Unique Bows

Periphery

Periphery is a unique Heartwood Shortbow focused on Freeze buildup. Its defining modifier is “Elemental Damage from Hits Contributes to Flammability, Ignite, and Chill Magnitudes, Freeze Buildup, and Shock Chance”.

0.5.4d

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.0

Direct change

New Unique item: Periphery

Full patch history

Item effects

6 lines

SkillGrants Skill: Azmerian Swarms

01Adds (48-59) to (75-97) Fire Damage

02Adds (35-53) to (65-80) Cold Damage

03Adds (1-8) to (123-152) Lightning Damage

04(8-14)% increased Attack Speed

05Elemental Damage from Hits Contributes to Flammability, Ignite, and Chill Magnitudes, Freeze Buildup, and Shock Chance

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Periphery 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: Bows
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 Periphery

restricted drop | Drop restricted

restricted drop

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

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

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 12 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Periphery. 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 enchantments12

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

Bow Attacks fire an additional ArrowGlobal / Level 1

(5-10)% chance to Blind Enemies on hitGlobal / Level 1

(10-15)% chance to Maim on HitGlobal / Level 1

Adds (9-14) to (15-22) Fire DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (8-12) to (13-19) Cold DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (1-2) to (29-43) Lightning DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (7-11) to (12-18) Chaos DamageLocal / Level 1

+(10-15)% to Critical Damage BonusGlobal / Level 1

(6-8)% increased Attack SpeedGlobal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Physical DamageLocal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Elemental Damage with AttacksGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions

Freeze buildup

Elemental Damage from Hits Contributes to Flammability, Ignite, and Chill Magnitudes, Freeze Buildup, and Shock Chance

Related mechanics

MechanicFlammability

Flammability is a stackable Debuff that builds from contributing damage and determines the chance for Hits to Ignite. It is not itself an Ailment, and its magnitude is separate from the magnitude of the resulting Ignite.

Guides using this page

AtlasRite of the Nameless guide

Unlock the five-map Ritual chain, choose its rewards, collect every effigy piece, and open the Bodach encounter at Caer Tarth.

Patch history

1 changes

0.5.0

Direct change

New Unique item: Periphery

Item viewModernIn-game

PeripheryHeartwood Shortbow Bow

Physical Damage41-76

Critical Hit Chance5%

Attacks per Second(1.35-1.43)

Fire Damage(48-59) to (75-97)

Cold Damage(35-53) to (65-80)

Lightning Damage(1-8) to (123-152)

RequiresLevel 67, 134 Dex

Grants SkillAzmerian Swarms

Adds (48-59) to (75-97) Fire Damage
Adds (35-53) to (65-80) Cold Damage
Adds (1-8) to (123-152) Lightning Damage
(8-14)% increased Attack Speed
Elemental Damage from Hits Contributes to Flammability, Ignite, and Chill Magnitudes, Freeze Buildup, and Shock Chance

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