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Cat O' Nine Tails

A maximum-Life and Thorns belt that regenerates rapidly after a recent hit. Non-flask recovery cannot raise Life above Low Life, while physical Thorns scales directly from maximum Life.
0.5.4d
Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.2
Direct change

Effects that prevent players from recovering Life, Mana or Energy Shield except in specific ways, such as Vaal Pact, Cat O' Nine Tails or Indigon, no longer prevent recovery caused by core game systems (including but not limited to: checkpoints, healing wells, levelling up). This also means that changing areas while you have one of these effects can no longer cause you to lose Life, Mana or Energy Shield. Effects that prevent all forms of recovery (such as Lich's Eternal Life) have not received this change.

0.5.0
Direct change

New Unique item: Cat O' Nine Tails

Full patch history

Item effects

7 lines
ImplicitHas (1-3) Charm Slots
Implicit20% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly
01+(120-200) to maximum Life
02Regenerate 5% of maximum Life per second if you have been Hit Recently
03(25-50)% increased Life Recovery rate
04Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life to above Low Life
05Gain Physical Thorns damage equal to 8% - 12% of maximum Life

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Cat O' Nine Tails is not listed among the 48 corrupted Vaal Uniques with an item-specific Cultivation modifier pool. Using a Vaal Cultivation Orb follows the separate rule for other Uniques: it replaces the item with a random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class.

Target class
Belts
Result
Random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class
Exact pool
Not published as an exhaustive list

The exact random pool depends on item class and current eligibility rules, so it is not represented as a fixed item-to-item outcome.

Compare the Vaal Unique modifier pools and the other Unique rule

How to get Cat O' Nine Tails

World drop

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 10 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Cat O' Nine Tails. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

01
No change.
02
Applies a modifier magnitude multiplier of 0.78x to 1.22x (in 0.01 increments) before rounding to explicit modifiers. Applies before quality effects.
  • The resulting values are rounded to the nearest whole number, rather than always being rounded down like most decimal values in the game. However, testing suggests the game may use truncation with a +0.5 shift instead of standard rounding. This appears to bias internally negative stats (like 10% Reduced Dexterity) toward zero, preventing some expected values from appearing while making others more common. A formula of trunc(value + 0.5) may explain this behavior.
03
Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.
04
Adds an item socket to weapons (including sceptres) and armour, ignoring socket limits.
Possible corruption enchantments10

+(10-15) to StrengthLevel 1

+(10-15) to DexterityLevel 1

+(10-15) to IntelligenceLevel 1

+(20-25)% to Fire ResistanceLevel 1

+(20-25)% to Cold ResistanceLevel 1

+(20-25)% to Lightning ResistanceLevel 1

+(1-3)% to Maximum Fire ResistanceLevel 1

+(1-3)% to Maximum Cold ResistanceLevel 1

+(1-3)% to Maximum Lightning ResistanceLevel 1

+1 to Maximum Endurance ChargesLevel 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions
01
Maximum-Life Thorns

Gain physical Thorns equal to 8-12% of maximum Life, so Life investment scales both survivability and retaliation damage.

Important details

1
  • Life recovery other than flasks cannot recover Life above the Low Life threshold.

Related mechanics

1

Patch history

2 changes
0.5.2
Direct change

Effects that prevent players from recovering Life, Mana or Energy Shield except in specific ways, such as Vaal Pact, Cat O' Nine Tails or Indigon, no longer prevent recovery caused by core game systems (including but not limited to: checkpoints, healing wells, levelling up). This also means that changing areas while you have one of these effects can no longer cause you to lose Life, Mana or Energy Shield. Effects that prevent all forms of recovery (such as Lich's Eternal Life) have not received this change.

0.5.0
Direct change

New Unique item: Cat O' Nine Tails

Base, mechanics, and similar items

8 connections
Base typeUtility Belt

Has (1-3) Charm Slots

Referenced mechanicFlask

Flask connects 15 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicLow Life

Low Life connects 9 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicPhysical

Physical connects 227 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicRecently

Recently connects 10 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicThorns

Thorns connects 13 imported PoE2 records.

Same base typeIngenuity

(-20-20)% reduced Charm Charges gained

Same base typeMageblood

All Mage's Legacies have (25-50)% increased effect per duplicate Mage's Legacy you have

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