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.
One in every of these distinctive gadgets is the Seaglass Amulet, Whispers of Infinity.
| Merchandise | Necessities | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Whispers of Infinity | Stage: 74 | (10-15)% sooner begin of Vitality Protect recharge
(5-10) to (20-25) added Assault Chaos Injury per 100 Most Mana +(200-400) to Most Vitality Protect (60-40)% lowered Most Mana Abilities value Vitality Protect as a substitute of Mana or Life |
One of many newly launched pinnacle bosses, the Incarnation of Dread, drops this merchandise. And whereas the info minions nonetheless haven’t proven precise information factors, the drop price appears to be round 40%. And for the reason that roll ranges are very giant, it’s good that you simply get to farm (or maybe purchase) one which has near max rolls. Both that or attempt your luck at divining it.
Be aware: 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 searching for +% to all max resistances, extra curse, aura impact modifiers relying in your construct, and many others.
The amulet offers flat added chaos injury per max mana. And should you go mana-heavy, that is going to translate right into a strong chunk. Particularly should you pair it with different sources that give injury primarily based 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. Nevertheless, the injury you get from Whispers is chaos, which means you’ll be able to at all times scale it with Wither or Poison.
Do remember that the amulet additionally reduces max mana by a big proportion. This modifier is additive, which means that even should you get an ideal roll of 40%, you’ll nonetheless have to spend about 2-4 elevated mana nodes on the passive tree to cancel out this impact. So, should 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 can even provide you with +400 flat most vitality protect, which is loopy good contemplating the slot. And to enrich this, and in addition what makes this amulet insane, is the road, “Abilities value vitality protect as a substitute of mana or life.” We’ll come again to how one can benefit from 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 expertise prices, or
- Make the most of the Eldritch Battery keystone to forestall incoming injury and take away your whole ES, which means you’ll be able to’t use your expertise anymore
Let’s check out each choices.
Possibility A)
Some choices obtainable to you should you go for this route are the Divine Protect keystone paired with self-damaging expertise corresponding to Boneshatter, which stacks up a variety of ES restoration this manner, which means that even should you get hit by a strong hit, your ES will pop again up rapidly, permitting you to proceed utilizing your expertise.
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 should use the Zealot’s Oath keystone in order that your life regen applies to ES as a substitute.
If none of those choices be just right for you, you’ll be able to at all times take Divine Flesh, which causes all injury taken to bypass ES. Nevertheless, remember that it will forestall 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.
Possibility B)
Should 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 forestall injury from stopping ES recharge.
Should you’re stacking a variety of mana to get that added chaos injury, you don’t need to be caught with all that further mana that isn’t of any use. You possibly can take Thoughts Over Matter to get a number 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 expertise, 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 proportion 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 possibly can 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 will likely be taken out of your big 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 primarily based in your max ES as a substitute of your max life. Now, these expertise 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 possibly can do about this.
However, now, with Whispers launched, you possibly can play a full Chaos Inoculation; the amulet makes any life/mana value be paid in ES as a substitute. That means you’ll be able to go full bonkers on stacking large quantities of ES, and run your construct identical to that. CI means you’re taking no self-damage from casting the ability. After that, deal with getting A LOT of restoration to your vitality protect. This manner, you additionally don’t actually care in regards to the draw back that the amulet has, the lowered max mana half, since all expertise are paid in ES as a substitute of mana, which means you get to order all of your mana for auras and different reserve expertise.
On high of all that, you get an excellent big flat (as much as) 400 flat max ES, and even as much as 480 max roll ES with catalyst. In all probability probably the most damaged factor in regards to the amulet, and this after you’ve already chosen your most important attacking ability, plus you’ve solely used 1 merchandise slot (amulet) with the remainder nonetheless obtainable.
Be aware: An alternative choice to the Forbidden Ceremony of Soul Sacrifice is Wild Strike of Extremes, which often 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 certain, it’s going to be fascinating. We’ll preserve you up to date.
Keep sane, Exiles!