Sadist's Mercy

Item effects

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SkillGrants Skill: Harbinger of Madness

01(240-300)% increased Physical Damage

02+(5-8)% to Critical Hit Chance

03(14-22)% increased Attack Speed

04Hits with this Weapon inflict (2-5) Gruelling Madness

05Enemies in your Presence have additional Power equal to their Gruelling Madness

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Sadist's Mercy 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: One Hand Maces
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 / 18 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Sadist's Mercy. 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 enchantments18

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

Gain 1 Rage on HitGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Elemental Damage with AttacksGlobal / Level 1

(40-50)% increased Elemental Damage with AttacksGlobal / Level 1

(10-15)% chance to cause Bleeding on HitGlobal / Level 1

Causes (20-30)% increased Stun BuildupGlobal / Level 1

(6-8)% increased Attack SpeedGlobal / Level 1

(10-20)% increased RangeGlobal / Level 1

Adds (9-14) to (15-22) Fire DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (8-12) to (13-19) Cold DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (1-2) to (29-43) Lightning DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (7-11) to (12-18) Chaos DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (13-20) to (21-31) Fire DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (11-17) to (18-26) Cold DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (1-3) to (41-61) Lightning DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (10-16) to (17-25) Chaos DamageLocal / Level 1

+(10-15)% to Critical Damage BonusGlobal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Physical DamageGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

3 interactions

01

Item rule

Enemies in your Presence have additional Power equal to their Gruelling Madness

02

Item rule

Hits with this Weapon inflict (2-5) Gruelling Madness

03

Critical hits

+(5-8)% to Critical Hit Chance

Patch history

1 changes

0.5.0

Direct change

New Unique item: Sadist's Mercy

Base, mechanics, and similar items

9 connections

Base typeFlanged Mace

Physical Damage: 45-67

Granted skillHarbinger of Madness

Draws out the latent fears of enemies you kill and Rare or Unique enemies you Hit, turning them into unstable apparitions which charge towards enemies and then explode.

Referenced mechanicAttack

Attack connects 343 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicCritical Hit

Critical Hit connects 33 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicGruelling Madness

Gruelling Madness connects 3 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicHit

Hit connects 37 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicPhysical

Physical connects 227 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicPower

Power connects 4 imported PoE2 records.