Lol when I heard that items can be ruined with runes of corruption I thought like bricked or something in a way that your affixes get messed up and such but you can literally get an item to be ruined and you cannot equip it anymore. Not complainin just did not read too much into patch notes to know this can happen. I love the corruption so far though and the crazy items that can drop from…breaches. Imma call em that
The probability of ruining your item is also nicely low. In your case with the ring: 5%
(25% negative outcome and then 20% of getting ruined)
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yeah i was like lv 15 with 5 max resistances with a SHAMAN … just FYI
I actually haven’t had a positive outcome not sure if I want to do it anymore.
Yea actually makes no sense that ruining is even an option. Since it can actually be ruined just by the item changing to something else. Not sure why ruining is even there.
Think this corruption system is going to need some changes. I feel safer Vaal orb/corrupting something in PoE 2 then here. It seems like to many wild outcomes to brick your item.
Think I’m ready for PoE 2 new season.
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You must have been extremly unlucky or your definition of “brick” is much stricter.
(I - for instance - regard anything Minion as instant brick, going to the trash no matter what. No Minion crap on my items, even if it was a perfectly rolled 4LP Ravenous Void.)
75% chance for positive outcomes: add affix, reroll range positive, add tier, add corrupt affix.
25% chance for negative outcomes: remove affix, reroll range negative, remove tier, reroll subtype, change rarity.
It’s almost hilariously better than Vaal orb. I like it.
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This has happened to me once on an item i didn’t care much about and it was a tier 2 so it wasn’t terrible. I was able to keep wearing it.
This has been 96% of my corruptions in around 25 attempts. I actually don’t know what it’s like to take a good item and have it corrupt a great affix and keep it.
Every item I’ve slammed and corrupted has been bricked and change to another unusable type. Or just recently “ruined” which again shouldn’t exist.
Guess I’m just unlucky. Literally drained all my resources to zero and left me with no item. Which is why I think there are some bugs or values are severely off. It has to be.
PS - I have another thread on corrupting set items. Is it actually possible to corrupt them and keep the set item just adding a corruption? I have failed 10 in a row so it seems like for some reason that isn’t possible which I don’t know why.
I strongly agree with this.
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See link from tunklab above. From the dropdown choose “Set item”:
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So there is (or should be) a 75% chance the roll will pick from the positive table & if it does, 90% of those will be making it a reforged set with extra corrupted affixes.
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Ok so you can’t add a corrupted affix onto a set item. That’s a bummer. Just reroll the values.
Erm, no? The last item on the 90% chance positive roll:
Not that you’ll read this because you’ve blocked me for veing insufficiently echo-y…
First line says: “Make Set Reforged Set, Add Extra Corrupt Affix”
To be fair, that will change the set piece into an exalted item with the reforged affix and other random affixes as well, if I’m understanding that right.
So you can’t end up with the actual original set item and an extra affix.
I’m not sure if you are following the outcome we are looking for in corrupting a set.
We don’t want to reforge the item though. If the item gets reforged then it’s BRICKED!
We want to take a Set item and keep everything on it exactly as it is and add a corruption affix improving the original set item.
Anytime the set item reforges it’s bricked. Which is why all my corruption attempts, and other players have failed. In the other thread someone did 50 attempts on a set item and all of them BRICKED!
So for some REALLY strange reason it appears you can’t corrupt a Set item. This needs a fix.
I quite like the corruption but ruining completely shouldn’t be an option - the reroll of stats is a really bad outcome causing me to have to re-slam items, I feel thats a bad enough outcome vs not usable at all.
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What I was trying to do was something like this in the build planner.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BgROzd5d
However it looks like this option has now been removed from the build planner since it’s not possible to corrupt a Set item. Which I’m not sure why this isn’t an option (Also what most players are trying to do with corrupting a set). Maybe it’s a bug? Either way shame and guess that is something we will have to wait for.
yeahhhh its kinda strange that in the patch they added cool new sets and were like “hey guys we made sets even more cooler and epical”
you cant use the other new mechanic. Ive not been enjoying the corruption mechanic at all. when the item bricks its like crappy, all negative outcomes is basically item is destroyed throw it on the ground.
the positive outcomes are so wide, that its basically “this item is a 0 lp unique” corrupting it is pointless. as your item will unless it hits the 1/500 good affix you want, is just worse then farmign the very easy 1lp version.
ive mostly been corrupting idols looking for bees rofl…
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In Early Access, items could brick even during simple crafting. The system was awful and punishing and it got replaced with something much better.
Corruption can give you godly items, so you corrupt when you have a spare, just in case. The power jump from having an extra T7 affix in something useful is quite big. I have noticed that good rolls come more often than it they were truly random.
i did same thing lol
I see, I was of the impression that set base items suck anyway and you always shatter them for reforge.
(In my opinion a minion char. is bricked from the inception on the planner 
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