World drop
The Black Doubt can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.
- Drop
- Enabled
- Restriction
- None
- Orb of Chance
- Eligible
Unique Body Armours
The Black Doubt
The Black Doubt is a unique Hexer's Robe that lets damage over time bypass Energy Shield. While below full Life, it sacrifices 10% of maximum Mana each second to recover the same amount of Life.0.5.4d
Current data
Catalog version 0.5.4d
No direct 0.5 patch change is linked to this page. The displayed values are current for catalog version 0.5.4d.
Item effects
4 lines01(60-100)% increased Energy Shield
02+(10-30) to Intelligence
03+(10-20)% to Cold Resistance
04Damage over Time bypasses your Energy ShieldWhile not on Full Life, Sacrifice 10% of maximum Mana per Second to Recover that much Life
Vaal Cultivation Orb
Other Unique ruleThe Black Doubt 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 ruleHow to get The Black Doubt
World drop
Runeforging input
This item is consumed by 1 exact Runeforging recipe.
Vaal Orb outcomes
4 outcomes / 9 enchantmentsVaal Orb can corrupt The Black Doubt. 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 enchantments9
(15-25)% increased 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
How it works
2 interactionsEnergy Shield bypass
Damage over Time bypasses your Energy Shield
Mana-to-Life recovery
While not on Full Life, Sacrifice 10% of maximum Mana per Second to Recover that much Life
Important details
2- Damage over Time bypasses your Energy Shield
- Sacrifice 10% of maximum Mana per Second while not on Full Life
Related mechanics
1
Patch history
2 changesDirect change
Fixed a bug where The Black Doubt Unique Body Armour would remove Mana if you were on full life with the Lich's Eternal Life Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated and were taking damage over time.
Direct change
The Black Doubt Unique Body Armour now provides 10-20% to Cold Resistance.
Base, mechanics, and similar items
5 connections
Base typeHexer's RobeEnergy Shield: 45
Referenced mechanicCold ResistanceCold Resistance connects 32 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicEnergy ShieldEnergy Shield connects 99 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicIntelligenceIntelligence connects 59 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicSacrificeSacrifice connects 4 imported PoE2 records.
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