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Heartbound Loop

A minion ring that improves minion Life and revival speed but deals physical damage to the wearer whenever a minion dies. The self-hit can serve as a trigger condition, but repeated minion deaths create significant incoming damage.
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

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Implicit(7-10)% increased Cast Speed
01Minions have (10-15)% increased maximum Life
02(10-15) Life Regeneration per second
03(20-40)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
04300 Physical Damage taken on Minion Death
05Minions Revive (10-15)% faster

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Heartbound Loop 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
Rings
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 Heartbound Loop

World drop

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 12 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Heartbound Loop. 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.
Possible corruption enchantments12

+(10-15) to StrengthLevel 1

+(10-15) to DexterityLevel 1

+(10-15) to IntelligenceLevel 1

(4-6)% Increased Skill SpeedLevel 1

(20-30)% Increased DamageLevel 1

(15-25)% increased Life Regeneration RateLevel 1

(20-30)% increased Mana Regeneration RateLevel 1

(15-20)% increased Critical Damage BonusLevel 1

(10-15)% increased Rarity of Items foundLevel 1

+(5-10)% to all Elemental ResistancesLevel 1

+(3-7)% to Chaos ResistanceLevel 1

+(13-19)% to Chaos ResistanceLevel 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions
01
Self-damage on minion death

Each minion death deals 300 physical damage to you, turning minion death loops into repeated self-hits.

Important details

1

Related mechanics

1

Patch history

2 changes
0.1.1
Direct change

The Erian's Cobble, Heartbound Loop, Ironride, and Myris Uxor Uniques have received 2D art.

0.2.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where you would take damage from the Heartbound Loop Unique Ring when you unsocketed Minion Gems or the Minions expired.

Base, mechanics, and similar items

6 connections
Base typePearl Ring

(7-10)% increased Cast Speed

Referenced mechanicMinion

Minion connects 88 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicPhysical

Physical connects 227 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicReviving Minions

Reviving Minions automatically return after their reforming delay, while other effects can revive them immediately or change that timing.

Same base typeEvergrasping Ring

+(60-100) to maximum Mana

Same base typeSnakepit

(20-30)% increased Spell Damage

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