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Is Nametaker Unique Sword In Path Of Exile 3.24 Still Worth Watching? - Mechanic Breakdown Guide

Jun 25, 2024

Hello fellow Exiles! Here we are going to discuss a forgotten unique item. We will take a look at how exactly it works and how its mechanics interact with other aspects of Path of Exile 3.24, especially some of the newer builds or Ascendancy reworks.

The item we are going to share today is Nametaker Unique Sword. This Unique One Hand Sword first appeared in POE 3.23 Affliction as an exclusive drop from monsters in Wildwood. Then, in POE 3.24 Necropolis, Nametaker was added to the core drop pool.

Since this POE item was added to the game very recently, you might not believe that it is forgotten by most players. But in fact, this sword is only used by a few characters in Necropolis.

Is Nametaker Unique Sword In Path Of Exile 3.24 Still Worth Watching? - Mechanic Breakdown Guide

Modifiers

Let’s take a look at the modifiers on Nametaker.

Increased Critical Strike Chance

First up is the 20% to 40% increased Critical Strike Chance, which is a local Increased Critical Strike Chance modifier. This is a pretty good number if you can make sure you have a good modifier role. This will increase the critical chance of the weapon to 7%.

It’s worth mentioning that you can also make full use of Harvest enchantment to convert weapon quality into a critical chance for this weapon. Since base quality won’t do much in terms of weapon damage increase, and this weapon relies heavily on external sources of flat damage.

Leech Modifiers

Next we have two Leech modifiers: 2% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life and 2% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana.

These will give you a source of leech for Life and Mana, but unfortunately they are limited to the physical portion of any attack damage you deal, and physical attack leech for life and mana is one of the most common leech modifiers in the game.

Other than that, you’re unlikely to deal much physical damage with your attacks, as many sources of flat physical damage are a bit hard to come by, and generally harder to exploit. For example, a build using this item is more likely to deal flat elemental damage, in which case these Leech modifiers won’t be as useful.

POE Nametaker

Enemy Power

Now let’s move on to Nametaker’s unique modifiers. When hitting with this weapon, the critical multiplier increases by 10% for each additional Enemy Power.

The term Enemy Power refers to a mechanic that was unique to Warcry before this Nametaker came along. Enemy Power is a number, and it’s tied to the rarity of the monster. Normal or White monsters have 1 power. Magic or Blue monsters have 2 powers. Rare monsters have 10 powers, and Unique monsters have 20 powers.

If you plan on playing some PVP, the player character has 5 powers, so whenever this weapon comes into contact with a monster, this Power system will determine the stats granted by these modifiers.

Here’s a breakdown of the stats you get from these modifiers, depending on the rarity of the monster:

  • When hitting Normal monsters, your critical multiplier will be increased by 10%, and 5% of your leech will provide instant recovery.
  • When hitting Magic monsters, your critical multiplier will be increased by 20%, and 10% of your leech will provide instant recovery.
  • When hitting Rare monsters, your critical multiplier will be increased by 100%, and 50% of your leech will provide instant recovery.
  • When hitting Unique monsters, your critical multiplier will be increased by 200%, and 100% of your leech will provide instant recovery.

How Do Nametaker And Dual Strike Mechanics Differ?

Keep in mind that these bonuses only apply to hits made with Nametaker, which is an important distinction from mechanics like Dual Strike.

Dual Strike requires the character to dual wield and use both weapons for a single strike. When this happens, each weapon will roll Accuracy and Critical Strike Chance separately. They will also roll their own damage ranges, and only the expected damage from each weapon will be combined into the last hit, which is the one set of damage from a single hit.

However, Nametaker critical hit multiplier and instant leech can only affect the expected damage from the portion of the hit that comes from that weapon. It won’t apply to both weapons at once, but this means that Nametaker synergizes quite well with Dual Strike of Ambidexterity. Because this Transfigured version of Dual Strike emphasizes dealing most of the attack damage from the main hand.

POE Dual Strike

How To Get More Flat Added Damage?

On top of that, Nametaker also provides a way to scale damage in the form of very large crit multipliers depending on the type of monster you’re fighting.

But what it lacks is base damage, which needs to be addressed by getting a source of flat added damage. For example, using Added Lightning Damage Support with Flat Added Damage Modifiers on Rings and Amulets, or even using Replica Alberon’s Warpath on a Strength Stacking setup to get a ton of Flat added Chaos Damage.

Why Was It Forgotten?

So why isn’t Nametaker used more often? One thing I haven’t mentioned so far is that Mastery on Passive Skill Tree breaks the ability to use Nametaker’s modifiers to take advantage of smaller portions of instant leech to ultimately do more damage.

If instant leech was harder to come by like it used to be in the game, then this modifier on Nametaker would make it a more worthy choice for builds that rely entirely on leech as their primary source of mana regeneration. But who knows when that change will come?

That’s all for today. What do you think of this Nametaker Unique Sword? Do you have a better way to unlock the full potential of this Unique One Hand Sword? See you next time!

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