continue to get the identical added chaos injury, so that you’re okay in that division. However this would appear like a waste, since a share of your mana is being reserved, which means you’re dropping on HUGE chunks of mana there with none nice advantages.
So so as to add to that, you might then mix Thoughts Over Matter with Divine Flesh, the place you’ll have all of the injury bypass ES, after which 40% of that injury might be taken out of your large Mana pool earlier than life, including to your efficient life complete. You’ll then simply want to unravel the ES self-regen factor by including ES regeneration or ES leech (or each).
When you’ve selected which path to take, we’re coming again to the final line of the amulet.
The ability Forbidden Ceremony of Soul Sacrifice (the transfigured model of the ability) offers chaos injury based mostly in your max ES as a substitute of your max life. Now, these abilities have been launched to the sport again in 3.23, and it was balanced round the truth that it prices life to forged as default. And there wasn’t something you might do about this.
However, now, with Whispers launched, you might play a full Chaos Inoculation; the amulet makes any life/mana value be paid in ES as a substitute. Which means you possibly can go full bonkers on stacking large quantities of ES, and run your construct similar to that. CI means you’re taking no self-damage from casting the ability. After that, deal with getting A LOT of restoration on your vitality defend. This fashion, you additionally don’t actually care concerning the draw back that the amulet has, the lowered max mana half, since all abilities are paid in ES as a substitute of mana, which means you get to order all of your mana for auras and different reserve abilities.
On prime of all that, you get an excellent large flat (as much as) 400 flat max ES, and even as much as 480 max roll ES with catalyst. In all probability essentially the most damaged factor concerning the amulet, and this after you’ve already chosen your primary attacking ability, plus you’ve solely used 1 merchandise slot (amulet) with the remaining nonetheless accessible.
Word: An alternative choice to the Forbidden Ceremony of Soul Sacrifice is Wild Strike of Extremes, which normally requires you to pay with life, mana, and ES, however with this amulet, you merely pay triple the ES value and use the ability with out worrying about your life OR mana.
So yeah, time will inform whether or not this merchandise is damaged or busted. However one factor’s for positive, it’s going to be fascinating. We’ll maintain you up to date.
Keep sane, Exiles!
