World drop
Serpent's Lesson can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.
- Drop
- Enabled
- Restriction
- None
- Orb of Chance
- Eligible
Unique Foci
Serpent's Lesson
Serpent's Lesson links Life and Mana thresholds: the character counts as on Low Life at 35% Mana or below and as on Low Mana at 35% Life or below. It enables either condition through the opposite resource.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 linesCultivation outcomes
2 possible modifiersA Vaal Cultivation Orb can replace up to two existing modifiers on a corrupted copy of Serpent's Lesson. The replacement is selected from this item-specific pool; the replaced original lines are not player-selected.
C01+(60-100) to maximum Energy Shield
C02(5-10)% of Damage Taken Recouped as Life, Mana and Energy Shield
How to get Serpent's Lesson
World drop
Runeforging input
This item is consumed by 1 exact Runeforging recipe.
Vaal Orb outcomes
4 outcomes / 6 enchantmentsVaal Orb can corrupt Serpent's Lesson. 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 enchantments6
(15-25)% increased Energy ShieldLocal / Level 1
(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1
(20-30)% faster start of Energy Shield RechargeGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased Spell DamageLocal / Level 1
(15-25)% increased Energy ShieldLocal / Level 1
+(20-25) to maximum ManaGlobal / Level 1
How it works
2 interactionsRelated mechanics
2
MechanicLow LifeA player or monster is on Low Life while its current Life is 35% of maximum Life or lower. Exactly 35% counts as Low Life. Items can replace that threshold or make another resource determine whether the condition is satisfied.
MechanicLow ManaA player is on Low Mana while current Mana is 35% of maximum Mana or lower. Exactly 35% counts as Low Mana. Not being on Low Mana begins above 35%, while High Mana does not begin until 65%.
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