Unique Body Armours

Forgotten Warden

An evasion and energy-shield body armour built around Deflection and damageable Companions. Missing Energy Shield increases Deflection Rating, while a Companion can absorb part of the damage from deflected hits.

0.5.4d

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.2

Direct change

Fixed a bug where the Forgotten Wardens' percentage of Damage from Deflected Hits is taken from Damageable Companion's Life before you was not functioning correctly. This fixes the reported case where players using Forgotten Warden with a Stoat Idol socketed into it would die unexpectedly.

0.5.0

Direct change

New Unique item: Forgotten Warden

Full patch history

Item effects

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SkillGrants Skill: Spirit Vessel

01+(70-100) to Deflection Rating per 50 missing Energy Shield

02(200-300)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield

03+(20-30) to Dexterity

04Companions have (30-50)% increased maximum Life

05(10-15)% of Damage from Deflected Hits is taken from Damageable Companion's Life before you

06enable ancient order task [1]

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Forgotten Warden 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: Body Armours
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 Forgotten Warden

restricted drop | Drop restricted

restricted drop

Forgotten Warden has restrictions on where or how it can drop. Drops from The Bodach.

Drop: Enabled
Restriction: Restricted
Orb of Chance: Not eligible

Runeforging input

This item is consumed by 1 exact Runeforging recipe.

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 11 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Forgotten Warden. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

No change.

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.

Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.

Adds an item socket to weapons (including sceptres) and armour, ignoring socket limits.

For jewellery, no change. (This outcome is not removed by Omen of Corruption.)
The item cannot have more sockets than the amount of space the item takes up.
If the item is socketed with Cadigan's Epiphany, the item cannot gain an augment socket via corruption.

Possible corruption enchantments11

(15-25)% increased Evasion RatingLocal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Energy ShieldLocal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Evasion and Energy ShieldLocal / Level 1

(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1

(40-50)% increased Thorns damageLocal / Level 1

(3-5)% additional Physical Damage ReductionGlobal / Level 1

(10-20)% of Damage taken Recouped as LifeGlobal / Level 1

(10-20)% of Damage taken Recouped as ManaGlobal / Level 1

+(30-40) to maximum LifeGlobal / Level 1

+(13-19)% to Chaos ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

+1% to all Maximum Elemental ResistancesGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions

Companion damage sharing

A damageable Companion takes 10-15% of damage from deflected hits before you and also gains increased maximum Life.

Important details

Its Deflection bonus scales with missing Energy Shield rather than full Energy Shield.

Related mechanics

MechanicCompanions

Companions are powerful Reviving Minions with a separate global limit. By default, you can have only one Companion summoned at a time, regardless of its type or the number of creatures represented by its skill.

MechanicDeflect

Deflection Rating gives a chance to Deflect damage from Hits. A normal Deflection prevents 40% of the Hit damage, while the chance depends on your Deflection Rating and the attacker's Accuracy Rating.