Forgotten Uniques: The Scales of Justice | Path of Exile

Important note with regards to 'Unaffected by' - the magnitude of an ailment on you(the displayed shock effect percentage indicator for example) is representative of its effect on you, not the actual magnitude that the ailment carries. This is why ABCkid's Lightning Conduit Raider build is able to proliferate a large shock to nearby enemies even though the self shock has a magnitude of 0%. In the case of Galvanic Field, the self-shock is the cause of the field which is why it's scaled based on the shock's effect on you :_okay:

Self shock enjoyer here, I've played both self shock Galvanic Field and self shock Lightning Conduit before. Scales of Justice is actually the best method for self galvanic field, using a weapon swap setup. There's a lot of moving parts but I'll try to explain it here: * You need chance to be shocked, from self curse conductivity and replica reckless defiance. * You need to hit yourself with lightning damage after pressing galvanic field (Storm Secret is more clunky, since to start the storm you need to shock an enemy which consumes the galvanic field). * To hit ourself, we use Heartbound Loop and a weapon with the Spectral Spirits essence mod, and some phys taken as lightning on helm. * When we weapon swap, the spectral spirits die triggering HBL and damages us with some lightning damage and puts the galvanic field on us. * Our weapon swap is to Voltaxic Rift, which gives a +40% to maximum shock effect which is huge for damage and AoE. Galvanic Field snapshots this damage and radius, so we can immediately weapon swap back to the main hand setup. * We use Scales on our main setup, making us unaffected by shock. When we weapon swap to Voltaxic we lose the unaffected by shock, allowing us to be self shocked to the maximum. * To get to maximum self shock we use a permanent uptime Vessel of Vinktar enchanted with "used when shocked". Vinktar provides a base 50% shock on us that can be scaled by both shock effect and flask effect. * To keep the life and mana within 500, we go low life which also opens up Pain Attunement. We need to run Traitor anyway as we need permanent Vinktars, so we can also have permanent Coruscating Elixir. So basically the button rotation goes like cast GF, weapon swap twice, and repeat every 10s or so, and everything else is automated. There are other ideas I've tested for self shock, but Scales of Justice seems to be the smoothest and lowest opportunity cost by far. This reddit thread is where a lot of the theorycrafting for this took place: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/11u54zc/self_galvanic_field_acendant_solved_the_puzzle_in/

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There was a brief moment in my hybrid elementalist setup where Scales of Justice was a decently strong item, but it was inevitably outscaled by the archmage setup i was pivoting into (which further went hierophant when it became evident elementalist was hard-capped on defensive capabilities. It truly suffers from the fact that especially now with some life-based scaling opportunities out there, you'll get far more from doing one or the other across an entire build than the meagre benefits this grants from carefully balancing both.

9:44 This feels like its niche is precisely that: boosting flat damage on instances where only global damage takes place. Mention of Herald of Thunder's storm, I suspect there are quite a few others.

I didn't even watch this yet, but i already want more. i know with your video style would be great for this

Great video I am looking forward to the whole series!

Very good start to the series and very informative. Looking forward to your next one.

I'm so glad I found your channel! That's exacty the kind of content I'm interested in! :)

Great video - super informative and packed with ideas. I love this series already.

I think that taking a look at certain forgotten shaper and elder uniques like Hopeshredder and Voidfletcher would be interesting, however: One Forgotten Unique in general that really sticks out to me is actually the Tecrod's Gaze Murderous Eye Jewel, which I personally find to be slept on. The others range from Highly Sought After (Amanamu's), Solidly Great (Kurgal's), to Meme (Ulaman's), but Tecrod's just seems to have been thoroughly lost in the shuffle. This is especially odd since even if you only take advantage of one half of its modifiers by not going dual-wielding and instead going with either main hand or shield based attack skills, you still net some pretty absurd numbers for your troubles. 200% increased critical strike chance on your one hander, two hander, your bow, or even unarmed attacks, or +100% critical strike multiplier on Shield Throw and the like both seem like they would be worth considering on a critical strike based attack build. I would love to see your input on this! Cheers!

Also worth mentioning you can get an elevated mod on rare boots for unaffected by (ignite, chill or freeze).

I do not play this game often but i love your commentary of poe related content

Another cool synergy is with shroud of the lightless, increasing both mana and life and Elepen. works well since the idea with shroud il already to stack as many +life+mana abyss jewels. Could even be better with a good Adorned where you could have half your jewels grand Life+suffix and the other half mana+suffix giving more life and mana than rares with both stats

7 year playing PoE and i never seen this shield before

Cozy and informative video as always! Would absolutely love a video on the Manastorm unique though i'm unsure how forgotten it is with the recent changes 😅

Archmage support is 1-20 added damage per 100. Making it approx thrice as good, without the life constraint. Thats why this shield is obsolete.

Great content! Keem em coming! A unique I am exploring now is Warrior Legacy with Smite of Divine Judgment. Its interesting combo since the repeated attack hits screen wide for a tiny movement. I just need to figure out self knockback haha

Reddit brought me here. Liked and subscribed. Very nice format even though I don't make my own builds I am still interested in the idea of the video series.

I don’t believe you. You’re just gaslighting us into thinking this item is real.