Unique Helmets

The Hollow Mask

The Hollow Mask makes collected Remnants affect Allies in the character's Presence and greatly improves the Reservation Efficiency of Remnant Skills. It trades Elemental Resistances for party support and additional Physical damage reduction.

0.5.4d

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.0

Direct change

New Unique item: The Hollow Mask

0.5.0

Direct change

The Hollow Mask Unique Helmet now grants the Wildwood's Gifts Skill, where Azmerian spirits offer guidance, allowing you to see nearby Ancient Blooms. It also now has Remnants you create affect Allies in your Presence as well as you when collected, and 80-100% increased Reservation Efficiency of Remnant Skills.

Full patch history

Item effects

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SkillGrants Skill: Wildwood's Gifts

01+(60-80) to maximum Life

0215% additional Physical Damage Reduction

03-10% to all Elemental Resistances

04+13% to Chaos Resistance

05Remnants you create affect Allies in your Presence as well as you when collected

06(80-100)% increased Reservation Efficiency of Remnant Skills

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

The Hollow Mask 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 The Hollow Mask

World drop

The Hollow Mask 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 / 13 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt The Hollow Mask. 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 enchantments13

(15-25)% increased Evasion RatingLocal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Energy ShieldLocal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Evasion and 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

2 interactions

Presence effect

Remnants you create affect Allies in your Presence as well as you when collected.

Reservation efficiency

(80-100)% increased Reservation Efficiency of Remnant Skills.

Important details

-10% to all Elemental Resistances.

Related mechanics

MechanicRemnant

Remnants are temporary objects created by Skills. Moving close enough collects one and grants the benefit defined by that Remnant's creator, unless another effect changes who receives it.

MechanicAllies

An Ally is another player, Minion, Totem, or other entity on your side that has its own stats. Your character is not their own Ally, so wording that affects only Allies does not affect you unless it separately says you.

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.

MechanicEfficiency

Efficiency reduces a cost or reservation by dividing its base amount. Increased Efficiency has diminishing returns: 50% increased Efficiency divides by 1.5, while 100% increased Efficiency divides by 2. It is not the same calculation as reduced cost or less reservation.