Also someone on reddit posted this and people were saying it is a multi-thousand exalt item. Can someone explain why +1% max res is so cream-worthy?
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You can see what charges do in the charges tab on your char screen. I'm too lazy to check the wiki, but iirc endurance charges are 5% physical damage reduction and 10 all resists per charge. You gain endurance charge in a variety of ways, like from Warlord's Curse or Enduring Cry. You can also consume your charges with Immortal Call to become immune to physical damage for a short duration(longer with more charges).
Definitely check the wiki though, it's extremely detailed, and while every once in a while a page is a bit outdated, in general it's very accurate and explains a lot of the weird mechanics.
And 1% max resist can be good for specific builds to get 100% I believe, and in general is one of the strongest implicit. You have to consider pretty much everyone has 75% resist, it's more or less the baseline. It's also a good item to begin with, and a lot of them get bricked when you vaal them so that's where a lot of the value comes from. Like if you vaal a kaom, which is already worth a few exalts(or was don't know nowadays), you can just get a shitty rare out of it, and that's what you mostly get. You can also get shit like +1 to socketted gem which is generally the best implicit, but Kaom has no socket so...
Zaphid
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Also this particular Kaom's is a legacy item, it has been nerfed to give less health now, but the old versions kept their original stats, which means it won't ever drop again. Resists are rather easy to max out in merciless, thanks to the T0 affixes introduced in 2.0, which give up to 45% (?) to a single element, so anything that gives +max res is very valuable.
The reddit thread seemed to think the base item was worth ~150ex and the vaal'ing was about a 1/50 shot so they just surmised 150*50 is the relative price. I just was wondering why something which seems so small (1% res) was so valuable.
Alright that puts it in better perspective. It did say it was the absolute BiS if you're speccing to use the item so I figured that probably massively inflated the price of the piece.
Korrupt
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1% is a huge amount of elemental mitigation in this game the way it scales. Its generally not an easy stat to get as well being in polar opposite of places on the skill tree and only for one element at a time. Some decent uniques for some builds have it but most of them are junk to equip with too much downsides for the max res. Flasks are a really good way to get max resistances and I almost always use lightning and fire in maps. There is nodes near the witch start which also can increase your max res on flasks with % modifiers to them via skill points.
So if we dumb it down really bad and say 1% res = 1% mitigation the game doesn't actually scale it that way? So going from 75% to 76% is a greater increase than 1% mitigation?
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Well look at it that way, you never take 100% of the damage, you only take 25% since you have 75% resist at all times(besides leveling the first time in a new league and that kind of shit, but generally speaking, you never want less than 75%). If 25% is your baseline, the only actual amount you ever get hit with, reducing this by 1% is a 4% improvement over not having it. Now that's not a crazy amount, but with the way crits scale and the secondary effects(freeze/shock duration), it's a pretty solid improvement.
It's way better than +1stat on an ancient. It's basically a 4% elemental reduction, as a 7th affix. The fact that it doesn't compete with other "affixes" is the big deal here. Vaal implicits rarely compete with anything on armor. Chest armor have a few pieces with implicit(like astral having all res, assassin having movespeed etc) so any implicit is better than none. And this one is pretty good.
It's also standard, where perfect items are worth hundred times more currency than near perfect items, cause nothing ever exits the economy, and that's especially true of legacy items that can never drop again. You have to understand that vaaling an item can only be done once, and it has a good chance of giving you worse than what you had(by making the item rare and shit). There's a finite amount of legacy Kaom's in the economy, so using a vaal on one and getting something that's actually useful makes it super rare. There's probably one or two in the entire game, and there might not be any other(not sure how many uncorrupted legacy kaom are left, and how many of these are actually tradeable instead of being on abandonned accounts).
zombiewizardhawk
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Yep yep, like the death that got me to quit the game. I've actually thought about coming back and messing around on the game again but that death still pisses me off enough that I haven't bothered yet.
Korrupt
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Ive had some pretty dumb deaths personally on HC so I try to get back on the horse so to speak so I don't rage. My last one I was on a 1h static striker doing Atziri on HC at level 85 (had done the challenges so went yolo). I went AFK in the triplets phase of the raid thinking their cleared room was safe. Came back to my ass dead on the floor after going to piss, all I could think about is why did I risk death over a portal.
Byr
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I can say proudly that Ive never died from going afk in a zone in PoE. Dont worry though Krassus, you arnt the only one to have done something like this.
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Thank you for the chance orbs in the standard guild bank, Unknown Santa! I just spent another thousand trying to chance myself a headhunter and a volls neck. As always... the only fucking thing that I chanced is that other fucking unique agate bullshit, shaper seed or some fucking thing.
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