Northpaw

Item effects

4 lines

01+(15-25) to Evasion Rating

02Adds (3-5) to (8-10) Physical Damage to Attacks

03(10-15)% increased Critical Damage Bonus

04Base Critical Hit Chance for Attacks with Weapons is 7%

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Northpaw 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: Ezomyte Gloves
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

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 9 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Northpaw. 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.

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 Evasion RatingLocal / Level 1

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

+1 to Melee Skill GemsGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Maximum Frenzy ChargesGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Weapon Swap SpeedGlobal / Level 1

Break (10-15)% increased ArmourGlobal / Level 1

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Fire ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Cold ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Lightning ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

2 interactions

01

Critical-hit interaction

Base Critical Hit Chance for Attacks with Weapons is 7%.

02

Critical damage

(10-15)% increased Critical Damage Bonus.

Related acquisitions and transformations

1 item

Destroyed to create this RuneLegacy of Northpaw

Socket Aldur's Legacy into Northpaw. The Unique item is destroyed and becomes Legacy of Northpaw.

Patch history

2 changes

0.1.1

Direct change

The Northpaw Unique Gloves now adds 3-5 to 8-10 Physical Damage to Attacks (previously 2-3 to 5-6), and also now has +15-25 to Evasion Rating.

0.2.0

Direct change

The Northpaw Unique Gloves now has Base Critical Hit chance for attacks with Weapons is 7% (previously 8%), and this is now an unscalable value. It also now has 10-15% increased Critical Damage bonus (previously 20-30%). Existing items can be made worse with a Divine Orb.