PoE 3.26 Whispers of Infinity Allows Some CRAZY New Builds?

Sure! PoE lastly obtained 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 might show to be gateways into some overpowered builds.

One among these distinctive gadgets is the Seaglass Amulet, Whispers of Infinity.

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 charge 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.

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, further curse, aura impact modifiers relying in your construct, and many others.

The amulet offers flat added chaos injury per max mana. And in case you go mana-heavy, that is going to translate right into a stable chunk. Particularly in case you pair it with different sources that give injury primarily based on mana, such because the distinctive Thoughts of the Council, or the talent gems Arcane Cloak, Kinetic Blast of Clustering, Energy Siphon of the Archmage. Nonetheless, the injury you get from Whispers is chaos, which means you’ll be able to all the time scale it with Wither or Poison.

Do take into account that the amulet additionally reduces max mana by a big share. This modifier is additive, which means that even in case 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, in case 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 offer you +400 flat most vitality defend, which is loopy good contemplating the slot. And to enhance this, and likewise what makes this amulet insane, is the road, “Abilities value vitality defend as an alternative of mana or life.” We’ll come again to how one can benefit from this impact.

So that you’ve obtained 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 stop incoming injury and take away all your ES, which means you’ll be able to’t use your expertise anymore

Let’s check out each choices.

Possibility A)

Some choices out there to you in case you go for this route are the Divine Protect keystone paired with self-damaging expertise comparable to Boneshatter, which stacks up loads of ES restoration this fashion, which means that even in case you get hit by a robust hit, your ES will pop again up shortly, permitting you to proceed utilizing your expertise.

You can additionally make the most of the Corrupted Soul keystone to get 50% of non-chaos injury taken to bypass ES.

Moreover, you should utilize the Zealot’s Oath keystone in order that your life regen applies to ES as an alternative.

If none of those choices give you the results you want, you’ll be able to all the time take Divine Flesh, which causes all injury taken to bypass ES. Nonetheless, take into account 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.

Possibility B)

In case you go for Eldritch Battery, the ‘earlier than Mana’ half doesn’t matter since Whispers already forces you to spend ES as an alternative of Mana. However, the large benefit of taking EB is that it’ll stop injury from stopping ES recharge.

In case you’re stacking loads 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 can take Thoughts Over Matter to get among 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 can additionally reserve all of your mana in opposition to 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 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 will likely be taken out of your enormous Mana pool earlier than life, including to your efficient life whole. You’ll then simply want to resolve 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 talent Forbidden Ceremony of Soul Sacrifice (the transfigured model of the talent) offers chaos injury primarily based in your max ES as an alternative of your max life. Now, these expertise had 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 an alternative. Which 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 talent. After that, deal with getting A LOT of restoration in your vitality defend. This fashion, you additionally don’t actually care in regards to the draw back that the amulet has, the diminished max mana half, since all expertise are paid in ES as an alternative of mana, which means you get to order all of your mana for auras and different reserve expertise.

On prime of all that, you get a brilliant enormous 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 primary attacking talent, plus you’ve solely used 1 merchandise slot (amulet) with the remaining nonetheless out there.

Be aware: A substitute for 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 talent 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 attention-grabbing. We’ll preserve you up to date.

Keep sane, Exiles!