Unique Helmets

Scold's Bridle

Scold's Bridle grants substantial Spell damage, Energy Shield, and Mana, but paying a skill's Mana cost also deals Physical damage to the character. Its self-damage enables trigger interactions at the cost of Cast Speed and survivability.

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

5 lines

01+(75-150) to maximum Energy Shield

02(60-100)% increased Spell Damage

03+(80-100) to maximum Mana

0415% reduced Cast Speed

05Take (25-100)% of Mana Costs you pay for Skills as Physical Damage

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Scold's Bridle 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 Scold's Bridle

World drop

Scold's Bridle 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 Scold's Bridle. 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 Energy ShieldLocal / 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

Mana interaction

Take (25-100)% of Mana Costs you pay for Skills as Physical Damage.

Important details

15% reduced Cast Speed.
Take (25-100)% of Mana Costs you pay for Skills as Physical Damage.

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