Corrupted Amulet Gamble: Risky Path to Unique Items

Chad's risky corruption attempt led to a disappointing Eye of Chayula amulet instead of a desired upgrade.

### Path of Exile: Risky Amulet Corruption Outcome
* 🎲  The player corrupted a Strangle Grasp Onyx amulet, turning it into a rare item with **5 random stats**, only **1 of which was useful**.
* 💰  They then used **5 Tainted Exalted Orbs** to remove all stats, turning it into a common item, and are left with a **50/50 chance** to either upgrade it to a **unique Onyx amulet** or **destroy it** with a **Tainted Mythic Orb**.
* 📊  The unique Onyx amulets that could potentially be obtained are: **Astramentis, Carnage Heart, Hrimsorrow**, and **Replica Dragon Fang**.
* ❌  Unfortunately, the player's first attempt resulted in rolling the least desirable option, Eye of Chayula, which has a **20% reduced maximum life modifier**.
* 🧪  The player calculated a **40% chance of getting a desirable unique amulet**, based on the available options and the **50/50 odds**.
* 🗡️  Despite the suboptimal outcome, the player remains optimistic, as the **20% reduced maximum life modifier** is not considered a **significant setback** for their character build.
* 🔮  The player's experience highlights the **high-risk, high-reward nature** of item corruption in Path of Exile, where even with careful planning and calculations, outcomes can still be **unpredictable**.
* 🎮  The player's decision-making process and the subsequent outcome provide valuable insights into the **complexity and excitement** of end-game item crafting in the game.

All right, Chad, we have something to discuss here. So, I did something kind of crazy. Let's get the ship first. Let's get the ship first. I sent off a bit of the entire shipment, 39% risk, and I lost the entire shipment. I sent like a 4 million shipment, man. This is why you don't do that, bro. You just send the smallest amount of stuff like this. This is why you do exactly this. I'm going to send some bars too, 'cause I have so many bars. I need some gear anyway, so I can disenchant. Anyway, we have to get to something very, very important. I'm going to show you something crazy here. You ready? What is this? What is this right here? Are you looking? Look at your screen right here. What does that say? This is a quad anoint. So, it was a strangle grasp quad anoint, corrupted regular Onyx amulet. Not a rare, not a magic, not a unique. This is a common Onyx amulet. So, what I did yesterday was I went like this. I had a strangle

grasp right. So, what I did was I took a vol or like this, okay. I went like this and I put it on the strangle grasp just like that, okay. And it turned it into a rare item, which is exactly what you want. That's a m-m-m-m-beautiful. That's a beautiful moment. I wish I was recording this 'cause I wasn't, man, but I wish I-I wish I was. I decided to feel a little frisky. I go a little crazy, so I corrupted my amulet, and it turned rare, which is exactly what you want. However, it rolled with five stats. So, when you corrupted an item, and it is called a brick, normally it's called a brick when you turn any item into a rare item, but corrupted, because when it turns into a rare, it gets random stats. So, if you're going to corrupt a rare item that you already have, if you corrupt it and it turns into a different rare item, chances are those stats are going to be completely useless for you, and you Breck.

your item right, and you're only going to be corrupting items that are good in the first place, so you're probably 99.999% chance when you corrupt an item and it turns rare, it's a brick, right? 'Cause if it's a unique item that you're corrupting and it turns rare, that's bad. The exception is something like strangle graph because strangle grasp doesn't have any stats. All it says is it has three extra anoints, but you can allocate four passes on the skill tree, which is extremely powerful, absurdly powerful. Now, with the strangle grasp, the brick is actually the best-case scenario because it's an amulet with no stats, right? And it keeps, as you can see clearly, it keeps whatever you had anointed on the amulet when it bricks. So, it's only a net positive if you brick a strangle grasp, which I did, and that's only a 33% chance. There's only a 'cause three things can happen, I guess technically four things if the item has sockets and links. It can

also change the sockets and links around so that that is one of the options. So, I guess there's technically four things, but with amulets, there's no sockets or links, so there's only three things. So, the first thing is nothing. Absolutely nothing happens. You corrupt it, and it just becomes corrupted. Now you can't modify it any further. It's done, right? Well, I guess you can use like, uh, tainted oils and stuff to still allocate, uh, passes, but whatever. So, that's the first one. I didn't do that. Number two, you break the item, which is what happened, which turns it into a rare item with random stats. That is what happened to me. Very lucky. And then the third and final thing for an amulet would be, uh, change the implicit. So, would change the plus 19 to all attributes. It would change that to like determination, aura effect, anger, aura effect, something like that. So, I turned it into a rare item, which is fantastic. However, the rare item that I had had five stats total and only one of those

stats was useful. It was plus 44 to strength, which is not even that amazing. I have a 358 strength on the character, right? So plus 44 is like, it's something, right? It's not the world, but it's not great either. So what I did is I bought something called a tainted exalted orb, and by I I mean five tainted exalted orbs. Now what this says is unpredictably adds or removes a modifier on a corrupted rare item. I bought five tainted exalted orbs 'cause I had five modifiers, and I used one, two, three, four, all five tainted exalted orbs on the amulet, turning it into a regular Onyx amulet with no stats. The problem is I cannot further modify this because it removed every single stat on the item, so it's no longer a rare item. It is a common item, and if you look at all of the tainted currency, what does it say? Every single piece of the tainted currency says reforges a corrupted rare unpredictably adds or removes a modifier on a corrupted rare lower in raise a

tier on a corrupted rare. This is not a corrupted rare item. This is a corrupted common item. So, I can't do it anymore. I can't add any stats. So, the only option that I have is sitting right here in my inventory, and it's called the tainted Mythic orb, which says you either upgrade a corrupted item, any corrupted item, into a unique Rarity item, or you destroy it, or it's just gone forever. Hey, it's out of here. Hey, peace out amulet, you're gone. Those are the only two options. It is a literal 50/50. Now, the cool thing about the tainted Mythic orb is that when it says it upgrades it into unique Rarity, it can only upgrade it into the unique item of the same base type. So, tainted Mythic orbs can only create drop anywhere uniques and will not create drop restricted uniques, meaning there are other ayx amulets in the game, but they only drop from bosses such as ashes of the stars from the Eater of Worlds and like the Yoke of suffering from The

Fortress T17 boss. Those are not dropped anywhere; you have to exclusively get them from farming the bot. So, I can't upgrade it into that. So now, if we search Onyx amulet Poe, there are only five unique Onyx amulets that are dropped anywhere. The Astrom Mantis, which gives you a butt ton of stats, that'd be honestly not bad, right, if we get that. Carnage heart, which gives you all attributes, all resistances, leech, and damage while leeching. That would be pretty dang good, honestly. I of Chula. Now this one, if you read that first line, uh, not the best item for me to get. 20% reduced maximum life. That's not something I want on a life-based character. This would be extremely bad. H cor site would actually be very good as well. Plus 3% spell suppress, or sorry, prevent. Plus 3%. I'm already preventing 53, so I'm preventing 56, which is very powerful. Evasion rating is armor for me because I have iron reflexes. Um, cannot

be blinded accuracy. Those don't do anything, so this would be pretty decent actually. And then replica Dragon Fang flight. This one is interesting. BeIN streamer. It is I, Optimus Prime, here to say [Music] [Applause] D. So there are four out of five amulets that are good for us. However, it's a 50/50 to even get an amulet in the first place. It's a literal 50/50. We either get a unique amulet or we delete the item, which if I delete this item, this character is pretty much dead until I farm up some currency because the strangle Gra is currently 48 div. Oh, those are corrupted. 68 Divine orbs. 68 divines. That is more expensive than a penesis. So we have a, I think it's a 40% chance for this tainted Mythic orb to go in my way, right? Because we have a 50/50, which is a 1 and 2, and then we have a 4 and 5, so that would be a 4 over 10, so

a 40% yeah so we have a 40% chance. 40% now that's not bad. That's not bad. Again, here are the choices we have: Astr Manis good, Carnage heart good, I Chula very bad, very bad, very bad, 20% reduced maximum life. It's bricked. We're done. H cor site very good, replica Dragon fangs pretty good. So I would say these three amulets are actually very good. Replica Dragon Fang is okay, but it's a 50/50 whether or not I delete my item if I... 'cause this is essentially still a strangle grasp for all intents and purposes. This is a 68 Divine item right here. You're looking at it like, I don't need to do this. I don't need to do this at all. Again, the only reason I'm doing this is because it's a common item. Like, how did this even happen? I had five stats. I successfully bricked my strangle grasp. It rolled with five stats. I used five tainted exalted.

orbs. It just removed every single stat, so now I have no stats. All right, I'm not looking. I'm not looking. I'm not looking. What happened? What happened? What happened? Is it good? Is it good? Is it good? I'm going to clip it. I'm clipping it. What happened? Is it good? Is it good? No, dude, no. Oh, oh, why, dude? How did it roll an Eye of Chayula? It's a freaking 80% chance to not get that. Not even 80%. It is 80%. What are you talking about? They're not weighted, are they? Oh, they, dude, they might be weighted. You're right. Wait, Eye of Chayula is rare. Like, how? Think about this. How many times you see Horadric site versus an Eye of Chayula? Like, think about that for a second, dude. Let's see here. Onyx amulet. What? What was my odd here? Amulet Onyx. Amulet. Don't tell me 5%. 33%. 33%. So, you're saying it wasn't even a 50/50? 'Cause these weightings don't

add up to 100%. Okay, so it is a 50% for amulet. It says it says it right there, guys. That's it right there. Look, it's right there. Yeah, common dude. Carnage heart is literally the most common outcome by far. It's a tier five item. It had an equal chance to roll hur's sight and replica Dragon Fang. All right, enough crying about it. Yeah, I can still use the character. Like 20% reduced Max life is not the end of the world. Cuz it says reduced, right? So all it does is something like this instead of this giving me this. Essentially, these nodes give nothing. That's what you think about it. These nodes now just give me 20 flat life and 10 strength, right? That's essentially what this does. Cuz just it's reduced, this is increased, and the amulet is reduced. So I basically lost these life nodes right here. It's not a big deal. Not a big deal. Now let's go over to the 3K DPS build. 3K DPS. That that's a

lot of damage, man. That's a lot of damage. 3K DPS sword build. I do notice on the

First, I crafted a 3k DPS sword... then... I crafted THIS! (PoE 3.25)

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The speaker sent off a large shipment, resulting in a 39% loss, which they regret.

They then share a successful experience of corrupting a common Onyx amulet, turning it into a rare item with five random stats.

The strangle grasp's unique nature makes it a powerful item to corrupt, and bricking it is actually a net positive due to its lack of stats.

Corrupting Amulets: A Step-by-Step Process

Corrupting an amulet can lead to three outcomes: nothing happens, the item breaks and becomes a rare item with random stats, or the implicit modifier changes.

The rare item obtained had five stats, with only one being useful.

Using five tainted exalted orbs on the rare amulet removed all its stats, turning it into a common item, and now the only option left is to use a tainted Mythic orb for a 50/50 chance of upgrading it to a unique item or destroying it.

The Fortress T17 boss exclusively drops unique Onyx amulets, with only five available from other sources.

Four out of the five amulets offer beneficial stats for the character, but there's a 50/50 chance of either getting a unique amulet or deleting the item.

The tainted Mythic orb has a 40% chance of providing the desired outcome, making it a risky but potentially rewarding farm.

There is a 40% chance of getting good amulets, with Astr Manis, H cor site, and replica Dragon fangs being the top choices.

The Eye of Chayula, which was rolled, has an 80% chance of not appearing, raising questions about the weighting of the items.

The Onyx amulet also had a 33% chance, indicating that the odds were not as favorable as expected.

Understanding Item Outcomes and Character Impact

The amulet has a 50% chance to roll, while the Carnage Heart is the most common outcome with an equal chance for Hur's Sight and Replica Dragon Fang.

The 20% reduced max life from the amulet is not a major setback, as it translates to flat life and strength bonuses from the nodes.

The focus then shifts to a 3K DPS sword build, which is noted for its significant damage output.