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What Are The Changes To Apostate Unique Body Armor In POE 3.25 League?

Aug 14, 2024

Apostate is a Unique Body Armor that was added to POE 3.24 Necropolis league. It is an exclusive drop from Uber Cortex.

But why are we bringing this unique item up again? Because in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur, Apostate received a huge indirect buff through three notable changes: Quality, New Base Types, and improved Life Modifiers.

This item has a very special modifier, inspired by Warlock of the Mists Wildwood Ascendancy from Affliction League, which grants Maximum Life from the equipped Armor item instead of Maximum Energy Shield. Therefore, any Energy Shield that exists as a defense stat will be obtained from Boots, Gloves, Helmet and Shield slots, granting Maximum Life.

Note that this only includes the local Energy Shield of the armor items themselves, and does not include any Energy Shield gained from any global modifiers present on those items.

What Are The Changes To Apostate Unique Body Armor In POE 3.25 League?

New Changes

Now, how exactly has Apostate been buffed in POE 3.25? Firstly, a number of new tiers of armor items have been added to the game, including new Energy Shield Base Types for Boots, Gloves, and Helmet slots, and these have ~45% higher average base Energy Shield than the highest tier in the last league. And that’s just the base Energy Shield, meaning you’ll also get more from any local modifiers as well.

Additionally, Quality has also been changed in POE 3.25 to give more defense to armor items, rather than increasing the defense stat. This is another boost to the overall Energy Shield that these crafted items are able to achieve.

Finally, the third change, which is also very important, is the massive increase in Maximum Life Modifiers that can be rolled onto armor items. These Modifiers have also been changed to give an average Maximum Life increase of ~45% compared to the last league.

POE Apostate Unique Body Armor

How To Choose The Best Gear Slot?

All of these changes add up to an enormous boost to the potential of Apostate, so let’s really look at the potential with all of these changes factored into the item slots.

Even though we’re looking at 20% Quality here, you can obviously get up to 30% Quality. Since they also don’t have Synthesis Implicits, you can get even more with items like Warlock Boots and Lich’s Circlet.

Of course, it should be noted that these items will be very difficult to craft. For the new top Energy Shield Boots Base Type, Warlock Boots, you can get even more Energy Shield if you want to add movement speed to them. In this example, we’re going to add movement speed to them, and the item gives 199 Energy Shield and 129 Life.

Then we have Warlock Gloves. Now you can see that you don’t need the extra modifier slots, the item’s movement speed potential goes up significantly, and has 317 Energy Shield and 129 Life. That’s ridiculous!

The helmet is Lich’s Circlet, which gives a terrifying 468 Energy Shield and 144 Life. More importantly, all of these rolls are perfect, which is not very realistic at all.

In addition, most Apostate builds will choose Rathpith Globe, because the item is incredibly powerful not only in combination with Apostate but also in Life Stacking builds in general.

There are some exceptions, though, and you may not want to use Rathpith Globe in a Life Stacking RF build because its fire damage does not scale with the spell damage modifier. So we haven’t added a new Shield Base here, but the Quality changes and Life Modifier changes do affect Shield.

There is also a Titanium Spirit Shield here, which has 421 Energy Shield and 159 Life. So if we look at all of these items together with the Apostate, we can get a total of 1,966 Maximum Life from Boots, Gloves, Shield, and Helmet slots.

If you use a Rathpith Globe with max roll instead of a Titanium Spirit Shield, Maximum Life is 1,626 points, but you get 10% extra Maximum Life from the mod on Shield. From that perspective, that’s a lot of Life gain.

I need to remind you that the items shown here are almost all Mirror-Tier gear. Even if Maximum Life you get from these gear slots is reduced by 20%, it’s still much higher than Maximum Life you can get from Mirror-Tier gear in the previous league. However, you need to consider whether your PoE Currency budget can afford these items accordingly.

Dissolution Of The Flesh

In addition, there is another key item worth mentioning, which is Dissolution of the Flesh. Although this Jewel has no special changes in PoE 3.25, many mechanical improvements have synergized well with this Jewel.

Dissolution of the Flesh increases Life by 30% at max roll, so it is very powerful for Life Stacking builds. However, since any damage you take that would cause life loss is retained, that loss will cancel your life, and you need to wait a 2 second period during which you haven’t taken damage before the damage cancels the retention.

Now, in POE 3.25, we’re also getting some vast improvements in Block, specifically Lucky Block on Gladiator Ascendancy. The developers have also improved the amount of block you can gain just by investing in nodes on the tree, which pairs really well with Dissolution of the Flesh. Because these Avoidance layers give you time to reset any life you retain from taking damage.

POE 3.25 Dissolution of the Flesh

Final Thoughts

Apostate inspires a build that essentially just uses raw Life Stacking as its primary defense. It’s a grand concept, and it completely defines the build. You need to give up almost all of your Armor or Evasion and other sources of defense in pursuit of stacking a lot of life as your primary defense. That’s why things like Lucky Block have a lot of potential in a build like this.

Regardless, Apostate is definitely the best choice for most Life Stacking builds in POE 3.25, and its very powerful Life Stacking is pretty much the best ever. What do you think of this Unique Body Armour? Do you want to try it? See you next time!

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