Unique Helmets

Blood Price

Blood Price expands Presence and forces nearby enemies to reserve at least 10% of their Life. It lowers the effective Life pool of enemies before the character finishes them.

0.5.4d

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.0

Direct change

Fixed an edge-case interaction with the Blood Price Unique Helmet's reservation combining with other reservations.

Full patch history

Item effects

5 lines

01(80-120)% increased Armour

02(10-15) Life Regeneration per second

03+(100-150) to Stun Threshold

04(30-60)% increased Presence Area of Effect

05Enemies in your Presence have at least 10% of Life Reserved

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Blood Price 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: Helmets
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 Blood Price

World drop

Blood Price can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.

Drop: Enabled
Restriction: None
Orb of Chance: Eligible

Runeforging input

This item is consumed by 1 exact Runeforging recipe.

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 11 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Blood Price. 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 ArmourLocal / Level 1

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

+1 to all Minion Skill GemsGlobal / Level 1

+(20-30) SpiritGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Maximum Power ChargesGlobal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Life Regeneration RateGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Mana Regeneration RateGlobal / Level 1

+(50-100) to Accuracy RatingGlobal / Level 1

+(1-3)% to Maximum Fire ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

+(1-3)% to Maximum Cold ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

+(1-3)% to Maximum Lightning ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions

Presence effect

Enemies in your Presence have at least 10% of Life Reserved.

Related mechanics

MechanicPresence

Presence is the area around your character used by effects that explicitly refer to allies, enemies, corpses, or other targets in your Presence. Its default radius is 4 metres.

MechanicReservation

Reservation commits part of a resource to an active effect. Most persistent Skills reserve Spirit, but some effects reserve Life or Mana. The reserved amount remains part of the resource's maximum and cannot be spent, recovered, or used as defence while it is reserved.

Patch history

1 changes