The Vertex

Item effects

5 lines

01Has no Attribute Requirements

02(100-150)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield

03(20-30)% increased Critical Hit Chance

04+(13-17)% to Chaos Resistance

05Skill Gems have no Attribute Requirements

Cultivation outcomes

4 possible modifiers

A Vaal Cultivation Orb can replace up to two existing modifiers on a corrupted copy of The Vertex. The replacement is selected from this item-specific pool; the replaced original lines are not player-selected.

C01(5-10)% increased Attributes

C02(13-17)% increased Mana Cost Efficiency

C03(20-30)% increased chance to inflict Ailments

C04+(3-5) to Level of all Curse Skills

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Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 13 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt The Vertex. 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 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

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How it works

2 interactions

01

Attribute interaction

Skill Gems have no Attribute Requirements.

02

Chaos resistance

+(13-17)% to Chaos Resistance.

Patch history

3 changes

0.4.0b

Direct change

Fixed a bug where the attribute requirement modifiers on The Vertex Unique Helmet could not be modified by a Vaal Cultivation Orb.

0.5.0

Direct change

The Vertex Unique Helmet can no longer roll +2-4 to Level of All Skill Gems, instead now being able to roll +3-5 to Level of All Curse Skill Gems.

0.4.0

Direct change

The Vertex no longer has "Equipment and Skill Gems have 50% reduced Attribute Requirements". It now either generates with "Equipment has no Attribute Requirements" or "Skill Gems have no Attribute Requirements". It also now has no Attribute Requirements. These changes do not affect existing versions of the item.