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Razeth's Volition

Razeth's Volition

Legendary Shoulders

  • Legendary
  • Level 70

Properties

586–674 Armor

Primary Attributes

  • Reduces all resource costs by 5–8%.

Secondary Attributes

  • Skeletal Mage gains the effect of the Gift of Death and Singularity runes. You gain 35–50% damage reduction if your Essence is not full. (Necromancer Only)

Random Affixes

  • +416–500 Intelligence
  • +416–500 Dexterity
  • +416–500 Strength

Ancient & primal values

Ancient

  • +550–650 Intelligence

Primal

  • +650 Intelligence

Fixed properties of the ancient form; primal items roll the top value of the ancient range. Game files, version 2.8.0.

All possible random properties (18 primary, 14 secondary)

Besides its fixed properties, this item rolls 2 primary and 2 secondary properties at random from these lists.

Primary

  • Reduces cooldown of all skills by 5–8%.
  • Reduces all resource costs by 5–8%.
  • +10–15% Life
  • Regenerates 4,643–5,528 Life per Second ancient 6,080–7,185
  • Chance to Deal 10–20% Area Damage on Hit.
  • +91–100 Resistance to All Elements ancient +110–130
  • +416–500 Strength ancient +550–650
  • +416–500 Dexterity ancient +550–650
  • +416–500 Intelligence ancient +550–650
  • +416–500 Vitality ancient +550–650
  • +373–397 Armor ancient +436–516
  • Necromancer +10–15% damage: Command Skeletons, Command Golem, Revive, Bone Armor, Bone Spirit, Corpse Explosion, Corpse Lance

Secondary

  • +32–35% Extra Gold from Monsters
  • Monster kills grant +140–200 experience. ancient +220–260
  • Health Globes and Potions Grant +20,001–29,713 Life. ancient +32,684–38,625
  • Increases Gold and Health Pickup by 1–2 Yards.
  • +141–160 Physical Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Fire Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Cold Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Lightning Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Poison Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Arcane Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +5,334–7,696 Thorns Damage ancient +7,697–9,500
  • Level Requirement Reduced by 2–30 ancient 30–40
  • 1–5.1% Chance to Chill on Hit
  • Ignores Durability Loss

Pool of the item type from the game files, version 2.8.0. Skill damage bonuses only carry weight for their class. All properties of this slot

If one did not fear Razeth, one feared the dark powers of his minions.

Upgraded Skeletal Mages with protection

Razeth's Volition makes your Skeletal Mage automatically carry the effects of the Gift of Death and Singularity runes, so you reap the benefits of two runes without having to choose. On top of that the shoulders grant damage reduction while you are not at full Essence, which fits a resource-hungry summoner playstyle perfectly.

For Necromancer builds centered on Skeletal Mages this is a core piece, bundling offense and survivability. Tip: Deliberately play at a lower Essence level to keep the damage reduction up as much as possible, and use the Skeletal Mage's freed-up rune choice for a third rune to fully exploit the value of the doubled rune.

Why Singularity and the Damage Reduction Fit Together

The Singularity rune consumes all of your Essence on cast and increases the mage's damage by 3% per point consumed. After every mage you are therefore no longer at full Essence, which is exactly the condition for the shoulders' damage reduction. That reduction rolls in the 35–50% range, and a Primal Ancient copy has the full 50%. Gift of Death makes every risen mage leave a corpse behind when it dies or expires.

Using the Freed Rune Slot

With two rune effects already supplied by the shoulders, you pick one of the others:

  • Life Support: mages cost 10% health but last 2 seconds longer than the usual 6.
  • Contamination: a mage channeling a decay aura for 100% weapon damage as Poison.
  • Skeleton Archer: Cold damage plus up to 10 stacks of attack speed for you.

Rolls and Companion Pieces

A fixed 5–8% reduction to all resource costs matters directly when each mage costs 40 Essence. For the main stat you want Intelligence out of the 416–500 possible points, plus Vitality or cooldown reduction. The shoulders are often combined with Krysbin's Sentence, Reilena's Shadowhook, Aquila Cuirass, Steuart's Greaves and Haunted Visions. The flavor text sums up Razeth: if you did not fear him, you feared the dark powers of his minions.

by eRnstl