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Essence of Anguish

Essence of Anguish

Legendary Soul Shard

  • Legendary
  • Level 70

Properties

Primary Attributes

  • +28,000–30,000 Life per Hit
  • Critical Hit Damage Increased by 130–150%
  • +38,000–40,000 Thorns Damage
  • Increases damage against elites by 20–25%
  • +270–300 Damage

Secondary Attributes

  • Every time you deal poison damage to an enemy you increase your cooldown reduction and movement speed by 2.5% while your damage received is increased by 5% for 10 seconds. Max 10 stacks.

Random Affixes

  • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 7–10%
  • +10–15% Damage
  • Arcane skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Lightning skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Fire skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Cold skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Holy skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Physical skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Poison skills deal 20–25% more damage.
  • Increases Attack Speed by 12–15%

"Cry out my name as the fires of Hell course through your veins!" —Andariel, Maiden of Anguish

Essence of Anguish

This soul shard is built around poison damage: scorch an enemy with poison and for several seconds it takes considerably more poison damage from all sources – an amplifier that layers over all the poison damage that follows. Your poison hits also stack up cooldown reduction and speed, making you faster and more flexible, though in return your incoming damage rises by 5% per stack (up to 50%).

Alternatively, instead of the poison vulnerability, the shard can roll this effect: kill an enemy and the lethal blow is passed on to all foes nearby. That makes the shard the foundation of a poison-heavy build full of chain reactions. Practical tip: spread your poison early and wide across the pack so the heightened vulnerability takes hold before you unleash your big damage.

The stacks, worked out

Every source of poison damage adds a stack lasting 10 seconds: 2.5% Cooldown Reduction and movement speed each, but also 5% more damage taken. At 10 stacks that is 25% Cooldown Reduction and speed against 50% more incoming damage. One of the possible extra powers even allows up to 15 stacks of speed and Cooldown Reduction. Whoever wears the shard therefore needs enough toughness to absorb the extra damage.

The random powers at a glance

The shard rolls two additional groups. The first gives a stat such as 12 to 15% Attack Speed, 10 to 15% Damage, 7.0 to 10.0% Critical Hit Chance or 20 to 25% more damage for skills of one element - Poison skills being the natural pick for a poison setup. The second gives exactly one of three powers:

  • Poison damage makes enemies take 50% more poison damage from all sources for 10 seconds.
  • A slain enemy's killing blow hits all enemies within 25 yards; pets and followers do not trigger this.
  • Speed and Cooldown Reduction can stack up to 15 times instead of 10.

The shard's fixed values

Fixed are 130.0 to 150.0% Critical Hit Damage, 20.0 to 25.0% damage against elites, 28,000 to 30,000 Life per Hit, 270 to 300 Damage and 38,000 to 40,000 Thorns Damage. The flavor text quotes Andariel, Maiden of Anguish: cry out her name as the fires of Hell course through your veins.

by eRnstl