restricted drop
The Burden of Shadows has restrictions on where or how it can drop. Drops from The King in the Mists at the Crux of Nothingness.
- Drop
- Enabled
- Restriction
- Restricted
- Orb of Chance
- Not eligible
Unique Staves
The Burden of Shadows
The Burden of Shadows is a unique Chiming Staff focused on Life and Mana. Its defining modifiers are “Skills gain 1% of Damage as Chaos Damage per 3 Life Cost” and “Skill Mana Costs Converted to Life Costs”.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
4 linesSkillGrants Skill: Sigil of Power
01(20-30)% increased Cast Speed
02Skill Mana Costs Converted to Life Costs
03Skills gain 1% of Damage as Chaos Damage per 3 Life Cost
Vaal Cultivation Orb
Other Unique ruleThe Burden of Shadows 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
- Staves
- 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 ruleHow to get The Burden of Shadows
restricted drop | Drop restrictedVaal Orb outcomes
4 outcomes / 14 enchantmentsVaal Orb can corrupt The Burden of Shadows. 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 enchantments14
(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1
(10-15)% increased Cast SpeedGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased Critical Hit Chance for SpellsGlobal / Level 1
Gain (20-25) Life per Enemy KilledGlobal / Level 1
Gain (10-15) Mana per Enemy KilledGlobal / Level 1
(40-50)% increased Spell DamageLocal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased chance to IgniteGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased Freeze BuildupGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased chance to ShockGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Physical Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Fire Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Cold Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Lightning Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Chaos Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
How it works
2 interactionsLife
Skills gain 1% of Damage as Chaos Damage per 3 Life Cost
Mana
Skill Mana Costs Converted to Life Costs
Guides using this page
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Base, mechanics, and similar items
5 connections
Base typeChiming StaffGrants Skill: Sigil of Power
Granted skillSigil of PowerPlace a Sigil on the ground, providing a powerful Spell Damage Buff to you and Allies while standing in it. The Buff becomes more powerful the more mana you spend while standing in the Sigil.
Referenced mechanicChaosChaos connects 80 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicDamage ConversionConverted connects 14 imported PoE2 records.
Same base typeSire of Shards(80-120)% increased Spell Damage
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